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Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Tuesday·September 22, 2020

9 papers5 primary·4 cross-listed

  1. 06

    Chiral Symmetry Restoration and Deconfinement in the Contact Interaction Model of Quarks with a Parallel Electric and Magnetic Fields

    Aftab Ahmad🇵🇰

    We study the impact of steady, homogeneous, and external parallel electric and magnetic field strength (), on the chiral symmetry breaking-restoration and confinement-deconfinement phase transitions. We also sketch the phase diagram of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at finite temperature and in the presence of background fields. Our unified formalism for this study is based on the Schwinger-Dyson equations, symmetry preserving vector-vector contact interaction model of quarks, and the proper time regularization scheme. At , in the purely magnetic case (), we observe the well known magnetic catalysis effect. On the other hand, in the pure electric field background (), the electric field tends to restore the chiral symmetry and deconfinement above the pseudo-critical electric field . In the presence of both and : we find the magnetic catalysis effect in the particular region where dominates over , whereas, we observe the chiral inhibition (or electric chiral rotation) effect, when stand over . At finite , in the pure electric field case, the phenomenon of inverse electric catalysis appears to exist in our model. On the other hand for pure magnetic field background, we notice the magnetic catalysis effect in the mean-field approximation and inverse magnetic catalysis with -dependent coupling. The combined effect of both and on the pseudo-critical yields the inverse electromagnetic catalysis, with and without dependent effective coupling of the model. Our findings are satisfactory in agreement with already predicted results by lattice simulations and other reliable effective models of QCD.

    hep-phnucl-thCPC(2021)·12 citations
  2. 07

    Flow coefficients in O-O Al-Al and Cu-Cu collisions at 200 GeV in the fusing color string model

    M.A. Braun🇷🇺 · C. Pajares🇪🇸

    In view of the planning experiments for collisions of light nuclei at RHIC the flow coefficients for O-O, Al-AL and Cu-Cu collisions are studied in the color string percolation model. Our results for are somewhat smaller than predicted by other groups although with the same dependence on centrality. Our obtained lie between predictions of other groups.

    hep-phnucl-thPRC(2021)·0 citations
  3. 09

    Near-critical supernova outflows and their neutrino signatures

    Alexander Friedland (SLAC)🇺🇸 · Payel Mukhopadhyay (SLAC and Stanford U.)🇺🇸

    We demonstrate that the neutrino-driven outflows inside exploding core-collapse supernovae possess a special property of near-criticality, that is, they are on the edge of forming termination shocks. We derive a novel criterion for the formation of the shock, in terms of the fundamental parameters of the problem: the neutrino luminosity and energy as well as the properties of the protoneutron star. The criterion provides a unified description of the available numerical results and motivates future simulations. The property of near-criticality makes the neutrino signatures of the termination shocks a sensitive diagnostic of the physical conditions around the PNS several seconds into the explosion. The expected signal at DUNE is found to be statistically significant.

    astro-ph.HEastro-ph.SRhep-phnucl-thPLB(2022)·16 citations

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