1. Introduction
The electromagnetic (EM) structure of any hadron is completely described by the corresponding EM form factors (FFs), the number of which depends on the spin of the considered hadron. Their behaviors in the timelike region can be in principle obtained from the measured total cross sections .
However, there is an essential difference between the charged pion, the charged and neutral K-mesons with the spin “0”, the proton and neutron with the spin “1/2”, and the deuteron with the spin “1”. Whereas the EM structure of the mesons with the spin “0” is completely described by only one EM FF, in the case of the octet of baryons, like the proton and neutron, the complete description of their EM structure requires two different EM FFs, the electric and the magnetic . In the case of the deuteron three FFs are needed, the electric, the magnetic and the quadrupole FF. When several form factors are involved, these can not be determined only from the measured total cross section as function of the total c.m. energy squared “s”.
Almost one decade ago new phenomenon appeared [
1] in the elementary particle physics, the so-called “regular damped oscillatory structures” (RDOS) from the “effective” proton EM FF data to be obtained from the data on the total cross section
. After a couple of years new data on the process
with the neutrons have been measured [
2] in a rather broad region of energies too, and also in this case RDOS have been revealed, however, with just opposite behavior. There are conjectures [
3] that the origin of RDOS are in the quark gluon structure of the protons and neutrons.
This initiated investigations of RDOS also from existing data on the EM structure of the charged pion [
4] and the charged and neutral K-mesons [
5]. We do not investigate the RDOS of the deuteron here as the experimental data on the total cross section
are still missing.
Further, we try to investigate all these results from the one uniform point of view.
The EM structure of any hadron ”h” is completely described by the corresponding EM FFs. In the timelike region their behaviors are experimentally investigated by the measurement of the total cross section of as a function of the c.m. energy squared “s” on electron-positron colliders. However, the extraction of the absolute values of EM FF behaviors from such total cross section data is not straightforward in all considered cases and depends on the spin of the investigated hadron.
If the investigated objects are mesons with the spin 0, then there is only one EM FF completely describing their EM structure and the calculation of the absolute value of the EM FF behaviors from the cross section is carried out without any problem.
Nevertheless, if the investigated hadron is the proton or neutron with the spin 1/2, completely described by two EM FFs, the electric
and the magnetic
one, one is unable to determine the values of these two independent FFs from one value of the measured total cross section
or
with
the velocity of the outgoing nucleon in the c.m. system,
=1/137 and
the so-called Sommerfeld-Gamov-Sakharov Coulomb enhancement factor [
6]. Therefore the new concept of the “effective” EM FF of the nucleons
and
respectively, has been introduced by extending, in a somewhat unnatural way, the equality
, which is exactly valid only at the threshold, to all “s” up to
, with the hope of obtaining at least some information on the EM structure of the investigated object.
Further in this paper we investigate both nucleons and the mesons.
2. Regular Damped Oscillatory Structures in the Proton “Effective” EM FF
Immediately after publishing the first proton “effective” EM FF data [
7,
8], obtained by the relation (
3) from the measured total cross section (
1) by the initial state radiation (ISR) technique, the authors of the paper [
1] have described them by the three-parametric formula [
9]
Then, by a subtraction of the fitted curve from these data, taking errors into account, they have revealed for the first time the RDOS.
We have repeated the latter procedure, collecting all existing data on the proton”effective” FF [
7,
8,
10,
11,
12,
13] as presented in
Figure 1a, and describing them by the three parametric formula (
5) (see
Figure 1b) with parameter values
and
GeV
2 and
/ndf=4.61.
Finally, subtracting the fitted curve in
Figure 1b from the proton’s “effective” EM FF data with errors, RDOS, first time revealed in [
1], are confirmed in
Figure 2.
3. Regular Damped Oscillatory Structures in the Neutron “Effective” EM FF
After publishing the first neutron “effective” EM FF data [
2] in
Figure 3a, obtained by the relation (
4) from the measured total cross section (
2), our description of these data by the three-parametric formula (
5) of [
9] has not been successful.
In the description of the neutron “effective” FF data from the paper [
2] by the three-parameter function (
5) of the authors [
9] the parameter
has been growing to boundless values, indicating its unimportant role for a satisfactory description of the data under consideration. Therefore we have excluded the term
from (
5) and in the remaining expression only the parameters A(1)=A, and A(3)=0.71, have been left to be free in the fitting procedure. Then the values
and
GeV
2 lead to the description of the data on the neutron “effective” EM FF data in
Figure 3a with
=482/16, as presented by the curve of the
Figure 3b.
Then the subtraction of the fitted curve from the data in
Figure 3a has revealed the RDOS from the neutron ”effective” EM FF data as presented in
Figure 4, indicating just an opposite behavior to the RDOS from the proton ”effective” EM FF data. This interesting phenomenon will be elucidated later on.
4. Search for Regular Damped Oscillatory Structures in Charged Pion EM FF Data
The timelike data on the charged pion EM FF with errors are hidden in the measured total cross section . We again would like to point out that when obtaining from no unphysical demands are needed (contrary to the nucleon “effective” FF data), because there is only one function completely describing the measured total cross section which is identified with the pion “effective” EM FF.
However, we meet another problem here. The charged pion EM FF represents the vertex generated by the strong interactions and not all of pairs in the measured total cross section have strong interaction origin. Some part of them appears due to electromagnetic isospin violating decay of responsible for a deformation of the right wing of the meson peak, well known as the interference effect. Since we are investigating oscillatory structures proper to the EM FFs, one has to get rid of the EM isospin violating decay contribution from , which can not be made by experimentalists.
In the three most precise measurements till now [
14,
15,
16] of the total cross section
with the initial state radiation (ISR) method, covering the energy range from the threshold up to 9 GeV
2, the following procedure to eliminate the
contribution has been applied [
4].
First, the total cross section of the
process is expressed by means of the sum of
and the isospin violating
decay contribution (further denoted by
) in the form
where
is just the pure isovector charged pion EM FF to be expressed by the physically well founded Unitary and Analytic (U&A) model given by the formula (3.66) from [
17]
It respects all well known properties of the isovector EM FF of the charged pion, like the analytic behavior with two square-root type branch point approximation, first branch point at the lowest threshold
and the second
effectively representing all higher contributions from inelastic processes. The latter is a free parameter of the model, numerically evaluated in a fitting procedure of existing data.
is the conformal mapping of the four sheeted Riemann surface in
s variable into one W-plane,
is the normalization point in W-plane and
is a position of poles corresponding to all isovector vector resonances forming the model (
7).
A normalization of the model to the electric charge leads to a reduction of the number of free coupling constant ratios
in (
7) and the isovector nature implies that only the rho-meson and its excited states, i.e.
[
18] and also the hypothetical
[
19] can contribute to the FF behavior, in order to cover the energetic region of the data up to 9 GeV
2. The reality condition
leads to the appearance of two complex conjugate rho-meson poles on unphysical sheets. The behavior on left-hand cut of the second Riemann sheet, as given by the analytic continuation of the elastic FF unitarity condition [
20], is approximated by a Padé approximant, i.e. by one pole
and one zero
which are understood as free parameters.
Further in (
6)
is the
interference phase and
R is the real
interference amplitude.
In order to find out optimal parameters, an analysis of existing data in [
14,
15,
16] on
has been carried out and the obtained results are presented numerically in Table I.
Table 1.
Parameter values of the analysis of data in [
14,
15,
16] with minimum of
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Table 1.
Parameter values of the analysis of data in [
14,
15,
16] with minimum of
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Now, in order to obtain the values of the pure isovector charged pion EM FF timelike data, the absolute value squared of (
6) is expressed as a product of the complex and the complex conjugate terms
By using expressions
,
and the identity between the pion EM FF phase and the P-wave isovector
-phase shift
=
, which follows from the charge pion EM FF elastic unitarity condition, practically considered to be valid up to 1 GeV, the quadratic equation for the absolute value of the pure isovector charged pion EM FF
is found
Its solution gives the relation
in which a physical solution is given by the “+” sign of the second term.
We use the most accurate up-to-now
data [
21] described by a model independent parametrization [
22] with
and numerical values of parameters in Table I which provide the best description of
as measured in [
14,
15,
16]. In this way the information about the absolute value
of the pure isovector EM FF of the charged pion with errors is extracted, see Table II, Table III and Table IV of [
4], respectively.
All three sets of data on the absolute value
of the pure isovector EM FF of the charged pion as a function of
s from threshold up to 9 GeV
2 as given in Tables II.–IV. of [
4] are graphically presented in
Figure 5a.
Afterwards these data are, as well as it is possible, described by a similar formula to (
5), however, now the nucleon “magic” number 0.71 is substituted by the third free parameter
, because one can not expect the nucleon “magic” number to be appropriate also in the pion case.
The best fit of the data in
Figure 5 has been achieved with parameter values
,
and the charged pion “magic” number
. The result of the fit is graphically presented in
Figure 5b by the dashed line.
If dashed line values are subtracted from the experimental values of
(Tables II.–IV. of [
4]), damped oscillatory structures from the charged pion“effective” EM FF data appear, as it is presented in
Figure 6.
5. Investigation of Damped Oscillatory Structures from Charged K-Meson EM FF Timelike Data
The timelike data on the charged K-meson EM structure are contained in the measured total cross section
. To evaluate these data no additional unphysical assumptions are needed because there is only one function
completely describing the measured total cross section of the electron-positron annihilation into
pair. The
with errors, which is identified with the charged kaon “effective” EM FF, is calculated by means of the following relation
with
,
=1/137 and
being the so-called Sommerfeld-Gamov-Sakharov Coulomb enhancement factor [
6] of charged kaons, which accounts for the EM interaction between the outgoing
. The total cross section data we use in (
13) will be taken from two recent ISR measurements of the process
, one from [
23] for
GeV
2, and another from [
24] in the range 6.76 GeV
2 64 GeV
2. These two data sets are together graphically presented in
Figure 7 and the region (2-7) GeV
2 is in more detail shown in
Figure 8.
As one can see from
Figure 7, the data in [
23] above 6.5 GeV
2 are very scattered, even in some points inconsistent. As a result it is impossible to achieve a statistically acceptable
value in the description of such data. Fortunately, the same experimental BABAR group in the paper [
24] repeated measurements of the
process from 6.76 GeV
2 to 64 GeV
2 and obtained more precise and reliable data. Hence we have excluded all data from [
23] in the energy range 6.76 GeV
2 - 25 GeV
2 and substituted them by more precise data from [
24].
In order to investigate possible oscillatory structure from the charged K-meson EM FF timelike data by using the same procedure as for the proton, the modification of the formula (
5) has been made, in the sense that the magic nucleon number 0.71 GeV
2 was left as a free parameter A3 in our analysis. Then the best description of the data in
Figure 7 is achieved with A=
,
=
GeV
2 and A3=
GeV
2, as it is graphically presented in
Figure 9 by the dashed line. If dashed curve data are subtracted from selected charged K-meson FF data, RDOS are observed around the line crossing the zero as seen in
Figure 10.
6. Investigation of Damped Oscillatory Structures from Neutral K-Meson EM FF Timelike Data
The timelike data on the neutral K-meson EM FF , which completely describes the neutral K-meson EM structure, can be obtained from the measured total cross section , which is, however, more difficult to be measured than . As a result one can expect also that the obtained experimental information on will be of a lower quality than the data on .
According to our knowledge there are no data on the function
with errors published during the last decade, nevertheless we have calculated them in the paper [
5] by means of the relation
with
,
=1/137, from one recent measurement [
25] of the process
by the ISR technique in the interval of energy values
s (1.1664-4.84) GeV
2 and from two measurements [
16,
26] by the scan method, the first one in the
-resonance region (1.0080-1.1236) GeV
2 and the second in the range of energies (4.0000-9.4864) GeV
2. This second measurement is the first measurement that has probed this interval of energies. Their numerical values with errors are given in Table II and graphically presented in
Figure 11.
Table 2.
The data on with errors.
Table 2.
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In order to study eventual damped oscillatory structures from the neutral K-meson EM FF timelike data by using the same procedure as for the proton, again the modified formula (
5) with the third parameter 0.71 GeV
2 to be a free parameter A3 is utilized in a fitting procedure of the data in
Figure 11. Their best description has been achieved with parameter values A=
,
=
GeV
2 and A3=
GeV
2 and is graphically presented in
Figure 12 by the dashed line.
If the dashed line is subtracted from the neutral K-meson FF data in
Figure 11, taking errors into account, damped oscillatory structures can be observed around the line crossing the zero as depicted in
Figure 13.
Comparing the oscillations depicted in the
Figure 10 and in
Figure 13 with those of the nucleons in
Figure 2 and
Figure 4, one finds an analogy between the behaviors of the damped oscillations in the K-meson FF data and those of damped oscillations in the nucleon “effective” EM FF data. In both cases the oscillations in the data for one particle (say the charged K-meson) correspond roughly to the oscillations in the data for its partner particle in the respective isospin doublet (say the neutral K-meson) if reflected through the axis y=0. Where the oscillations for charged kaons have maxima the oscillations for neutral kaons have minima, and vice versa. The same property can be observed in the oscillations of proton and neutron data.
This feature seems to be interesting and it must be explained by some serious physical arguments.
7. Damped Oscillation Structures in the Possible Deuteron “Effective” EM FF Data
The deuteron EM structure is completely described by three independent EM FFs, usually chosen to be the charge
, the magnetic
and the quadrupole
FF. Then, from the total cross section of the electron-positron annihilation into the deuteron-antideuteron pair expressed as function of EM FFs
one can see immediately that it is not a simple task to obtain any experimental information on the corresponding deuteron EM FFs in
region. With the aim of a obtaining at least some information on the EM structure of the deuteron, one can define the “effective” deuteron EM FF by a requirement of the equality
for all
up to
, like in the case of the nucleons, and in this way obtain data on
from experimental data on the
. However, the latter are still missing.
8. Origin of the Opposite-Behavior Phenomenon in RDOS of Isodoublets
Investigating the RDOS of nucleons and charged and neutral K-mesons, we have observed that the RDOS of the proton is just opposite to the RDOS of the neutron. The same has been observed in the case of charged and neutral K-mesons.
Next we investigate the latter phenomenon on the isodoublet of the proton and neutron, which could be, in the same way, repeated also in the case of the charged and neutral K-mesons.
The proton and neutron EM FFs in the total cross sections (
1) and (
2), respectively, and consequently also in (
3) and (
4), are the Sachs proton electric and proton magnetic FFs, which can be expressed through the Dirac and Pauli EM FFs, to be defined by the parametrization of the matrix element of the nucleon EM current
and the latter, taking into account the special transformation properties of the nucleon EM current in the isotopic space, are further split into the same isoscalar and isovector parts for both nucleons, with "+" sign for protons and with the "-" sign for neutrons, as follows
and
On this place we would like to stress that as a result both, the proton EM FFs (
19) and the neutron EM FFs (
20) depend on the same physically interpretable free parameters to be determined by fitting only the existing data on the
by the advanced 9 vector-meson resonance Unitary and Analytic (U&A) model [
27] of the nucleon EM structure
with 5 free parameters
,
with 4 free parameters
,
,
,
with 2 free parameters
and
, and
dependent on only 1 free parameter
, where an explicit form of
is
Similar expressions are used for and with the lowest square root branch points of the functions and as effective inelastic square root branch points of these functions, effectively taking into account the contributions of all higher inelastic channels in the processes. This construction defines the model on a 4-sheeted Riemann surface. The effective inelastic square root branch points are left to be free parameters of the model and their numerical values are evaluated in the analysis of the existing experimental data.
The lower
L and the higher
H notations have the following explicit forms
They correspond to the case when the real part of the resonance location in the complex s-plane is below the effective inelastic square root branch point and to the case when the real part of the resonance location is found above the corresponding effective inelastic square root branch point, respectively.
A derivation of the U&A model of the nucleon EM structure can be found in detail in [
17].
One finds the results of the fit of
data [
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13] by means of the U&A model for the proton EM FFs in the Table III.
Table 3.
Values of free parameters of the proton EM structure
model (
21)-(
32) from optimal description of
data only.
Table 3.
Values of free parameters of the proton EM structure
model (
21)-(
32) from optimal description of
data only.
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With numerical values of the free parameters in Table III, one describes well all existing data on
(see
Figure 14a), including also a reproduction of the proton “effective” EM FF data
Figure 1a. By means of the same U&A model [
27] also the theoretically created pseudo-data (see later) together with the theoretically predicted curve for the neutron effective EM FF behavior are given in
Figure 14b, by exchanging the EM FFs of the proton (
19) in the U&A model by the neutron EM FFs (
20).
The crucial moment in our investigations is the fact that the artificial neutron “effective” EM FF pseudo-data in
Figure 14b are obtained from the data on
only in the following way. First we evaluate deviations of the proton “effective” EM FF data from the curve describing them in
Figure 1b, by a subtraction of the curve from existing data. Then the obtained deviations are added to the theoretically predicted curve for the neutron “effective” EM FF in
Figure 14b at the same energy value “s”. As a result one obtains the 46 artificial points on the neutron “effective” EM FF data with errors from the proton “effective” EM FF data scattered around the theoretically predicted curve in
Figure 14b, which also perfectly describes them.
We could, maybe in a more straightforward way, just show the smooth curve for the neutron effective FF as given by the U&A model. Here our motivation is to mimic the neutron data and their errors, although only very roughly by taking them from the proton case, all this to see what do the oscillations look like when some error estimates are present. Are they maybe insignificant when uncertainties are taken into the account?
When such artificially created pseudo-data on the neutron “effective” EM FF are described by the three parametric function (
5) with values of the parameters
,
GeV
2,
GeV
2 the RDOS appear as it is seen in
Figure 15 and they are just opposite to the proton RDOS in
Figure 2 from the proton “effective” EM FF data in
Figure 1a.
As the artificial pseudo-data on the neutron “effective” EM FF have been obtained from the proton “effective” EM FF data only by means of the U&A analytic model (same for the proton and neutron) through the relations (
19) and (
20), which reflect explicitly the special transformation of the nucleon EM current in the isospin space, we come to the conclusion that the origin of the phenomenon of the oppositely RDOS behaviors for protons and neutrons is in the special transformations of the nucleon EM current in the isotopic space.
The justification for not using the existing experimental neutron data is that these are not good enough in quantity and quality to allow reliable fits in the U&A model. Rather we adopt the following logic: We observe the "opposite oscillatory" behavior in the true neutron data (when compared to the proton data) and then we reproduce this opposite oscillatory feature (not individual data points) in the U&A model-generated pseudo-data by taking into consideration the isospin structure. Because we succeed in the reproduction of this phenomenon, we draw the above-presented conclusions.
9. Description of Hadron “Effective” FF Data by Means of the Unitary&Analytic Approach
If the same data on the considered hadron “effective” FFs are described by slightly more complicated, however, physically well founded, the universal Unitary and Analytic (U&A) models [
17] of their EM structure, no damped oscillation regular structures appear. As the data of all considered hadrons are not of the same quality, also the corresponding U&A models are specific from one case to the other.
9.1. Description of the Charged Pion “Effective” EM FF Data by Means of the U&A Model
The application of the U&A model, Eqs. (
7)-(
10) with parameters from Table I, to the data on
, summarized in Table.II-Table IV of [
4], leads to a perfect description of the latter as shown by the full line in
Figure 16. If these full line data in
Figure 16 are subtracted from the data in Table.II-Table IV of [
4], no oscillatory regular structures appear as it is clearly seen in
Figure 17.
9.2. Description of the Proton “Effective” EM FF Data by Means of the U&A Model
To describe the “effective” proton FF in the U&A model, we substitute the explicit form of the proton total cross section (
1) into the expression (
3). Then the relation between the absolute values of the complex proton EM FFs squared, represented by means of the U&A model and the proton “effective” FF (
3) is found
and the description of the data on the proton “effective” FF data with
(see
Figure 18) is achieved.
Then the subtraction of the curve of
Figure 18 from the proton’s ”effective” FF data with errors demonstrates no RDOS, as it is clearly seen in
Figure 19.
9.3. Description of the Neutron “Effective” FF Data by Means of the U&A Model
Similarly to the proton, also for the neutron one can derive the relation
between the neutron EM FFs represented by means of the U&A model and the neutron “effective” FF (
4). Then accurately describing the neutron “effective” FF data in
Figure 3a as it is demonstrated in
Figure 20 and subtracting the fitted curve from the data on the neutron “effective” FF, one finds some structures (see
Figure 21), from which, however, one can not conclude about the (non)existence of RDOS. In order to obtain a definitive statement, more precise data on
are needed.
Table 4.
Values of free parameters of the neutron EM structure
model (
21)-(
32) from optimal description of the neutron “effective” FF data in
Figure 3a.
Table 4.
Values of free parameters of the neutron EM structure
model (
21)-(
32) from optimal description of the neutron “effective” FF data in
Figure 3a.
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9.4. Description of the Charged K-Meson “Effective” EM FF Data by Means of the U&A Model
Here we will show that when charged K-meson data in
Figure 7 are accurately described by an appropriate physically well founded U&A model of the K-meson EM structure, no damped oscillatory structures are observed.
We will use the model that has been suggested in the paper [
17] as the universal U&A EM structure model of hadrons and which unifies three aspects:
Experimental fact of the creation of unstable vector-meson resonances (see [
18]), mainly identified in the electron-positron annihilation processes into hadrons.
Two square root branch cut approximation of the analytic properties of FFs in the complex plane of c.m. energy squared s.
The correct asymptotic behavior of FFs as predicted by the quark model of hadrons.
To describe the selected data in
Figure 7 in the framework of the U&A approach [
17] we begin by splitting the charged K-meson FF in accordance with the special transformation properties of the K-meson EM current in the isospin space, into a sum of the isoscalar and isovector parts
with their norms
Next we must deal with the question of what isoscalar and isovector resonances experimentally confirmed in [
18] will saturate the isoscalar and isovector parts of the charged kaon FF. In practice one can not consider all existing resonances with isospin
and isospin
, as they will produce all together 25 free parameters, too much to be evaluated in the analysis of up-to-date existing experimental information. As a result a selection of contributing resonances has to be carried out and is done in the following way.
The K-mesons consist also of the strange quarks, therefore one could expect that in a description of the selected data in
Figure 7 and
Figure 8 all three
resonances with the isospin
will be dominant and therefore the masses and widths of
and
will be left as free parameters of the model. Only the parameters of
will be fixed at the PDG values, since in the corresponding energy region the analyzed data are insufficient. There is no doubt about the inclusion of the
resonance clearly seen in
Figure 7. From
Figure 7 (in more detail in
Figure 8) between 2.0 GeV
2 and 7.0 GeV
2 one finds two bumps corresponding approximately to
and
. The first bump could contain a contribution also from another resonance with
,
, which is therefore not excluded. There is no indication in existing data of a contribution of
, therefore we don’t consider it in our analysis.
On the other hand we have an experience that one can not achieve satisfactory description of existing data without inclusion of the ground state resonances
and
. Further, because contributions of the isovector part of the K-meson FF, though not dominant, can not be ignored, we include contributions of all three
-mesons, however with fixed parameters from the paper [
22], in which one can find reasons why not to use their parameters from [
18]. Masses and widths of
and
are also fixed at the PDG values.
Then the U&A model of the K-meson EM structure takes the following form. The isoscalar FF with 5 experimentally confirmed [
18] isoscalar resonances is
where the concrete form of individual terms depends on the numerical value of the effective inelastic threshold
which is found numerically by the fit of the model to charged K-meson EM FF selected data. In the previous expression
is the conformal mapping of the four sheeted Riemann surface into one V-plane, and
is a normalization point in the V-plane with
. The isovector FF with 3 experimentally confirmed [
18] isovector resonances
takes the form
and again the structure of individual terms depends on the value of the effective inelastic threshold
numerically evaluated in the fitting procedure of the model to charged K-meson EM FF data. In the previous expression
is a conformal mapping of the four sheeted Riemann surface, on which
is defined, into one W-plane, and
is a normalization point in the W-plane, with
.
As a result, the U&A model of the K-meson EM structure depends altogether on 14 free parameters and their numerical values (see Table V) have been evaluated in the analysis of selected data from
Figure 7.
Table 5.
Parameter values of the U&A model in the analysis of selected data on with minimum of
Table 5.
Parameter values of the U&A model in the analysis of selected data on with minimum of
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The corresponding accurate description of these charged K-meson EM FF data is presented in
Figure 22 by the full line. One finds the description of the resonant region between 2.0 GeV
2 and 7.0 GeV
2 in more detail in
Figure 23.
Lastly, if the full line in
Figure 22 is subtracted from selected charged K-meson FF data in
Figure 7 with errors, no damped oscillatory structures are observed around the line crossing the zero as it is shown in
Figure 24.
9.5. Description of the Neutral K-Meson “Effective” EM FF Data by Means of the U&A Model
Now, as in the case of the charged K-meson EM FF data, we shall try to demonstrate that if neutral K-meson EM FF data in
Figure 25 are accurately described by a proper physically well founded U&A model, no damped oscillatory structures are observed.
The simplest way to obtain such a description is to exploit the special transformation properties of the K-meson EM current in the isospin space, from which it directly follows that we can write the neutral K-meson EM FF as the difference of the isoscalar and isovector parts
where
and
are the same as those in (
35). The charged and neutral K-meson EM FFs then depend on the same set of parameters of the
model.
Thus a substitution of the numerical values of parameters from Table V into the K-meson EM FF U&A model (
37)-(
40) should lead through (
41) to an accurate description of data in Table II.
However, as it can be explicitly seen in
Figure 25 by looking at the dotted line, especially in the energy region from 1.4 GeV
2 up to 6.0 GeV
2, the predicted behavior does not follow the data for
accurately.
There are several ways how to interpret this discrepancy. It can be a demonstration of the non exact conservation of the isospin symmetry or some subtle error in the definition of the isoscalar and isovector parts in the model. Furthermore, it is possible that the data are not precise enough to allow for a good separation of the isoscalar and isovector components by a fitting procedure on charged kaon data only (as opposed to fitting on both the charged and neutral kaon data together). And lastly, it could be that the two experimental data sets are simply inconsistent. Nevertheless, resolving this issue is not important for the purpose of the current article.
So, in order to achieve an accurate description of data in Table II and to look for damped oscillatory structures from the neutral K-meson EM FF timelike data, one has to carry out a direct fitting procedure of the latter data by the K-meson EM FF
model (
37)-(
40). This yields the 14 parameters whose numerical values are presented in Table VI. These parameters differ from parameter values in Table V. This may indicate that the data on the charged K-meson EM FF and the data on the neutral K-meson EM FF are really inconsistent.
The most accurate description of the
data corresponding to the parameters in Table VI is graphically presented in
Figure 25 by the full line.
Table 6.
Parameter values from the analysis of selected data on
by the K-meson EM FF U&A model (
37)-(
40) with minimum of
.
Table 6.
Parameter values from the analysis of selected data on
by the K-meson EM FF U&A model (
37)-(
40) with minimum of
.
[GeV2]; |
[MeV]; [MeV]; ; |
[MeV]; [MeV]; ; |
[MeV]; [MeV]; |
; |
; ; |
[GeV2]; |
; |
; ; |
If full line in
Figure 25 is subtracted from selected neutral K-meson EM FF data in Table II taking into the account the errors, one obtains points and their uncertainties around the line crossing the zero in
Figure 26, which clearly demonstrate the absence of RDOS.
The authors acknowledge the support of the Slovak Grant Agency for Sciences VEGA, grant No.2/0105/21.
10. Conclusions and Discussion
The RDOS from the proton “effective” form factor data in [
1] raised a wide interest to study the damped oscillatory structures from the EM FFs data of other hadrons, for which solid data together with a physically well founded model for their accurate description exist.
In this work the problem of the existence of the RDOS regarding the charged pion and the charged and neutral K-meson EM FF data and also data on the neutron EM FF has been investigated using the same procedure as the one used in the case of the proton in [
1].
When the “effective” data of the considered hadrons are described by the three parametric function of [
9], the regular damped oscillatory structures appear. However, if for a description of the same data more physically founded U&A model of the EM structure of hadrons is applied, no regular damped oscillatory structures appear.
So, the results of all these investigations indicate that there is no objective existence of RDOS from the “effective” hadron EM FF data and their appearance is due to application of the three parametric formula [
9] without any physical background to be unable to describe the latter data with the adequate accuracy. Moreover, our U&A model shows its capabilities to be applicable for description of a wide range of hadronic processes.
Acknowledgments
The authors acknowledge the support of the Slovak Grant Agency for Sciences VEGA, grant No.2/0105/21.
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