Elementary particles form hadrons through the strong interaction; one interpretation of a possible hadron bound-state is a hybrid meson which is composed of a quark-antiquark pair and gluonic content. Non-exotic hybrid mesons share spin <i>J</i>, parity <i>P</i> and charge conjugation <i>C</i> quantum numbers with quark-antiquark states while exotic hybrids do not. Aspects of particle physics, strong interactions, and quantum field theory necessary for calculating the correlation function for a hybrid meson will be reviewed. In particular, the perturbative part of the correlation function for a hybrid meson with <i>J</i><sup>PC</sup>=1<sup>--</sup> will be formulated in terms of Feynman rules and diagrams and calculated to next-to-leading order in the light (massless) quark case. Assuming the hybrid current renormalizes multiplicative, the next-to-leading order effects are found to be large, and are potentially important for future determinations of the light-quark non-exotic hybrid meson.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:USASK/oai:usask.ca:etd-09022010-140555 |
| Date | 20 September 2010 |
| Creators | Ratzlaff, Melissa Anne |
| Contributors | Steele, T., Harnett, Derek, Dick, R., McWilliams, K., Soteros, C., Xiao, C. |
| Publisher | University of Saskatchewan |
| Source Sets | University of Saskatchewan Library |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-09022010-140555/ |
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