119237185
Study of the electromagnetic transitions $J/\psi \rightarrow P l^+l^-$ and probe dark photon
We study the electromagnetic Dalitz decay modes of $J/\psi \rightarrow P l^+l^-$ ($P= \pi^0$, $\eta$ or $\eta^\prime$). In these decays, the lepton pairs are formed by internal conversion of an intermediate virtual photon with invariant mass $m_{l^+l^-}$. Study of the effective-mass spectrum of the $l^+l^-$ will shed light on the dynamic transition form factor $F_{J/\psi P}(q^2)$ ($q^2 = m^2_{l^+l^-}$), which characterizes the electromagnetic structure arising at the vertex of the transition $J/\psi$ to pseudoscalars. We also discuss the direct productions of a GeV scale vector $U$ boson in these processes $J/\psi \rightarrow PU$ ($U\rightarrow l^+l^-$). It is responsible for mediating a new $U(1)_d$ interaction, as recently exploited in the context of weakly interacting massive particle dark matter. 
In this paper, we firstly use the usual pole approximation for the form factor to estimate the decay rate of $J/\psi \rightarrow P l^+l^-$ in the standard model. Then the reach of searching for the dark photon is estimated. We suggest that these Dalitz decays can be used to search for the light $U$ boson in the BESIII experiment with a huge $J/\psi$ data set.
45496150
Spectrum of the charmed and b-flavored mesons in the relativistic potential model
A bstractWe study the bound states of heavy-light quark-antiquark system in the relativistic potential model, where the potential includes the long-distance confinement term, the short-distance Coulomb term and spin-dependent term. The spectrum of B, B*, D, D* and states with higher orbital quantum numbers are obtained. Compared with previous results predicted in the relativistic potential model, the predictions are improved and extended in this work, more theoretical masses are predicted which can be tested in experiment in the future.
119017430
B ---> PV decays in QCD improved factorization approach
Motivated by recent CELO measurements and the progress of the theory of B decays, we investigate $B\to P V(P=\pi,K. V= K^{*},\rho,\omega)$ decay modes in the framework of QCD improved factorization. We find that all the measured branching ratios are well accommodated in the reasonable parameter space and predictions for the other decay modes are well below the experimental upper limits. We also have calculated CP asymmetries in these decay modes.
119292653
Wave functions and decay constants of B and D mesons in the relativistic potential model
With the decay constants of D and Ds mesons measured in experiment recently, we revisit the study of the bound states of quark and antiquark in B and D mesons in the relativistic potential model. The relativistic bound state wave equation is solved numerically. The masses, decay constants and wave functions of B and D mesons are obtained. Both the masses and decay constants obtained here can be seen as consistent with the experimental data. The wave functions can be used in the study of B and D meson decays.
119288185
Radiative and leptonic decays of the pseudoscalar charmonium state eta(c)
The radiative and leptonic decays of {eta}{sub c}{yields}{gamma}{gamma} and {eta}{sub c}{yields}l{sup +}l{sup -} are studied. For a {eta}{sub c}{yields}{gamma}{gamma} decay, the second-order electromagnetic tree-level diagram gives the leading contribution. The decay rate of {eta}{sub c}{yields}{gamma}{gamma} is calculated, the prediction is in good agreement with the experimental data. For {eta}{sub c}{yields}l{sup +}l{sup -}, both the tree and loop diagrams are calculated. The analysis shows that the loop contribution dominates; the contribution of tree diagram with a Z{sup 0} intermediate state can only modify the decay rate by less than 1%. The prediction of the branching ratios of {eta}{sub c}{yields}e{sup +}e{sup -} and {mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -} are very tiny within the standard model. The smallness of these predictions within the standard model makes the leptonic decays of {eta}{sub c} sensitive to physics beyond the standard model. Measurement of the leptonic decay may give information about new physics.
118395218
Rare semileptonic decays of heavy mesons with flavor SU(3) symmetry
AbstractIn this paper, we calculate the decay rates of the D+→D0e+ν, DS+→D0e+ν, 
$B^{0}_{S}\rightarrow B^{+}e^{-}\overline{\nu}$
, DS+→D+e−e+ and BS0→B0e−e+ semileptonic decay processes, in which only the light quarks decay, while the heavy flavors remain unchanged. The branching ratios of these decay processes are calculated with the flavor SU(3) symmetry. The uncertainties are estimated by considering the SU(3) breaking effect. We find that the decay rates are very tiny in the framework of the standard model. We also estimate the sensitivities of the measurements of these rare decays at future experiments, such as BES-III, super-B and LHC-b.
118537463
Red Supergiant Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. I. The Period?Luminosity Relation
From previous samples of red supergiants (RSGs) by various groups, 191 objects are assembled to compose a large sample of RSG candidates in LMC. For 189 of them, the identity as an RSG is verified by their brightness and color indexes in several near- and mid-infrared bands related to the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) JHK S bands and the Spitzer/IRAC and Spitzer/MIPS bands. From the visual time-series photometric observations by the ASAS and MACHO projects which cover nearly 8-10 years, the period and amplitude of light variation are analyzed carefully using both the phase dispersion minimization and Period04 methods. According to the properties of light variation, these objects are classified into five categories: (1) 20 objects are saturated in photometry or located in crowded stellar field with poor photometric results, (2) 35 objects with too complex variation to have any certain period, (3) 23 objects with irregular variation, (4) 16 objects with semi-regular variation, and (5) 95 objects with long secondary period (LSP) among which 31 have distinguishable short period and 51 have a long period shorter than 3000 days that can be determined with reasonable accuracy. For the semi-regular variables and the LSP variables with distinguishable short periods, the period-luminosity (P-L) relation is analyzed in the visual, near-infrared, and mid-infrared bands. It is found that the P-L relation is tight in the infrared bands such as the 2MASS JHK S bands and the Spitzer/IRAC bands, in particular in the Spitzer/IRAC [3.6] and [4.5] bands; meanwhile, the P-L relation is relatively sparse in the V band which may be caused by inhomogeneous interstellar extinction. The results are compared with others' P-L relationships for RSGs and the P-L sequences of red giants in LMC.
121541983
Designs and measurements of gradient dipole magnets for the upgrade of Pohang Light Source
Abstract The compact size of the upgrade of Pohang Light Source (PLS-II) ring implies the use of gradient dipole magnets, with high field quality requirements. The PLS-II ring contains 24 such dipoles. Detailed 2D and 3D physical designs are reported; they include conformal mapping, equivalent 2D compact factor, residues fitting technique and end chamfer in a concise straight line style. According to the field measurement results, a beam based alignment technique for the rms variation reduction was employed. With that, the uniformities for these dipoles can be reduced to less than 2.0E−04, and the rms variation from dipole to dipole can reach 5.82E-04.
119302071
Automatic Calibration Method of Voxel Size for Cone-beam 3D-CT Scanning System
For cone-beam three-dimensional computed tomography (3D-CT) scanning system, voxel size is an important indicator to guarantee the accuracy of data analysis and feature measurement based on 3D-CT images. Meanwhile, the voxel size changes with the movement of the rotary table along X-ray direction. In order to realize the automatic calibration of the voxel size, a new easily-implemented method is proposed. According to this method, several projections of a spherical phantom are captured at different imaging positions and the corresponding voxel size values are calculated by non-linear least square fitting. Through these interpolation values, a linear equation is obtained, which reflects the relationship between the rotary table displacement distance from its nominal zero position and the voxel size. Finally, the linear equation is imported into the calibration module of the 3D-CT scanning system, and when the rotary table is moving along X-ray direction, the accurate value of the voxel size is dynamically exported. The experimental results prove that this method meets the requirements of the actual CT scanning system, and has virtues of easy implementation and high accuracy
119119152
Analysis of a selected sample of RR Lyrae stars in the LMC from OGLE-III
A systematic study of RR Lyrae stars is performed using a selected sample of 655 objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) with long-term observations and numerous measurements from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment III project. The phase dispersion method and linear superposition of the harmonic oscillations are used to derive the pulsation frequency and properties of light variation. It is found that a dichotomy exists in Oosterhoff Type I and Oosterhoff Type II for RR Lyrae stars in the LMC. Due to our strict criteria for identifying a frequency, a lower limit for the incidence rate of Blazhko modulation in the LMC is estimated in various subclasses of RR Lyrae stars. For fundamental-mode RR Lyrae stars, the rate of 7.5% is smaller than the previous result. In the case of the first-overtone RR Lyrae variables, the rate of 9.1% is relatively high. In addition to the Blazhko variables, 15 objects are identified to pulsate in the fundamental/first-overtone double mode. Furthermore, four objects show a period ratio around 0.6, which makes them very likely to be rare pulsators in the fundamental/second-overtone double mode.
118829814
QCD corrections to neutron electric dipole moment from dimension-six four-quark operators
Abstract In this Letter, the renormalization-group equations for the (flavor-conserving) CP-violating interaction are derived up to the dimension six, including all the four-quark operators, at one-loop level. We apply them to the models with the neutral scalar boson or the color-octet scalar boson which have CP-violating Yukawa interactions with quarks, and discuss the neutron electric dipole moment in these models.