Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Thursday·March 16, 2017

17 papers—11 primary·6 cross-listed

01
[Submitted on 14 Mar 2017]
Laplace expansion method for the calculation of the reduced width amplitudes
Yohei Chiba · Masaaki Kimura
We derive the equations to calculate the reduced width amplitudes (RWA) of the different size clusters and deformed clusters without any approximation. These equations named Laplace expansion method are applicable to the nuclear models which uses the Gaussian wave packets. The advantage of the method is demonstrated by the numerical calculations of the $^{16} O + α$ and $^{24} Mg + α$ RWAs in $^{20} Ne$ and $^{28} Si$ .
Comments:
26 pages, 4 figures
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1703.04569 [pdf]
PTEP(2017)·24 citations
02
[Submitted on 15 Mar 2017]
$Ψ (2 s)$ production in $p + A$ collisions
Partha Pratim Bhaduri🇮🇳 · Abhijit Bhattacharyya🇮🇳
We have analyzed the data on $ψ^{'}$ production in proton-nucleus ( $p + A$ ) collisions, available from the NA50 Collaboration in the SPS energy domain. The investigated data sets include the absolute production cross sections as well as $ψ^{'}$ -to-Drell Yan (DY) cross section ratios. An adapted version of two component QVZ model has been employed to calculate $ψ^{'}$ production cross sections. For both $ψ^{'}$ and DY production, nuclear modifications to the free nucleon structure functions are taken into account. For $ψ^{'}$ , final state interaction of the produced $c c ˉ$ pairs with the nuclear medium is also taken into account, in accordance with the previously analyzed $J / ψ$ data. A satisfactory description of the data in $p + A$ collisions is obtained. Model calculations are extrapolated to low energy regime to predict the $ψ^{'}$ suppression in proton induced collisions at near threshold energies.
Comments:
6 pages, 14 figures. Extensively revised, new figures added
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph)
arXiv:
1703.04580 [pdf]
EPL(2018)·0 citations
03
[Submitted on 14 Mar 2017]
Can nuclear physics explain the anomaly observed in the internal pair production in the Beryllium-8 nucleus?
Xilin Zhang🇺🇸 · Gerald A. Miller🇺🇸
Recently the experimentalists in [PRL 116, 042501 (2016)] announced observing an unexpected enhancement of the electron-positron pair production signal in one of the Beryllium-8 nuclear transitions. The following studies have been focused on possible explanations based on introducing new types of particle. In this work, we improve the nuclear physics modeling of the reaction by studying the pair emission anisotropy and the interferences between different multipoles in an effective field theory inspired framework, and examine their possible relevance to the anomaly. The connection between the previously measured on-shell photon production and the pair production in the same nuclear transitions is established. These improvements, absent in the original experimental analysis, should be included in extracting new particle's properties from the experiment of this type. We then study the possibility of using the nuclear transition form factor to explain the anomaly. The reduction of the anomaly's significance by simply rescaling our predicted event count is also investigated.
Comments:
8 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
arXiv:
1703.04588 [pdf]
PLB(2017)·78 citations
04
[Submitted on 14 Mar 2017]
The many-nucleon theory of nuclear collective structure and its macroscopic limits: an algebraic perspective
D. J. Rowe · A. E. McCoy · M. A. Caprio
The nuclear collective models introduced by Bohr, Mottelson and Rainwater, together with the Mayer-Jensen shell model, have provided the central framework for the development of nuclear physics. This paper reviews the microscopic evolution of the collective models and their underlying foundations. In particular, it is shown that the Bohr-Mottelson models have expressions as macroscopic limits of microscopic models that have precisely-defined expressions in many-nucleon quantum mechanics. Understanding collective models in this way is especially useful because it enables the analysis of nuclear properties in terms of them to be revisited and reassessed in the light of their microscopic foundations.
Comments:
38 pages, 1 figure, 4 tables; published in Phys. Scr., focus issue to celebrate the 40 year anniversary of the 1975 Nobel Prize to Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson and Leo James Rainwater (ed. Jerzy Dudek)
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1703.04640 [pdf]
Phys.Scripta(2016)·17 citations
05
[Submitted on 14 Mar 2017]
Approximate transmission coefficients in heavy ion fusion
A. J. Toubiana🇧🇷 · L. F. Canto🇧🇷 · M. S. Hussein🇧🇷
In this paper we revisit the one-dimensional tunnelling problem. We consider different approximations for the transmission through the Coulomb barrier in heavy ion collisions at near-barrier energies. First, we discuss approximations of the barrier shape by functional forms where the transmission coefficient is known analytically. Then, we consider Kemble's approximation for the transmission coefficient. We show how this approximation can be extended to above-barrier energies by performing the analytical continuation of the radial coordinate to the complex plane. We investigate the validity of the different approximations considered in this paper by comparing their predictions for transmission coefficients and cross sections of three heavy ion systems with the corresponding quantum mechanical results.
Comments:
12 pages, 6 figures
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
arXiv:
1703.04807 [pdf]
Braz.J.Phys.(2017)·16 citations
06
[Submitted on 15 Mar 2017]
Exposing strangeness: projections for kaon electromagnetic form factors
Fei Gao🇨🇳 · Lei Chang🇨🇳 · Yu-Xin Liu🇨🇳 · Craig D. Roberts🇺🇸 · Peter C. Tandy🇺🇸
A continuum approach to the kaon and pion bound-state problems is used to reveal their electromagnetic structure. For both systems, when used with parton distribution amplitudes appropriate to the scale of the experiment, Standard Model hard-scattering formulae are accurate to within 25% at momentum transfers $Q^{2} \approx 8$ GeV $^{2}$ . There are measurable differences between the distribution of strange and normal matter within the kaons, e.g. the ratio of their separate contributions reaches a peak value of $1.5$ at $Q^{2} \approx 6$ GeV $^{2}$ . Its subsequent $Q^{2}$ -evolution is accurately described by the hard scattering formulae. Projections for kaon and pion form factors at timelike momenta beyond the resonance region are also presented. These results and projections should prove useful in planning next-generation experiments.
Comments:
7 pages, 4 figures
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
arXiv:
1703.04875 [pdf]
PRD(2017)·69 citations
07
[Submitted on 15 Mar 2017]
Kinetic freeze-out temperatures in central and peripheral collisions: Which one is larger?
Hai-Ling Lao🇨🇳 · Fu-Hu Liu🇨🇳 · Bao-Chun Li🇨🇳 · Mai-Ying Duan🇨🇳
The kinetic freeze-out temperatures, $T_{0}$ , in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies are extracted by four methods: i) the Blast-Wave model with Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics (the BGBW model), ii) the Blast-Wave model with Tsallis statistics (the TBW model), iii) the Tsallis distribution with flow effect (the improved Tsallis distribution), and iv) the intercept in $T = T_{0} + a m_{0}$ (the alternative method), where $m_{0}$ denotes the rest mass and $T$ denotes the effective temperature which can be obtained by different distribution functions. It is found that the relative sizes of $T_{0}$ in central and peripheral collisions obtained by the conventional BGBW model which uses a zero or nearly zero transverse flow velocity, $β_{T}$ , are contradictory in tendency with other methods. With a re-examination for $β_{T}$ in the first method in which $β_{T}$ is taken to be $\sim (0.40 \pm 0.07) c$ , a recalculation presents a consistent result with others. Finally, our results show that the kinetic freeze-out temperature in central collisions is larger than that in peripheral collisions.
Comments:
22 pages, 11 figures. Nuclear Science and Techniques, accepted
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
arXiv:
1703.04944 [pdf]
Nucl.Sci.Tech.(2018)·56 citations
08
[Submitted on 15 Mar 2017]
Light fragment production at CERN Super Proton Synchrotron
Yu. B. Ivanov🇷🇺 · A. A. Soldatov🇷🇺
Recent data on the deutron and $^{3}$ He production in central Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) energies measured by the NA49 collaboration are analyzed within the model of the three-fluid dynamics (3FD) complemented by the coalescence model for the light-fragment production. The simulations are performed with different equations of state---with and without deconfinement transition. It is found that scenarios with the deconfinement transition are preferable for reproduction rapidity distributions of deuterons and $^{3}$ He, the corresponding results well agree with the experimental data. At the same time the calculated transverse-mass spectra of $^{3}$ He at midrapidity do not that nice agree with the experimental data. The latter apparently indicates that coalescence coefficients should be temperature and/or momentum dependent.
Comments:
7 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, version accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J. A
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
arXiv:
1703.05040 [pdf]
EPJA(2017)·10 citations
09
[Submitted on 15 Mar 2017]
Calculation of Gamow-Teller and Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay Properties for 130Te and 136Xe with a realistic nucleon-nucleon potential
L. Coraggio🇮🇹 · L. De Angelis🇮🇹 · T. Fukui🇮🇹 · A. Gargano🇮🇹 · N. Itaco🇮🇹
We report on the calculation of Gamow-Teller and double-beta decay properties for nuclei around 132Sn within the framework of the realistic shell model. The effective shell-model Hamiltonian and Gamow-Teller transition operator are derived by way of many-body perturbation theory, without resorting to empirical effective quenching factor for the Gamow-Teller operator. The results are then compared with the available experimental data, in order to establish the reliability of our approach. This is a mandatory step, before we apply the same methodology, in forthcoming studies, to the calculation of the neutrinoless double-beta decay nuclear matrix element for nuclei that are currently considered among the best candidates for the detection of this process.
Comments:
10 pages, 13 figures, 6 tables, 1 appendix, to be published in Physical Review C
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1703.05087 [pdf]
PRC(2017)·44 citations
10
[Submitted on 15 Mar 2017]
Non-exponential and oscillatory decays in quantum mechanics
Murray Peshkin · Alexander Volya · Vladimir Zelevinsky
The quantum-mechanical theory of the decay of unstable states is revisited. We show that the decay is non-exponential both in the short-time and long-time limits using a more physical definition of the decay rate than the one usually used. We report results of numerical studies based on Winter's model that may elucidate qualitative features of exponential and non-exponential decay more generally. The main exponential stage is related to the formation of a radiating state that maintains the shape of its wave function with exponentially diminishing normalization. We discuss situations where the radioactive decay displays several exponents. The transient stages between different regimes are typically accompanied by interference of various contributions and resulting oscillations in the decay curve. The decay curve can be fully oscillatory in a two-flavor generalization of Winter's model with some values of the parameters. We consider the implications of that result for models of the oscillations reported by GSI.
Comments:
7 pages 6 figures
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1703.05238 [pdf]
EPL(2014)·58 citations
11
[Submitted on 15 Mar 2017]
Nucleon polarizability and long range strong force from $σ_{I = 2}$ meson exchange potential
Carl-Oscar Gullström · Andrea Rossi
We present a theory for how nucleon polarizability could be used to extract energy from nucleons by special electromagnetic conditions. A presentation of an experiment that validates the theory is presented. Also an new theory for a long range strong force is introduced by enhance the role of the $σ_{I = 2}$ meson in nucleon nucleon potential made from mixed isospin $σ$ meson.
Subjects:
physics.gen-ph (physics.gen-ph)
arXiv:
1703.05249 [pdf]
0 citations
12
[Submitted on 10 Mar 2017] (cross-list from nucl-ex)
Two-photon exchange in elastic electron-proton scattering
A. Afanasev🇺🇸 · P. G. Blunden🇨🇦 · D. Hasell🇺🇸 · B. A. Raue🇺🇸
We review recent theoretical and experimental progress on the role of two-photon exchange (TPE) in electron-proton scattering at low to moderate momentum transfers. We make a detailed comparison and analysis of the results of competing experiments on the ratio of e+p to e-p elastic scattering cross sections, and of the theoretical calculations describing them. A summary of the current experimental situation is provided, along with an outlook for future experiments.
Subjects:
Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1703.03874 [pdf]
PPNP(2017)·113 citations
13
[Submitted on 13 Mar 2017] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Peripheral transverse densities of the baryon octet from chiral effective field theory and dispersion analysis
J. M. Alarcón🇩🇪 · A. N. Hiller Blin🇪🇸 · M. J. Vicente Vacas🇪🇸 · C. Weiss🇺🇸
The baryon electromagnetic form factors are expressed in terms of two-dimensional densities describing the distribution of charge and magnetization in transverse space at fixed light-front time. We calculate the transverse densities of the spin-1/2 flavor-octet baryons at peripheral distances b = O(M_\pi^{-1}) using methods of relativistic chiral effective field theory (\chi EFT) and dispersion analysis. The densities are represented as dispersive integrals over the imaginary parts of the form factors in the timelike region (spectral functions). The isovector spectral functions on the two-pion cut t > 4 M_\pi^2 are calculated using relativistic \chi EFT including octet and decuplet baryons. The \chi EFT calculations are extended into the \rho meson mass region using an N/D method that incorporates the pion electromagnetic form factor data. The isoscalar spectral functions are modeled by vector meson poles. We compute the peripheral charge and magnetization densities in the octet baryon states, estimate the uncertainties, and determine the quark flavor decomposition. The approach can be extended to baryon form factors of other operators and the moments of generalized parton distributions.
Comments:
23 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables. Typos corrected and discussion about the anomalous thresholds added. Matches the journal version
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1703.04534 [pdf]
NPA(2017)·27 citations
14
[Submitted on 14 Mar 2017] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Evolution Equations for Connected and Disconnected Sea Parton Distributions
Keh-Fei Liu🇺🇸
It has been revealed from the path-integral formulation of the hadronic tensor that there are connected sea and disconnected sea partons. The former is responsible for the Gottfried sum rule violation primarily and evolves the same way as the valence. Therefore, the DGLAP evolution equations can be extended to accommodate them separately. We discuss its consequences and implications vis-a-vis lattice calculations.
Comments:
Published in PRD, references added. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1603.07352
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1703.04690 [pdf]
PRD(2017)·27 citations
15
[Submitted on 15 Mar 2017] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Light vector correlator in medium: Wilson coefficients up to dimension 6 operators
HyungJoo Kim🇰🇷 · Philipp Gubler🇰🇷 · Su Houng Lee🇰🇷
As an improvement of the QCD sum rule method to study modifications of light vector mesons in nuclear matter and/or at finite temperature, we calculate the Wilson coefficients of all independent gluonic non-scalar operators up to dimension 6 in the operator product expansion (OPE) of the vector channel for light quarks. To obtain the gluon part of the light quark OPE from the heavy quark one, we also compute the heavy quark expansion of the relevant quark condensates. Together with the results for the quark operators that are already available in the literature, this completes the OPE of the vector channel in a hot or dense medium for operators up to dimension 6.
Comments:
6 pages, no figure
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1703.04848 [pdf]
PLB(2017)·17 citations
16
[Submitted on 15 Mar 2017] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Coulomb effects in high-energy $e^{+} e^{-}$ electroproduction by a heavy charged particles in an atomic field
P. A. Krachkov🇷🇺 · A. I. Milstein🇷🇺
The cross section of high-energy $e^{+} e^{-}$ pair production by a heavy charged particle in the atomic field is investigated in detail. We take into account the interaction with the atomic field of $e^{+} e^{-}$ pair and a heavy particle as well. The calculation is performed exactly in the parameters of the atomic field. It is shown that, in contrast to the commonly accepted point of view, the cross section differential with respect to the final momentum of a heavy particle is strongly affected by the interaction of a heavy particle with the atomic field. However, the cross section integrated over the final momentum of a heavy particle is independent of this interaction.
Comments:
10 pages, 4 figures
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
arXiv:
1703.04898 [pdf]
PLB(2017)·5 citations
17
[Submitted on 15 Mar 2017] (cross-list from hep-ph)
On the implementation of NLO high energy factorization in single inclusive forward hadron production
B. Ducloué🇫🇮 · T. Lappi🇫🇮 · Y. Zhu🇫🇮
Single inclusive particle production cross sections in high energy hadron collisions at forward rapidity are an important benchmark process for the CGC picture of small x QCD. Recent calculations of this process have not led to a stable perturbative expansion for this quantity at high transverse momenta. We consider the quark channel production cross section using the new rapidity factorization procedure proposed by Iancu et al. We show that for fixed coupling one does indeed obtain a physically meaningful cross section which is positive and reduces in a controlled way to previous leading order calculations. We also consider a running coupling that depends on the transverse momentum of the produced particle. This gives a stable result which, however, is not fully consistent with previous leading order calculations that use a coordinate space running coupling.
Comments:
REVTeX, 11 pages, 6 figures
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1703.04962 [pdf]
PRD(2017)·55 citations

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