Nuclear Theory·nucl-th
13 papers—4 primary·9 cross-listed
[Submitted on 4 Jun 2020] (cross-list from nucl-ex)
H. Fujioka · K. Itahashi · V. Metag · M. Nanova · Y.K. Tanaka
We comment on a recent paper by the LEPS2/BGOegg Collaboration [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 202501 (2020), arXiv:2005.03449].
[Submitted on 12 Jan 2021] (cross-list from hep-ph)
In relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC, a quark gluon plasma (QGP) is created for a short duration of about 10fm/c. Quarkonia (bound states of and ) are sensitive probes of this phase on length scales comparable to the size of the bound states which are less than 1fm. Observations of quarkonia in these collisions provide us with a lot of information about how the presence of a QGP affects various quarkonium states. This has motivated the development of the theory of heavy quarks and their bound states in a thermal medium, and its application to the phenomenology of quarkonia in heavy ion collisions. We review some of these developments here.
[Submitted on 12 Jan 2021] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Zhong-Bo Kang🇺🇸 · Xiaohui Liu🇨🇳 · Sonny Mantry🇺🇸 · M.C. Spraker🇺🇸 · Tyler Wilson🇺🇸
We propose a modified definition of the jet charge, the "dynamic jet charge", where the constant jet momentum fraction weighting parameter, , in the standard jet charge definition is generalized to be a function of a dynamical property of the jet or the individual jet constituents. The dynamic jet charge can complement analyses based on the standard definition and give improved discrimination between quark and gluon initiated jets and between jets initiated by different quark flavors. We focus on the specific scenario where each hadron in the jet contributes to the dynamic jet charge with a -value dynamically determined by its jet momentum fraction. The corresponding dynamic jet charge distributions have qualitatively distinct features and are typically characterized by a multiple peak structure. For proton-proton collisions, compared to the standard jet charge, the dynamic jet charge gives significantly improved discrimination between quark and gluon initiated jets and comparable discrimination between - and -quark initiated jets. In Pythia simulations of heavy ion collisions, the dynamic jet charge is found to have higher jet discrimination power compared to the standard jet charge, remaining robust against the increased contamination from underlying event. We also present phenomenological applications of the dynamic jet charge to probe nuclear flavor structure.
[Submitted on 12 Jan 2021] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Xiangdong Ji🇺🇸 · Yizhuang Liu🇨🇳
Apart from the quark and gluon kinetic and potential energies, the nucleon mass includes a novel energy of pure quantum origin resulting from anomalous breaking of scale symmetry. We demonstrate the effects of this quantum anomalous energy (QAE) in QED, as well as in a toy 1+1 dimensional non-linear sigma model where it contributes non-perturbatively, in a way resembling the Higgs mechanism for the masses of matter particles in electro-weak theory. The QAE contribution to the nucleon mass can be explained using a similar mechanism, in terms of a dynamical response of the gluonic scalar field through Higgs-like couplings between the nucleon and scalar resonances. In addition, the QAE sets the scale for other energies in the nucleon through a relativistic virial theorem, and contributes a negative pressure to confine the colored quarks.
[Submitted on 12 Jan 2021] (cross-list from hep-ph)
E. Moffat🇺🇸 · W. Melnitchouk🇺🇸 · T. C. Rogers🇺🇸 · N. Sato🇺🇸
We perform a comprehensive new Monte Carlo analysis of high-energy lepton-lepton, lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron scattering data to simultaneously determine parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the proton and parton to hadron fragmentation functions (FFs). The analysis includes all available semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering and single-inclusive annihilation data for pions, kaons and unidentified charged hadrons, which allows the flavor dependence of the fragmentation functions to be constrained. Employing a new multi-step fitting strategy and more flexible parametrizations for both PDFs and FFs, we assess the impact of different data sets on sea quark densities, and confirm the previously observed suppression of the strange quark distribution. The new fit, which we refer to as "JAM20-SIDIS", will allow for improved studies of universality of parton correlation functions, including transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distributions, across a wide variety of process, and the matching of collinear to TMD factorization descriptions.
[Submitted on 12 Jan 2021] (cross-list from hep-th)
Domingo Gallegos🇳🇱 · Umut Gursoy🇳🇱 · Amos Yarom🇮🇱
We study relativistic hydrodynamics in the presence of a non vanishing spin chemical potential. Using a variety of techniques we carry out an exhaustive analysis, and identify the constitutive relations for the stress tensor and spin current in such a setup, allowing us to write the hydrodynamic equations of motion to second order in derivatives. We then solve the equations of motion in a perturbative setup and find surprisingly good agreement with measurements of global -hyperon polarization carried out at RHIC.
[Submitted on 13 Jan 2021] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Gang Yang🇨🇳 · Jialun Ping🇨🇳 · Jorge Segovia🇪🇸
The low-lying tetraquark states with , and , and in the isoscalar and isovector sectors, are systematically investigated in the framework of real- and complex-scaling range of a chiral quark model, whose parameters have been fixed in advance describing hadron, hadron-hadron and multiquark phenomenology, and thus all results presented here are pure predictions. Each tetraquark configuration, compatible with the quantum numbers studied, is taken into account; this includes meson-meson, diquark-antidiquark and K-type arrangements of quarks with all possible color wave functions in four-body sector. Among the different numerical techniques to solve the Schrödinger-like 4-body bound state equation, we use a variational method in which the trial wave function is expanded in complex-range Gaussian basis functions, because its simplicity and flexibility. Several compact bound states and narrow resonances are found in both charm-strange and bottom-strange tetraquark sectors, most of them as a product of the strong coupling between the different channels. The so-called signals, recently found by the LHCb collaboration, are unstable in our formalism with several candidates in the single-channel computations.
[Submitted on 13 Jan 2021] (cross-list from hep-lat)
Fangcheng He🇨🇳 · Peng Sun🇨🇳 · Yi-Bo Yang🇨🇳
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) claims that the major source of the nucleon invariant mass is not the Higgs mechanism but the trace anomaly in QCD energy momentum tensor. Although experimental and theoretical results support such conclusion, a direct demonstration is still absent. We present the first Lattice QCD calculation of the quark and gluon trace anomaly contributions to the hadron masses, using the overlap fermion on the 2+1 flavor dynamical Domain wall quark ensemble at MeV and lattice spacing 0.1105 fm. The result shows that the gluon trace anomaly contributes to most of the nucleon mass, and the contribution in the pion state is smaller than that in others nearly by a factor 10 since the gluon trace anomaly density inside pion is different from the other hadrons and the magnitude is much smaller. The gluon trace anomaly coefficient we obtained is consistent with its regularization independent leading order value perfectly.
[Submitted on 13 Jan 2021] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Yuxun Guo🇺🇸 · Xiangdong Ji🇺🇸 · Kyle Shiells🇺🇸
We derive a new twist-3 partonic sum rule for the transverse spin of the proton, which involves the well-know quark spin structure function , the less-studied but known transverse gluon polarization density , and quark and gluon canonical orbital angular momentum densities associated with transverse polarization. This is the counter part of the sum rule for the longitudinal spin of the proton derived by Jaffe and Manohar previously. We relate the partonic canonical orbital angular momentum densities to a new class of twist-3 generalized parton distribution functions which are potentially measurable in deep-virtual exclusive processes. We also discuss in detail an important technicality related to the transverse polarization in the infinite momentum frame, i.e., separation of intrinsic contributions from the extrinsic ones. We apply our finding to the transverse-space distributions of partons, angular momentum, and magnetic moment, respectively, in a transversely polarized proton.
first authorsco-authorsvia INSPIRE