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DOE OSTI2011

Photoproduction of K{Sigma}(1385) from the nucleon

The reactions of K{Sigma}(1385) photoproduction, i.e., {gamma}p {yields} K{sup +}{Sigma}{sup 0}(1385) and {gamma} {yields} K{sup +}{Sigma}{sup -}(1385), are investigated in the resonance energy region for studying the role of the nucleon and {Delta} resonances of masses around 2 GeV. The Lagrangians for describing the decays of these resonances into the K{Sigma}(1385) channel are constructed and the decay amplitudes are obtained, which allows us to determine the coupling constants using the predictions of quark models or the data listed by the Particle Data Group. The resulting cross sections are compared to the data from the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and the SPring-8, which indicates nontrivial contributions from the two-star-rated resonances in the Particle Data Group as well as from some missing resonances predicted by a quark model.

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DOE OSTI2011

The energy dependence of the pp {yields} K{sup +}n{Sigma}{sup +} reaction

The energy dependence of the total cross section for the pp {yields} K{sup +}n{Sigma}{sup +} reaction has been investigated at the magnetic spectrometer COSY-ANKE. Signals from the production of the {Sigma}{sup +} hyperon were searched for in three simultaneously measured spectra. The values obtained for the total production cross section {sigma}({Sigma}{sup +}) are slightly below those of {sigma}({Sigma}{sup 0}) at the same excess energies. They follow a phase space dependence and do not show any evidence for strong threshold effects or a significant n{Sigma}{sup +} final state interaction.

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DOE OSTI2011

Kaonic Atoms

The precision spectroscopy of kaonic hydrogen and kaonic helium x-rays offers a unique possibility to precisely determine the K{sup -}N strong interaction in the low energy limit. Results and status of modern experiments using silicon drift x-ray detectors (SDDs), namely, KEK E570, SIDDHARTA at DA{Phi}NE and E17 at J-PARC, are discussed.

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DOE OSTI2011

Meson-baryon interaction in the meson exchange picture

Elastic {pi}N scattering and the reaction {pi}{sup +}p{yields}K{sup +}{Sigma}{sup +} are described simultaneously in a unitary coupled-channels approach which respects analyticity. SU(3) flavor symmetry is used to relate the t- and u- channel exchanges that drive the meson-baryon interaction in the different channels. Angular distributions, polarizations, and spin-rotation parameters are compared with available experimental data. The pole structure of the amplitudes is extracted from the analytic continuation.

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DOE OSTI2011

The Determination of Pseudoscalar Meson Photoproduction Amplitudes from Complete Experiments

A new generation of complete experiments is currently underway with the goal of performing a high precision extraction of pseudoscalar meson photo-production amplitudes. Here we review the most general analytic form of the cross section, dependent upon the three polarization vectors of the beam, target and recoil baryon, including all single, double and triple-polarization terms involving 16 spin-dependent observables. Analytic expressions that determine the recoil baryon polarization are also presented. Different conventions are in use in the literature and we have used a numerical calculation of cross sections from Chew-Goldberger-Low-Nambu amplitudes with arbitrary spin projections to clarify apparent sign differences. As an illustration of the use of this machinery, we carry out a multipole analysis of the {gamma}p {yields} K{sup +}{Lambda} reaction and examine the impact of recently published polarization measurements. In fitting multipoles, we use a combined Monte Carlo sampling of the amplitude space, with gradient minimization, and find a shallow {chi}{sup 2} valley pitted with a very large number of local minima, despite the inclusion of recent data on 8 different observables. We conclude that, while a mathematical solution to the problem of determining an amplitude free of ambiguities may require 8 observables, as has been pointed out in the literature, experiments with realistically achievable uncertainties will require a significantly larger number.

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K*{sup +} Photoproduction at CLAS

The study of hyperon resonances has entered a new era of precision with advent of high-statistics photoproduction data from the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab and elsewhere. These data have multi-particle final states, allowing clean identification of exclusive reactions associated with strange mesons and baryons. In this paper, cross sections for K* photoproduction are presented that will provide a future test of the existence of the purported K{sub 0}(800) meson via comparison with theoretical models.

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DOE OSTI2011

{Lambda}(1520) photoproduction with Regge contribution

In this talk, we report our recent progresses on the {Lambda}(1520) photoproduction using the effective Lagrangian approach. In addition to the tree-level Born diagrams, we take into account the Regge-trajectories for the possible strange-meson exchanges in the t channel. We compute the angular and energy dependences of the production process, including polarization observables, such as the photon-beam asymmetry and the polarization-transfer coefficients, resulting in good qualitative agreement with current experimental data. We also compute the K{sup -} angle distribution function in the Gottfried-Jackson frame, using the polarization-transfer coefficients in the z direction.

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DOE OSTI2011

{Lambda}K*{Lambda}(1116) photoproduction and nucleon resonances

In this presentation, we report our recent studies on the {Lambda}K*{Lambda}(1116) photoproduction off the proton target, using the tree-level Born approximation, via the effective Lagrangian approach. In addition, we include the nine (three- or four-star confirmed) nucleon resonances below the threshold {radical}(s{sub th}){approx_equal}2008 MeV, to interpret the discrepancy between the experiment and previous theoretical studies, in the vicinity of the threshold region. From the numerical studies, we observe that the S{sub 11}(1535) and S11(1650) play an important role for the cross-section enhancement near the {radical}(s{sub th}). It also turns out that, in order to reproduce the data, we have the vector coupling constants gK*S{sub 11}(1535){Lambda} = (7.0{approx}9.0) and gK*S{sub 11}(1650){Lambda} (5.0{approx}6.0).

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DOE OSTI2011

Hadronic particles made of multi-{rho}(770) mesons

We summarize the work [1] where we studied the few body system made of several {rho}(770) mesons. Based on the very strong interaction of two {rho}(770) vector mesons in spin 2 and isospin 0, we show that the resonances {rho}3(1690)(3{sup --}), f4(2050)(4{sup ++}), {rho}5(2350)(5{sup --}) and f6(2510)(6{sup ++}) can be interpreted as few body systems made of an increasing number of {rho}(770) particles. The fixed center approximation of the Faddeev equations is used in order to write the multi-body interaction in terms of the elementary two-body scattering amplitudes. Very good agreement with the experimental masses is found. An extension of the model to include also the interaction with K*(895) is discussed.

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DOE OSTI2011

Status Report of J-PARC E19

The aim of the J-PARC E19 experiment is to search for the pentaquark {Theta}{sup +} in the {pi}{sup -}+p{yields}K{sup -}+X reaction. The expected sensitivity reaches 75 {mu}b/sr in the laboratory frame. This is the first experimental program to be performed at the J-PARC Hadron Facility. The spectrometer has been completed and successfully operated. The physics run has started on October 2010. As a first step, we accumulated the statistics which is enough to confirm the existence of the {Theta}{sup +} assuming the cross section of 1.9 {mu}b/sr reported in the past KEK experiment. We plan to study the energy dependence of the cross section for beamtime from Spring 2011.

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Experimental studies on kaonic atoms at DA{Phi}NE

We have measured the K-series x-rays of kaonic hydrogen atoms to determine the strong-interaction energy-level shift and width of the 1s atomic state with significant improvements over the previous experiments. The measurement offers a unique possibility to precisely determine the complex K{sup -}p S-wave scattering length. We have also measured kaonic x-ray spectra with several gaseous targets : deuterium, helium-3 and helium-4. In this paper, we present an overview of this experiment and preliminary spectra of those kaonic x-rays.

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Application of coupled-channel Complex Scaling Method to {Lambda}(1405)

We have applied the coupled-channel Complex Scaling Method (ccCSM) to the excited baryon {Lambda}(1405) which is the important building block of kaonic nuclei. {Lambda}(1405) is treated as a resonant state of the meson-baryon coupled system, K-barN and {pi}{Sigma}. In this article, it is reported that the ccCSM works well even with an energy-dependent K-barN potential such as a chiral SU(3)-based potential. We have tested two cases: the self-consistency condition is imposed on I) real energy and II) complex energy. Then, the self-consistent solutions are obtained in both cases in the framework of the ccCSM.

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DOE OSTI2011

Probing internal structure of {Lambda}(1405) in meson-baryon dynamics with chiral symmetry

The internal structure of the resonant {Lambda}(1405) state is investigated based on meson-baryon coupled-channels chiral dynamics, by evaluating density distributions obtained from the form factors of the {Lambda}(1405) state. The form factors are extracted from current-coupled scattering amplitudes in which the current is coupled to the constituent hadrons inside {Lambda}(1405). Using several probe interactions and channel decomposition, we find that the resonant {Lambda}(1405) state is dominantly composed of widely spread K-bar around N, with a small fraction of the escaping {pi}{Sigma} component.

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DOE OSTI2011

Meson baryon interaction in the hadron exchange picture

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DOE OSTI2011

Different Contributions of the {phi}{yields}K{sup 0}K-bar{sup 0}{gamma} Decay

The scalar mesons and vector mesons contribution to the radiative decay {phi}{yields}K{sup 0}K-bar{sup 0}{gamma} are studied within the framework of the phenomenological approach. The branching ratio of this decay is calculated to be 10{sup -8}-10{sup -12}. Furthermore, obtained values are compared with the experimental and theoretical results existing in the literature.

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DOE OSTI2011

Structure of {sup 46}Ti at low excitation energy

The nucleus {sup 46}Ti has been studied with the reaction {sup 42}Ca({sup 7}Li,p2n){sup 46}Ti at a bombarding energy of 31 MeV. Thin target foils backed with a thick Au layer were used. Five new levels of negative parity were observed. Several lifetimes have been determined with the Doppler shift attenuation method. Low-lying experimental negative-parity levels are assigned to three bands with K{sup {pi}=}3{sup -}, 0{sup -}, and 4{sup -}, which are interpreted in terms of the large-scale shell model, considering particle-hole excitations from d{sub 3/2} and s{sub 1/2} orbitals. Shell model calculations were performed using a few effective interactions. However, good agreement was not achieved in the description of either negative- or positive-parity low-lying levels.

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DOE OSTI2011

Generation of excited K bands in heavy nuclei

It is known that coupling an intrinsic excitation of integer spin and positive parity I{sup +} to a rotor having a degenerate set of states L{sup {pi}=}0{sup +},2{sup +},4{sup +},..., generates a series of K bands. A given value of I{sup +} gives rise to several bands labeled by K{sup +}=0{sup +},1{sup +},2{sup +},...,I{sup +}, that is, a total of (I+1) such bands, in the spectrum of the combined system. We discuss how a binary cluster model of an excited core orbited by a spinless cluster can approximate these conditions. A crucial point is that the radial wave functions of relative motion are very similar for low L, and their radial coupling integrals even more so, such that the wave functions play the model role of a common intrinsic state for the lowest excited states of the system. If the core has a 0{sup +} ground state and a low-lying 2{sup +} excited state, then lifting the degeneracy leads to a ground state K{sup +}=0{sup +} band and low-lying excited K{sup +}=0{sup +}, 1{sup +}, and 2{sup +} bands. Although these are all seen in light nuclei, the K{sup +}=1{sup +} band is conspicuous by its apparent absence in heavy nuclei, and we urge experimental groups to reexamine their data for signs of it.

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Observation of the Baryonic B decay B0bar to Lambda_c^+ anti-Lambda K-

The authors report the observation of the baryonic B decay {bar B}{sup 0} {yields} {Lambda}{sub c}{sup +} {bar {Lambda}}K{sup -} with a significance larger than 7 standard deviations based on 471 x 10{sup 6} B{bar B} pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II storage ring at SLAC. They measure the branching fraction for the decay {bar B}{sup 0} {yields} {Lambda}{sub c}{sup +} {bar {Lambda}}K{sup -} to be (3.8 {+-} 0.8{sub stat} {+-} 0.2{sub sys} {+-} 1.0 {sub {Lambda}{sub c}{sup +}}) x 10{sup -5}. The uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and due to the uncertainty in the {Lambda}{sub c}{sup +} branching fraction. They find that the {Lambda}{sub c}{sup +} K{sup -} invariant mass distribution shows an enhancement above 3.5 GeV/c{sup 2}.

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