Pseudoscalar Meson and Decuplet Baryon Scattering Lengths
The excited states of the nucleon and their strong interactions with various hadrons play an important role in our understanding of non-perturbative QCD. Generally speaking, their coupling with the pseudoscalar pion, kaon and eta is governed by chiral dynamics. The first excited state of the nucleon, J = 3/2 ∆(1232), belongs to the lightest decuplet. It is degenerate with the nucleon in the large Nc limit [1, 2]. From the strong decay widths, one can extract the coupling constants of the pseudoscalar meson decuplet baryon interaction. Although it may be quite difficult to measure their scattering lengths experimentally, unlike in the pion-nucleon and kaon-nucleon cases [3–5], it is still interesting to study the scattering processes theoretically. As two well-known non-perturbative approaches of QCD at low energy, chiral perturbation theory and lattice QCD have been widely used in studying meson-baryon interactions [6–14]. With the explicitly consistent power counting scheme, the heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory (HBχPT) is a practical and useful tool in the study of the meson baryon scattering. The expansion is organized with p/Λχ, where p represents the momentum (mass) of the meson or the small residue momentum of the baryon in the non-relativistic limit, and Λχ = 4πfπ is the scale of chiral symmetry breaking. Numerically it is around the baryon mass in the chiral limit. Because of the large mass of the strange quark, the chiral corrections from the kaon and eta meson loops are significantly larger than that from the pion loop, which leads to the worse convergence of the chiral expansion in the SU(3) case. In HBχPT, the effects of excited baryons are encoded in the unknown low energy constants (LECs) in the Lagrangians. In the large Nc limit, one expects that the inclusion of the decuplet baryon contribution may partially cancel the octet contribution and be helpful to the chiral expansion. In order to investigate the contributions of the ∆, HBχPT with explicit spin-3/2 baryons and the small-scale expansion scheme have been developed in Refs. . Now the expansion is organized with ǫ, where ǫ means p in HBχPT or the mass difference δ between ∆ and the nucleon in the chiral limit, which is widely used in the exploration of the decuplet related processes [17–21]. There exists another power counting scheme “δ expansion” in the two-flavor case, where mπ scales as δ 2 [22–25]. In our previous work [21], we studied the decuplet contributions to the pseudoscalar meson octet baryon scattering lengths, which is an important observable reflecting their strong interaction near the threshold. The inclusion of the decuplet baryons does not improve the convergence significantly. In this paper, we will study the scattering lengths of the pseudoscalar mesons and the light decuplet baryons in the framework of the SU(3) heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory with explicit decuplet baryons. We will explore whether the small scale expansion works well in this case.

title: Pseudoscalar Meson and Charmed Baryon Scattering Lengths
abstract: We have calculated the scattering lengths between the pseudoscalar meson and charmed triplet, sextet, and excited sextet baryon to the third order with the heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. The chiral expansion of the pion channels converges well.

title: Pseudoscalar meson and heavy vector meson scattering lengths
abstract: We have systematically studied the S-wave pseudoscalar meson and heavy vector meson scattering lengths to the third order with the chiral perturbation theory, which will be helpful to reveal their strong interaction. For comparison, we have presented the numerical results of the scattering lengths (1) in the framework of the heavy meson chiral perturbation theory and (2) in the framework of the infrared regularization. The chiral expansion converges well in some channels.

title: Pseudoscalar Goldstone bosons scattering off charmed baryons with chiral perturbation theory
abstract: We have systematically calculated the pseudoscalar Goldstone boson and charmed baryon scattering lengths to the third order with heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. The scattering lengths can reveal the interaction of K Λ c , K Σ c , π Ω c , etc. For each channel, we take into account of the interaction between the external particle and every possible charmed baryon in the triplet, sextet, and excited sextet. We use dimensional regularization and modified minimal subtraction to get rid of the divergences in the loop-diagram corrections. We notice that the convergence of chiral expansion for most of the channels becomes better after we let the low energy constants absorb the analytic contributions of the loop-diagram corrections and keep the non-analytic terms only.

title: Bose-Einstein correlations of neutral and charged pions in hadronic Z decays
abstract: Bose–Einstein correlations of both neutral and like-sign charged pion pairs are measured in a sample of 2 million hadronic Z decays collected with the L3 detector at LEP. The analysis is performed in the four-momentum difference range 300 MeV Q

title: Measurement of D(s)- ---> tau- anti-tau-neutrino and a new limit for B- ---> tau- anti-tau-neutrino

title: Baryon masses with dynamical twisted mass fermions
abstract: We present results on the mass of the nucleon and the $\Delta$ using two dynamical degenerate twisted mass quarks. The evaluation is performed at four quark masses corresponding to a pion mass in the range of 690-300 MeV on lattices of size 2.1 fm and 2.7 fm. We check for cutoff effects by evaluating these baryon masses on lattices of spatial size 2.1 fm with lattice spacings $a(\beta=3.9)=0.0855(6)$ fm and $a(\beta=4.05)=0.0666(6)$ fm, determined from the pion sector and find them to be within our statistical errors. Lattice results are extrapolated to the physical limit using continuum chiral perturbation theory. 
The nucleon mass at the physical point provides a determination of the lattice spacing. Using heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory at ${\cal O}(p^3)$ we find $a(\beta=3.9)=0.0879(12)$ fm, with a systematic error due to the chiral extrapolation estimated to be about the same as the statistical error. This value of the lattice spacing is in good agreement with the value determined from the pion sector. We check for isospin breaking in the $\Delta$-system. We find that $\Delta^{++,-}$ and $\Delta^{+,0}$ are almost degenerate pointing to small flavor violating effects.

title: Meson mass decomposition from lattice QCD
abstract: Hadron masses can be decomposed as a sum of quark and glue components which are defined through hadronic matrix elements of QCD operators. The components consist of the quark mass term, the quark energy term, the glue energy term, and the trace anomaly term. We calculate these components for mesons with lattice QCD for the first time. The calculation is carried out with overlap fermion on $2+1$ flavor domain-wall fermion gauge configurations. We confirm that $\sim 50\%$ of the light pion mass comes from the quark mass term and $\sim 10\%$ comes from the quark energy; whereas, while for the $\rho$ meson, the quark energy contributes roughly half of its mass but the quark mass term contributes little. The combined glue components contribute $\sim 40 - 50\%$ for both mesons. It is interesting to observe that the quark mass contribution to the mass of the vector meson is almost linear in quark mass over a large quark mass region below the charm quark mass. For heavy mesons, the quark mass term dominates the masses, while the contribution from the glue components is about $200$ MeV (a bare value around 2GeV) for the heavy pseudoscalar and vector mesons. The charmonium hyperfine splitting is found to be dominated by the quark energy term which is consistent with the picture of the quark potential model.

title: Hamiltonian Reduction of WZNW Model Associated With Chiral Constraints
abstract: The constant constraints in the conventional Hamiltonian reductions of WZNW model are generalized to the case of arbitrary chiral constraints.It is shown that the reduced model is equivalent to a conformal integrable system at both classical and quantum levels.It is also found that the use of chiral constraints is equivalent to the Hamihonian reduction of the product phase space of WZNW model and free fields.