QCD and e+e- → baryon + antibaryon

Marek Karliner*, Shmuel Nussinov

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Abstract

We discuss the QCD constraints on e+e- → baryon-antibaryon close to threshold, in light of the puzzling experimental data which indicate that close to threshold σ(e+e- → nn̄) > σ(e+e- → pp̄). We focus on the process e+e- → ΔΔ̄, which is particularly simple from the theoretical point of view. In this case it is possible to make exact QCD predictions for the relative yields of the four members of the Δ multiplet, modulo one crucial dynamical assumption.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)321-326
Number of pages6
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume538
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Jul 2002

Funding

FundersFunder number
Basic Research Foundation
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

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