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Rare Semileptonic Decays of Heavy Mesons in the Heavy Quark Limit
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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.
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Mass and decay constant of I=1/2 scalar meson in QCD sum rule
We calculate the mass and decay constant of I = 1/2 scalar mesons composed of quark-antiquark pairs based on QCD sum rule. The quark-antiquark pairs can be sq or qs (q = u, d) in quark model, the quantum numbers of spin and orbital angular momentum are S = 1, L = 1. We obtain the mass of the ground sate in this channel is 1.410 +/- 0.049 GeV. This result favors that K-0(*)(1430) is the lowest scalar state of sq or qs. We also predict the first excited scalar resonance of sq is larger than 2.0 GeV. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Flavor Symmetries and Consequences in Accelerators and Cosmology (FLASY12)
Although existing theoretical models generally prefer extremely heavy right-handed neutrinos to generate light neutrino masses via the seesaw mechanism, there are several observed phenomena that point to the existence of both keVand eV-scale sterile neutrinos. We present two A4 flavor symmetry models that can accommodate light sterile neutrinos and remain compatible with neutrino data. Higher order seesaw terms and higher-dimensional operators are studied, and the phenomenological implications of light sterile neutrinos on neutrinoless double beta decay are discussed. 1.
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2006 Whole Earth Telescope Observations of GD358: A New Look at the Prototype DBV
We report on the analysis of 436.1 hr of nearly continuous high-speed photometry on the pulsating DB white dwarf GD358 acquired with the Whole Earth Telescope (WET) during the 2006 international observing run, designated XCOV25. The Fourier transform (FT) of the light curve contains power between 1000 and 4000 μHz, with the dominant peak at 1234 μHz. We find 27 independent frequencies distributed in 10 modes, as well as numerous combination frequencies. Our discussion focuses on a new asteroseismological analysis of GD358, incorporating the 2006 data set and drawing on 24 years of archival observations. Our results reveal that, while the general frequency locations of the identified modes are consistent throughout the years, the multiplet structure is complex and cannot be interpreted simply as l = 1 modes in the limit of slow rotation. The high-k multiplets exhibit significant variability in structure, amplitude and frequency. Any identification of the m components for the high-k multiplets is highly suspect. The k = 9 and 8 modes typically do show triplet structure more consistent with theoretical expectations. The frequencies and amplitudes exhibit some variability, but much less than the high-k modes. Analysis of the k = 9 and 8 multiplet splittings from 1990 to 2008 reveal a long-term change in multiplet splittings coinciding with the 1996 sforzando event, where GD358 dramatically altered its pulsation characteristics on a timescale of hours. We explore potential implications, including the possible connections between convection and/or magnetic fields and pulsations. We suggest future investigations, including theoretical investigations of the relationship between magnetic fields, pulsation, growth rates, and convection.
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Dirac versus Weyl fermions in topological insulators: Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly in transport phenomena.
Dirac metals (gapless semiconductors) are believed to turn into Weyl metals when perturbations, which break either time reversal symmetry or inversion symmetry, are employed. However, no experimental evidence has been reported for the existence of Weyl fermions in three dimensions. Applying magnetic fields near the topological phase transition from a topological insulator to a band insulator in Bi1-xSbx we observe not only the weak antilocalization phenomenon in magnetoconductivity near zero magnetic fields (B<0.4  T), but also its upturn above 0.4 T only for E//B. This "incompatible" coexistence between weak antilocalization and "negative" magnetoresistivity is attributed to the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly ("topological" E·B term) in the presence of weak antilocalization corrections.