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The Schwinger confinement mechanism stipulates that a massless fermion and a massless antifermion are confined as a massive boson when they interact in the Abelian QED interaction in (1+1)D.If we approximate light quarks as massless and apply the Schwinger confinement mechanism to quarks, we can infer that a light quark and a light antiquark interacting in the Abelian QED interaction are confined as a QED meson in (1+1)D. Similarly, a light quark and a light antiquark interacting in the QCD interaction in the quasi-Abelian approximation will be confined as a QCD meson in (1+1)D. The QED and QCD mesons in (1+1)D can represent physical mesons in (3+1)D when the flux tube radius is properly taken into account. Such a theory leads to a reasonable description of the masses of π 0 , η , and η ′ , and its extrapolation to the unknown QED sector yields an isoscalar QED meson at about 17 MeV and an isovector QED meson at about 38 MeV. The observations of the anomalous soft photons, the hypothetical X17 particle, and the hypothetical E38 particle bear promising evidence for the possible existence of the QED mesons. Pending further confirmation, they hold important implications on the properties on the quarks and their interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We establish a statistical two-body fractal (STF) model to study the spectrum of J / ψ . J / ψ serves as a reliable probe in heavy-ion collisions. The distribution of J / ψ in hadron gas is influenced by flow, quantum and strong interaction effects. Previous models have predominantly focused on one or two of these effects while neglecting the others, resulting in the inclusion of unconsidered effects in the fitted parameters. Here, we study the issue from a new point of view by analyzing the fact that all three effects induce a self-similarity structure, involving a J / ψ - π two-meson state and a J / ψ , π two-quark state, respectively. We introduce modification factor q T B S and q 2 into the probability and entropy of charmonium. q T B S denotes the modification of self-similarity on J / ψ , q 2 denotes that of self-similarity and strong interaction between c and c ¯ on quarks. By solving the probability and entropy equations, we derive the values of q T B S and q 2 at various collision energies and centralities. Substituting the value of q T B S into distribution function, we successfully obtain the transverse momentum spectrum of low- p T   J / ψ , which demonstrates good agreement with experimental data. The STF model can be employed to investigate other mesons and resonance states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lepton flavor universality exists in the Standard Model, and hence any observation of the violation of this universality will be a hint for new physics. Recent experimental searches for processes violating this symmetry have attracted much attention among theorists and experimentalists alike. In recent years, such hints have been observed in flavor changing neutral current weak processes such as b → s l l and charged current weak processes such as b → c l ν processes by collider experiments like Belle, Belle II, BaBar, LHCb, ATLAS, and CMS collaborations, where b , s , c are the bottom, strange, and charm quarks, respectively, and l , ν stand for lepton and the corresponding lepton neutrino, respectively. This article is a review of some of the interesting anomalies observed in the B-sector and includes decays of B s mesons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Heavy and light quarks produced in high- p T partonic collisions radiate differently. Heavy quarks regenerate their color field, stripped-off in the hard reaction, much faster than the light ones and radiate a significantly smaller fraction of the initial quark energy. This peculiar feature of heavy-quark jets leads to a specific shape of the fragmentation functions observed in e + e − annihilation. Differently from light flavors, the heavy quark fragmentation function strongly peaks at large fractional momentum z, i.e., the produced heavy–light mesons, B or D, carry the main fraction of the jet momentum. This is a clear evidence of the dead-cone effect, and of a short production time of a heavy–light mesons. Contrary to propagation of a small q q ¯ dipole, which survives in the medium due to color transparency, a heavy–light Q q ¯ dipole promptly expands to a large size. Such a big dipole has no chance to remain intact in a dense medium produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions. On the other hand, a breakup of such a dipole does not affect much the production rate of Q q ¯ mesons, differently from the case of light q q ¯ meson production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we calculate the pressure of the interacting pion gas using the Beth–Uhlenbeck approach to the relativistic virial expansion with Breit–Wigner phase shifts for the σ - and ϱ -meson resonances. The repulsive phase shift δ 0 2 is taken from the quark interchange model of Barnes and Swanson, which is in very good agreement with the experimental data. In this work we show that the cancellation of the attractive (I = 0) and repulsive (I = 2) isospin channel contributions to the scalar π π interaction in the low-energy region that is known for the vacuum phase shifts also takes place at a finite temperature. This happens despite the strong medium dependence of these phase shifts that enters our model by the temperature dependence of the σ -meson and constituent quark masses, because for these masses the relation M σ (T) ≈ 2 m q (T) holds and the scattering length approximation is valid as long as the strong decay channel σ → π π is open. Exploiting the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model for describing the dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry in the vacuum and its restoration at a finite temperature, we justify with our approach that the σ -meson should be absent from the hadron resonance gas description at low temperatures because the above cancellation holds. However, since this cancellation breaks down in the vicinity of the hadronization transition, where due to chiral symmetry restoration the decay channel σ → π π closes and the σ -meson becomes a good resonance, the latter should be included into the statistical model description of chemical freeze-out in heavy-ion collisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the framework of a multi-source thermal model at the partonic level, we have analyzed transverse momentum spectra of hadrons measured by the ALICE Collaboration in proton–proton ( p p or p–p) collisions at the center-of-mass energy of s = 7 and 13 TeV, proton–lead (p–Pb) collisions at s N N = 5.02 TeV, and lead–lead (Pb–Pb) collisions at s N N = 2.76 TeV. For mesons (baryons), the contributions of two (three) constituent quarks are considered, in which each quark contributes to hadron transverse momentum to obey the revised phenomenological Tsallis transverse momentum distribution for Maxwell–Boltzmann particles (the TP-like function, in short) with isotropic random azimuthal angles. Three main parameters, namely, the revised index a 0 , effective temperature T, and entropy-related index n, are obtained, showing the same tendency for both small and large systems with respect to the centrality (or multiplicity) of events, the rest mass of hadrons, and the constituent mass of quarks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The color transparency (CT) of a hadron, propagating with reduced absorption in a nucleus, is a fundamental property of QCD (quantum chromodynamics) reflecting its internal structure and effective size when it is produced at high transverse momentum, Q. CT has been confirmed in many experiments, such as semi-exclusive hard electroproduction, e A → e ′ π X , for mesons produced at Q 2 > 3 GeV 2 . However, a recent JLab (Jefferson Laboratory) measurement for a proton electroproduced in carbon e C → e ′ p X , where X stands for the inclusive sum of all produced final states, fails to observe CT at Q 2 up to 14.2 GeV 2 . In this paper, the onset of CT is determined by comparing the Q 2 -dependence of the hadronic cross sections for the initial formation of a small color-singlet configuration using the generalized parton distributions from holographic light-front QCD. A critical dependence on the hadron's twist, τ , the number of hadron constituents, is found for the onset of CT, with no significant effects from the nuclear medium. This effect can explain the absence of proton CT in the present kinematic range of the JLab experiment. The proton is predicted to have a "two-stage" color transparency with the onset of CT differing for the spin-conserving (twist-3, τ = 3 ) Dirac form factor with a higher onset in Q 2 for the spin-flip Pauli (twist-4) form factor. In contrast, the neutron is predicted to have a "one-stage" color transparency with the onset at higher Q 2 because of the dominance of its Pauli form factor. The model also predicts a strong dependence at low energies on the flavor of the quark current coupling to the hadron. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We analyze the structure of excited states of new heavy hadrons in the scenario with hadronic dark matter. Fine mass-splitting in a doublet of new mesons stipulates the existence of charged metastable heavy mesons. We describe the structure of new meson excited states in the framework of the heavy quark effective theory. Phenomenological consequences of fine and hyperfine splitting are considered in the hadronic dark matter scenario and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rank-3 antisymmetric tensors which are the magnetic monopoles of SU(N) Yang–Mills gauge theory dynamics, unlike their counterparts in Maxwell's U(1) electrodynamics, are non-vanishing, and do permit a net flux of Yang–Mills analogs to the magnetic field through closed spatial surfaces. When electric source currents of the same Yang–Mills dynamics are inverted and their fermions inserted into these Yang–Mills monopoles to create a system, this system in its unperturbed state contains exactly three fermions due to the monopole rank-3 and its three additive field strength gradient terms in covariant form. So to ensure that every fermion in this system occupies an exclusive quantum state, the Exclusion Principle is used to place each of the three fermions into the fundamental representation of the simple gauge group with an SU(3) symmetry. After the symmetry of the monopole is broken to make this system indivisible, the gauge bosons inside the monopole become massless, the SU(3) color symmetry of the fermions becomes exact, and a propagator is established for each fermion. The monopoles then have the same antisymmetric color singlet wavefunction as a baryon, and the field quanta of the magnetic fields fluxing through the monopole surface have the same symmetric color singlet wavefunction as a meson. Consequently, we are able to identify these fermions with colored quarks, the gauge bosons with gluons, the magnetic monopoles with baryons, and the fluxing entities with mesons, while establishing that the quarks and gluons remain confined and identifying the symmetry breaking with hadronization. Analytic tools developed along the way are then used to fill the Yang–Mills mass gap. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]