Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Wednesday·August 5, 2020

14 papers—6 primary·8 cross-listed

01
Effects of density-dependent scenarios of in-medium nucleon-nucleon interactions in heavy-ion collisions
Gao-Feng Wei🇨🇳 · Chang Xu🇨🇳 · Wei Xie🇨🇳 · Qi-Jun Zhi🇨🇳 · Shi-Guo Chen🇨🇳 · Zheng-Wen Long🇨🇳
Using a more reasonable separate density-dependent scenario instead of the total density-dependent scenario for in-medium $nn$ , $pp$ and $n p$ interactions, we examine effects of differences of in-medium nucleon-nucleon interactions in two density-dependent scenarios on isospin-sensitive observables in central $^{197}$ Au+ $^{197}$ Au collisions at 400 MeV/nucleon. Moreover, to more physically detect the differences between the nucleon-nucleon interactions in two density-dependent scenarios, we also map the nucleon-nucleon interaction in the separate density-dependent scenario into that in the total density-dependent scenario through fitting the identical constraints for symmetric nuclear matter as well as the identical slope parameter of nuclear symmetry energy at the saturation density. It is shown that two density-dependent scenarios also lead to essentially different symmetry potentials especially at high densities although they can lead to the identical equation of state for the symmetry nuclear matter as well as the identical symmetry energy for the isospin asymmetric nuclear matter. Consequently, these isospin-sensitive observables are also appreciably affected by the different density-dependent scenarios of in-medium nucleon-nucleon interactions. Therefore, according to these findings, it is suggested that effects of the separate density-dependent scenario of in-medium nucleon-nucleon interactions should be taken into account when probing the high-density symmetry energy using these isospin-sensitive observables in heavy-ion collisions.
nucl-thPRC(2020)·5 citations
02
Coupled reaction channel study of the 12C(alpha,8Be) reaction, and the 8Be+8Be optical potential
Do Cong Cuong · Pierre Descouvemont · Dao T Khoa · Nguyen Hoang Phuc
Given the established 2 alpha structure of 8Be, a realistic model of 4 interacting alpha clusters must be used to obtain a 8Be+8Be interaction potential. Such a four-body problem poses a challenge for the determination of the 8Be+8Be optical potential (OP) that is still unknown due to the lack of the elastic 8Be+8Be scattering data. The main goal of the present study is to probe the complex 8Be+8Be optical potential in the coupled reaction channel (CRC) study of the alpha transfer 12C(alpha,8Be) reaction measured at 65 MeV, and to obtain the spectroscopic information on the alpha+8Be cluster configuration of 12C. The 3- and 4-body Continuum-Discretized Coupled Channel (CDCC) methods are used to calculate the elastic alpha+8Be and 8Be+8Be scattering at the energy around 16 MeV/nucleon, with the breakup effect taken into account explicitly. Using the CDCC-based OP and alpha spectroscopic factors given by the cluster model calculation, a good CRC description of the alpha transfer data without any adjustment of the (complex) potential strength.
nucl-thPRC(2020)·4 citations
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Amplitude- and truncated partial-wave analyses combined: A novel, almost theory-independent single-channel method for extracting photoproduction multipoles directly from measured data
A. Švarc🇭🇷 · Y. Wunderlich🇩🇪 · L. Tiator🇩🇪
Amplitude- and truncated partial-wave analyses are combined into a single procedure and a novel, almost theory-independent single-channel method for extracting multipoles directly from measured data is developed. In practice, we have created a two-step procedure which is fitted to the same data base: in the first step we perform an energy independent amplitude analysis where continuity is achieved by constraining the amplitude phase, and the result of this first step is then taken as a constraint for the second step where a constrained, energy independent, truncated partial-wave analysis is done. The method is tested on the world collection of data for $η$ photoproduction, and the obtained fit-results are very good. The sensitivity to different possible choices of amplitude phase is investigated and it is demonstrated that the present data base is insensitive to notable phase changes, due to an incomplete database. New measurements are recommended to remedy the problem.
nucl-thnucl-exPRC(2020)·8 citations
04
Continuum and three-nucleon force in Borromean system: The 17Ne case
Y. Z. Ma · F. R. Xu · N. Michel · S. Zhang · J. G. Li · B. S. Hu · L. Coraggio · N. Itaco · A. Gargano
Starting from chiral two-nucleon (2NF) and chiral three-nucleon (3NF) potentials, we present a detailed study of 17Ne, a Borromean system, with the Gamow shell model which can capture continuum effects. More precisely, we take advantage of the normal-ordering approach to include the 3NF and the Berggren representation to treat bound, resonant and continuum states on equal footing in a complex-momentum plane. In our framework, 3NF is essential to reproduce the Borromean structure of 17Ne, while the continuum is more crucial for the halo property of the nucleus. The two-proton halo structure is demonstrated by calculating the valence proton density and correlation density. The astrophysically interesting $3/ 2^{-}$ excited state has its energy above the threshold of the proton emission, and therefore the two-proton decay should be expected from the state.
nucl-thPLB(2020)·24 citations
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Bohr Hamiltonian with Hulthen plus ring-shaped potential for triaxial nuclei with deformation-dependent mass term
A. Adahchour · S. Ait El Korchi · A. El Batoul · A. Lahbas · M. Oulne
In this work, we present a new version of the Bohr collective Hamiltonian for triaxial nuclei within Deformation-Dependent Mass formalism (DDM) using the Hulthén potential. We shall call the developed model Z(5)-HD. Analytical expressions for energy spectra are derived by means of the recent version of the Asymptotic Iteration Method. The calculated numerical results of energies and B(E2) transition rates are compared with the experimental data, and several theoretical results from Z(5) model, the model Z(5)-H using the Hulthén potential without DDM formalism as well as theoretical predictions of Z(5)-DD model with Davidson potential using DDM formalism. The obtained results show an overall agreement with experimental data and an important improvement in respect to the other models.
nucl-thEur.Phys.J.Plus(2020)·5 citations
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Hanbury Brown--Twiss Interferometry and Collectivity in Small Systems
Christopher Plumberg🇸🇪
Hanbury Brown--Twiss interferometry (HBT) provides crucial insights into both the space-time structure and the momentum-space evolution of ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions at freeze-out. In particular, the dependence of the HBT radii on the transverse pair momentum $K_{T}$ and the system charged multiplicity $d N_{ch} / d η$ may reflect the mechanisms driving collective behavior in small systems. This paper argues that certain features observed in the multiplicity dependence of the HBT radii can be naturally understood if small systems evolve hydrodynamically at high-multiplicity. This study thus establishes a baseline for the multiplicity dependence of HBT in hydrodynamics which may prove useful in discriminating between competing models of collectivity in nuclear collisions.
nucl-thnucl-exPRC(2020)·11 citations
07
Open-charm Euclidean correlators within heavy-meson EFT interactions
Glòria Montaña🇪🇸 · Olaf Kaczmarek🇨🇳 · Laura Tolos🇩🇪 · Angels Ramos🇪🇸
The open-charm Euclidean correlators have been computed for the first time using the thermal spectral functions extracted from a finite-temperature self-consistent unitarized approach based on a chiral effective field theory that implements heavy-quark spin symmetry. The inclusion of the full-energy dependent open-charm spectral functions in the calculation of the Euclidean correlators leads to a similar behaviour as the one obtained in lattice QCD for temperatures well below the transition deconfinement temperature. The discrepancies at temperatures close or above the transition deconfinement temperature could indicate that higher-energy states, that are not present in the open-charm spectral functions, become relevant for a quantitative description of the lattice QCD correlators at those temperatures. In fact, we find that the inclusion of a continuum of scattering states improves the comparison at small Euclidean times, whereas differences still arise for large times.
↳ hep-phhep-lathep-thnucl-thEPJA(2020)·8 citations
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Neutrino decoupling including flavour oscillations and primordial nucleosynthesis
Julien Froustey🇫🇷 · Cyril Pitrou🇫🇷 · Maria Cristina Volpe🇫🇷
We revisit the decoupling of neutrinos in the early universe with flavour oscillations. We rederive the quantum kinetic equations which determine the neutrino evolution based on a BBGKY-like hierarchy, and include for the first time the full collision term, with both on- and off-diagonal terms for all relevant reactions. We focus on the case of zero chemical potential and solve these equations numerically. We also develop an approximate scheme based on the adiabatic evolution in the matter basis. In fact, the large difference between the oscillations and cosmological time scales allows to consider averaged flavour oscillations which can speed up the numerical integration by two orders of magnitude, when combined with a direct computation of the differential system Jacobian. The approximate numerical scheme is also useful to gain more insight into the physics of neutrino decoupling. Including the most recent results on plasma thermodynamics QED corrections, we update the effective number of neutrinos to $N_{eff} = 3.0440$ . Finally we study the impact of flavour oscillations during neutrino decoupling on the subsequent primordial nucleosynthesis.
↳ hep-phastro-ph.COnucl-thJCAP(2020)·392 citations
09
Multiplicative noise and the diffusion of conserved densities
Jingyi Chao🇨🇳 · Thomas Schaefer🇺🇸
Stochastic fluid dynamics governs the long time tails of hydrodynamic correlation functions, and the critical slowing down of relaxation phenomena in the vicinity of a critical point in the phase diagram. In this work we study the role of multiplicative noise in stochastic fluid dynamics. Multiplicative noise arises from the dependence of transport coefficients, such as the diffusion constants for charge and momentum, on fluctuating hydrodynamic variables. We study long time tails and relaxation in the diffusion of a conserved density (model B), and a conserved density coupled to the transverse momentum density (model H). Careful attention is paid to fluctuation-dissipation relations. We observe that multiplicative noise contributes at the same order as non-linear interactions in model B, but is a higher order correction to the relaxation of a scalar density and the tail of the stress tensor correlation function in model H.
↳ hep-thcond-mat.quant-gasnucl-thJHEP(2021)·18 citations
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Strong CP violation in spin-1/2 singly charmed baryons
Y. Ünal🇩🇪 · Ulf-G. Meißner🇩🇪
We report on the calculation of the CP-violating form factor $F_{3}$ and the corresponding electric dipole moment for charmed baryons in the spin-1/2 sector generated by the QCD $θ$ -term. We work in the framework of covariant baryon chiral perturbation theory within the extended-on-mass-shell renormalization scheme up to next-to-leading order in the chiral expansion.
↳ hep-phhep-exhep-latnucl-thJHEP(2021)·13 citations
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Curved Yang-Mills-Higgs gauge theories in the case of massless gauge bosons
Simon-Raphael Fischer🇨🇭
Alexei Kotov and Thomas Strobl have introduced a covariantized formulation of Yang-Mills-Higgs gauge theories whose main motivation was to replace the Lie algebra with Lie algebroids. This allows the introduction of a possibly non-flat connection $\nabla$ on this bundle, after also introducing an additional 2-form $ζ$ in the field strength. We will study this theory in the simplified situation of Lie algebra bundles, hence, only massless gauge bosons, and we will provide a physical motivation of $ζ$ . Moreover, we classify $\nabla$ using the gauge invariance, resulting into that $\nabla$ needs to be a Lie derivation law covering a pairing $Ξ$ , as introduced by Mackenzie. There is also a field redefinition, keeping the physics invariant, but possibly changing $ζ$ and the curvature of $\nabla$ . We are going to study whether this can lead to a classical theory, and we will realize that this has a strong correspondence to Mackenzie's study about extending Lie algebroids with Lie algebra bundles. We show that Mackenzie's obstruction class is also an obstruction for having non-flat connections which are not related to a flat connection using the field redefinitions. This class is related to $d^{\nabla} ζ$ , a tensor which also measures the failure of the Bianchi identity of the field strength and which is invariant under the field redefinition. This tensor will also provide hints about whether $ζ$ can vanish after a field redefinition.
↳ math-phhep-thmath.MPnucl-thJ.Geom.Phys.(2021)·6 citations
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Nuclear magnetization distribution effect in molecules: Ra $^{+}$ and RaF hyperfine structure
Leonid V. Skripnikov
Recently the first laser spectroscopy measurement of the radioactive RaF molecule has been reported by Ruiz \textit{et al.} [Nature \textbf{581}, 396 (2020)]. This and similar molecules are considered to search for the New Physics effects. The radium nucleus is of interest as it is octupole-deformed and has close levels of opposite parity. The preparation of such experiments can be simplified if there are reliable theoretical predictions. It is shown that the accurate prediction of the hyperfine structure of the RaF molecule requires to take into account the finite magnetization distribution inside the radium nucleus. For atoms, this effect is known as the Bohr-Weisskopf (BW) effect. Its magnitude depends on the model of the nuclear magnetization distribution which is usually not well known. We show that it is possible to express the nuclear magnetization distribution contribution to the hyperfine structure constant in terms of one magnetization distribution dependent parameter: BW matrix element for $1 s$ -state of the corresponding hydrogen-like ion. This parameter can be extracted from the accurate experimental and theoretical electronic structure data for an ion, atom, or molecule without the explicit treatment of any nuclear magnetization distribution model. This approach can be applied to predict the hyperfine structure of atoms and \textit{molecules} and allows one to separate the nuclear and electronic correlation problems. It is employed to calculate the finite nuclear magnetization distribution contribution to the hyperfine structure of the $^{225}$ Ra $^{+}$ cation and $^{225}$ RaF molecule. For the ground state of the $^{225}$ RaF molecule, this contribution achieves 4\%.
↳ physics.atom-phnucl-thphysics.chem-phJ.Chem.Phys.(2020)·38 citations
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Towards mitigation of apparent tension between nuclear physics and astrophysical observations by improved modeling of neutron star matter
Bhaskar Biswas🇮🇳 · Prasanta Char🇮🇹 · Rana Nandi🇮🇳 · Sukanta Bose🇮🇳
Observations of neutron stars (NSs) by the LIGO-Virgo and NICER collaborations have provided reasonably precise measurements of their various macroscopic properties. In this paper, we employ a Bayesian framework to combine them and place improved joint constraints on the properties of NS equation of state (EoS). We use a hybrid EoS formulation that employs a parabolic expansion-based nuclear empirical parameterization around the nuclear saturation density augmented by a generic 3-segment piecewise polytrope model at higher densities. Within the $90%$ credible level this parameterization predicts $R_{1.4} = 12.5 7_{- 0.92}^{+ 0.73}$ km and $Λ_{1.4} = 55 0_{- 225}^{+ 223}$ for the radius and dimensionless tidal deformability, respectively, of a $1.4 M_{⊙}$ NS. Finally, we show how the construction of the full NS EoS based solely on the nuclear empirical parameters at saturation density leads to certain tension with the astrophysical data, and how the hybrid approach provides a resolution to it.
↳ astro-ph.HEgr-qcnucl-thPRD(2021)·94 citations
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The Simple Spectrum of $c c ˉ c c ˉ$ States in the Dynamical Diquark Model
Jesse F. Giron🇺🇸 · Richard F. Lebed🇺🇸
We develop the spectroscopy of $c c ˉ c c ˉ$ and other all-heavy tetraquark states in the dynamical diquark model. In the most minimal form of the model (e.g., each diquark appears only in the color-triplet combination; the non-orbital spin couplings connect only quarks within each diquark), the spectroscopy is extremely simple. Namely, the $S$ -wave multiplets contain precisely 3 degenerate states ( $0^{++}$ , $1^{+-}$ , $2^{++}$ ) and the 7 $P$ -wave states satisfy an equal-spacing rule when the tensor coupling is negligible. When comparing numerically to the recent LHCb results, we find the best interpretation is assigning $X (6900)$ to the $2 S$ multiplet, while a lower state suggested at about $6740$ MeV fits well with the members of the $1 P$ multiplet. We also predict the location of other multiplets ( $1 S$ , $1 D$ , etc.) and discuss the significance of the $cc$ open-flavor threshold.
↳ hep-phhep-exnucl-thPRD(2020)·131 citations

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