Jorge Segovia

Completing the Picture of the Roper Resonance.

We employ a continuum approach to the three valence-quark bound-state problem in relativistic quantum field theory to predict a range of properties of the protons radial excitation and thereby unify them with those of numerous other hadrons. Our analysis indicates that the nucleons first radial excitation is the Roper resonance. It consists of a core of three dressed quarks, which expresses its valence-quark content and whose charge radius is 80% larger than the proton analogue. That core is complemented by a meson cloud, which reduces the observed Roper mass by roughly 20%. The meson cloud materially affects long-wavelength characteristics of the Roper electroproduction amplitudes but the quark core is revealed to probes with Q(2)≳3m(N)(2).

Coupled channel approach to the structure of the X(3872)

We have performed a coupled channel calculation of the 1{sup ++} cc sector including qq and DD* molecular configurations. The calculation was done within a constituent quark model which successfully describes the meson spectrum, in particular, the cc 1{sup --} sector. Two and four-quark configurations are coupled using the {sup 3}P{sub 0} model. The elusive X(3872) meson appears as a new state with a high probability for the DD* molecular component. When the mass difference between neutral and charged states is included, a large D{sup 0}D*{sup 0} component is found which dominates for large distances and breaks isospin symmetry in the physical state. The original cc(2{sup 3}P{sub 1}) state acquires a sizable DD* component and can be identified with the X(3940). We study the B{yields}K{pi}{sup +{pi}-}J/{psi} and B{yields}KD{sup 0}D*{sup 0} decays, finding a good agreement with Belle and BABAR experimental data.

Scaling of the P03 strength in heavy meson strong decays

Abstract The phenomenological P 0 3 decay model has been extensively applied to calculate meson strong decays. The strength γ of the decay interaction is regarded as a free flavor independent constant and is fitted to the data. We calculate through the P 0 3 model the total strong decay widths of the mesons which belong to charmed, charmed-strange, hidden charm and hidden bottom sectors. The wave function of the mesons involved in the strong decays are given by a constituent quark model that describes well the meson phenomenology from the light to the heavy quark sector. A global fit of the experimental data shows that, contrarily to the usual wisdom, the γ depends on the reduced mass of the quark–antiquark pair in the decaying meson. With this scale-dependent strength γ, we are able to predict the decay width of orbitally excited B mesons not included in the fit.

CONSTITUENT QUARK MODEL DESCRIPTION OF CHARMONIUM PHENOMENOLOGY

We review how quark models are able to describe the phenomenology of the charm meson sector. The spectroscopy and decays of charmonium and open charm mesons are described in a particular quark model and compared with the data and the results of other existing models in the literature. A quite reasonable global description of the heavy meson spectra is reached. A new assignment of the ψ(4415) resonance as a 3D state leaving aside the 4S state to the X(4360) is tested through the analysis of the resonance structure in e+e- exclusive reactions around the ψ(4415) energy region. We make tentative assignments of some of the XYZ mesons. To elucidate the structure of the 1+cs states, i.e., Ds1(2460) and Ds1(2536), we study the strong decay properties of the Ds1(2536) meson. We also perform a calculation of the branching fractions for the semileptonic decays of B and Bs mesons into final states containing orbitally excited charmed and charmed-strange mesons, which have become a very important source of information about the structure of heavy mesons. Analysis of the nonleptonic B-meson decays into D(*)DsJ are also included.

Bottomonium spectrum revisited

We revisit the bottomonium spectrum motivated by the recently exciting experimental progress in the observation of new bottomonium states, both conventional and unconventional. Our framework is a nonrelativistic constituent quark model which has been applied to a wide range of hadronic observables from the light to the heavy quark sector and thus the model parameters are completely constrained. Beyond the spectrum, we provide a large number of electromagnetic, strong and hadronic decays in order to discuss the quark content of the bottomonium states and give more insights about the better way to determine their properties experimentally.

Understanding the nucleon as a Borromean bound-state

a b s t r a c t Analyses of the three valence-quark bound-state problem in relativistic quantum field theory predict that the nucleon may be understood primarily as a Borromean bound-state, in which binding arises mainly from two separate effects. One originates in non-Abelian facets of QCD that are expressed in the strong running coupling and generate confined but strongly-correlated colour-antitriplet diquark clusters in both the scalar-isoscalar and pseudovector-isotriplet channels. That attraction is magnified by quark exchange associated with diquark breakup and reformation. Diquark clustering is driven by the same mechanism which dynamically breaks chiral symmetry in the Standard Model. It has numerous observable conse- quences, the complete elucidation of which requires a framework that also simultaneously expresses the running of the coupling and masses in the strong interaction. Planned experiments are capable of vali- dating this picture.

Charmed-strange meson spectrum: Old and new problems

The LHCb Collaboration has recently reported the observation for the first time of a spin-

Insights into the gamma* N -> Delta transition

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Distribution amplitudes of light-quark mesons from lattice QCD

resonance in the heavy quark sector. They have shown that the

Molecular components in P-wave charmed-strange mesons

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