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We present results from analytical and numerical studies of a flux tube model of hybrid mesons. Our numerical results use a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm and so improve on previous analytical treatments, which assumed small flux tube…
Using the method of QCD Sum Rules we estimate the energy of lowest energy top quark meson state with a hybrid admixture. This new estimate uses the previous estimates of hybrid charmonium and upsilon states, but with the mass of the top…
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The pion-baryon sigma terms and the strange-quark condensates of the octet and the decuplet baryons are calculated by employing the method of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) sum rules. We evaluate the vacuum-to-vacuum transition matrix…
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We calculate the vacuum to meson matrix elements of the dimension-4 operator $\bar{\psi}\gamma_4\nblr_i \psi$ and dimension-5 operator $\bar{\psi}\eps\gamma_j\psi B_k$ of the $1^{-+}$ meson on the lattice and compare them to the…
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