Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Thursday·December 31, 2015

16 papers—7 primary·9 cross-listed

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Phenomenological QCD equations of state for neutron stars
Toru Kojo🇨🇳 · Philip D. Powell🇺🇸 · Yifan Song🇺🇸 · Gordon Baym🇯🇵
We delineate the properties of QCD matter at baryon density n_B=1-10n_0 (n_0: nuclear saturation density), through the construction of neutron star equations of state that satisfy the neutron star mass-radius constraints as well as physical conditions on the speed of sound. The QCD matter is described in the 3-window modeling: at n_B < 2n_0 purely nuclear matter; at n_B > 5n_0 percolated quark matter; and at 2n_0 < n_B < 5n_0 matter intermediate between these two which are constructed by interpolation. Using a schematic quark model with effective interactions inspired from hadron and nuclear physics, we analyze the strength of interactions necessary to describe observed neutron star properties. Our finding is that the interactions should remain as strong as in the QCD vacuum, indicating that gluons at n_B =1-10 n_0 remain non-perturbative even after quark matter formation.
↳ hep-phastro-ph.HEnucl-exnucl-thNPA(2016)·24 citations
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In-medium jet evolution: interplay between broadening and decoherence effects
Liliana Apolinário🇵🇹 · Néstor Armesto🇪🇸 · Guilherme Milhano🇵🇹 · Carlos A. Salgado🇪🇸
The description of the modifications of the coherence pattern in a parton shower, in the presence of a QGP, has been actively addressed in recent studies. Among the several achievements, finite energy corrections, transverse momentum broadening due to medium interactions and interference effects between successive emissions have been extensively improved as they seem to be essential features for a correct description of the results obtained in heavy-ion collisions. In this work, based on the insights of our previous work [1], we explore the physical interplay between broadening and decoherence, by generalising previous studies of medium-modifications of the antenna spectrum [2, 3, 4] - so far restricted to the case where transverse motion is neglected. The result allow us to identify two quantities controlling the decoherence of a medium modified shower that can be used as building blocks for a successful future generation of jet quenching Monte Carlo simulators: a generalisation of the $Δ_{m e d}$ parameter of the works of [2, 4] - that controls the interplay between the transverse scale of the hard probe and the transverse resolution of the medium - and of the $Δ_{co h}$ in [1] - that dictates the interferences between two emitters as a function of the transverse momentum broadening acquired by multiple scatterings with the medium.
↳ hep-phnucl-thNPA(2016)·3 citations
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Direct-photon+hadron correlations to study parton energy loss with the STAR experiment
Nihar Ranjan Sahoo (STAR collaboration)🇺🇸
We report new results of $γ_{d i r}$ +hadron and $π^{0}$ +hadron azimuthal correlations as a measure of the away-side jet-like correlated yields in central Au+Au and p+p collisions at $s_{N N}$ = 200 GeV in the STAR experiment from years 2011 and 2009 of data taking, respectively. The charged-hadron per-trigger yields at mid-rapidity $(∣ η ∣ < 1)$ and for transverse momenta $p_{T}^{a ssoc} > 1.2$ ~GeV/ $c$ associated with $γ_{d i r}$ ~ and $π^{0}$ ~(for triggers $∣ η ∣ <$ 0.9, 12 $< p_{T}^{t r i g} <$ 20 GeV/ $c$ ) in central Au+Au collisions are compared with p+p collisions. The $z_{T}$ ( $= \frac{p _{T}^{a ssoc}}{p _{T}^{t r i g}}$ ) dependence, now extending down to $z_{T}$ =0.1, of the suppression of the away-side associated yields is presented. We observed that the suppression of away-side associated yields tends to vanish at lower \zT. The dependence of the suppression on both $p_{T}^{a ssoc}$ and $p_{T}^{t r i g}$ is also discussed. Finally, these results are compared with various model predictions.
↳ nucl-exhep-exhep-phnucl-thNPA(2016)·3 citations
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D mesons in a magnetic field
Philipp Gubler🇮🇹 · Koichi Hattori🇺🇸 · Su Houng Lee🇰🇷 · Makoto Oka🇯🇵 · Sho Ozaki🇯🇵 · Kei Suzuki🇯🇵
We investigate the mass spectra of open heavy flavor mesons in an external constant magnetic field within QCD sum rules. Spectral ansätze on the phenomenological side are proposed in order to properly take into account mixing effects between the pseudoscalar and vector channels, and the Landau levels of charged mesons. The operator product expansion is implemented up to dimension-5 operators. As a result, we find for neutral D mesons a significant positive mass shift that goes beyond simple mixing effects. In contrast, charged D mesons are further subject to Landau level effects, which together with the mixing effects almost completely saturate the mass shifts obtained in our sum rule analysis.
↳ hep-phhep-latnucl-exnucl-thPRD(2016)·89 citations
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Bose-Einstein Condensation of Bound Pairs of Relativistic Fermions in a Magnetic Field
Bo Feng🇨🇳 · Defu Hou🇨🇳 · Hai-cang Ren🇨🇳 · Ping-ping Wu🇨🇳
The Bose-Einstein condensation of bound pairs made of equally and oppositely charged fermions in a magnetic field is investigated using a relativistic model. The Gaussian fluctuations have been taken into account in order to study the spectrum of bound pairs in the strong coupling region. We found, in weak coupling reagion, the condensation temperature increases with an increasing magnetic field displaying the magnetic catalysis effect. In strong coupling region, the inverse magnetic catalysis appears when the magnetic field is low and is replaced by the usual magnetic catalysis effect when magnetic field is sufficiently high, in contrast to the nonrelativistic case where the inverse magnetic catalysis prevails in strong coupling region regardless of the strength of the magnetic field. The resulting response to the magnetic field is the consequence of the competition between the dimensional reduction by Landau orbitals in pairing dynamics and the anisotropy of the kinetic spectrum of the bound pairs. We thus conclude that dimensional reduction dominates in weak domain and strong coupling one except the small magnetic field region, where the enhanced fluctuations dominates.
↳ hep-phnucl-thPRD(2016)·11 citations
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Effects produced by multi-parton interactions and color reconnection in small systems
Eleazar Cuautle🇲🇽 · Antonio Ortiz🇲🇽 · Guy Paic🇲🇽
Multi-parton interactions and color reconnection can produce QGP-like effects in small systems, specifically, radial flow-like patterns. For pp collisions simulated with Pythia 8.212, in this work we investigate their effects on different observables like event multiplicity, event shapes and transverse momentum distributions.
↳ hep-phnucl-thNPA(2016)·12 citations
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Pseudoscalar transition form factors: $(g - 2)$ of the muon, pseudoscalar decays into lepton pairs, and the $η - η^{'}$ mixing
Pere Masjuan🇩🇪 · Pablo Sanchez-Puertas🇩🇪
We present our model-independent and data-driven method to describe pseudoscalar meson transition form factors in the space- and (low-energy) time-like regions. The method is general and conforms a toolkit applicable to any other form factor, of one and two variables, with the potential to include both high- and low-energy QCD constraints altogether. The method makes use of analyticity and unitary properties of form factors, it is simple, systematic and can be improved upon by including new data. In the present discussion, the method is used to show the impact of experimental data for precision calculations in the low-energy sector of the Standard Model. In particular, due to its relevance for New Physics searches, we have considered the hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (the pseudoscalar exchange contribution), the pseudoscalar decays into lepton pairs, and the determination of the mixing parameters of the $η$ and $η^{'}$ system. For all of them we provide the most updated results in a data-driven manner.
↳ hep-phhep-exnucl-thEPJ Web Conf.(2016)·2 citations
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Pairing Dynamics of Polar States in a Quenched p-wave Superfluid Fermi Gas
Sukjin Yoon · Gentaro Watanabe
We study the pairing dynamics of polar states in a single species p-wave superfluid Fermi gas following a sudden change of the interaction strength. The anisotropy of pair interaction together with the presence of the centrifugal barrier results in profoundly different pairing dynamics compared to the s-wave case. Depending on the direction of quenches, quench to the BCS regime results in a large oscillatory depletion of momentum occupation inside the Fermi sea or a large filling of momentum occupation. We elucidate a crucial role of the resonant state supported by the centrifugal barrier in the pairing dynamics.
↳ cond-mat.quant-gascond-mat.stat-mechcond-mat.supr-connucl-thPRL(2017)·4 citations
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Two-photon exchange correction to muon-proton elastic scattering at low momentum transfer
O. Tomalak🇩🇪 · M. Vanderhaeghen (JGU Mainz)🇩🇪
We evaluate the two-photon exchange (TPE) correction to the muon-proton elastic scattering at small momentum transfer. Besides the elastic (nucleon) intermediate state contribution, which is calculated exactly, we account for the inelastic intermediate states by expressing the TPE process approximately through the forward doubly virtual Compton scattering. The input in our evaluation is given by the unpolarized proton structure functions and by one subtraction function. For the latter, we provide an explicit evaluation based on a Regge fit of high-energy proton structure function data. It is found that, for the kinematics of the forthcoming muon-proton elastic scattering data of the MUSE experiment, the elastic TPE contribution dominates, and the size of the inelastic TPE contributions is within the anticipated error of the forthcoming data.
↳ hep-phnucl-exnucl-thEPJC(2016)·48 citations

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