Jianming Bian

Physics at BES-III

We give a detailed review of the construction of gauge invariant Lagrangians for free and interacting higher spin fields using the BRST approach developed over the past few years.This physics book provides detailed discussions on important topics in

Event Reconstruction Techniques in NOvA

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Chapter 12 Two-Photon Physics

-charm physics that will be explored during the next few years at bes3 . Both theoretical and experimental issues are covered, including extensive reviews of recent theoretical developments and experimental techniques. Among the subjects covered are: innovations in Partial Wave Analysis (PWA), theoretical and experimental techniques for Dalitz-plot analyses, analysis tools to extract absolute branching fractions and measurements of decay constants, form factors, and CP-violation and DzDzb-oscillation parameters. Programs of QCD studies and near-threshold tau-lepton physics measurements are also discussed.

Chapter 11 Physics of Soft Pions and the Lightest Scalars at BES-III

The NOvA experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment utilizing the NuMI beam generated at Fermilab. The experiment will measure the oscillations within a muon neutrino beam in a 300 ton Near Detector located underground at Fermilab and a functionally-identical 14 kiloton Far Detector placed 810 km away. The detectors are liquid scintillator tracking calorimeters with a fine-grained cellular structure that provides a wealth of information for separating the different particle track and shower topologies. Each detector has its own challenges with the Near Detector seeing multiple overlapping neutrino interactions in each event and the Far Detector having a large background of cosmic rays due to being located on the surface. A series of pattern recognition techniques have been developed to go from event records, to spatially and temporally separating individual interactions, to vertexing and tracking, and particle identification. This combination of methods to achieve the full event reconstruction will be discussed.

Chapter 9 Meson Spectroscopy

The following sections are included: Introduction Experimental Status of Two-Photon Processes Measurement of Two-Photon Processes at BES-III Summary

Chapter 10 Baryon Spectrum

The following sections are included: Partially Conserved Vector Current (PCAC) and Soft Pions Beyond the Breit–Wigner Description of a Broad Resonance Final State Interaction Theorem and Omnes Solution On the Nature of the Lightest Scalar Resonances

Light hadron physics

The following sections are included: Introduction Conventional Meson Spectrum Glueball Spectrum Hybrid Mesons Multiquarks Molecular States

First Results of

The following sections are included: Baryons as qqq States Outstanding Problems in Baryon Spectroscopy Baryon Spectroscopy at BESI and BESII Prospects for Baryon Spectroscopy at BESIII

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Our knowledge about the structure of matter and the nature of the interactions between its constituent components follows a hierarchy that closely tracks the evolution of experimental measurements from low to higher and higher energies. For example, with an electron beam of a given energy, one can access the microscopic structure of matter at length scales corresponding to the de-Brogie wave length of the electrons that are being used: λ = 2π × 197.3 Mev·fm/Eγ, were Eγ is the energy of the photon that is exchanged in the experimentally observed process. As the energy of the beams that are available get higher and higher, the sizes of objects that can be probed get smaller and smaller…