118129565
Axial properties of the nucleon and N* resonances
We report results from a theoretical study of axial charges and axial form factors of the nucleon N and its resonant states N*. By employing relativistic constituent-quark models we could produce for the first time covariant predictions for the axial-current matrix elements. The calculations are performed in the point form of Poincare-invariant quantum mechanics. The axial charge as well as the axial form factor of the nucleon are reproduced close to phenomenology. The axial charges of the N*(1535) and N*(1650) resonances – the only cases where such a comparison is possible – agree well with results from quantum chromodynamics on the lattice that have recently become available. Here, we present the axial charges of all N* excitations below ~2 GeV and two examples of N* axial form factors. These results should be interesting for comparison with other approaches, especially with regard to the issue of chiral-symmetry restoration in higher-lying hadron resonances.
119181837
Axial charges of the nucleon and N* resonances
The axial charges of the nucleon and the well-established N * resonances are studied within a consistent framework. For the first time the axial charges of the N * resonances are produced for the relativistic constituent quark model. The axial charge of the nucleon is predicted close to experiment, and the ones of N * (1535) and N * (1650), the only cases where such a comparison is possible, agree well with results from quantum chromodynamics on the lattice that have recently become available. The relevance of the magnitudes of the N * axial charges for the low-energy behavior of quantum chromodynamics is discussed.
126277985
Relativistic quark-model spectroscopy of light and heavy baryons
We report results from a study of lightand heavy-baryon spectra within a relativistic constituent quark model that relies on a universal dynamics for baryons of all flavor contents. The (linear) confinement is taken according to the string tension of quantum chromodynamics and the (flavordependent) hyperfine interaction is derived from an effective Lagrangian resulting from chiralsymmetry breaking. Here, we specifically show results for all baryons that are included in the phenomenological data base of the Particle Data Group with at least three-star status. In general, the spectra are reproduced in good agreement with experiment for both ground and excited states.
125184952
Baryon axial charges
118513906
Effective Quark-Quark Interaction in Heavy Baryons
We report results from a study of heavy-baryon spectroscopy within a relativistic constituent- quark model, whose hyperfine interaction is based on Goldstone-boson-exchange dynamics. While for light-flavor constituent quarks it is now commonly accepted that the effective quark-quark interaction is (predominantly) furnished by Goldstone-boson exchange - due to spontaneous chiral-symmetry breaking of quantum chromodynamics at low energies - there is currently still much speculation about the light-heavy and heavy-heavy quark-quark interactions. With the increasing amount of experimental data on heavy-baryon spectroscopy these issues might soon be settled. Here, we show, how the relativistic constituent-quark model with Goldstone-boson-exchange hyperfine interactions can be extended to charm and bottom baryons. It is found that the same model that has previously been successful in reproducing the light and strange baryon spectra is also in line with the existing phenomenological data on heavy-baryon spectroscopy. An analogous model with one-gluon-exchange hyperfine interactions for light-heavy flavors does not achieve a similarly good performance.
56153539
Quark-Model Predictions for Axial Charges of Nucleon and N* Resonances
We have investigated the axial charges of the nucleon and N ∗ resonances in a relativistic framework. Besides the axial charge of the nucleon, first predictions are reported for the axial charges of all well-established N ∗ resonances below∼1.9 GeV as produced by the relativistic constituent quark models relying on Goldstone- boson-exchange and one-gluon-exchange hyperfine interactions. The results for the axial charge of the nucleon are found close to experiment but with somewhat smaller values, similar to modern findings from quantum chromodynamics on the lattice. The predictions of the axial charges of the negative-parity N ∗ (1535) and N ∗ (1650) resonances also agree with what has most recently become available from lattice calculations. We discuss the roles of the axial charges of the N ∗ resonances for the phenomenon of chiral-symmetry restoration possibly occurring in the higher hadron spectra.
118886098
Dark radiation and small-scale structure problems with decaying particles
Although the standardCDM model describes the cosmic microwave background radiation and the large scale structure of the Universe with great success, it has some tensions with observations in the effective number of neutrino species (dark radiation) and the number of small scale structures (overabundance problem). Here we propose a scenario which can relax these tensions by producing both dark matter and dark radiation by late decays of heavy particle. Thanks to the generation mechanism, dark matters are rather warm so that the small-scale structure problem is resolved. This scenario can be naturally realized in supersymmetric axion model, in which axions produced by saxion decays provide dark radiation, while axinos from saxion decays form warm dark matter. We identify a parameter region of supersymmetric axion model satisfying all known cosmological constraints.
16283086
Three generation magnetized orbifold models
Abstract We study three generation models in the four-dimensional spacetime, which can be derived from the ten-dimensional N = 1 super-Yang–Mills theory on the orbifold background with a non-vanishing magnetic flux. We classify the flavor structures and show possible patterns of Yukawa matrices. Some examples of numerical studies are also shown.
119212917
Natural inflation with multiple sub-Planckian axions
We extend the Kim-Nilles-Peloso (KNP) alignment mechanism for natural inflation to models with $N>2$ axions, which obtains a super-Planckian effective axion decay constant $f_{\textrm{eff}}\gg M_{Pl}$ through an alignment of the anomaly coefficients of multiple axions having sub-Planckian fundamental decay constants $f_0\ll M_{Pl}$. The original version of the KNP mechanism realized with two axions requires that some of the anomaly coefficients should be of the order of $f_{\textrm{eff}}/f_0$, which would be uncomfortably large if $f_{\rm eff}/f_0 \gtrsim {\cal O}(100)$ as suggested by the recent BICEP2 results. We note that the KNP mechanism can be realized with the anomaly coefficients of $\mathcal{O}(1)$ if the number of axions $N$ is large as $N\ln N\gtrsim 2\ln (f_{\textrm{eff}}/f_0)$, in which case the effective decay constant can be enhanced as $f_{\rm eff}/f_0 \sim \sqrt{N !}\,n^{N-1}$ for $n$ denoting the typical size of the integer-valued anomaly coefficients. Comparing to the other multiple axion scenario, the N-flation scenario which requires $N \sim f_{\textrm{eff}}^2/f_0^2$, the KNP mechanism has a virtue of not invoking to a too large number of axions, although it requires a specific alignment of the anomaly coefficients, which can be achieved with a probability of ${\cal O}(f_0/f_{\rm eff})$ under a random choice of the anomaly coefficients. We also present a simple model realizing a multiple axion monodromy along the inflaton direction.
118660118
Magnetic flux, Wilson line, and orbifold
We study torus/orbifold models with magnetic flux and Wilson line backgrounds. The number of zero modes and their profiles depend on those backgrounds. That has interesting implications from the viewpoint of particle phenomenology.
118042572
Quarks and Leptons From Orbifolded Superstring
and Summary.- Standard Model and Beyond.- Orbifolds and Spinors.- Field Theoretic Orbifolds.- Quantization of Strings.- Strings on Orbifolds.- Partition Function and Spectrum.- Interactions on Orbifolds.- String Orbifold Spectra.- Orbifold Phenomenology.- Code Manual and Z3 Tables.- Calabi-Yau Manifold.- Other Constructions.- Elliptic Functions.- Useful Tables for Model Building.- Some Algebraic Elements of Lie Groups.