PaperPanorama

HEP Phenomenology·hep-ph

Tue·Oct 13, 2020

32 papers25 primary·7 cross-listed·reconstructed*

  1. 01*

    QCD beyond diagrams

    Michael Creutz🇺🇸

    QCD, the theory of the strong interactions, involves quarks interacting with non-Abelian gluon fields. This theory has many features that are difficult to impossible to see in conventional diagrammatic perturbation theory. This includes quark confinement, mass generation, and chiral symmetry breaking. This paper is a colloquium level overview of the framework for understanding how these effects come about.

    hep-phhep-latInt.J.Mod.Phys.A(2021)·0 citations
  2. 02*

    Noncommutative geometry, the Lorentzian Standard Model and its B-L extension

    Fabien Besnard🇫🇷 · Christian Brouder🇫🇷

    We explore the 1-loop renormalization group flow of two models coming from a generalization of the Connes-Lott version of Noncommutative Geometry in Lorentzian signature: the Noncommutative Standard Model and its B-L extension. Both make predictions on coupling constants at high energy, but only the latter is found to be compatible with the top quark and Higgs boson masses at the electroweak scale. We took into account corrections introduced by threshold effects and the relative positions of the Dirac and Majorana neutrino mass matrices and found them to be important. Some effects of 2-loop corrections are briefly discussed. The model is consistent with experiments only for a very small part of its parameter space and is thus predictive. The masses of the and B-L breaking scalar are found to be of the order GeV.

    hep-phhep-thmath-phmath.MPPRD(2021)·9 citations
  3. 03*

    Manifestly exotic pentaquarks with a single heavy quark

    Hong-Tao An🇨🇳 · Kan Chen🇨🇳 · Xiang Liu🇨🇳

    Inspired by the observed , we study systematically the mass spectra of the ground pentaquark states with the (; ; ) configuration in the framework of the Chromomagnetic Interaction model. We present a detailed analysis of their stabilities and decay behaviors. Our results indicate that there may exist narrow states or even stable states. We hope that the present study may inspire experimentalist's interest in searching for such a type of the exotic pentaquark state.

    hep-phPRD(2022)·25 citations
  4. 04*

    Dileptonic Scalar Dark Matter and Exotic Leptons

    Ernest Ma (UC Riverside)🇺🇸

    A simple scenario of long-lived dark matter is presented. Assuming lepton number conservation with Dirac neutrinos, the neutral component of an scalar triplet with is a suitable candidate, which decays to two neutrinos. Exotic leptons with may also play a role, and act as anchors for small seesaw Dirac neutrino masses.

    hep-phPLB(2021)·1 citation
  5. 05*

    Potential higher radial excitations in the light pseudoscalar meson family

    Li-Ming Wang🇨🇳 · Qin-Song Zhou🇨🇳 · Cheng-Qun Pang🇨🇳 · Xiang Liu🇨🇳

    Inspired by the event accumulation around 2.6 GeV in the invariant mass spectrum of , which was reported by the BESIII Collaboration, we carry out the study of the mass spectrum and decay behavior of four radial excitations in the pseudoscalar meson family, which include and . Combining with these analysis, we present the calculation of the reactions induced by a pion or kaon on the proton target which are relevant to these four discussed states. According to this information, we give concrete experimental suggestion of searching for them, which will become a new task for future experiments.

    hep-phhep-exPRD(2020)·25 citations
  6. 06*

    Probing tqZ anomalous couplings in the trilepton signal at the HL-LHC, HE-LHC and FCC-hh

    Yao-Bei Liu🇨🇳 · Stefano Moretti🇬🇧

    We investigate the prospects for discovering the Flavour Changing Neutral Current (FCNC) couplings via two production processes yielding trilepton signals: top quark pair production with one top decaying to the boson and one light jet and the anomalous single top plus boson production process . We study these channels at various successors of the Large Hadron Collider~(LHC), i.e., the approved High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) as well as the proposed High-Energy LHC~(HE-LHC) and Future Circular Collider in hadron-hadron mode (FCC-hh). We perform a full simulation for the signals and the relevant Standard Model (SM) backgrounds and obtain limits on the Branching Ratios (BRs) of , eventually yielding a trilepton final state through the decay modes and . The upper limits on these FCNC BRs at 95\% Confidence Level (CL) are obtained at the HL-LHC with TeV and 3 ab, at the HE-LHC with TeV and 15 ab as well as at the FCC-hh with TeV and 30 ab.

    hep-phCPC(2021)·22 citations
  7. 07*

    Systematics of fully heavy tetraquarks

    Xin-Zhen Weng🇨🇳 · Xiao-Lin Chen🇨🇳 · Wei-Zhen Deng🇨🇳 · Shi-Lin Zhu🇨🇳

    In this work, we systematically study the mass spectrum of the fully heavy tetraquark in an extended chromomagnetic model, which includes both color and chromomagnetic interactions. Numerical results indicate that the energy level is mainly determined by the color interaction, which favors the color-sextet configuration over the color-triplet one. The chromomagnetic interaction mixes the two color configurations and gives small splitting. The ground state is always dominated by the color-sextet configuration. We find no stable state below the lowest heavy quarkonium pair thresholds. Most states may be wide since they have at least one -wave decay channel into two -wave mesons. One possible narrow state is the state with a mass . It is just above the threshold. But this channel is forbidden because of the conservation of the angular momentum and parity.

    hep-phhep-exhep-latPRD(2021)·113 citations
  8. 08*

    Doubly charged scalars and vector-like leptons confronting the muon g-2 anomaly and Higgs vacuum stability

    Nabarun Chakrabarty🇮🇳

    The present work introduces new scalar and fermionic degrees of freedom to the Standard Model. While the scalar sector is augmented by a complex scalar triplet and a doubly charged scalar singlet, the fermionic sector is extended by two copies of vector-like leptons. Of these, one copy is an singlet while the other, an doublet. We explain how this combination can offer a solution to the muon g-2 anomaly and also lead to non-zero neutrino masses. In addition, it is also shown that the parameter regions compliant with the two aforementioned issues can stabilise the electroweak vacuum till the Planck scale, something not possible within the Standard Model alone.

    hep-phEur.Phys.J.Plus(2021)·25 citations
  9. 09*

    Numerical evaluation of iterated integrals related to elliptic Feynman integrals

    Moritz Walden🇩🇪 · Stefan Weinzierl🇩🇪

    We report on an implementation within GiNaC to evaluate iterated integrals related to elliptic Feynman integrals numerically to arbitrary precision within the region of convergence of the series expansion of the integrand. The implementation includes iterated integrals of modular forms as well as iterated integrals involving the Kronecker coefficient functions . For the Kronecker coefficient functions iterated integrals in and are implemented. This includes elliptic multiple polylogarithms.

    hep-phhep-thmath-phmath.MPComput.Phys.Commun.(2021)·73 citations
  10. 10*

    Effects of nonstandard neutrino self-interactions and magnetic moment on collective Majorana neutrino oscillations

    Oleg G. Kharlanov🇷🇺 · Pavel I. Shustov🇷🇺

    We derive the effective Hamiltonian describing collective oscillations of Majorana neutrinos with a transition magnetic moment, allowing for the presence of scalar and pseudoscalar nonstandard neutrino self-interactions (NSSIs). Using this Hamiltonian, we analyze new flavor instability channels of collective oscillations in a core-collapse supernova environment that open up in the presence of a small but nonzero neutrino magnetic moment. It turns out that, contrary to certain claims in the literature, within the minimally extended Standard Model (i.e., without NSSIs), no new instabilities arise within the linear order, nor do they produce any observable signatures in the neutrino flavor-energy spectra, at least for magnetic moments up to and quite realistic fields of the order of Gauss. On the other hand, in the presence of NSSIs, new fast and slow instabilities mixing neutrinos and antineutrinos appear, which show up in the spectra even for tiny magnetic moments of the order of , leading to considerable distortions of the spectra and nonstandard spectral splits. We study sensitivity of collective oscillations to these, NSSI-induced instabilities in detail and discuss the observability of the NSSI couplings triggering them.

    hep-phhep-thPRD(2021)·17 citations
  11. 11*

    On the Origin of Majorana Neutrino Masses

    S. M. Bilenky🇷🇺

    In the introductory part we briefly consider basics of neutrino oscillations and convenient phenomenology of neutrino oscillations in vacuum. Main part of this report is dedicated to a discussion of a plausible BSM scenarios of neutrino mass generation, based on assumptions of massless left-handed SM neutrinos and violation of the total lepton number. It is stressed that search for light sterile neutrinos and neutrinoless double -decay could provide a crucial tests of this scenarios.

    hep-ph1 citation
  12. 12*

    The Boosted Higgs Jet Reconstruction via Graph Neural Network

    Jun Guo🇨🇳 · Jinmian Li🇨🇳 · Tianjun Li🇨🇳 · Rao Zhang🇨🇳

    By representing each collider event as a point cloud, we adopt the Graphic Convolutional Network (GCN) with focal loss to reconstruct the Higgs jet in it. This method provides higher Higgs tagging efficiency and better reconstruction accuracy than the traditional methods which use jet substructure information. The GCN, which is trained on events of the +jets process, is capable of detecting a Higgs jet in events of several different processes, even though the performance degrades when there are boosted heavy particles other than the Higgs in the event. We also demonstrate the signal and background discrimination capacity of the GCN by applying it to the process. Taking the outputs of the network as new features to complement the traditional jet substructure variables, the events can be separated further from the +jets events.

    hep-phhep-exPRD(2021)·55 citations
  13. 13*

    Electron-Ion Collisions at the LHeC and FCC-he

    Heikki Mäntysaari (for the LHeC and FCC-he Study Group)🇫🇮

    The LHeC and the FCC-he will open a new realm in our understanding of nuclear structure and the dynamics in processes involving nuclei, in an unexplored kinematic domain. We review some of the recent studies as shown in the update of the 2012 LHeC CDR, including the determination of nuclear parton densities in the framework of global fits and for a single nucleus, inclusive and exclusive diffraction and the unique capabilies of these high-energy colliders for probing QCD in the non-linear regime of phase space.

    hep-phhep-exPoS(2021)·3 citations
  14. 14*

    Nonperturbative and higher order perturbative effects in deep inelastic nucleon scattering

    V. Ansari🇮🇳 · M. Sajjad Athar🇮🇳 · H. Haider🇮🇳 · S. K. Singh🇮🇳 · F. Zaidi🇮🇳

    The effect of nonperturbative and higher order perturbative corrections to all the free nucleon structure functions () in the DIS of on nucleon is studied. The target mass correction (TMC) and higher twist (HT) effects are incorporated following the works of Kretzer et al. and Dasgupta et al., respectively. The evaluation of the nucleon structure functions has been performed by using the MMHT 2014 parameterization of the parton distribution functions (PDFs). The calculations have been performed at the next-to-leading(NLO) order. These nucleon structure functions (SF) are used to calculate the DIS cross section by further including the kinematical corrections due to -lepton mass. Due to the inclusion of lepton mass two additional structure functions and become non-negligible. The results for the nucleon structure functions, differential and total scattering cross sections are presented. The various effects considered in this work are effective in the different regions of and , and quite important in the energy region of GeV. A comparative study of our results with the existing results in the literature for the cross sections is made in the energy region of interest for the DUNE, SHiP, DsTau and HyperK experiments proposed to be done in the near future.

    hep-phPRD(2020)·20 citations
  15. 15*

    Determination of the chemical potential in the Tsallis distribution at LHC energies

    J. Cleymans🇿🇦 · M.W. Paradza🇿🇦

    The transverse momentum distributions measured in collisions at the LHC determine the kinetic freeze-out stage of the collision. The parameters deduced from these distributions differ from those determined at chemical freeze-out. The present investigation focuses on the chemical potentials at kinetic freeze-out, these are not necessarily zero as they are at chemical freeze-out, the only constraint is that they should be equal for particles and antiparticles at LHC energies. The thermodynamic variables are determined in the framework of the Tsallis distribution. The chemical potentials in the Tsallis distribution analysis of collisions at four different LHC energies have correctly been taken into account. This leads to a much more satisfactory analysis of the various parameters and confirms the usefulness of the Tsallis distribution in high-energy collisions. In particular we find that the temperature and the volume at each beam energy are the same for all particle types considered (pions, kaons and protons). The chemical potentials for these particles are however very different. Hence we conclude that there is evidence for thermal equilibrium at kinetic freeze-out, albeit in the sense of the Tsallis distribution and there is no evidence for chemical equilibrium at the final stage of the collision.

    hep-ph5 citations
  16. 16*

    The pole and screening masses of neutral pion in hot and magnetized medium: a comprehensive study in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model

    Bingkai Sheng🇨🇳 · Yuanyuan Wang🇨🇳 · Xinyang Wang🇨🇳 · Lang Yu🇨🇳

    In this work, we investigate not only the pole masses but also the screening masses of neutral pions at finite temperature and magnetic field by utilizing the random phase approximation (RPA) approach in the framework of the two-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model. And two equivalent formalisms in the presence of a magnetic field, i.e. the Landau level representation (LLR) and the proper-time representation (PTR), are applied to obtain the corresponding analytical expressions of the polarization functions (except the expressions for the pole masses in the PTR). In order to evaluate the applicable region of the low-momentum expansion (LME), we compare the numerical results within the full RPA (FRPA) with those within the reduced RPA (RRPA), i.e. the RPA in the LME. It is confirmed that the pole masses of {\pi}0in the FRPA suffer a sudden mass jump at the Mott transition temperature when in the presence of external magnetic field, and the Mott transition temperature is catalyzed by the magnetic field. And by analyzing the behaviors of the directional sound velocities of {\pi}0, which are associated with the breaking of the Lorentz invariance by the heat bath and the magnetic field, we clarify the two problems existing in previous literatures: one is that the transverse sound velocities in the medium are always larger than unity and thus violate the law of causality on account of the non-covariant regularization scheme, the other is that the longitudinal sound velocities are identically equal unity at finite temperature on account of the limitation of the derivative expansion method used.

    hep-phhep-latnucl-thPRD(2021)·42 citations
  17. 17*

    Charged Higgs effects in IceCube: PeV events and NSIs

    Ujjal Kumar Dey🇮🇳 · Newton Nath🇲🇽 · Soumya Sadhukhan🇮🇳

    Extensions of the Standard Model with charged Higgs, having a non-negligible coupling with neutrinos, can have interesting implications vis-à-vis neutrino experiments. Such models can leave their footprints in the ultra-high energy neutrino detectors like IceCube in the form of neutrino non-standard interactions (NSIs) which can also be probed in lower energy neutrino experiments. We consider a model based on the neutrinophilic two-Higgs doublets and study its imprints in the recently reported excess neutrino events in the PeV energy bins at the IceCube. An additional signature of the model is that it also leads to sizeable NSIs. We perform a combined study of the latest IceCube data along with various other constraints arising from neutrino experiments e.g., Borexino, TEXONO, COHERENT, DUNE, and T2HK, together with the limits set by the LEP experiment, and explore the parameter space which can lead to a sizeable NSI.

    hep-phJHEP(2021)·11 citations
  18. 18*

    Galilean-Invariant XEFT at Next-to-Leading Order

    Eric Braaten🇺🇸 · Li-Ping He🇺🇸 · Jun Jiang🇨🇳

    XEFT is a low-energy effective field theory for charm mesons and pions that provides a systematically improvable description of the resonance. To simplify calculations beyond leading order, we introduce a new formulation of XEFT with a dynamical field for a pair of charm mesons in the resonant channel. We simplify the renormalization of XEFT by introducing a new renormalization scheme that involves the subtraction of amplitudes at the complex threshold. The new formulation and the new renormalization scheme are illustrated by calculating the complex pole energy of and the scattering amplitude to next-to-leading order using Galilean-invariant XEFT.

    hep-phPRD(2021)·25 citations
  19. 19*

    Lowest Dimensional Portals to SU() Exotics

    Tesla Jeltema🇺🇸 · Stefano Profumo🇺🇸 · Jaryd F. Ulbricht🇺🇸

    New matter fields charged under the strong nuclear force would have dramatic phenomenological implications. Here, we systematically explore how these new states, which we postulate belong to some representation of SU(3) of quantum chromo-dynamics, could interact with Standard Model fields: We analyze all lowest-dimensional "portal" operators for any SU(3) representation and, motivated by grand unification, we extend our results to SU(), for . We provide a publicly available python code, "tessellation", that automatically constructs said lowest-dimensional portal operators for any new exotic matter field charged under SU() for any .

    hep-phastro-ph.HEhep-thJ.Math.Phys.(2021)·0 citations
  20. 20*

    Hyperon--anti-hyperon polarization asymmetry in relativistic heavy-ion collisions as an interplay between chiral and helical vortical effects

    Victor E. Ambrus🇷🇴 · M. N. Chernodub🇫🇷

    We argue that the enhancement in the spin polarization of anti-hyperons compared to the polarization of the hyperons in noncentral relativistic heavy-ion collisions arises as a result of an interplay between the chiral and helical vortical effects. The chiral vortical effect generates the axial current of quarks along the vorticity axis while the recently found helical vortical effect generates the helicity flow -- the projection of the quark's polarization vector onto its momentum -- along the same axis. For massless fermions, the helical charge corresponds to a difference in the contributions of particles and anti-particles to the axial charge. Assuming that the spin of light quarks transfers to the strange quarks via the vector kaon states ("the spin-vector dominance"), we are able to describe the ratio of the (anti)hyperon spin polarizations, obtained by the STAR group, without fitting parameters. We also argue that the helical vortical effect dominates over the chiral vortical effect and the chiral magnetic effect in the generation of the electric current.

    hep-phhep-thnucl-thEPJC(2022)·26 citations
  21. 21*

    Bottomonium spectroscopy in the quark-gluon plasma

    Georg Wolschin🇩🇪

    The spectroscopic properties of heavy quarkonia are substantially different in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that is created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions as compared to the vacuum situation that can be tested in pp collisions at the same center-of-mass energy. In this article, a series of recent works about the dissociation of the Y(nS) and chi_b(nP) states in the hot QGP is summarized. Quarkonia dissociation occurs due to (1) screening of the real quark-antiquark potential, (2) collisional damping through the imaginary part of the potential, and (3) gluon-induced dissociation. In addition, reduced feed-down plays a decisive role for the spin-triplet ground state. Transverse-momentum and centrality-dependent data are well reproduced in Pb-Pb collisions at LHC energies. In the asymmetric p-Pb system, alterations of the parton density functions in the lead nucleus account for the leading fraction of the modifications in cold nuclear matter (CNM), but the hot-medium effects turn out to be relevant in spite of the small initial spatial extent of the fireball, providing additional evidence for the generation of a quark-gluon droplet.

    hep-phnucl-thInt.J.Mod.Phys.A(2020)·8 citations
  22. 22*

    Three-loop soft function for energetic electroweak boson production at hadron colliders

    Ze Long Liu🇺🇸 · Maximilian Stahlhofen🇩🇪

    We calculate the three-loop soft function for the production of an electroweak boson (Higgs, , , ) with large transverse momentum at a hadron collider. It is the first time a soft function for a three-parton process is computed at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (NLO). As a technical novelty, we perform the calculation in terms of forward-scattering-type loop diagrams rather than evaluating phase space integrals. Our three-loop result contains color-tripole contributions and explicitly confirms predictions on the universal infrared structure of QCD scattering amplitudes with three massless parton legs. The soft function is a central ingredient in the factorized cross section for electroweak boson production near the kinematic endpoint (threshold), where the invariant mass of the recoiling hadronic radiation is small compared to its transverse momentum. Our result is required for predictions of the near-threshold cross sections at NLO and for the resummation of threshold logarithms at primed next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accuracy.

    hep-phJHEP(2021)·8 citations
  23. 23*

    Nuclear matter effects on jet production at electron-ion colliders

    Hai Tao Li🇺🇸 · Ivan Vitev🇺🇸

    Jet production and jet substructure in reactions with nuclei at future electron-ion colliders will play a preeminent role in the exploration of nuclear structure and the evolution of parton showers in strongly-interacting matter. In the framework of soft-collinear effective theory, generalized to include in-medium interactions, we present the first theoretical study of inclusive jet cross sections and the jet charge at the EIC. Predictions for the modification of these observables in electron-gold relative to electron-proton collisions reveal how the flexible center-of-mass energies and kinematic coverage at this new facility can be used to enhance the signal and maximize the impact of the electron-nucleus program. Importantly, we demonstrate theoretically how to disentangle the effects from nuclear parton distribution functions and the ones that arise from strong final-state interactions between the jet and the nuclear medium.

    hep-phhep-exPRL(2021)·38 citations
  24. 24*

    The Present and Future of Four Top Operators

    Giovanni Banelli🇩🇪 · Ennio Salvioni🇨🇭 · Javi Serra🇩🇪 · Tobias Theil🇩🇪 · Andreas Weiler🇩🇪

    We study the phenomenology of a strongly-interacting top quark at future hadron and lepton colliders, showing that the characteristic four-top contact operators give rise to the most significant effects. We demonstrate the extraordinary potential of a 100 TeV proton-proton collider to directly test such non-standard interactions in four-top production, a process that we thoroughly analyze in the same-sign dilepton and trilepton channels, and explore in the fully hadronic channel. Furthermore, high-energy electron-positron colliders, such as CLIC or the ILC, are shown to exhibit an indirect yet remarkable sensitivity to four-top operators, since these constitute, via renormalization group evolution, the leading new-physics deformations in top-quark pair production. We investigate the impact of our results on the parameter space of composite Higgs models with a strongly-coupled (right-handed) top quark, finding that four-top probes provide the best sensitivity on the compositeness scale at the future energy frontier. In addition, we investigate mild yet persisting LHC excesses in multilepton plus jets final states, showing that they can be consistently described in the effective field theory of such a new-physics scenario.

    hep-phhep-exJHEP(2021)·65 citations
  25. 25*

    Natural 2HDMs without FCNCs

    J. L. Diaz-Cruz🇲🇽 · U. J. Saldana-Salazar🇩🇪 · K. M. Tame-Narvaez🇩🇪 · V. T. Tenorth🇩🇪

    Motivated by the fermion mass hierarchy we study the phenomenology of two flavorful two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM) scenarios. By virtue of the flavor or singular alignment ansatz it is possible to link the mass of a subset of fermions to the vacuum-expectation-value (VEV) of a unique Higgs doublet and to simultaneously avoid flavor-changing-neutral-currents at tree-level. We explicitly construct two models called Type-A and B. There, either the top quark alone or all third generation fermions couple to the doublet with the larger VEV. The other fermions acquire their masses through the small VEV of the other doublet. Thus, more natural values for the Yukawa couplings can be obtained. The main differences between these models and conventional ones are studied including a discussion of both their structure and phenomenological consequences. In particular, as distinctive deviations for the Yukawa couplings of the light fermions are predicted we discuss possible tests at the LHC based on searches for , , and heavy scalar resonances decaying to muon pairs. We find that for a wide region of parameter space this specific set of signatures can be used to distinguish among the new proposed types and the conventional ones.

    hep-phhep-exPRD(2021)·5 citations
  26. 26*

    Direct Detection of Hawking Radiation from Asteroid-Mass Primordial Black Holes

    Adam Coogan🇳🇱 · Logan Morrison🇺🇸 · Stefano Profumo🇺🇸

    Light, asteroid-mass primordial black holes, with lifetimes in the range between hundreds to several millions times the age of the universe, are well-motivated candidates for the cosmological dark matter. Using archival COMPTEL data, we improve over current constraints on the allowed parameter space of primordial black holes as dark matter by studying their evaporation to soft gamma-rays in nearby astrophysical structures. We point out that a new generation of proposed MeV gamma-ray telescopes will offer the unique opportunity to directly detect Hawking evaporation from observations of nearby dark matter dense regions and to constrain, or discover, the primordial black hole dark matter.

    astro-ph.COastro-ph.HEgr-qchep-phPRL(2021)·170 citations
  27. 27*

    Electroweak decay of quark matter within dense astrophysical combustion flames

    J. A. Rosero-Gil🇧🇷 · G. Lugones🇧🇷

    We study the weak interaction processes taking place within a combustion flame that converts dense hadronic matter into quark matter in a compact star. Using the Boltzmann equation we follow the evolution of a small element of just deconfined quark matter all along the flame interior until it reaches chemical equilibrium at the back boundary of the flame. We obtain the reaction rates and neutrino emissivities of all the relevant weak interaction processes without making any assumption about the neutrino degeneracy. We analyse systematically the role the initial conditions of unburnt hadronic matter, such as density, temperature, neutrino trapping and composition, focusing on typical astrophysical scenarios such as cold neutron stars, protoneutron stars, and post merger compact objects. We find that the temperature within the flame rises significantly in a timescale of 1 nanosecond. The increase in strongly depends on the initial strangeness of hadronic matter and tends to be more drastic at larger densities. Typical final values range between and . The nonleptonic process is always dominant in cold stars, but in hot objects the process becomes relevant, and in some cases dominant, near chemical equilibrium. The rates for the other processes are orders of magnitude smaller. We find that the neutrino emissivity per baryon is very large, leading to a total energy release per baryon of in the form of neutrinos along the flame. We discuss some astrophysical consequences of the results.

    nucl-thastro-ph.HEhep-phPRC(2021)·1 citation
  28. 28*

    Axion Monodromy Inflation, Trapping Mechanisms and the Swampland

    Weijie Jin🇨🇭 · Robert Brandenberger🇨🇦 · Lavinia Heisenberg (ETH and McGill)🇨🇭

    We study the effects of particle production on the evolution of the inflaton field in an axion monodromy model with the goal of discovering in which situations the resulting dynamics will be consistent with the {\it swampland constraints}. In the presence of a modulated potential the evolving background field (solution of the inflaton homogeneous in space) induces the production of long wavelength inflaton fluctuation modes. However, this either has a negligible effect on the inflaton dynamics (if the field spacing between local minima of the modulated potential is large), or else it traps the inflaton in a local minimum and leads to a graceful exit problem. On the other hand, the production of moduli fields at enhanced symmetry points can lead to a realization of {\it trapped inflation} consistent with the swampland constraints, as long as the coupling between the inflaton and the moduli fields is sufficiently large.

    hep-thastro-ph.COgr-qchep-phEPJC(2021)·7 citations
  29. 29*

    Modeling quasielastic interactions of monoenergetic kaon decay-at-rest neutrinos

    Alexis Nikolakopoulos🇧🇪 · Vishvas Pandey🇺🇸 · Joshua Spitz🇺🇸 · Natalie Jachowicz🇧🇪

    Monoenergetic muon neutrinos at 236 MeV are readily produced in intense medium-energy proton facilities (2-3~GeV) when a positive kaon decays at rest (KDAR; ). These neutrinos provide a unique opportunity to both study the neutrino interaction and probe the nucleus with a monoenergetic weak-interaction-only tool. We present cross section calculations for quasielastic scattering of these 236~MeV neutrinos off C and Ar, paying special attention to low-energy aspects of the scattering process. Our model takes the description of the nucleus in a mean-field (MF) approach as the starting point, where we solve Hartree-Fock (HF) equations using a Skyrme type nucleon-nucleon interaction. Thereby, we introduce long-range nuclear correlations by means of a continuum random phase approximation (CRPA) framework where we solve the CRPA equations using a Green's function method. The model successfully describes () data on C and Ca in the kinematic region that overlaps with the KDAR phase space. In addition to these results, we present future prospects for precision KDAR cross section measurements and applications of our calculations in current and future experiments that will utilize these neutrinos.

    nucl-thhep-exhep-phPRC(2021)·24 citations
  30. 30*

    Quantum Corrections to Generic Branes: DBI, NLSM, and More

    Garrett Goon🇺🇸 · Scott Melville🇬🇧 · Johannes Noller🇬🇧

    We study quantum corrections to hypersurfaces of dimension embedded in generic higher-dimensional spacetimes. Manifest covariance is maintained throughout the analysis and our methods are valid for arbitrary co-dimension and arbitrary bulk metric. A variety of theories which are prominent in the modern amplitude literature arise as special limits: the scalar sector of Dirac-Born-Infeld theories and their multi-field variants, as well as generic non-linear sigma models and extensions thereof. Our explicit one-loop results unite the leading corrections of all such models under a single umbrella. In contrast to naive computations which generate effective actions that appear to violate the non-linear symmetries of their classical counterparts, our efficient methods maintain manifest covariance at all stages and make the symmetry properties of the quantum action clear. We provide an explicit comparison between our compact construction and other approaches and demonstrate the ultimate physical equivalence between the superficially different results.

    hep-thgr-qchep-phJHEP(2021)·18 citations
  31. 31*

    Testing gravity with the two-body problem

    Adrien Kuntz🇫🇷

    Gravitational waves provide a new probe into the strong-field regime of gravity. It is thus essential to identify the predictions of General Relativity on the nature of the two-body problem, and to contrast them to alternative theories. This thesis aims at comparing the predictions of General Relativity and scalar-tensor theories on gravitational observables using Effective Field Theory techniques. In a first part, we show how simple scalar-tensor theories can be embedded in the Non-Relativistic General Relativity approach to the two-body problem and highlight their essential features. Furthermore, we study the effects of a disformal coupling of the scalar on the two-body dynamics and introduce a resummation technique. This new Non-Relativistic Scalar-Tensor formalism will provide a basis for the study of the Vainshtein mechanism in two-body configurations which is at the core of the second part of this thesis. Finally, in a last part we devise an Effective Field Theory formalism adapted to gravitational wave generation in theories featuring scalar hair, in the extreme mass ratio regime.

    gr-qchep-phhep-th2 citations
  32. 32*

    Supersymmetry in Hadron Spectroscopy and Solitons in 2 Dimensional Fermionic Media

    Sadataka Furui🇯🇵

    An overview of hadron spectroscopy obtained from an extension of superconformal field theory of de Alfaro, Fubini and Furlan, which originates from the supergauge transformation of Wess and Zumino and influenced on the string theory are preseted. The standard model of hadron dynamics is based on gauge theory. In the 4 dimensional () QCD Lagrangian, the Faddeev-Popov ghost that appears to compensate unphysical degrees of freedom in internal fermion propagators can be regarded as the partner of a fermion. Donaldson formulated a gauge theory. Fubini and Rabinovici formulated superconformal quantum mechanics in de Sitter space, and Brodsky and de Téramond formulated relativistic light front holographic QCD (LFHQCD) in Kaluza-Klein type anti de Sitter (AdS) space, using Dirac's light cone gauge, and succeeded in obtaining spectroscopy of baryons (fermions) and corresponding mesons (bosons), except the pion which is an axial scalar meson that remains massless. In the LFHQCD, the time parameter , appears by the choice of the light-cone gauge, or the front form of Dirac's formulation. The theory is an extension of AdS/CFT correspodence of Maldacena in which incorporation of Einstein's gravity theory in Maxwell's electromagnetic theory was tried in the framework of the string theory. Taking mathematical frameworks of treating the supersymmetry by Brodsky, Witten, Connes and their collaborators as central thema, we summarize other supersymmetric approaches like string theory in particle physics and astrophysics. We discuss about 2 dimensional solitons whose dynamics is represented also by , ( pure quaternion).

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