PaperPanorama

Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Tuesday·October 13, 2015

21 papers10 primary·11 cross-listed

  1. 11

    New fixed points of the renormalisation group for two-body scattering

    M. C. Birse🇬🇧 · E. Epelbaum🇩🇪 · J. Gegelia🇩🇪

    We outline a separable matrix ansatz for the potentials in effective field theories of nonrelativistic two-body systems with short-range interactions. We use this ansatz to construct new fixed points of the renormalisation-group equation for these potentials. New fixed points indicate a much richer structure than previously recognized in the RG flows of simple short-range potentials.

    hep-phnucl-thEPJA(2016)·5 citations
  2. 12

    Predictions of covariant chiral perturbation theory for nucleon polarisabilities and polarised Compton scattering

    Vadim Lensky🇩🇪 · Judith A. McGovern🇬🇧 · Vladimir Pascalutsa🇩🇪

    We update the predictions of the SU(2) baryon chiral perturbation theory for the dipole polarisabilities of the proton, fm, and obtain the corresponding predictions for the quadrupole, dispersive, and spin polarisabilities: fm, fm, and fm. The results for the scalar polarisabilities are in significant disagreement with semi-empirical analyses based on dispersion relations, however the results for the spin polarisabilities agree remarkably well. Results for proton Compton-scattering multipoles and polarised observables up to the Delta(1232) resonance region are presented too. The asymmetries and reproduce the experimental data from LEGS and MAMI. Results for agree with a recent sum rule evaluation in the forward kinematics. The asymmetry near the pion production threshold shows a large sensitivity to chiral dynamics, but no data is available for this observable. We also provide the predictions for the polarisabilities of the neutron: fm, fm, fm, and fm. The neutron dynamical polarisabilities and multipoles are examined too. We also discuss subtleties related to matching dynamical and static polarisabilities.

    hep-phnucl-thEPJC(2015)·58 citations
  3. 13

    Realistic estimate of valence transversity from dihadron production

    Marco Radici🇮🇹

    We have updated our extraction of the transversity parton distribution based on the analysis of pion-pair production in deep-inelastic scattering off transversely polarized targets in collinear factorization. The most recent COMPASS data for proton and deuteron targets, complemented by previous HERMES data on the proton, make it possible to perform a flavor separation of the valence components of the transversity distribution, using di-hadron fragmentation functions taken from the semi-inclusive production of two pion pairs in back-to-back jets in annihilation. The data from BELLE have been reanalyzed to reach a more realistic estimate of the uncertainties on the chiral-odd interference fragmentation function. Our results represent the most accurate estimate of the uncertainties on the valence components of the transversity distribution currently available.

    hep-phhep-exnucl-exnucl-th0 citations
  4. 14

    Intermediate Mass Fragment Emission in S +V, Ag, and U Collisions at E~=~31.6~MeV~A

    H. Machner · M. Nolte · M. Palarczyk · T. Kutsarova

    Intermediate mass fragment emission for reactions of Ag, and has been studied. Double differential cross sections were analysed in terms of the generalised moving source model yielding charge distributions. Isotope ratios show strong fragment mass dependencies. The data were successfully reproduced by the coalescence model as well as by statistical multifragmentation model calculations. Quantum molecular dynamics model calculations were not so successful.

    nucl-exnucl-thEPJA(2015)·1 citation
  5. 15

    No influence of a N=126 Neutron Shell Closure in Fission Fragment Mass Distributions

    A. Chaudhuri · T. K. Ghosh · K. Banerjee · S. Bhattacharya · Jhilam Sadhukhan · S. Kundu · C. Bhattacharya · J. K. Meena · G. Mukherjee · A. K. Saha · Md. A. Asgar · A. Dey and 15 other authors

    Mass distributions of the fragments in the fission of Po and the N=126 neutron shell closed nucleus Po have been measured. No significant deviation of mass distributions has been found between Po and Po, indicating the absence of shell correction at the saddle point in both the nuclei, contrary to the reported angular anisotropy and pre-scission neutron multiplicity results. This new result provides benchmark data to test the new fission dynamical models to study the effect of shell correction on the potential energy surface at saddle point.

    nucl-exnucl-thPRC(2015)·18 citations
  6. 16

    Hard-Wall and Non-Uniform Lattice Monte Carlo Approaches to One-Dimensional Fermi Gases in a Harmonic Trap

    Casey E. Berger🇺🇸 · Joaquín E. Drut🇺🇸 · William J. Porter🇺🇸

    We present in detail two variants of the lattice Monte Carlo method aimed at tackling systems in external trapping potentials: a uniform-lattice approach with hard-wall boundary conditions, and a non-uniform Gauss-Hermite lattice approach. Using those two methods, we compute the ground-state energy and spatial density profile for systems of N=4 - 8 harmonically trapped fermions in one dimension. From the favorable comparison of both energies and density profiles (particularly in regions of low density), we conclude that the trapping potential is properly resolved by the hard-wall basis. Our work paves the way to higher dimensions and finite temperature analyses, as calculations with the hard-wall basis can be accelerated via fast Fourier transforms, the cost of unaccelerated methods is otherwise prohibitive due to the unfavorable scaling with system size.

    cond-mat.quant-gashep-latnucl-thComput.Phys.Commun.(2016)·6 citations
  7. 17

    Harmonically trapped fermions in two dimensions: ground-state energy and contact of SU(2) and SU(4) systems via nonuniform lattice Monte Carlo

    Z.-H. Luo🇨🇳 · C. E. Berger🇺🇸 · J. E. Drut🇺🇸

    We study harmonically trapped, unpolarized fermion systems with attractive interactions in two spatial dimensions with spin degeneracies Nf = 2 and 4 and N/Nf = 1, 3, 5, and 7 particles per flavor. We carry out our calculations using our recently proposed quantum Monte Carlo method on a nonuniform lattice. We report on the ground-state energy and contact for a range of couplings, as determined by the binding energy of the two-body system, and show explicitly how the physics of the Nf-body sector dominates as the coupling is increased.

    cond-mat.quant-gashep-latnucl-thPRA(2016)·3 citations
  8. 18

    Time Evolution of Temperature Fluctuation in a Non-Equilibrated System

    Trambak Bhattacharyya🇮🇳 · Prakhar Garg🇮🇳 · Raghunath Sahoo🇮🇳 · Prasant Samantray🇮🇳

    The evolution equation for inhomogeneous and anisotropic temperature fluctuation inside a medium is derived within the ambit of Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE) for a hot gas of massless particles. Also, specializing to a situation created after heavy-ion collision (HIC), we analyze the Fourier space variation of temperature fluctuation of the medium using its temperature profile. The effect of viscosity on the variation of fluctuations in the latter case is investigated and possible implications for early universe cosmology, and its connection with HICs are also explored.

    hep-phnucl-thEPJA(2016)·28 citations
  9. 19

    A Monte Carlo algorithm for simulating fermions on Lefschetz thimbles

    Andrei Alexandru🇺🇸 · Gokce Basar🇺🇸 · Paulo Bedaque🇺🇸

    A possible solution of the notorious sign problem preventing direct Monte Carlo calculations for systems with non-zero chemical potential is to deform the integration region in the complex plane to a Lefschetz thimble. We investigate this approach for a simple fermionic model. We introduce an easy to implement Monte Carlo algorithm to sample the dominant thimble. Our algorithm relies only on the integration of the gradient flow in the numerically stable direction, which gives it a distinct advantage over the other proposed algorithms. We demonstrate the stability and efficiency of the algorithm by applying it to an exactly solvable fermionic model and compare our results with the analytical ones. We report a very good agreement for a certain region in the parameter space where the dominant contribution comes from a single thimble, including a region where standard methods suffer from a severe sign problem. However, we find that there are also regions in the parameter space where the contribution from multiple thimbles is important, even in the continuum limit.

    hep-latcond-mat.str-elhep-thnucl-thPRD(2016)·144 citations
  10. 20

    NuWro Monte Carlo generator of neutrino interactions - first electron scattering results

    Jakub Zmuda🇵🇱 · Krzysztof M. Graczyk🇵🇱 · Cezary Juszczak🇵🇱 · Jan T. Sobczyk🇵🇱

    NuWro Monte Carlo generator of events is presented. It is a numerical environment containing all necessary ingredients to simulate interactions of neutrinos with nucleons and nuclei in realistic experimental situation in wide neutrino energy range. It can be used both for data analysis as well as studies of nuclear effects in neutrino interactions. The first results and functionalities of eWro - module of NuWro dedicated to electron nucleus scattering - are also presented.

    hep-phnucl-exnucl-thActa Phys.Polon.B(2015)·30 citations
  11. 21

    Thermal photon and dilepton production and electric charge transport in a baryon rich strongly coupled QGP from holography

    Stefano Ivo Finazzo (Sao Paulo, IFT)🇧🇷 · Romulo Rougemont (Sao Paulo U.)🇧🇷

    We obtain the thermal photon and dilepton production rates in a strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at both zero and nonzero baryon chemical potential using a bottom-up Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) holographic model that is in good quantitative agreement with the thermodynamics of -flavor lattice QCD around the crossover transition for baryon chemical potentials up to 400 MeV, which may be reached in the beam energy scan (BES) at RHIC. We find that increasing the temperature and the baryon chemical potential enhances the peak present in both spectra. We also obtain the electric charge susceptibility, the DC and AC electric conductivities and the electric charge diffusion as functions of and . We find that electric diffusive transport is suppressed as one increases . At zero baryon density, we compare our results for the DC electric conductivity and the electric charge diffusion with the latest lattice data available for these observables and find reasonable agreement around the crossover transition. Therefore, our holographic results may be used to constraint the magnitude of the thermal photon and dilepton production rates in a strongly coupled QGP, which we found to be at least one order of magnitude below perturbative estimates.

    hep-phhep-thnucl-thPRD(2016)·49 citations

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