scholarly journals Calculation of the $K_L - K_S$ mass difference for physical quark masses

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bigeng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Mass Difference ◽  
Quark Masses

Water, Water, Here and There

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven E. Vigdor
Keyword(s):  
Quark Mass ◽  
Mass Difference ◽  
Baryon Number ◽  
Electroweak Phase Transition ◽  
Hydrogen Burning ◽  
Quark Masses ◽  
Grand Unified Theories ◽  
Down Quark ◽  
Unified Theories ◽  
The Stability

Chapter 4 deals with the stability of the proton, hence of hydrogen, and how to reconcile that stability with the baryon number nonconservation (or baryon conservation) needed to establish a matter–antimatter imbalance in the infant universe. Sakharov’s three conditions for establishing a matter–antimatter imbalance are presented. Grand unified theories and experimental searches for proton decay are described. The concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking is introduced in describing the electroweak phase transition in the infant universe. That transition is treated as the potential site for introducing the imbalance between quarks and antiquarks, via either baryogenesis or leptogenesis models. The up–down quark mass difference is presented as essential for providing the stability of hydrogen and of the deuteron, which serves as a crucial stepping stone in stellar hydrogen-burning reactions that generate the energy and elements needed for life. Constraints on quark masses from lattice QCD calculations and violations of chiral symmetry are discussed.

BARYON MAGNETIC MOMENTS AND SPIN DEPENDENT QUARK FORCES

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 71-81
Author(s):  
GEORGE L. STROBEL
Keyword(s):  
Wave Function ◽  
Magnetic Moment ◽  
Magnetic Moments ◽  
Mass Difference ◽  
Wave Functions ◽  
Small Current ◽  
Axial Charge ◽  
Strange Quarks ◽  
Quark Masses ◽  
Quark Wave Function

The J=3/2 Δ, J=1/2 nucleon mass difference shows that quark energies can be spin dependent. It is natural to expect that quark wave functions also depend on spin. In the octet, such spin dependent forces lead to different wave functions for quarks with spin parallel or antiparallel to the nucleon spin. A two component Dirac equation wave function is used for the quarks assuming small current quark masses for the u and d quarks. Then, the neutron/proton magnetic moment ratio, the nucleon axial charge, and the spin content of the nucleon can all be simultaneously fit assuming isospin invariance between the u and d quarks, but allowing for spin dependent forces. The breakdown of the Coleman–Glashow sum rule for octet magnetic moments follows naturally in this Dirac approach as the bound quark energy also effects the magnetic moment. Empirically the bound quark energy increases with the number of strange quarks in the system. Allowing the strange quark wave function similar spin dependence predicts the magnetic moments of the octet, in close agreement with experiment. Differences between the octet and decuplet magnetic moments are also explained immediately with spin dependent wave functions.

scholarly journals The KL - KS Mass Difference

2018 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 13017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziyuan Bai ◽  
Norman H. Christ ◽  
Christopher T. Sachrajda
Keyword(s):  
Mass Difference ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Quark Masses ◽  
The Status

We review the status of the RBC-UKQCD collaborations’ computations of the KL-KS mass difference. After a brief discussion of the theoretical framework which had been developed previously by the collaboration, we describe our latest computation, performed at physical quark masses, and present our preliminary result mKL - mKS = (5.5 ± 1.70) × 10-12 MeV.

scholarly journals Simulation of an ensemble of Nf = 2 + 1 + 1 twisted mass cloverimproved fermions at physical quark masses

2018 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 02003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Finkenrath ◽  
Constantia Alexandrou ◽  
Simone Bacchio ◽  
Panagiotis Charalambous ◽  
Petros Dimopoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pion Mass ◽  
Mass Difference ◽  
Target System ◽  
General Strategy ◽  
Decay Constants ◽  
Quark Masses ◽  
Twisted Mass ◽  
Kaon Mass ◽  
Physical Mass ◽  
The Moment

We present a general strategy aimed at generating Nf = 2+1+1 configurations with quarks at their physical mass using maximally twisted mass fermions to ensure automatic O(a) improvement, in the presence of a clover term tuned to reduce the charged to neutral pion mass difference. The target system, for the moment, is a lattice of size 643 × 128 with a lattice spacing a ~ 0:08 fm. We show preliminary results on the pion and kaon mass and decay constants.

scholarly journals Direct measurement of the mass difference of As72−Ge72 rules out As72 as a promising β -decay candidate to determine the neutrino mass

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Ge ◽  
T. Eronen ◽  
A. de Roubin ◽  
D. A. Nesterenko ◽  
M. Hukkanen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Direct Measurement ◽  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Mass Difference ◽  
Β Decay

scholarly journals Challenges for a QCD axion at the 10 MeV scale

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Liu ◽  
Navin McGinnis ◽  
Carlos E. M. Wagner ◽  
Xiao-Ping Wang
Keyword(s):  
Higgs Boson ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Structure Constant ◽  
Fine Structure Constant ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Standard Model Extension ◽  
Mixing Angles ◽  
Quark Masses ◽  
Model Extension ◽  
The One

Abstract We report on an interesting realization of the QCD axion, with mass in the range $$ \mathcal{O} $$ O (10) MeV. It has previously been shown that although this scenario is stringently constrained from multiple sources, the model remains viable for a range of parameters that leads to an explanation of the Atomki experiment anomaly. In this article we study in more detail the additional constraints proceeding from recent low energy experiments and study the compatibility of the allowed parameter space with the one leading to consistency of the most recent measurements of the electron anomalous magnetic moment and the fine structure constant. We further provide an ultraviolet completion of this axion variant and show the conditions under which it may lead to the observed quark masses and CKM mixing angles, and remain consistent with experimental constraints on the extended scalar sector appearing in this Standard Model extension. In particular, the decay of the Standard Model-like Higgs boson into two light axions may be relevant and leads to a novel Higgs boson signature that may be searched for at the LHC in the near future.

scholarly journals DK I = 0, $$ D\overline{K} $$ I = 0, 1 scattering and the $$ {D}_{s0}^{\ast } $$(2317) from lattice QCD

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin K. C. Cheung ◽  
◽  
Christopher E. Thomas ◽  
David J. Wilson ◽  
Graham Moir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elastic Scattering ◽  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
Lattice Qcd ◽  
Finite Volume ◽  
Energy Region ◽  
Light Quark ◽  
Bound State ◽  
Vector Resonance ◽  
Quark Masses ◽  
Partial Waves

Abstract Elastic scattering amplitudes for I = 0 DK and I = 0, 1 $$ D\overline{K} $$ D K ¯ are computed in S, P and D partial waves using lattice QCD with light-quark masses corresponding to mπ = 239 MeV and mπ = 391 MeV. The S-waves contain interesting features including a near-threshold JP = 0+ bound state in I = 0 DK, corresponding to the $$ {D}_{s0}^{\ast } $$ D s 0 ∗ (2317), with an effect that is clearly visible above threshold, and suggestions of a 0+ virtual bound state in I = 0 $$ D\overline{K} $$ D K ¯ . The S-wave I = 1 $$ D\overline{K} $$ D K ¯ amplitude is found to be weakly repulsive. The computed finite-volume spectra also contain a deeply-bound D* vector resonance, but negligibly small P -wave DK interactions are observed in the energy region considered; the P and D-wave $$ D\overline{K} $$ D K ¯ amplitudes are also small. There is some evidence of 1+ and 2+ resonances in I = 0 DK at higher energies.

scholarly journals Quarkonia Formation in a Holographic Gravity–Dilaton Background Describing QCD Thermodynamics

Particles ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-177
Author(s):  
Rico Zöllner ◽  
Burkhard Kämpfer
Keyword(s):  
Quark Mass ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Mass Dependence ◽  
Holographic Model ◽  
Spectral Functions ◽  
Special Aspect ◽  
Quark Masses ◽  
Ion Collisions ◽  
Heavy Quark Mass ◽  
Quark Mass Dependence

A holographic model of probe quarkonia is presented, where the dynamical gravity–dilaton background was adjusted to the thermodynamics of 2 + 1 flavor QCD with physical quark masses. The quarkonia action was modified to account for the systematic study of the heavy-quark mass dependence. We focused on the J/ψ and Υ spectral functions and related our model to heavy quarkonia formation as a special aspect of hadron phenomenology in heavy-ion collisions at LHC.

scholarly journals Exothermic dark matter for XENON1T excess

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun Min Lee
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Mass Difference ◽  
Mass Splitting ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Recoil Energy ◽  
Detector Resolution ◽  
Atomic Excitation ◽  
Microscopic Models ◽  
Electron Recoil ◽  
Two Component

Abstract Motivated by the recent excess in the electron recoil from XENON1T experiment, we consider the possibility of exothermic dark matter, which is composed of two states with mass splitting. The heavier state down-scatters off the electron into the lighter state, making an appropriate recoil energy required for the Xenon excess even for the standard Maxwellian velocity distribution of dark matter. Accordingly, we determine the mass difference between two component states of dark matter to the peak electron recoil energy at about 2.5 keV up to the detector resolution, accounting for the recoil events over ER = 2 − 3 keV, which are most significant. We include the effects of the phase-space enhancement and the atomic excitation factor to calculate the required scattering cross section for the Xenon excess. We discuss the implications of dark matter interactions in the effective theory for exothermic dark matter and a massive Z′ mediator and provide microscopic models realizing the required dark matter and electron couplings to Z′.

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