Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Thursday·December 20, 2018

14 papers—7 primary·7 cross-listed

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New physics searches with heavy-ion collisions at the LHC
Roderik Bruce🇨🇭 · David d'Enterria🇨🇭 · Albert de Roeck🇨🇭 · Marco Drewes🇧🇪 · Glennys R. Farrar🇺🇸 · Andrea Giammanco🇧🇪 · Oliver Gould🇫🇮 · Jan Hajer🇧🇪 · Lucian Harland-Lang🇬🇧 · Jan Heisig🇧🇪 · John M. Jowett🇨🇭 · Sonia Kabana🇫🇷 and 9 other authors
This document summarises proposed searches for new physics accessible in the heavy-ion mode at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), both through hadronic and ultraperipheral $γ γ$ interactions, and that have a competitive or, even, unique discovery potential compared to standard proton-proton collision studies. Illustrative examples include searches for new particles -- such as axion-like pseudoscalars, radions, magnetic monopoles, new long-lived particles, dark photons, and sexaquarks as dark matter candidates -- as well as new interactions, such as non-linear or non-commutative QED extensions. We argue that such interesting possibilities constitute a well-justified scientific motivation, complementing standard quark-gluon-plasma physics studies, to continue running with ions at the LHC after the Run-4, i.e. beyond 2030, including light and intermediate-mass ion species, accumulating nucleon-nucleon integrated luminosities in the accessible fb $^{- 1}$ range per month.
↳ hep-phhep-exnucl-exnucl-thJ.Phys.G(2020)·95 citations
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Clusters in light stable and exotic nuclei
C. Beck🇫🇷
Since the discovery of molecular resonances in $^{12}$ C+ $^{12}$ C in the early sixties a great deal of research work has been undertaken to study alpha-clustering. Our knowledge on physics of nuclear molecules has increased considerably and nuclear clustering remains one of the most fruitful domains of nuclear physics, facing some of the greatest challenges and opportunities in the years ahead. Occurrence of "exotic" shapes and Bose-Einstein Condensates in light alpha-cluster nuclei are investigated. Various approaches of superdeformed/hyperdeformed shapes associated with quasimolecular resonant structures are discussed. The astrophysical reaction rate of 12C+12C is extracted from recent fusion measurements at deep subbarrier energies near the Gamov window. Evolution of clustering from stability to the drip-lines is examined.
↳ nucl-exnucl-th9 citations
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Semi-inclusive jets recoiling from $γ_{d i r}$ and $π^{0}$ triggers in central Au+Au collisions at $s_{NN}$ = 200 GeV in STAR
Nihar Ranjan Sahoo (For the STAR Collaboration)🇺🇸
We report the first measurement of fully corrected semi-inclusive charged recoil jets for both direct-photon ( $γ_{d i r}$ ) and $π^{0}$ triggers, within two trigger transverse energy ranges between 9 GeV and 15 GeV, in central Au+Au collisions at $s_{NN}$ = 200 GeV using data with an integrated luminosity of 13 $n b^{- 1}$ collected by the STAR experiment. A comparison between $π^{0}$ -triggered recoil jets in p+p collisions and PYTHIA is discussed. A comparison is also presented between the suppression of $γ_{d i r}$ - and $π^{0}$ -triggered recoil jets in central Au+Au collisions with respect to their corresponding PYTHIA references. A strong and similar level of suppression is observed in recoil-jet yields as a function of jet transverse momentum for $γ_{d i r}$ +jet and $π^{0}$ +jet.
↳ nucl-exhep-exhep-phnucl-thPoS(2018)·1 citation
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Nucleon-nucleon correlations and the single-particle strength in atomic nuclei
S. Paschalis · M. Petri · A.O. Macchiavelli · O. Hen · E. Piasetzky
We propose a phenomenological approach to examine the role of short- and long-range nucleon-nucleon correlations in the quenching of single-particle strength in atomic nuclei and their evolution in asymmetric nuclei and neutron matter. These correlations are thought to be the reason for the quenching of spectroscopic factors observed in $(e, e^{'} p)$ , $(p, 2p)$ and transfer reactions. We show that the recently observed increase of the high-momentum component of the protons in neutron-rich nuclei is consistent with the reduced proton spectroscopic factors. Our approach connects recent results on short-range correlations from high-energy electron scattering experiments with the quenching of spectroscopic factors and addresses for the first time quantitatively this intriguing question in nuclear physics, in particular regarding its isospin dependence. We also speculate about the nature of a {\sl quasi-proton} (nuclear polaron) in neutron matter and its kinetic energy, an important quantity for the properties of neutron stars.
↳ nucl-exnucl-thPLB(2020)·36 citations
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Lepton-jet Correlations in Deep Inelastic Scattering at the Electron-Ion Collider
Xiaohui Liu🇨🇳 · Felix Ringer🇺🇸 · Werner Vogelsang🇩🇪 · Feng Yuan🇺🇸
We propose the lepton-jet correlation in deep inelastic scattering as a unique tool for nucleon/nucleus tomography at the electron-ion collider. The azimuthal angular correlation between the final state lepton and jet depends on the transverse momentum dependent quark distributions. We take the example of single transverse spin asymmetries to show the sensitivity to the quark Sivers function. When the correlation is studied in lepton-nucleus collisions, transverse momentum broadening effects can be used to explore cold nuclear matter effects. These features make lepton-jet correlations an important new hard probe at the EIC.
↳ hep-phnucl-exnucl-thPRL(2019)·113 citations
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Direct photon production and flow at low transverse momenta in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions
Nicolas Schmidt (for the ALICE Collaboration)🇺🇸
Low transverse momentum direct photon measurements have been carried out by the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC in small collision systems (pp, $s = 2.76$ and 8 TeV and p--Pb, $s_{NN} = 5.02$ TeV) as well as in heavy-ion collisions (Pb--Pb, $s_{NN} = 2.76$ TeV). For the first time, also the multiplicity dependence of direct photon production was investigated in p--Pb collisions. Whereas in the small systems no significant thermal photon signal was observed, a $\sim 15%$ excess has been measured in central Pb--Pb collisions in the region of $p_{T} < 3$ GeV/ $c$ . A signal of prompt photon production at high transverse momentum consistent with binary scaling has been observed in all collision systems following NLO pQCD predictions. Direct photon flow has been measured in central and semi-central Pb--Pb collisions and found to be of similar size as the charged hadron and decay photon flow.
↳ nucl-exhep-exhep-phnucl-thPoS(2018)·7 citations
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Hyperons and quarks in proto-neutron stars
J. Roark🇺🇸 · X. Du🇺🇸 · C. Constantinou🇺🇸 · V. Dexheimer🇺🇸 · A. W. Steiner🇺🇸 · J. R. Stone🇺🇸
In this work, we study matter in the cores of proto-neutron stars, focusing on the impact of their composition on the stellar structure. We begin by examining the effects of finite temperature (through a fixed entropy per baryon) and lepton fraction on purely nucleonic matter by making use of the DSH model . We then turn our attention to a relativistic mean-field model containing exotic degrees of freedom, the Chiral Mean Field (CMF) model, again, under the conditions of finite temperature and trapped neutrinos. In the latter, since both hyperons and quarks are found in the cores of large-mass stars, their interplay and the possibility of mixtures of phases is taken into account and analyzed. Finally, we discuss how stellar rotation can affect our results.
↳ astro-ph.HEastro-ph.SRnucl-thMNRAS(2019)·31 citations

Affiliations

first authorsco-authorsvia INSPIRE

New physics searches with heavy-ion collisions at the LHC

Clusters in light stable and exotic nuclei

Semi-inclusive jets recoiling from γdir​ and π0 triggers in central Au+Au collisions at sNN​​ = 200 GeV in STAR

Nucleon-nucleon correlations and the single-particle strength in atomic nuclei

Lepton-jet Correlations in Deep Inelastic Scattering at the Electron-Ion Collider

Direct photon production and flow at low transverse momenta in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions

Hyperons and quarks in proto-neutron stars

Affiliations

Semi-inclusive jets recoiling from $γ_{d i r}$ and $π^{0}$ triggers in central Au+Au collisions at $s_{NN}$ = 200 GeV in STAR