PaperPanorama

Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Friday·September 9, 2016

7 papers4 primary·3 cross-listed

  1. 05

    X-ray bounds on the r-mode amplitude in millisecond pulsars

    Kai Schwenzer · Tuğba Boztepe · Tolga Güver · Eda Vurgun

    r-mode astroseismology provides a unique way to study the internal composition of compact stars. Due to their precise timing, recycled millisecond radio pulsars present a particularly promising class of sources. Although their thermal properties are still poorly constrained, X-ray data is very useful for astroseismology since r-modes could strongly heat a star. Using known and new upper bounds on the temperatures and luminosities of several non-accreting millisecond radio pulsars we derive bounds on the r-mode amplitude as low as and discuss the impact on scenarios for their internal composition.

    astro-ph.HEgr-qcnucl-thMNRAS(2017)·18 citations
  2. 07

    Unveiling the nucleon tensor charge at Jefferson Lab: A study of the SoLID case

    Zhihong Ye · Nobuo Sato🇺🇸 · Kalyan Allada🇺🇸 · Tianbo Liu🇺🇸 · Jian-Ping Chen🇺🇸 · Haiyan Gao🇺🇸 · Zhong-Bo Kang🇺🇸 · Alexei Prokudin🇺🇸 · Peng Sun🇺🇸 · Feng Yuan🇺🇸

    Future experiments at the Jefferson Lab 12 GeV upgrade, in particular, the Solenoidal Large Intensity Device (SoLID), aim at a very precise data set in the region where the partonic structure of the nucleon is dominated by the valence quarks. One of the main goals is to constrain the quark transversity distributions. We apply recent theoretical advances of the global QCD extraction of the transversity distributions to study the impact of future experimental data from the SoLID experiments. Especially, we develop a simple strategy based on the Hessian matrix analysis that allows one to estimate the uncertainties of the transversity quark distributions and their tensor charges extracted from SoLID data simulation. We find that the SoLID measurements with the proton and the effective neutron targets can improve the precision of the u- and d-quark transversity distributions up to one order of magnitude in the range 0.05 < x < 0.6.

    hep-phhep-exnucl-exnucl-thPLB(2017)·61 citations

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