Danilkin, Igor (2013)
Coupled-channel dynamics in mesonic systems.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication
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Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||
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Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||
Title: | Coupled-channel dynamics in mesonic systems | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Referees: | Lutz, PD Dr. Matthias F. M. ; Schwenk , Prof. Dr. Achim | ||||
Date: | 2013 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Date of oral examination: | 19 December 2012 | ||||
Abstract: | Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the SU(3) color gauge theory, which describes strong interactions. At high energies QCD possesses a remarkable property of asymptotic freedom which allows the use of the standard perturbation theory. At low energies, however, the running coupling becomes strong and the associated confinement makes perturbative calculations impossible. To overcome this problem one has to apply nonperturbative methods like QCD sum rules or lattice simulations. Another powerful theoretical framework is chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) which is connected with spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking of QCD. According to the Goldstone theorem, this breakdown leads to the appearance of an octet of Goldstone bosons which are identified with pseudo-scalar mesons (π, K, η). An analysis of the low energy region is conducted in terms of experimentally detected hadrons rather than explicit quark-gluon degrees of freedom. A systematic expansion of matrix elements is performed in terms of masses of the light quarks and small momenta. However, ChPT leads to controlled results in the close to threshold region only and a generalization to resonance region is desirable. In order to extend the validity of ChPT to higher energies we include light vector degrees of freedom into the chiral Lagrangian according to hadrogenesis conjecture and take into account nonperturbative effects by the novel unitarization technique. The latter is based on micro-causality and coupled-channel unitarity constraints and also preserve the electromagnetic gauge invariance property. In this work, first we apply the novel unitarization scheme to Yukawa interactions of various strengths and ranges. This analysis helps us to realize the usefulness of the new approach and to what extend it is valid. The typical case of a superposition of strong short-range and weak long-range forces is investigated. Then we study Goldstone boson scattering based on the flavor SU(3) chiral Lagrangian with dynamical light vector mesons as formulated within the hadrogenesis conjecture. A coupled-channel computation is confronted with the empirical s- and p-wave phase shifts up to 1.2 GeV. In the isoscalar and isovector isospin sectors the f0(980) and a0(980) resonances are dynamically generated. In the p-wave scattering, vector mesons are described as Castillejo-Dalitz-Dyson poles. Then we extend our analysis to the photon-fusion reactions which are very sensitive to hadronic final-state interaction. In this case the Lagrangian contains few unknown coupling constants parameterizing the interaction terms with two vector meson fields. These parameters are fitted to photon fusion data γγ->π0π0, π+π- and to the decay η->π0γγ. Based on our parameter sets we predict the γγ->K0K0, K+K- and ηη cross sections. |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-33182 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 500 Science and mathematics > 530 Physics | ||||
Divisions: | 05 Department of Physics > Institute of Nuclear Physics | ||||
Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2013 12:52 | ||||
Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2013 12:52 | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/3318 | ||||
PPN: | 386275475 | ||||
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