PaperPanorama

Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Monday·September 28, 2020

12 papers3 primary·9 cross-listed

  1. 04

    [Submitted on 24 Sept 2020] (cross-list from hep-lat)

    Restoration of chiral symmetry in cold and dense Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model with tensor renormalization group

    Shinichiro Akiyama🇯🇵 · Yoshinobu Kuramashi🇯🇵 · Takumi Yamashita🇯🇵 · Yusuke Yoshimura🇯🇵

    We analyze the chiral phase transition of the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model in the cold and dense region on the lattice developing the Grassmann version of the anisotropic tensor renormalization group algorithm. The model is formulated with the Kogut--Susskind fermion action. We use the chiral condensate as an order parameter to investigate the restoration of the chiral symmetry. The first-order chiral phase transition is clearly observed in the dense region at vanishing temperature with on a large volume of . We also present the results for the equation of state.

    Comments:
    17 pages, 9 figures
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Theory (hep-th); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2009.11583 [pdf]
    JHEP(2021)·38 citations
  2. 05

    [Submitted on 24 Sept 2020] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Joint thrust and TMD resummation in electron-positron and electron-proton collisions

    Yiannis Makris🇮🇹 · Felix Ringer🇺🇸 · Wouter J. Waalewijn🇳🇱

    We present the framework for obtaining precise predictions for the transverse momentum of hadrons with respect to the thrust axis in collisions. This will enable a precise extraction of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) fragmentation functions from a recent measurement by the Belle Collaboration. Our analysis takes into account, for the first time, the nontrivial interplay between the hadron transverse momentum and the cut on the thrust event shape. To this end, we identify three different kinematic regions, derive the corresponding factorization theorems within Soft Collinear Effective Theory, and present all ingredients needed for the joint resummation of the transverse momentum and thrust spectrum at NNLL accuracy. One kinematic region can give rise to non-global logarithms (NGLs), and we describe how to include the leading NGLs. We also discuss alternative measurements in collisions that can be used to access the TMD fragmentation function. Finally, by using crossing symmetry, we obtain a new way to constrain TMD parton distributions, by measuring the displacement of the thrust axis in collisions.

    Comments:
    27 pages, 5 figures
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2009.11871 [pdf]
    JHEP(2021)·26 citations
  3. 06

    [Submitted on 24 Sept 2020] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Diffusion Monte Carlo calculations of fully-heavy (multiquark) bound states

    M.C. Gordillo🇪🇸 · F. De Soto🇪🇸 · J. Segovia🇪🇸

    We use a diffusion Monte Carlo method to solve the many-body Schrödinger equation describing fully-heavy tetraquark systems. This approach allows to reduce the uncertainty of the numerical calculation at the percent level, accounts for multi-particle correlations in the physical observables, and avoids the usual quark-clustering assumed in other theoretical techniques applied to the same problem. The interaction between particles was modeled by the most general and accepted potential, i.e. a pairwise interaction including Coulomb, linear-confining and hyperfine spin-spin terms. This means that, in principle, our analysis should provide some rigorous statements about the mass location of the all-heavy tetraquark ground states, which is particularly timely due to the very recent observation made by the LHCb collaboration of some enhancements in the invariant mass spectra of -pairs. Our main results are: (i) the , () and lowest-lying states are located well above their corresponding meson-meson thresholds; (ii) the ground state with preferred quark-antiquark pair configurations is compatible with the enhancement(s) observed by the LHCb collaboration; (iii) our results for the and sectors seem to indicate that the and ground states are almost degenerate with the located around above them; (iv) smaller mass splittings for the system are predicted, with absolute mass values in reasonable agreement with other theoretical works; (v) the tetraquark ground state lies at its lowest -wave meson-meson threshold and it is compatible with a molecular configuration.

    Comments:
    19 pages, 7 figures, 15 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:
    2009.11889 [pdf]
    PRD(2020)·100 citations
  4. 07

    [Submitted on 24 Sept 2020] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Forward dijets in proton-nucleus collisions at next-to-leading order: the real corrections

    Edmond Iancu🇫🇷 · Yair Mulian🇫🇮

    Using the CGC effective theory together with the hybrid factorisation, we study forward dijet production in proton-nucleus collisions beyond leading order. In this paper, we compute the "real" next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections, i.e. the radiative corrections associated with a three-parton final state, out of which only two are being measured. To that aim, we start by revisiting our previous results for the three-parton cross-section presented in our previous paper. After some reshuffling of terms, we deduce new expressions for these results, which not only look considerably simpler, but are also physically more transparent. We also correct several errors in this process. The real NLO corrections to inclusive dijet production are then obtained by integrating out the kinematics of any of the three final partons. We explicitly work out the interesting limits where the unmeasured parton is either a soft gluon, or the product of a collinear splitting. We find the expected results in both limits: the B-JIMWLK evolution of the leading-order dijet cross-section in the first case (soft gluon) and, respectively, the DGLAP evolution of the initial and final states in the second case (collinear splitting). The "virtual" NLO corrections to dijet production will be presented in a subsequent publication.

    Comments:
    60 pages, 25 figures
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Theory (hep-th); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2009.11930 [pdf]
    JHEP(2021)·38 citations
  5. 08

    [Submitted on 24 Sept 2020] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Hexaquark picture for

    Hungchong Kim🇰🇷 · K. S. Kim🇰🇷 · Makoto Oka🇯🇵

    Hexaquark wave function with the quantum numbers , which might be relevant for , is constructed under an assumption that this is composed only of quarks in an -wave. By combining three diquarks of either type, () or (), we demonstrate that there are five possible configurations for the six-quark state. The fully antisymmetric wave function is constructed by linearly combining the five configurations on an equal footing. We then take this wave function as well as the five configurations to calculate the hexaquark mass using the contact type effective potential consisting of the color-spin, color electric and constant shift. The mass is found to be the same regardless of the configurations being used including the fully antisymmetric one. This result can be traced to the fact that the hexaquark system has a freedom in choosing three diquarks in the construction of its wave function. The calculated hexaquark mass using the empirical parameters independently fixed from the baryon spectroscopy is found to be around MeV, which is indeed very close to the experimental mass of . Therefore, the hexaquark picture is promising for as far as the mass is concerned.

    Comments:
    10 pages, version accepted for publication in PRD
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2009.11983 [pdf]
    PRD(2020)·29 citations
  6. 09

    [Submitted on 25 Sept 2020] (cross-list from hep-lat)

    Emergent Structure in QCD

    James C. Biddle · Waseem Kamleh · Derek B. Leinweber (University of Adelaide)

    The structure of the SU(3) gauge-field vacuum is explored through visualisations of centre vortices and topological charge density. Stereoscopic visualisations highlight interesting features of the vortex vacuum, especially the frequency with which singular points appear and the important connection between branching points and topological charge. This work demonstrates how visualisations of the QCD ground-state fields can reveal new perspectives of centre-vortex structure.

    Comments:
    7 pages, 5 figures. In the proceedings of CHEP 2019 - 24rd International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Adelaide, Australia, 4-8 November 2019
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2009.12044 [pdf]
    EPJ Web Conf.(2020)·4 citations
  7. 10

    [Submitted on 24 Sept 2020] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Parton distributions in radiative corrections to the cross section of electron-proton scattering

    V.S. Fadin🇷🇺 · R.E. Gerasimov🇷🇺

    The structure function approach and the parton picture, developed for the theoretical description of the deep inelastic electron-proton scattering, also proved to be very effective for calculation of radiative corrections in Quantum Electrodynamics. We use them to calculate radiative corrections to the cross section of electron-proton scattering due to electron-photon interaction, in the experimental setup with the recoil proton detection, proposed by A.A. Vorobev to measure the proton radius. In the one-loop approximation, explicit expressions for these corrections are obtained for arbitrary momentum transfers. It is shown that, at momentum transfers small compared with the proton mass, various contributions to the corrections mutually cancel each other with power accuracy. In two loops, the corrections are obtained in the leading logarithmic approximation.

    Comments:
    arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1812.10710
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2009.12220 [pdf]
    EPJA(2021)·1 citation
  8. 11

    [Submitted on 25 Sept 2020] (cross-list from hep-lat)

    Low-energy Scattering and Effective Interactions of Two Baryons at MeV from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics

    Marc Illa🇪🇸 · Silas R. Beane🇺🇸 · Emmanuel Chang · Zohreh Davoudi🇺🇸 · William Detmold🇺🇸 · David J. Murphy🇺🇸 · Kostas Orginos🇺🇸 · Assumpta Parreño🇪🇸 · Martin J. Savage🇺🇸 · Phiala E. Shanahan🇺🇸 · Michael L. Wagman🇺🇸 · Frank Winter🇺🇸

    The interactions between two octet baryons are studied at low energies using lattice QCD (LQCD) with larger-than-physical quark masses corresponding to a pion mass of MeV and a kaon mass of MeV. The two-baryon systems that are analyzed range from strangeness to and include the spin-singlet and triplet , (), and states, the spin-singlet () and () states, and the spin-triplet () state. The -wave scattering phase shifts, low-energy scattering parameters, and binding energies when applicable, are extracted using Lüscher's formalism. While the results are consistent with most of the systems being bound at this pion mass, the interactions in the spin-triplet and channels are found to be repulsive and do not support bound states. Using results from previous studies at a larger pion mass, an extrapolation of the binding energies to the physical point is performed and is compared with experimental values and phenomenological predictions. The low-energy coefficients in pionless EFT relevant for two-baryon interactions, including those responsible for flavor-symmetry breaking, are constrained. The symmetry is observed to hold approximately at the chosen values of the quark masses, as well as the spin-flavor symmetry, predicted at large . A remnant of an accidental symmetry found previously at a larger pion mass is further observed. The -symmetric EFT constrained by these LQCD calculations is used to make predictions for two-baryon systems for which the low-energy scattering parameters could not be determined with LQCD directly in this study, and to constrain the coefficients of all leading flavor-symmetric interactions, demonstrating the predictive power of two-baryon EFTs matched to LQCD.

    Comments:
    69 pages, 31 figures and 25 tables; published version
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2009.12357 [pdf]
    PRD(2021)·55 citations
  9. 12

    [Submitted on 25 Sept 2020] (cross-list from hep-lat)

    Finite-volume energy spectrum of the system

    Andrei Alexandru🇺🇸 · Ruairí Brett🇺🇸 · Chris Culver🇬🇧 · Michael Döring🇺🇸 · Dehua Guo🇺🇸 · Frank X. Lee🇺🇸 · Maxim Mai🇺🇸

    The dynamics of multi-kaon systems are of relevance for several areas of nuclear physics. However, even the simplest systems, two and three kaons, are hard to prepare and study experimentally. Here we show how to extract this information using first-principle lattice QCD results. We (1) extend the relativistic three-body quantization condition to the strangeness sector, predicting for the first time the excited level finite-volume spectrum of three kaon systems at maximal isospin, and (2) present a first lattice QCD calculation of the excited levels of this system in a finite box. We compare our predictions with the lattice results reported here and with previous ground state calculations and find very good agreement.

    Comments:
    9 pages, 3 figures; v2 -- typos corrected
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2009.12358 [pdf]
    PRD(2020)·84 citations

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