Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Monday·March 26, 2018

11 papers—4 primary·7 cross-listed

01
[Submitted on 23 Mar 2018]
Structure and Width of the d*(2380) Dibaryon
Avraham Gal🇮🇱
In this contribution, dedicated to the memory of Walter Greiner, we discuss the structure and width of the recently established d*(2380) dibaryon, confronting the consequences of our Pion Assisted Dibaryons hadronic model with those of quark motivated calculations. In particular, its relatively small width of about 70 MeV favors hadronic structure for the d*(2380) dibaryon rather than a six-quark structure.
Comments:
expanded version of a talk given in a Frontiers of Science symposium dedicated to the memory of Walter Greiner, at FIAS (Frankfurt) June 2017, to be published in a special FoS volume
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
arXiv:
1803.08788 [pdf]
6 citations
02
[Submitted on 23 Mar 2018]
Phase transitions and symmetry energy in nuclear pasta
C.O. Dorso · G.A. Frank · J.A. López
Cold and isospin-symmetric nuclear matter at sub-saturation densities is known to form the so-called pasta structures, which, in turn, are known to undergo peculiar phase transitions. Here we investigate if such pastas and their phase changes survive in isospin asymmetric nuclear matter, and whether the symmetry energy of such pasta configurations is connected to the isospin content, the morphology of the pasta and to the phase transitions. We find that indeed pastas are formed in isospin asymmetric systems with proton to neutron ratios of x=0.3, 0.4 and 0.5, densities in the range of 0.05 1/fm $^{3}$ < $ρ$ < 0.08 1/fm $^{3}$ , and temperatures T<2 MeV. Using tools (such as the caloric curve, Lindemann coefficient, radial distribution function, Kolmogorov statistic, and Euler functional) on the composition of the pasta, determined the existence of homogeneous structures, tunnels, empty regions, cavities and transitions among these regions. The symmetry energy was observed to attain different values in the different phases showing its dependence on the morphology of the nuclear matter structure.
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1803.08819 [pdf]
NPA(2018)·23 citations
03
[Submitted on 23 Mar 2018]
Effect of in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section on proton-proton momentum correlation in intermediate energy heavy-ion collision
Ting-Ting Wang🇨🇳 · Yu-Gang Ma🇨🇳 · Chun-Jian Zhang🇨🇳 · Zheng-Qiao Zhang🇨🇳
The proton-proton momentum correlation function from different rapidity regions are systematically investigated for the Au + Au collisions at different impact parameters and different energies from 400 $A$ MeV to 1500 $A$ MeV in the framework of the isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics model complemented by the $L e d ni c k y ˊ$ and $L y u b os hi t z$ analytical method. In particular, in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section dependence of the correlation function is brought into focus, while the impact parameter and energy dependence of the momentum correlation function are also explored. The sizes of the emission source are extracted by fitting the momentum correlation functions using the Gaussian source method. We find that the in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section obviously influence the proton-proton momentum correlation function which is from the whole rapidity or projectile/target rapidity region at smaller impact parameters, but there is no effect on the mid-rapidity proton-proton momentum correlation function, which indicates that the emission mechanism differs between projectile/target rapidity and mid-rapidity protons.
Comments:
13 pages, 7 figures
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
arXiv:
1803.08825 [pdf]
PRC(2018)·21 citations
04
[Submitted on 23 Mar 2018]
Centrality and transverse momentum dependence of dihadron correlations in a hydrodynamic model
Wagner M. Castilho🇧🇷 · Wei-Liang Qian🇧🇷
In this work, we study the centrality as well as transverse momentum dependence of the dihadron correlation for Au+Au collisions at 200A GeV. The numerical simulations are carried out by using a hydrodynamical code NeXSPheRIO, where the initial conditions are obtained from a Regge-Gribov based microscopic model, NeXuS. In our calculations, the centrality windows are evaluated regarding multiplicity. The final correlations are obtained by the background subtraction via ZYAM methods, where higher harmonics are also considered explicitly. The correlations are evaluated for the 0 - 20\%, 20\%-40\% and 60\%-92\% centrality windows. Also, the transverse momentum dependence of the dihadron correlations is investigated. The obtained results are compared with experimental data. It is observed that the centrality dependence of the "ridge" and "double shoulder" structures is in consistency with the data. Based on specific set of parameters employed in the present study, it is found that different ZYAM subtraction schemes might lead to different features in the resultant correlations.
Comments:
11 pages, 5 figures
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1803.08903 [pdf]
NPA(2018)·2 citations
05
[Submitted on 22 Mar 2018] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Particle physics origin of the 5 MeV bump in the reactor antineutrino spectrum?
Jeffrey M. Berryman🇺🇸 · Vedran Brdar🇩🇪 · Patrick Huber🇺🇸
One of the most puzzling questions in neutrino physics is the origin of the excess at 5 MeV in the reactor antineutrino spectrum. In this paper, we explore the excess via the reaction $^{13}$ C $(ν, ν^{'} n)^{12}$ C $^{*}$ in organic scintillator detectors. The de-excitation of $^{12}$ C $^{*}$ yields a prompt $4.4$ MeV photon, while the thermalization of the product neutron causes proton recoils, which in turn yield an additional prompt energy contribution with finite width. Together, these effects can mimic an inverse beta decay event with around 5 MeV energy. We consider several non-standard neutrino interactions to produce such a process and find that the parameter space preferred by Daya Bay is disfavored by measurements of neutrino-induced deuteron disintegration and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. While non-minimal particle physics scenarios may be viable, a nuclear physics solution to this anomaly appears more appealing.
Comments:
13 pages, 5 figures, matches published version
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1803.08506 [pdf]
PRD(2019)·39 citations
06
[Submitted on 22 Mar 2018] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Chiral and $U (1)_{A}$ restoration for the scalar/pseudoscalar meson nonets
A. Gómez Nicola🇪🇸 · J. Ruiz de Elvira🇨🇭
We analyze the restoration pattern of the members of the scalar and pseudoscalar meson nonets under chiral $O (4)$ and $U (1)_{A}$ symmetries. For that purpose, we exploit QCD Ward Identities (WI), which allow one to relate susceptibilities with quark condensates, as well as susceptibility differences with meson vertices. In addition, we consider the low-energy realization of QCD provided by $U (3)$ Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) at finite temperature to perform a full analysis of the different correlators involved. Our analysis suggests $U (1)_{A}$ partner restoration if chiral symmetry partners are also degenerated. This is also confirmed by the ChPT analysis when the light chiral limit is reached. Partner degeneration for the $I = 1/2$ sector, the behavior of $I = 0$ mixing and the temperature scaling of meson masses predicted by WI are also studied. Special attention is paid to the connection of our results with recent lattice analyses.
Comments:
28 pages and 16 figures
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1803.08517 [pdf]
PRD(2018)·38 citations
07
[Submitted on 23 Mar 2018] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Regge Trajectories of Radial Meson Excitations: Exploring the Dyson-Schwinger-- Bethe-Salpeter Approach
R. Greifenhagen🇩🇪 · B. Kämpfer🇩🇪 · L. P. Kaptari🇩🇪
The combined Dyson-Schwinger and Bethe-Salpeter equations in rainbow-ladder approximation are used to search for Regge trajectories of mesons in the pseudo-scalar and vector channels. We focus on the often employed Alkofer-Watson-Weigel kernel which is known to deliver good results for the ground state meson spectra; it provides linear Regge trajectories in the $J^{P} = 0^{-}$ channel.
Comments:
12 pages, 6 figures
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1803.08676 [pdf]
Springer book, FIAS Interdisciplinary Sci…·2 citations
08
[Submitted on 23 Mar 2018] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Width of a two-body coupled-channel resonance
H. Garcilazo🇲🇽 · A. Valcarce🇪🇸
We study the width of a two-body resonance in a coupled-channel system. We demonstrate how the width does not come only determined by the available phase space for its decay to the detection channel, but it greatly depends on the relative position of the mass of the resonance with respect to the masses of the coupled-channels generating the state. Our results are consistent with the experimental observation of narrow hadrons lying well above their lowest decay threshold.
Comments:
10 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Eur. Phys. J. C
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1803.08685 [pdf]
EPJC(2018)·12 citations
09
[Submitted on 23 Mar 2018] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Low lying eigenmodes and meson propagator symmetries
C. B. Lang🇦🇹
In situations where the low lying eigenmodes of the Dirac operator are suppressed one observed degeneracies of some meson masses. Based on these results a hidden symmetry was conjectured, which is not a symmetry of the Lagrangian but emerges in the quantization process. We show here how the difference between classes of meson propagators is governed by the low modes and shrinks when they disappear.
Comments:
9 pages, 3 figures; final version, accepted at Phys.Rev.D
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics — Theory (hep-th); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1803.08693 [pdf]
PRD(2018)·10 citations
10
[Submitted on 23 Mar 2018] (cross-list from hep-ph)
New physics searches in nuclear and neutron $β$ decay
Martin Gonzalez-Alonso🇨🇭 · Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic🇺🇸 · Nathal Severijns🇧🇪
The status of tests of the standard electroweak model and of searches for new physics in allowed nuclear $β$ decay and neutron decay is reviewed including both theoretical and experimental developments. The sensitivity and complementarity of recent and ongoing experiments are discussed with emphasis on their potential to look for new physics. Measurements are interpreted using a model-independent effective field theory approach enabling to recast the outcome of the analysis in many specific new physics models. Special attention is given to the connection that this approach establishes with high-energy physics. A new global fit of available $β$ -decay data is performed incorporating, for the first time in a consistent way, superallowed $0^{+} \to 0^{+}$ transitions, neutron decay and nuclear decays. The constraints on exotic scalar and tensor couplings involving left- or right-handed neutrinos are determined while a constraint on the pseudoscalar coupling from neutron decay data is obtained for the first time as well. The values of the vector and axial-vector couplings, which are associated within the standard model to $V_{u d}$ and $g_{A}$ respectively, are also updated. The ratio between the axial and vector couplings obtained from the fit under standard model assumptions is $C_{A} / C_{V} = - 1.27510 (66)$ . The relevance of the various experimental inputs and error sources is critically discussed and the impact of ongoing measurements is studied. The complementarity of the obtained bounds with other low- and high-energy probes is presented including ongoing searches at the Large Hadron Collider.
Comments:
70 pages, 14 figures. Invited review article for Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. v2: Journal version (clarifications, references, and 2 new figures added)
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1803.08732 [pdf]
PPNP(2019)·295 citations
11
[Submitted on 23 Mar 2018] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Renormalizing the zero point energy in dense QCD
Toru Kojo🇨🇳
We analyze the zero point energy in a dense matter of quarks or hadrons with particular attention on the renormalization of the UV divergences. Besides divergences removable by the vacuum subtraction and counter terms, there are also UV divergences associated with non-perturbative modifications of quark bases appearing in the in-medium propagators. The latter would remain after the self-energies and vertices are renormalized, unless a proper set of medium contributions is included at a given truncation. We use the formalism of the two particle irreducible action to clarify how the UV divergences are assembled to cancel. An example is given for the thermodynamic potentials with mesons as composite particles whose zero point energies apparently diverge but can be cancelled by the quark self-energy contributions. Important applications of this work are quark matter with hadronic correlations which may be realized at the core of neutron stars.
Comments:
v2: 12 pages, 4 figures, discussions of renormalizability were revised
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics — Theory (hep-th); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
1803.08796 [pdf]
0 citations

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