119232556
D-wave heavy-light mesons from QCD sum rules
We study the D-wave (c) over bars heavy meson doublets (1(-), 2(-)) and (2(-), 3(-)) using the method of QCD sum rule in the framework of heavy quark effective theory. Choosing the same threshold values.c around 2.7 Gev, we calculate the masses of the 1(-) and 3(-) states. They are m(D*s1) = 2.81 +/- 0.10 GeV and m(D*s3) = 2.85 +/- 0.08 GeV, consistent with the newly observed D*(s1)(2860) and D*(s3)(2860) states by LHCb. The masses of their 2-partners are calculated to be 2.82 +/- 0.10 and 2.81 +/- 0.08 GeV. The mass splittings within the same doublet are calculated to be m(Ds2) - m(Ds1) = 0.016 +/- 0.007 GeV and m(D*s3) - m(D's2) = 0.039 +/- 0.014 GeV.
31555802
Mixing of Pentaquark and Molecular States
There are experimental evidences for the existence of narrow states Θ+ and Θc with the same quantum numbers of uudds̄ and uuddc̄ pentaquarks and also NK(∗) and ND(∗) molecular states. Their masses deviate from many theoretical estimates of the pure pentaquark and molecular states. In this work we study the possibility that the observed Θ+ and Θc are mixtures of pure pentaquark and molecular states. The mixing parameters are in general related to non-perturbative QCD which are not calculable at present. We determine them by fitting data from known states and then generalize the mechanism to Θb to predict its mass and width. The mixing mechanism can also naturally explain the narrow width for Θ+ and Θc through destructive interferences, even if the pure pentaquark and molecular states have much larger decay widths. We also briefly discuss the properties of the partner eigenstates of Θ+ and Θc and the possibility of experimentally observe them. Moreover, probable consequences of multi-state mixing are also addressed.
28437592
A possible global group structure for exotic states
Based on the fact that the long expected pentaquark which possesses the exotic quantum numbers of $$B=1$$B=1 and $$S=1$$S=1 was not experimentally found, although exotic states of $$XYZ$$XYZ have been observed recently, we conjecture that the heavy flavors may play an important role in stabilizing the hadronic structures beyond the traditional $$q\bar{q}$$qq¯ and $$qqq$$qqq composites.
51398146
Some properties of the newly observed X(1835) state at BES
Recently the BES collaboration has announced the observation of a resonant state in the π+π-η’ spectrum in J/ψ→γπ+π-η’ decay. Fitting the data with a 0-+ state, the mass is determined to be 1833.7 MeV with 7.7σ statistic significance. This state is consistent with the one extracted from previously reported pp̄ threshold enhancement data in J/ψ→γpp̄. We study the properties of this state using QCD anomaly and QCD sum rules, assuming X(1835) to be a pseudoscalar, and we show that it is consistent with the data. We find that this state has a sizeable matrix element $\langle0|G\widetilde{G}|G_{\text{p}}\rangle$, leading to branching ratios of (2.61–7.37)×10-3 and (2.21–10.61)×10-2 for J/ψ→γGp and for Gp→π+π-η′, respectively. Combining the calculated branching ratio of J/ψ→γGp and data on threshold enhancement in J/ψ→γpp̄, we determine the coupling for the Gp–p–p̄ interaction. We finally study the branching ratios of the other J/ψ→γ+three mesons decay modes. We find that J/ψ→γGp→γ(π+π-η,KKπ0) can provide useful tests for the mechanism proposed.
119249008
Does the enhancement observed in $\gamma\gamma\to D\bar{D}$ contain two P-wave higher charmonia?
We solve a new puzzle raised by the observation of an enhancement structure Z(3930) in $\gamma\gamma\to D\bar{D}$. If categorizing Z(3930) as χc2(2P), as suggested by Belle and BaBar, we must explain why χc0(2P) dominantly decaying into $D\bar{D}$ is missing in the $D\bar{D}$ invariant mass spectrum. In this work, we propose that the Z(3930) enhancement structure may contain two P-wave higher charmonia χc0(2P) and χc2(2P). We show that this assumption is supported by our analysis of the $D\bar{D}$ invariant mass spectrum and cosθ∗ distribution of $\gamma\gamma\to D\bar{D}$. This observation would not only provide valuable information of two P-wave higher charmonia χc0(2P) and χc2(2P), but also serve as the crucial test of our novel proposal to the observed enhancement structure Z(3930), especially at the forthcoming BelleII and the approved SuperB.
119155043
Effects of hadronic loops on the direct CP violation of $B_c$
It is well-known that the final state interaction plays an important role in the decays of B meson. The contribution of the final state interaction, which is supposed to be long-distance effects, to the concerned processes can interfere with that of the short-distance effects produced via the tree and/or loop diagrams at quark-gluon level. The interference may provide a source for the direct CP violation A{sub CP} in the process B{sub c}{sup +}{yields}D{sup 0}{pi}{sup +}. We find that a typical value of A{sub CP} when the final state interaction effect is taken into account can be about -22% which is different from that without the final state interaction effect. Therefore, when we extract information on CP violation from the data which will be available at the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment (LHCb) and the new experiments in B factories, the contribution from the final state interaction must be included. This study may be crucial for searching new physics in the future.
119201963
SCET approach to top quark decay
Abstract In this work we study the QCD corrections to the top quark doubly decay rate with a detected B hadron containing a b quark. We focus on the regime among which the emitted W boson nearly carries its maximum energy. The tool that we use here is the soft-collinear effective theory (SCET). The factorization theorem based on SCET indicates a novel fragmenting jet function. We calculate this function to next-to-leading order in α s . Large logarithms due to several well separated scales are summed up using the renormalization group equation (RGE). Finally we reach an analytic formula for the distribution which could easily be generalized to other heavy hadron decays.
118798867
A hunt for dual radio active galactic nuclei in the VLASS
This whitepaper describes how the VLASS could be designed in a manner to allow the identification of candidate dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) at separations <7 kpc. Dual AGN represent a clear marker of two supermassive black holes within an ongoing merger. A dual AGN survey will provide a wealth of studies in structure growth and gravitational-wave science. Radio wavelengths are ideal for identifying close pairs, as disturbed stellar and gaseous material can obscure their presence in optical and shorter wavelengths. With sufficiently high resolution and sensitivity, a large-scale radio imaging survey like the VLASS will uncover many of these systems and provide the means to broadly study the radio properties of candidate dual systems revealed at other wavelengths. We determine that the ideal survey for our purposes will be at as high a resolution as possible, with significantly more science return in A array at L-band or higher, or B array at C-band or higher. We describe a range of potential survey parameters within this document. Based on the analysis outlined in this whitepaper, our ideal survey would create a catalogue of $\gtrsim$100 dual AGN in either: 1) a medium-sensitivity (~1 mJy detection threshold), wide-field (few thousand square degree) survey, or 2) a high-sensitivity (~10 uJy threshold) survey of several hundred square degrees.
118328964
SUBSTRUCTURE IN BULK VELOCITIES OF MILKY WAY DISK STARS
We find that Galactic disk stars near the anticenter exhibit velocity asymmetries in both the Galactocentric radial and vertical components across the midplane as well as azimuthally. These findings are based on Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) spectroscopic velocities for a sample of ~400, 000 F-type stars, combined with proper motions from the PPMXL catalog for which we have derived corrections to the zero points based in part on spectroscopically discovered galaxies and QSOs from LAMOST. In the region within 2 kpc outside the Sun's radius and ±2 kpc from the Galactic midplane, we show that stars above the plane exhibit net outward radial motions with downward vertical velocities, while stars below the plane have roughly the opposite behavior. We discuss this in the context of other recent findings, and conclude that we are likely seeing the signature of vertical disturbances to the disk due to an external perturbation.
118772195
N* Masses from QCD Sum Rules
We report N* masses in the spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 sectors using the method of QCD Sum Rules. They are based on three independent sets derived from generalized interpolating fields. The predictive ability of each sum rule is examined by a Monte-Carlo based analysis procedure in which all three phenomenological parameters (mass, coupling, threshold) are extracted simultaneously. A parity projection technique is also studied.
119117794
Charmless hadronic $B \to (f_1(1285),f_1(1420)) P$ decays in the perturbative QCD approach
We study 20 charmless hadronic $B \to f_1 P$ decays in the perturbative QCD(pQCD) formalism with $f_1$ representing axial-vector mesons $f_1(1285)$ and $f_1(1420)$ that result from a mixing of quark-flavor $f_{1q}$ and $f_{1s}$ states with the angle $\phi_{f_1}$. The estimations of branching ratios and CP asymmetries of the considered $B \to f_1 P$ decays are presented in the pQCD approach with $\phi_{f_1} \sim 24^\circ$ from recently measured $B_{d/s} \to J/\psi f_1(1285)$ decays. It is found that (a) the tree(penguin) dominant $B^+ \to f_1 \pi^+(K^+)$ decays with large branching ratios[${\cal O}(10^{-6})$] and large direct CP violations(around 14% $\sim$ 28% in magnitude) simultaneously are believed to be clearly measurable at the LHCb and Belle II experiments; (b) the $B_d \to f_1 K_S^0$ and $B_s \to f_1 (\eta, \eta^{\prime})$ decays with nearly pure penguin contributions and safely negligible tree pollution also have large decay rates in the order of $10^{-6} \sim 10^{-5}$, which can be confronted with the experimental measurements in the near future; (c) as the alternative channels, the $B^+ \to f_1 (\pi^+, K^+)$ and $B_d \to f_1 K_S^0$ decays have the supplementary power in providing more effective constraints on the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa weak phases $\alpha$, $\gamma$, and $\beta$ correspondingly, which are explicitly analyzed through the large decay rates and the direct and mixing-induced CP asymmetries in the pQCD approach and are expected to be stringently examined by the measurements with high precision. The complete abstraction can be found in the paper.