* Astronomy

Members Login
Username 
 
Password 
    Remember Me  
Post Info TOPIC: Quarks


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
RE: Quarks
Permalink  
 


Title: Precise charm to strange mass ratio and light quark masses from full lattice QCD
Authors: C. T. H. Davies, C. McNeile, K. Y. Wong, E. Follana, R. Horgan, K. Hornbostel, G. P. Lepage, J. Shigemitsu, H. Trottier
(Version v2)

By using a single formalism to handle charm, strange and light valence quarks in full lattice QCD for the first time, we are able to determine ratios of quark masses to 1%. For m_c/m_s we obtain 11.85(16), an order of magnitude more precise than the current PDG average. Combined with 1% determinations of the charm quark mass now possible this gives \bar{m}_s(2{GeV}) = 92.4(1.5) MeV. The MILC result for m_s/m_l = 27.2(3)  yields \bar{m}_l(2{GeV}) = 3.40(7) MeV for the average of u and d quark masses.

Read more (130kb, PDF)

__________________


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
Permalink  
 

Title: Stable quarks of the 4th family?
Authors: K. Belotsky, M. Khlopov, K. Shibaev

Existence of metastable quarks of new generation can be embedded into phenomenology of heterotic string together with new long range interaction, which only this new generation possesses. We discuss primordial quark production in the early Universe, their successive cosmological evolution and astrophysical effects, as well as possible production in present or future accelerators. In case of a charge symmetry of 4th generation quarks in Universe, they can be stored in neutral mesons, doubly positively charged baryons, while all the doubly negatively charged "baryons" are combined with He-4 into neutral nucleus-size atom-like states. The existence of all these anomalous stable particles may escape present experimental limits, being close to present and future experimental test. Due to the nuclear binding with He-4 primordial lightest baryons of the 4th generation with charge +1 can also escape the experimental upper limits on anomalous isotopes of hydrogen, being compatible with upper limits on anomalous lithium. While 4th quark hadrons are rare, their presence may be nearly detectable in cosmic rays, muon and neutrino fluxes and cosmic electromagnetic spectra. In case of charge asymmetry, a nontrivial solution for the problem of dark matter (DM) can be provided by excessive (meta)stable anti-up quarks of 4th generation, bound with He-4 in specific nuclear-interacting form of dark matter. Such candidate to DM is surprisingly close to Warm Dark Matter by its role in large scale structure formation. It catalyses primordial heavy element production in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and new types of nuclear transformations around us.
    
Read more (96kb, PDF)

__________________
Page 1 of 1  sorted by
Quick Reply

Please log in to post quick replies.



Create your own FREE Forum
Report Abuse
Powered by ActiveBoard