简介:In2010,theBESCollaboration[1]foundaclearenhancementintheK0K0massdistributionintheJ=ψ!ηK0K0decay.SuchanenhancementisusuallyasignatureofanL=0resonancearoundthreshold,whichinthiscasewouldcorrespondstoanh1statewithquantumnumbersIG(JPC)=0??(1+??).Thish1statewaspredictedbytheChiralUnitarytheoryintheKKinteraction.Becauseoftheconversationlaw,thisstatecanonlydecaytoK0K0channel,andcanbestudiedefficientlyintheJ=ψ!ηK0K0decay.
简介:ThespectrumoftheΣ(1193)excitedstates,Σ,withisospinI=1andstrangenessS=??1isoneofthemostimportantissuesinhadronicphysics.TheΣresonancesaremostlyproducedandstudiedinK-inducedreactions.ManyΣresonancesarenowcatalogedbytheParticleDataGroup[1].However,ourknowledgeoftheseresonancesisstillverypoor.Intheenergyregionbelow2GeV,onlyafewofthemarewellestablished,suchastheΣ(1385)ofspin-parityJP=3=2+,Σ(1670)ofJp=3=2??andΣ(1775)ofJp=5=2??.Theothersarenotwellestablishedandsomeofthemareevenoflargeuncertaintiesontheirexistence.Thus,thestudyoftheΣresonancewiththeavailableexperimentaldataisnecessary.
简介:Accordingtothenaiveconstituentquarkmodel,the?mesonisbelievedtobeanalmostpuressstate,whilethereareonlyupanddownquarks(antiquarks)inthenucleon(antinucleon).Thusthepp!??reaction,withitsdisconnectedquarklines,shouldbesuppressedaccordingtotheOkubo-Zeig-Iizuka(OZI)rule.However,eventheOZIruleisstrictlyenforcedbynature,theppreactioncanstillproceedthroughthenon-strangequarkcomponentofthe?meson,becauseoftheslightdiscrepancyfromtheidealmixingofthevectormesonsingletandoctet[1].Withthissmalldiscrepancy,onecandetermineanupperlimitforthetotalcrosssectionofpp!??reactionbycomparisontothetotalcrosssectionoftherelatedpp!ωωreaction.Thisyieldsacrosssectionforpp!??attheorderof10nb.However,theexperimentalresultshowedthatthecrosssectionat1.2GeVincidentanti-protonmomentum,=2.860.46μb,istwoordersofmagnitudelargerthantheestimatedvalue.Hence,thepp!??reactionhasattractedmuchattentionbecauseofthelargeviolationoftheOZIrule.
简介:Thebaryonspectrumandthebaryoncouplingsaretwoofthemostimportantissuesinhadronicphysicsandtheyareattractingmuchattention.Bothontheexperimentalandtheoreticalsides,thenucleonexcitedstatesbelow2.0GeVhavebeenextensivelystudied[1].However,thecurrentinformationforthepropertiesofstatesaroundorabove2.0GeVisscarce.Ontheotherhand,inthisenergyregion,manytheoreticalapproacheshavepredictedmissingNstates,whichhavenotbeensofarobserved.Hence,thestudyofthepossibleroleplayedbythe2.0GeVregionnucleonresonancesintheavailableaccuratedataistimelyandcouldshedlightintothecomplicateddynamicsthatgovernsthehighexcitednucleonspectrum.
简介:Thespectrumofisospin3/2Δ++(1232)excitedstatesisoneofthemostimportantissuesinhadronicphysicsandisattractingmuchattentionbecauseitisthemostexperimentallyaccessiblesystemcomposedofthreeidenticalvalencequarks.However,ourknowledgeontheseresonancesmainlycomesfromoldNexperimentsandisstillverypoor[1].Intheenergyregionaroundorabove2.0GeV,therearestillmanytheoreticalpredictionsofmissingΔstateswhichhavesofarnotbeenobserved.Searchingforthesemissingstatesfromotherproductionprocessesisnecessary.ApossiblenewexcellentsourceforstudyingtheseΔresonancecomprisesthe+p!K+Σ+(1385)andpp!nK+Σ+(1385)reactions,whichhaveaspecialadvantage,i:e:,thereisnocontributionsfromisospin1/2nucleonresonancesduetotheisospinandchargeconservations.
简介:Themesonproductioninnucleon-nucleoncollisionsnearthresholdhasthepotentialtogaininformationonhadronpropertiesandalsoplaysanimportantroleinexploringthebaryonspectroscopy[1].Inrecentyears,theexperimentaldatabaseonthereactionofpp!ppK+Knearthresholdhasbeenexpandedsignificantly.Inadditiontothemeasurementsofthetotalanddifferentialcrosssections,belowthethresholdoftheproductionofthe?meson,performedexperimentallywithCOSY-11andANKEdetectorsatthecoolersynchrotronCOSYinGermany,invariantmassdistributionsofvarioussubsystemshavebeenobtainedatlowenergies.Unlikeabovethethresholdoftheproductionofthe?meson,inthelowenergyregion,wedonotneedtoseparatethenon-?fromthe?contribution,andduetothefactthatthedatawerespreadoverawiderangeofK+K??invariantmasses,ithasaspecialadvantagetoinvestigatethescalarmesonsa0(980)$andf0(980)whicharedynamicallygeneratedfromtheinteractionsofK ̄K,ππ,andπηtreatedascoupledchannelsinI=0andI=1,respectively.BothofthemcouplestronglytotheK ̄Kchannel.
简介:Thereisagrowingsupportforthelowlyingscalarmesonsf0(500),f0(980),a0(980),and(800)tobegenerateddynamicallyfromtheinteractionofpseudoscalarmesons,whilethecaseofthenextsetofscalarresonancesathigherenergies,f0(1370),f0(1710),K0(1430)ismoreaquestionofdebate.Soisthecaseofthetensorresonancesf2(1270),f′2(1525),K2(1430).AnewperspectiveonthesestateshasbeenofferedinRef.[1]wherethef0(1370)andf2(1270)resonancesareshowntobegeneratedfromtheinteractionprovidedbythelocalhiddengaugeLagrangiansimplementingunitarization.Itisshownthattheideaofthenatureofthesestatesasvectormeson-vectormesoncompositestateshasbeentestedinmanyreactions.Yet,thepermanentdiscussionoftheissuedemandsextrachecksforotherobservablesand,inthissense,theweakdecaysbringanewsourceofvaluableinformationthatshouldservetotestdifferentmodels.