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A coupled channel model with $\gamma N$, $KY$ and $\pi N$ channels has been used to analyze the recent data of $\gamma p \to K^+ \Lambda$. The non-resonant interactions within the subspace $KY \oplus \pi N$ are derived from effective…
In the early stage of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions chiral symmetry is restored temporarily. During this so-called chiral phase transition, the quark masses change from their constituent to their bare values. This mass shift leads…
We have performed a theoretical study on the process $\chi_{c0}(1P)\to \bar{\Lambda}\Sigma\pi$, by taking into account the final state interactions of $\pi\Sigma$ and $\pi\bar{\Lambda}$ based on the chiral unitary approach. As the isospin…
The new $\gamma n\to K^0\Lambda$ data obtained from the CLAS and MAMI collaborations are analyzed by employing an effective Lagrangian method. The constructed model can describe all available experimental data in both $\gamma p \to…
Interpreting peaks or dips that appear in an invariant mass distribution is a recurring challenge in hadron physics. These enhancements can be ambiguous, especially near a two-hadron threshold since kinematical and dynamical effects play an…
The pole structure of the $\Lambda(1405)$ has been a topic of debate for a long time. Chiral perturbation theory predicts that its experimental spectrum may be explained by a two pole structure originating in the $SU(3)$ chiral dynamics of…
We continue our investigation of the phenomenological consequences of the MCPM for the LHC experiments. As in any two-Higgs-doublet model we have in the MCPM three neutral Higgs bosons and one charged Higgs-boson pair $H^\pm$. Here we…
We explore the photoproduction mechanisms for charged and neutral pion pairs off a heavy nucleus at threshold. We calculate the production of charged pairs in the Coulomb field of the nucleus in the Born approximation using explicit…
Differential cross sections and photon-beam asymmetries for the gamma p -> K+ Lambda(1520) reaction have been measured with linearly polarized photon beams at energies from the threshold to 2.4 GeV at 0.6<cos(theta)<1. A new bump structure…
We utilize the effective Lagrangian method within the tree-level Born approximation to explore $\phi$-meson photoproduction, i.e., $\gamma p \to \phi p$. Our analysis encompasses contributions from various sources, including the Pomeron,…
We propose that the scalar $\kappa(800)$ meson may play an important role in $K^*$ photoproduction. In the reactions of $\gamma p \to K^{*+} \Lambda$ and $\gamma p \to K^{*0} \Sigma^+$, we consider the production mechanisms including…
We have investigated the existence of the J^p=1/2^+ narrow resonance predicted by the chiral soliton model by utilizing the kaon photoproduction process gamma + p --> K^+ + Lambda. For this purpose we have constructed two phenomenological…
We present a calculation of the O(alpha_s) QCD corrections to the production of a Z boson in association with two photons and to triple photon production at hadron colliders. All final-state photons are taken as real. For the Z boson, we…
We investigate photoproduction of eta mesons off protons and neutrons within a coupled-channels effective-Lagrangian method which is based on the K-matrix approach. The two-body final channels included are pi-N, eta-N, phi-N, rho-N,…
The properties of the $\Lambda(1405)$ resonance have been investigated from radiative decay of $K^- p\to Y\gamma$ and photoproduction $\gamma p\to K^+\Lambda(1405)$ within the framework of the isobar model. For a consistent result with…
The CLAS collaboration has recently completed first measurements of the double polarization observables C_x and C_z for the reactions K^+Lambda and K^+Sigma^o photoproduction. C_x and C_z are the beam-recoil polarization asymmetries…
Kaon photo-production process on $^{12}$C has been studied by measuring neutral kaons in a photon energy range of 0.8$-$1.1 GeV. Neutral kaons were identified by the invariant mass constructed from two charged pions emitted in the…
We present an extraction of the E2/M1 ratio of the $\Delta$(1232) from experimental data applying an effective Lagrangian model. We compare the result obtained with different nucleonic models and we reconcile the experimental results with…
the photoproduction of the lambda^0 and K^+ from circularly polarized photons on protons is discussed. Experiments and past theories are reviewed. We present a simple quark model, the results of which we compare to experiments
The double-polarization observable $E$ and helicity-dependent cross sections $\sigma_{1/2}$, $\sigma_{3/2}$ have been measured for the photoproduction of $\pi^0$ pairs off quasi-free protons and neutrons at the Mainz MAMI accelerator with…