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Anomalous Soft Photons Associated with Hadron Production in String Fragmentation...

by Cheuk-yin Wong
Publication Type
Conference Paper
Book Title
The IX International Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum - QCHS IX
Publication Date
Page Numbers
447 to 449
Volume
1343
Publisher Location
Melville, New York, United States of America
Conference Name
9th International Conference on Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum
Conference Location
Madrid, Spain
Conference Date
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The bosonized QCD2+QED2 system for quarks with two flavors contains QCD2 and QED2 bound states, with an isoscalar photon at about 25 MeV and an isovector (I=1 J_{3}=0) photon at about 44 MeV. Consequently, when a quark and antiquark at the two ends of a string pulls apart from each other at high energies, hadrons and soft photons will be produced simultaneously in the fragmentation of the string. The production of the QED2 soft photons in association with hadrons may explain the anomalous soft photon data in hadron-hadron collisions and e^{+}-e^{-} annihilations at high energies.