BRAG 2007


1-day pre-meeting before NSTAR 2007

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
University of Bonn, Germany


program and information for download as pdf file

As for the previous NSTAR workshops, 
this year we have also organized a 1-day BRAG meeting in Bonn preceding the actual event.
This time the main topic is:

What kind of physical meaning can we attribute to the bare quantities
in coupled-channel formalisms?

Everybody who is interested in this subject is invited to participate.
In order to organize an appropriate seminar room and coffee,
please send us an email, if you are planning to participate.

Simon Capstick (BRAG chair)
Alfred Svarc
Lothar Tiator





preliminary list of speakers:

Simon Capstick (FSU) Un-quenching the quark model
Jambul Gegelia (Mainz) On the definition of the D mass and width in EFT
Mauro Giannini (Genova) Longitudinal and transverse helicity amplitudes of nucleon resonances
in a constituent quark model - bare vs dressed resonance couplings
Christoph Hanhart (Jülich) What we can learn from spectroscopy --- and what not
Stefan Scherer (Mainz)  From the chiral to the physical limit, from off-shell to on-shell kinematics
Alfred Svarc (Zagreb) Bare propagator poles in coupled-channel models



preliminary program:

location: Seminar Room I (room# 154), Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik (HISKP) see map

all talks will be 20 min plus 10 min of discussion 
short presentations (1-2 transparencies) are possible during the general discussion sessions 

morning session

chair: Lothar Tiator (Mainz)

10:00  Opening
10:10  Alfred Svarc      
10:40  Simon Capstick
11:10  Christoph Hanhart
11:40  short presentations and general discussion (I)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break

afternoon session
chair: Alfred Svarc (Zagreb)

14:00  Stefan Scherer
14:30  Jambul Gegelia
15:00  Mauro Giannini
15:30  short presentations and general discussion (II)

17:00 NSTAR2007 Registration and Get Together


list of participants:


Beck, Reinhard, HISKP, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Bellis, Matt, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Briscoe, Bill, Physics Department, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Buchmann, Alfons, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Capstick, Simon, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Ceci, Sasa, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Djukanovic, Dalibor, Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Gegelia, Jambul, Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Giannini, Mauro, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Genova, Genova, Italy
Hanhart, Christoph, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Haidenbauer, Johann, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Kamalov, Sabit, Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR, Dubna, Russia
Metsch, Bernard, HISKP, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Saghai, Bijan, Nuclear Physics Department, CEA-Saclay, Paris, France
Scherer, Stefan, Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Shklyar, Vitaly, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Svarc, Alfred, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Tiator, Lothar, Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Vancraeyveld, Pieter, Theoretical Medium-Energy Physics, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium
Zhao, Qiang, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Department of Physics, University of Surrey




goals of this meeting:


For decades coupled-channel models are extensively used in various fields of physics, but a clear physical interpretation of bare quantities, coming from the recurrent integral structure of the model, have not yet been given. Present interpretations range from not giving them a direct physical meaning [1,2], to hoping for a strong correlation between them and the hadron-structure calculation functions (in most cases constituent quark models) [3,4].
 
The situation is far from being settled, because physicists close to the field theory on the basis of field-theory first principles simply do not see a fundamental way to link macroscopic coupled-channel functions to the microscopic quark structure calculation ones, while phenomenologists do believe that singling out the self-energy contributions arising from the interaction of some bare entity with the meson cloud, should bring them closer to the fundamental particle structure.
 
The main aim of this workshop is to remedy this situation. We do not expect to come out with the final answer. We would like to have all opinions formulated, expressed, and presented in a checkable and reproducible form. Only when we see all arguments pro and contra scientifically presented, may we expect that some of us may make a breakthrough and clarify the problem.
 
Both sides have their standpoints and hopes; the question is if we can find a way to conciliate them into a coherent picture.
 
The idea of this workshop is to be a workshop of cooperation, and not a workshop of confrontation. We should start talking to each other.
 
incomplete list of references:

[1] P.J. Fink et al, Phys. Rev. C 41, 2720 (1990), see a comment given as ref. 21.

[2] C. Hanhart, A. Sibirtsev, private communication.
[3] A. Matsuyama, T. Sato and T. -S. H. Lee, Phys. Rep. 439, 193 (2007)
      and references therein starting in 1996 regarding Δ photoproduction;
      B. Julia-Diaz, T.-S.H. Lee, A. Matsuyama, and T. Sato, arXiv:0704.1615.
[4] G.-Y. Chen, S. Kamalov, S.N. Yang, D. Drechsel, and L. Tiator, nucl-th/0703096;
      L. Tiator, D. Drechsel, S. Kamalov, M.M. Giannini, E. Santopinto, and A. Vassallo,
      Eur. Phys. J. A 19, 55 (2004) and nucl-th/0310041.




contributions to this meeting (papers and talks):