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Monday·May 9, 2016

5 papers—2 primary·3 cross-listed

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  1. 03

    [Submitted on 3 May 2016] (cross-list from physics.pop-ph)

    Gravitational Wave for a pedestrian

    A K Chaudhuri🇮🇳

    The physics of gravitational wave and its detection in the recent experiment by the LIGO collaboration is discussed in simple terms for a general audience. The main article is devoid of any mathematics, but an appendix is included for inquisitive readers where essential mathematics for general theory of relativity and gravitational waves are given.

    Comments:
    Few mistakes are corrected. 19 pages, 8 figures
    Subjects:
    physics.pop-ph (physics.pop-ph); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    1605.00761 [pdf]
    3 citations
  2. 04

    [Submitted on 6 May 2016] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Magnetic shift of the chemical freezeout and electric charge fluctuations

    Kenji Fukushima🇯🇵 · Yoshimasa Hidaka🇯🇵

    We discuss the effect of a strong magnetic field on the chemical freezeout points in the ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collision. As a result of the inverse magnetic catalysis or the magnetic inhibition, the crossover onset to hot and dense matter out of quarks and gluons should be shifted to a lower temperature. To quantify this shift we employ the hadron resonance gas model and an empirical condition for the chemical freezeout. We point out that the charged particle abundances are significantly affected by the magnetic field so that the electric charge fluctuation is largely enhanced especially at high baryon density. The charge conservation partially cancels the enhancement but our calculation shows that the electric charge fluctuation and the charge chemical potential could serve as a magnetometer. We find that the fluctuation exhibits a crossover behavior rapidly increased for eB >~ (0.4GeV)^2, while the charge chemical potential has better sensitivity to the magnetic field.

    Comments:
    5 pages, 4 figures; Fig.4 is updated for the electric charge susceptibility and the charge chemical potential as functions of B
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    1605.01912 [pdf]
    PRL(2016)·46 citations
  3. 05

    [Submitted on 6 May 2016] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Reactor Neutrino Spectra

    A. C. Hayes🇺🇸 · Petr Vogel🇺🇸

    We present a review of the antineutrino spectra emitted from reactors. Knowledge of these and their associated uncertainties are crucial for neutrino oscillation studies. The spectra used to-date have been determined by either conversion of measured electron spectra to antineutrino spectra or by summing over all of the thousands of transitions that makeup the spectra using modern databases as input. The uncertainties in the subdominant corrections to beta-decay plague both methods, and we provide estimates of these uncertainties. Improving on current knowledge of the antineutrino spectra from reactors will require new experiments. Such experiments would also address the so-called reactor neutrino anomaly and the possible origin of the shoulder observed in the antineutrino spectra measured in recent high-statistics reactor neutrino experiments.

    Comments:
    Submitted for publication in the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, Vol.66
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    1605.02047 [pdf]
    Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci.(2016)·176 citations

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