We study the electromagnetic $Omega_c gamma rightarrowOmega_c^ast$ transition in 2+1 flavor lattice QCD, which gives access to the dominant decay mode of $Omega_c^ast$ baryon. The magnetic dipole and the electric quadrupole transition form factors ar
e computed. The magnetic dipole form factor is found to be mainly determined by the strange quark and the electric quadrupole form factor to be negligibly small, in consistency with the quark model. We also evaluate the helicity amplitudes and the decay rate.
As a continuation of our recent work on the electromagnetic properties of the doubly charmed $Xi_{cc}$ baryon, we compute the charge radii and the magnetic moments of the singly charmed $Sigma_c$, $Omega_c$ and the doubly charmed $Omega_{cc}$ baryons
in 2+1 flavor Lattice QCD. In general, the charmed baryons are found to be compact as compared to the proton. The charm quark acts to decrease the size of the baryons to smaller values. We discuss the mechanism behind the dependence of the charge radii on the light valence- and sea-quark masses. The magnetic moments are found to be almost stable with respect to changing quark mass. We investigate the individual quark sector contributions to the charge radii and the magnetic moments. The magnetic moments of the singly charmed baryons are found to be dominantly determined by the light quark and the role of the charm quark is significantly enhanced for the doubly charmed baryons.
We compute the electromagnetic properties of Xi_cc baryons in 2+1 flavor Lattice QCD. By measuring the electric charge and magnetic form factors of Xi_cc baryons, we extract the magnetic moments, charge and magnetic radii as well as the Xi_cc Xi_cc r
ho coupling constant, which provide important information to understand the size, shape and couplings of the doubly charmed baryons. We find that the two heavy charm quarks drive the charge radii and the magnetic moment of Xi_cc to smaller values as compared to those of, e.g., the proton.
Using the axial-vector coupling and the electromagnetic form factors of the D and D* mesons in 2+1 flavor Lattice QCD, we compute the D*Dpi, DDrho and D*D*rho coupling constants, which play an important role in describing the charm hadron interaction
s in terms of meson-exchange models. We also extract the charge radii of D and D* mesons and determine the contributions of the light and charm quarks separately.
We evaluate the strangeness-conserving $N N$, $SigmaSigma$, $XiXi$, $LambdaSigma$ and the strangeness-changing $Lambda N$, $Sigma N$, $LambdaXi$, $SigmaXi$ axial charges in lattice QCD with two flavors of dynamical quarks and extend our previous work
on pseudoscalar-meson-octet-baryon coupling constants so as to include $piXiXi$, $KLambdaXi$ and $KSigmaXi$ coupling constants. We find that the axial charges have rather weak quark-mass dependence and the breaking in SU(3)-flavor symmetry is small at each quark-mass point we consider.
We calculate the isoscalar axial-vector coupling constants of the Lambda hyperon using the method of QCD sum rules. A determination of these coupling constants reveals the individual contributions of the u, d and the s quarks to the spin content of L
ambda. Our results for the light-quark contributions are in agreement with those from experiment assuming flavor SU(3). We also find that the flavor-SU(3)-breaking effects are small and the contributions from the u and the d quarks to the Lambda polarization are negatively polarized as in the flavor-SU(3) limit.
We evaluate the $pi N!N$, $piSigmaSigma$, $piLambdaSigma$, $KLambda N$ and $K Sigma N $ coupling constants and the corresponding monopole masses in lattice QCD with two flavors of dynamical quarks. The parameters representing the SU(3)-flavor symmetr
y are computed at the point where the three quark flavors are degenerate at the physical $s$-quark mass. In particular, we obtain $alphaequiv F/(F+D)=0.395(6)$. The quark-mass dependences of the coupling constants are obtained by changing the $u$- and the $d$-quark masses. We find that the SU(3)-flavor parameters have weak quark-mass dependence and thus the SU(3)-flavor symmetry is broken by only a few percent at each quark-mass point we consider.
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 elements of two b
aryon interpolating fields in an external isoscalar-scalar field and use a Monte Carlo-based approach to systematically analyze the sum rules and the uncertainties in the results. We extract the ratios of the sigma terms, which have rather high accuracy and minimal dependence on QCD parameters. We discuss the sources of uncertainties and comment on possible strangeness content of the nucleon and the Delta.
The quantum chromodynamics (QCD) sum rules for the Delta baryons are analyzed by taking into account the finite-width effects, through explicit utilization of the Breit-Wigner shape. We apply a Monte-Carlo based analysis to the traditional and the pa
rity-projected sum rules. The first Delta excitation state is also considered as a sub-continuum resonance and the widths are calculated using the mass values as input.
We evaluate the pion-nucleon and the pion-Delta sigma terms by employing the method of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) sum rules. The obtained value of the pion-nucleon sigma term is compatible with the larger values already anticipated by the recent ca
lculations. It is also found that the pion-Delta sigma term is as large as the pion-nucleon sigma term.
