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Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Tuesday·August 4, 2020

17 papers8 primary·9 cross-listed

  1. 01

    [Submitted on 31 Jul 2020]

    The nuclear symmetry energy from neutron skins and pure neutron matter in a Bayesian framework

    William G. Newton · Gabriel Crocombe

    We present an inference of the nuclear symmetry energy magnitude , the slope and the curvature by combining neutron skin data on Ca, Pb and Sn isotopes and our best theoretical information about pure neutron matter (PNM). A Bayesian framework is used to consistently incorporate prior knowledge of the PNM equation of state from chiral effective field theory calculations. Neutron skins are modeled in a Hartree-Fock approach using an extended Skyrme energy-density functional which allows for independent variation of , and without affecting the symmetric nuclear matter equation of state. We discuss the choice of neutron skin data sets, and combining errors in quadrature we obtain 95\% credible values of MeV, MeV and MeV using uninformative priors in , and , and MeV, MeV and MeV using PNM priors. The correlations between symmetry energy parameters induced by neutron skin data is discussed and compared with the droplet model. Neutron skin data alone is shown to place limits on the symmetry energy parameters as stringent as those obtained from chiral effective field theory alone, and when combined the 95\% credible intervals are reduced by a factor of 4-5. Ahead of new measurements of lead and calcium neutron skins from parity-violating electron scattering experiments at Jefferson Lab and Mainz Superconducting Accelerator, we make predictions based on existing data on neutron skins of tin for the neutron skins of calcium and lead of 0.1660.008 fm and fm respectively, using uninformative priors, and 0.1670.008 fm and fm respectively, using PNM priors.

    Comments:
    21 pages, 11 figures, Accepted for publication in Physical Review C
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
    arXiv:
    2008.00042 [pdf]
    PRC(2021)·40 citations
  2. 02

    [Submitted on 31 Jul 2020]

    Three-body model for resonance

    I. Filikhin🇺🇸 · R. Ya. Kezerashvili🇺🇸 · V. M. Suslov🇺🇸 · Sh. M. Tsiklauri🇺🇸 · B. Vlahovic🇺🇸

    The three-body model for the resonance is developed on the basis of the Faddeev equations in configuration space. A single-channel approach is using with taking into account the difference of masses of neutral and charged kaons. It is demonstrated that a splitting the mass of the resonance takes a place around 1460 MeV according to , and , neutral and charged particle configurations, respectively. The calculations are performed with two sets of and phenomenological potentials, where the latter interaction is considered the same for the isospin singlet and triplet states. The effect of repulsion of the interaction on the mass of the system is studied and the effect of the mass polarization is evaluated. The first time the Coulomb interaction for description of the resonance is considered. The mass splitting in the (1460) resonances is evaluated to be in range of 10 MeV with taking into account the Coulomb force. The three-body model with the potential, which has the different strength of the isospin singlet and triplet parts that are related by the condition of obtaining a quasi-bound three-body state is also considered. Our results are in reasonable agreement with the experimental mass of the resonance.

    Comments:
    16 pages 8 figures
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph)
    arXiv:
    2008.00111 [pdf]
    PRD(2020)·20 citations
  3. 03

    [Submitted on 1 Aug 2020]

    Proto-neutron stars with heavy baryons and universal relations

    Adriana R. Raduta🇷🇴 · Micaela Oertel🇫🇷 · Armen Sedrakian🇩🇪

    We use covariant density functional theory to obtain the equation of state (EoS) of matter in compact stars at non-zero temperature, including the full baryon octet as well as the resonance states. Global properties of hot -admixed hypernuclear stars are computed for fixed values of entropy per baryon () and lepton fraction (). Universal relations between the moment of inertia, quadrupole moment, tidal deformability, and compactness of compact stars are established for fixed values of and that are analogous to those known for cold catalyzed compact stars. We also verify that the -Love- relations hold at finite temperature for constant values of and .

    Comments:
    20 pages, 15 figures
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
    arXiv:
    2008.00213 [pdf]
    MNRAS(2020)·88 citations
  4. 04

    [Submitted on 2 Aug 2020]

    Comment on "Breakdown of the tensor component in the Skyrme energy density functional''

    H. Sagawa · G. Colò · Ligang Cao

    In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. C 101, 014305 (2020)], Dong and Shang claim that the Skyrme original tensor interaction is invalid. Their conclusion is based on the misconception that the Fourier transform of tensor interaction is difficult or even impossible, so that the Skrme-type tensor interaction was introduced in an unreasonable way. We disagree on their claim. In this note, we show that one can easily get the Skyrme force in momentum space by Fourier transformation if one starts from a general central, spin-orbit or tensor interaction with a radial dependence.

    Comments:
    3 pages, 0 figures
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2008.00393 [pdf]
    PRC(2021)·0 citations
  5. 05

    [Submitted on 2 Aug 2020]

    Chiral three-nucleon force and continuum for dripline nuclei and beyond

    Y. Z. Ma · F. R. Xu · L. Coraggio · B. S. Hu · J. G. Li · T. Fukui · L. De Angelis · N. Itaco · A. Gargano

    Three-nucleon force and continuum play important roles in reproducing the properties of atomic nuclei around driplines. Therefore it is valuable to build up a theoretical framework where both effects can be taken into account to solve the nuclear Schrödinger equation. To this end, in this letter, we have expressed the chiral three-nucleon force within the continuum Berggren representation, so that bound, resonant and continuum states can be treated on an equal footing in the complex-momentum space. To reduce the model dimension and computational cost, the three-nucleon force is truncated at the normal-ordered two-body level and limited in the -shell model space, with the residual three-body term being neglected. We choose neutron-rich oxygen isotopes as the test ground because they have been well studied experimentally, with the neutron dripline determined. The calculations have been carried out within the Gamow shell model. The quality of our results in reproducing the properties of oxygen isotopes around the neutron dripline shows the relevance of the interplay between three-nucleon force and the coupling to continuum states. We also analyze the role played by the chiral three-nucleon force, by dissecting the contributions of the exchange, exchange and contact terms.

    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2008.00430 [pdf]
    PLB(2020)·31 citations
  6. 06

    [Submitted on 2 Aug 2020]

    The complete experiment problem of pseudoscalar meson photoproduction in a truncated partial wave analysis

    Yannick Wunderlich🇩🇪

    This dissertation treats the problem of complete experiments for pseudoscalar meson photoproduction, in the context of a truncated partial-wave analysis (TPWA). The work contains algebraic and numerical considerations. The influence of measurement uncertainties is examined using bootstrap methods. The thesis was originally published online by the University of Bonn in the 1st quarter of 2019 (links are given in the comments).

    Comments:
    522 pages, 125 figures, PhD thesis, University of Bonn, new publication link: https://bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle/20.500.11811/7868, older publication link: http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de/2019/5353/5353.htm
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph)
    arXiv:
    2008.00514 [pdf]
    13 citations
  7. 07

    [Submitted on 3 Aug 2020]

    Nuclear Currents in Chiral Effective Field Theory

    Hermann Krebs🇩🇪

    In this article, we review the status of the calculation of nuclear currents within chiral effective field theory. After formal discussion of the unitary transformation technique and its application to nuclear currents we will give all available expressions for vector, axial-vector currents. Vector and axial-vector currents will be discussed up to order with leading-order contribution starting at order . Pseudoscalar and scalar currents will be discussed up to order with leading-order contribution starting at order . This is a complete set of expressions in next-to-next-to-next-to-leading-order (NLO) analysis for nuclear scalar, pseudoscalar, vector and axial-vector current operators. Differences between vector and axial-vector currents calculated via transfer-matrix inversion and unitary transformation techniques are discussed. The importance of consistent regularization is an additional point which is emphasized: lack of consistent regularization of axial-vector current operators is shown to lead to a violation of the chiral symmetry in the chiral limit at order . For this reason, a hybrid approach at order , discussed in various publications, is non-applicable. To respect the chiral symmetry the same regularization procedure needs to be used in the construction of nuclear forces and current operators. Although full expressions of consistently regularized current operators are not yet available an isoscalar part of the electromagnetic charge operator up to order has a very simple form and can be easily regularized in a consistent way. As an application, we review our recent high accuracy calculation of the deuteron charge form factor with a quantified error estimate.

    Comments:
    54 pages, 2 figures, 7 tables
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph)
    arXiv:
    2008.00974 [pdf]
    EPJA(2020)·71 citations
  8. 08

    [Submitted on 3 Aug 2020]

    The Core of F in the Rotational Model

    A.O.Macchiavelli · R.M.Clark · H.L.Crawford · P.Fallon · I.Y.Lee · C.Morse · C.M.Campbell · M.Cromaz · C.Santamaria

    In a recent experiment, carried out at RIBF/RIKEN, the FO reaction was studied at 270 MeV/A in inverse kinematics. Derived spectroscopic factors suggest that the effective core of F significantly differs from a free O nucleus. We interpret these results within the Particle-Rotor Model and show that the experimental level scheme of F can be understood in the rotation-aligned coupling scheme, with its ground state as the band-head of a decoupled band. The excitation energies of the observed and states correlate strongly with the rotational energy of the effective core, seen by the odd proton, and allow us to estimate its energy at 3.2 MeV and a moderate quadrupole deformation, . The measured fragmentation of the single-particle strength is discussed and some further experiments suggested.

    Comments:
    5 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Physical Review C
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
    arXiv:
    2008.00986 [pdf]
    PRC(2020)·4 citations
  9. 09

    [Submitted on 31 Jul 2020] (cross-list from hep-lat)

    Bethe-Salpeter amplitudes of Upsilons

    Rasmus Larsen🇺🇸 · Stefan Meinel🇺🇸 · Swagato Mukherjee🇺🇸 · Peter Petreczky🇺🇸

    Based on lattice non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) studies we present results for Bethe-Salpeter amplitudes for , and in vacuum as well as in quark-gluon plasma. Our study is based on 2+1 flavor lattices generated using the Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) action and with a pion mass of MeV. At zero temperature the Bethe-Salpeter amplitudes follow the expectations based on non-relativistic potential models. At non-zero temperatures, the interpretation of Bethe-Salpeter amplitudes turns out to be more nuanced, but consistent with our previous lattice QCD study of excited Upsilons in quark-gluon plasma.

    Comments:
    RevTex, 10pages, 11 figures, minor changes, published version
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2008.00100 [pdf]
    PRD(2020)·23 citations
  10. 10

    [Submitted on 31 Jul 2020] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Selected Science Opportunities for the EicC

    Xurong Chen🇨🇳 · Feng-Kun Guo🇨🇳 · Craig D. Roberts🇨🇳 · Rong Wang🇨🇳

    An electron ion collider has been proposed in China (EicC). It is anticipated that the facility would provide polarised electrons, protons and ion beams, in collisions with large centre-of-mass energy. This discussion highlights its potential to address issues that are central to understanding the emergence of mass within the Standard Model, using examples that range from the exploration of light-meson structure, through measurements of near-threshold heavy-quarkonia production, and on to studies of the spectrum of exotic hadrons.

    Comments:
    37 pages, 16 figures. Invited contribution to the Few-Body Systems special issue: "New Trends in Hadron Physics: a Few-Body Perspective"
    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:
    2008.00102 [pdf]
    Few Body Syst.(2020)·89 citations
  11. 11

    [Submitted on 31 Jul 2020] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Baryonic Sources of Thermal Photons

    Nathan P. M. Holt🇺🇸 · Ralf Rapp🇺🇸

    Thermal radiation of photons and dileptons from hadronic matter plays an essential role in understanding electromagnetic emission spectra in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. In particular, baryons and anti-baryons have been found to be strong catalysts for electromagnetic radiation, even at collider energies where the baryon chemical potential is small. Here, we conduct a systematic analysis of - and -meson-induced reactions off a large set of baryon states. The interactions are based on effective hadronic Lagrangians where the parameters are quantitatively constrained by empirical information from vacuum decay branchings and scattering data, and gauge invariance is maintained by suitable regularization procedures. The thermal emission rates are computed using kinetic theory but can be directly compared to previous calculations using hadronic many-body theory. The comparison to existing calculations in the literature reveals our newly identified contributions to be rather significant.

    Comments:
    29 pages, 17 figures
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2008.00116 [pdf]
    EPJA(2020)·7 citations
  12. 12

    [Submitted on 1 Aug 2020] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Flavor-dependent U(3) Nambu Jona Lasinio coupling constant

    Fabio L. Braghin🇧🇷

    A non-perturbative one gluon exchange quark-antiquark interaction is considered to compute flavor dependent U(3) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL)-type interaction of the form for and from one loop polarization process with non degenerate u-d-s quark effective masses. The resulting NJL-type coupling constants in all channels are resolved in the long-wavelength limit and numerical results are presented for different choices of an effective gluon propagator. Leading deviations with respect to a flavor symmetric coupling constant are found to be of the order of , for , where are the effective masses of quarks and . The scalar channel coupling constants can be considerably smaller than pseudoscalar ones. The effect of the flavor-dependence of coupling constants for the masses of pions and kaons may be nearly of the same order of magnitude as the effect of the u,d and s quark mass non-degeneracy. The effect of these coupling constants is also verified for some of the light scalar mesons masses, usually described by quark-antiquark states, and for some observables of the pseudoscalar mesons.

    Comments:
    18 pages, revised, improved and extended version, accepted for publication
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2008.00346 [pdf]
    PRD(2021)·15 citations
  13. 13

    [Submitted on 2 Aug 2020] (cross-list from hep-lat)

    Chiral properties of (2+1)-flavor QCD in strong magnetic fields at zero temperature

    H.-T. Ding🇨🇳 · S.-T. Li🇨🇳 · A. Tomiya🇺🇸 · X.-D. Wang🇨🇳 · Y. Zhang🇨🇳

    We present lattice QCD results for masses and magnetic polarizabilities of light and strange pseudoscalar mesons, chiral condensates, decay constants of neutral pion, and neutral kaon in the presence of background magnetic fields with ranging up to around 3.35 GeV () in the vacuum. The computations were carried out in (2+1)-flavor QCD mostly on lattices using the highly improved staggered quark action with 220 MeV at zero temperature. We find that the masses of neutral pseudoscalar mesons monotonously decrease as the magnetic field strength grows and then saturate at a nonzero value, while there exists a nonmonotonous behavior of charged pion and kaon masses in the magnetic field. We observe a scaling of the up and down quark flavor components of neutral pion mass, neutral pion decay constant as well as the quark chiral condensates at 0.05 3.35 GeV. We show that the correction to the Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner relation involving the neutral pion is less than 6% and the correction for the relation involving neutral kaon is less than 30% at 3.35 GeV. We also derive the Ward-Takahashi identities for QCD in the magnetic field in the continuum formulation including the relation between integrated neutral pseudoscalar meson correlators and chiral condensates.

    Comments:
    30 pages, 18 figures, updated to the published version in PRD
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Theory (hep-th); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2008.00493 [pdf]
    PRD(2021)·110 citations
  14. 14

    [Submitted on 3 Aug 2020] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Jet Charge: A Flavor Prism for Spin Asymmetries at the EIC

    Zhong-Bo Kang🇺🇸 · Xiaohui Liu🇨🇳 · Sonny Mantry🇺🇸 · Ding Yu Shao🇺🇸

    We propose the jet charge observable as a novel probe of flavor structure in the nucleon spin program at the Electron Ion Collider (EIC). We show that jet charge measurements can substantially enhance the sensitivity of spin asymmetries to different partonic flavors in the nucleon. This sensitivity can be further improved by constructing the jet charge using only a subset of hadron species (pions or kaons) in the jet. As an example, we use the Sivers asymmetry in back-to-back electron-jet production at the EIC to show that the jet charge can be a unique tool in constraining the Sivers function for different partonic flavors.

    Comments:
    6 pages, 4 figures, update the text and the figures with uncertainty bands. To be published in Physical Review Letters
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2008.00655 [pdf]
    PRL(2020)·66 citations
  15. 15

    [Submitted on 3 Aug 2020] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Doubly charmed multibaryon systems

    H. Garcilazo🇲🇽 · A. Valcarce🇪🇸

    We study two- and three-baryon systems with two units of charm looking for possible bound states or resonances. All two-baryon interactions are consistently derived from a constituent quark model tuned in the light-flavor hadron phenomenology: spectra and interactions. The presence of the heavy quarks makes the two-body interactions simpler than in the light-flavor sector. Our results show a narrow two-body resonance with quantum numbers . It is located 6.2 MeV below the threshold and has a width of 4.7 MeV. The foregoing two-body state contributes to generate a resonance with quantum numbers and a separation energy of 0.2 MeV.

    Comments:
    13 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Eur. Phy. J. C
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2008.00675 [pdf]
    EPJC(2020)·22 citations
  16. 16

    [Submitted on 3 Aug 2020] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Double-heavy tetraquark states with heavy diquark-antiquark symmetry

    Jian-Bo Cheng🇨🇳 · Shi-Yuan Li🇨🇳 · Yan-Rui Liu🇨🇳 · Zong-Guo Si🇨🇳 · Tao Yao🇨🇳

    We calculate the masses of the (; ) tetraquark states with the aid of heavy diquark-antiquark symmetry (HDAS) and the chromomagnetic interaction (CMI) model. The masses of the highest-spin () tetraquarks that have only the color structure are related with those of conventional hadrons using HDAS. Thereafter, the masses of their partner states are determined with the mass splittings in the CMI model. Our numerical results reveal that: (i) the lightest () is an state around 3929 MeV (53 MeV above the threshold) and none of the double-charm tetraquarks are stable; (ii) the stable double-bottom tetraquarks are the lowest around 10488 MeV ( MeV below the threshold) and the lowest around 10671 MeV ( MeV below the threshold); and (iii) the two lowest tetraquarks, namely the lowest around 7167 MeV and the lowest around 7223 MeV, are near-threshold states. Moreover, we discuss the constraints on the masses of double-heavy hadrons. Specifically, for the lowest nonstrange tetraquarks, we obtain MeV, MeV, and MeV.

    Comments:
    19 pages, 4 figures, and 11 tables
    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:
    2008.00737 [pdf]
    CPC(2021)·96 citations
  17. 17

    [Submitted on 3 Aug 2020] (cross-list from hep-th)

    Bounds on transport from univalence and pole-skipping

    Sašo Grozdanov🇺🇸

    Bounds on transport represent a way of understanding allowable regimes of quantum and classical dynamics. Numerous such bounds have been proposed, either for classes of theories or (by using general arguments) universally for all theories. Few are exact and inviolable. I present a new set of methods and sufficient conditions for deriving exact, rigorous, and sharp bounds on all coefficients of hydrodynamic dispersion relations, including diffusivity and the speed of sound. These general techniques combine analytic properties of hydrodynamics and the theory of univalent (complex holomorphic and injective) functions. Particular attention is devoted to bounds relating transport to quantum chaos, which can be established through pole-skipping in theories with holographic duals. Examples of such bounds are shown along with holographic theories that can demonstrate the validity of the conditions involved. I also discuss potential applications of univalence methods to bounds without relation to chaos, such as for example the conformal bound on the speed of sound.

    Comments:
    V2: 7 pages, 2 figures. Published in Physical Review Letters. ArXiv version includes Dedication
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Theory (hep-th); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); math.MP (math.MP); nlin.CD (nlin.CD); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2008.00888 [pdf]
    PRL(2021)·62 citations

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