International Journal of Modern Physics A

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Working Group and Conveners

Authors

Abstract

Contents

The Standard Model (SM) has been successful at describing all relevant experimental phenomena and, thus, has been generally accepted as the fundamental theory of elementary particle physics. Despite its success, the SM leaves many unanswered questions. These can be classified into two main categories: one for subjects related to possible new physics at unexplored energy scales and the other for nonperturbertive physics, mostly related to Quantum Chromodynamics…

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Overview of the BES-III Detector

BES-III Offline Software

Main Drift Chamber

Time-Of-Flight System

Electromagnetic Calorimeter

Muon Identifier

Trigger

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Monte Carlo Generators

Luminosity Measurements at BES-III

Particle Identification

Kinematic Fitting

Partial Wave Analysis

Dalitz-Plot Analysis Formalism

References

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Physics Processes at BEPC-II

Radiative Corrections

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String Fragmentation in the Lund Model

The Lund Area Law

Solutions of the Lund Area Law

Preliminary Multiplicity

Parameter Tuning

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e⁺e^- → hadrons Cross Sections and the R_had Value

Hadronic Vacuum Polarization

Input Parameters and their Uncertainties

Measurement of R Value at BES-III

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Inclusive Distributions

Exclusive Cross Sections and Form Factors

Multiplicity Distribution

Kinematical and Dynamical Correlations

Topological Event Shapes

Bose-Einstein Correlations (BEC)

Possible Fractal Structure of Final State Phase-Space

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Resonance Production and 1^-- Charmonium States

Key Points for Precision Measurements

An Example for Measuring ψ(2S) and ψ(3770) Parameters

Resonance Measurements at BES-III

Summary

References

Our knowledge about the structure of matter and the nature of the interactions between its constituent components follows a hierarchy that closely tracks the evolution of experimental measurements from low to higher and higher energies. For example, with an electron beam of a given energy, one can access the microscopic structure of matter at length scales corresponding to the de-Brogie wave length of the electrons that are being used: λ = 2π × 197.3 Mev·fm/E_γ, were E_γ is the energy of the photon that is exchanged in the experimentally observed process. As the energy of the beams that are available get higher and higher, the sizes of objects that can be probed get smaller and smaller…

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Introduction

Conventional Meson Spectrum

Glueball Spectrum

Hybrid Mesons

Multiquarks

Molecular States

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Baryons as qqq States

Outstanding Problems in Baryon Spectroscopy

Baryon Spectroscopy at BESI and BESII

Prospects for Baryon Spectroscopy at BESIII

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Partially Conserved Vector Current (PCAC) and Soft Pions

Beyond the Breit–Wigner Description of a Broad Resonance

Final State Interaction Theorem and Omnés Solution

On the Nature of the Lightest Scalar Resonances

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Introduction

Experimental Status of Two-Photon Processes

Measurement of Two-Photon Processes at BES-III

Summary

References

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Non-Relativistic QCD Effective Theory

pNRQCD and Its Applications

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Introduction

Conventional Charmonium States

Issues for BES-III

Novel States Incorporating a Subsystem

The XYZ Mesons, Recent Experimental Developments

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Hadronic Transitions

Radiative Transition

Channels for Measurement at BES-III

Monte Carlo Simulation of Spin-Singlet Charmonium States

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Leptonic and EM Decays in Potential Models

Leptonic and EM Decays in Effective Field Theories

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Inclusive Radiative Decays

Exclusive Radiative Decays

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Light Hadron Decay

P-Wave h_c Decay

ρ - π Puzzle

Open-Flavor Decays

ψ(3770) Non- Decays

Baryonic Decays

ψ(3770) and ψ(4415) Decays to

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Weak Decays of Charmonium

Search for the Invisible Decays of Quarkonium

Search for C or P Violating Processes in J/ψ Decays

Lepton Flavor Violating Processes in Decays of J/ψ

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Bell Inequalities in High Energy Physics

Special Topics in Final States

References

Nobody doubts that the discovery of hadrons with charm of the hidden and open variety – i.e. charmonium as well as D mesons – was instrumental in the acceptance of the Standard Model (SM) in general, and of quarks as physical degrees of freedom, rather than objects of mere mathematical convenience, in particular. Yet charm is all too often viewed as a quantum number with a great past and with no particularly interesting future. This is due to SM predictions of a rather dull electroweak phenomenology of CKM parameters, a low frequency for oscillations, tiny (at best) CP asymmetries, and extremely rare flavor changing neutral currents which, in any case, are swamped by huge backgrounds from long-distance dynamics…

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Charmed Particle Production Cross Sections

D-Meson Tagging

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Leptonic Decays

Semileptonic Decays

Impact on CKM Measurements

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Present Status and Implication for QCD

Theoretical Review

Two-Body Decays

Three-Body Decays

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Introduction

Production of Charmed Baryons at BES-III

Spectroscopy

Strong Decays

Lifetimes

Hadronic Weak Decays

Semileptonic Decays

Electromagnetic and Weak Radiative Decays

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Theoretical Review

Experimental Review

Measurements at the ψ(3770) Peak

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Formalism and Review

CP Violation in Mixing

CP Violation in Decay

CP Violation in the Interference Between Decays With and Without Mixing

Rate of the CP Violation in the Coherent Pair

T Violation

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Introduction

Rare Charm Decays in the SM

New Physics Analysis

Summary

References

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Introduction

Tau Production at Threshold

Physics Opportunities

Running Strategy

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Hadronic τ Decays

Leptonic Tau Decays

Semileptonic Decays

Search for CP Violation in τ Decays

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Introduction

Statistical Optimization

Systematic Uncertainty

Energy Measurement at BES-III

Summary

References

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Parameter Estimation

Interval Estimation, Confidence Interval and Upper Limit

Tests of Hypotheses

Bibliography