PaperPanorama

Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Thursday·February 25, 2021

7 papers4 primary·3 cross-listed

  1. 01

    [Submitted on 24 Feb 2021]

    Hot and dense quark-gluon plasma thermodynamics from holographic black holes

    Joaquin Grefa🇺🇸 · Jorge Noronha🇺🇸 · Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler🇺🇸 · Israel Portillo🇺🇸 · Claudia Ratti🇺🇸 · Romulo Rougemont🇧🇷

    We present new results on the equation of state and transition line of hot and dense strongly interacting QCD matter, obtained from a bottom-up Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton holographic model. We considerably expand the previous coverage in baryon densities in this model by implementing new numerical methods to map the holographic black hole solutions onto the QCD phase diagram. We are also able to obtain, for the first time, the first-order phase transition line in a wide region of the phase diagram. Comparisons with the most recent lattice results for the QCD thermodynamics are also presented.

    Comments:
    18 pages, 15 figures
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
    arXiv:
    2102.12042 [pdf]
    PRD(2021)·107 citations
  2. 02

    [Submitted on 24 Feb 2021]

    Hadron-quark mixed phase in the quark-meson coupling model

    Min Ju🇨🇳 · Xuhao Wu🇨🇳 · Fan Ji🇨🇳 · Jinniu Hu🇨🇳 · Hong Shen🇨🇳

    We explore the possibility of a structured hadron-quark mixed phase forming in the interior of neutron stars. The quark-meson coupling (QMC) model, which explicitly incorporates the internal quark structure of the nucleon, is employed to describe the hadronic phase, while the quark phase is described by the same bag model as the one used in the QMC framework, so as to keep consistency between the two coexisting phases. We analyze the effect of the appearance of hadron-quark pasta phases on the neutron-star properties. We also discuss the influence of nuclear symmetry energy and the bag constant B in quark matter on the deconfinement phase transition. For the treatment of the hadron-quark mixed phase, we use the energy minimization method and compare it with the Gibbs construction. The finite-size effects like surface and Coulomb energies are taken into account in the energy minimization method; they play crucial roles in determining the pasta configuration during the hadron-quark phase transition. It is found that the finite-size effects can significantly reduce the region of the mixed phase relative to that of the Gibbs construction. Using a consistent value of B in the QMC model and quark matter, we find that hadron-quark pasta phases are formed in the interior of massive stars, but no pure quark matter can exist.

    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2102.12276 [pdf]
    PRC(2021)·32 citations
  3. 03

    [Submitted on 24 Feb 2021]

    Hybrid star properties from an extended linear sigma model

    János Takátsy🇭🇺 · Péter Kovács🇭🇺 · György Wolf🇭🇺

    The equation of state provided by effective models of strongly interacting matter should comply with the restrictions imposed by current astrophysical observations on compact stars. Using the equation of state given by the (axial-)vector meson extended linear sigma model, we determine the mass-radius relation and study whether these restrictions are satisfied under the assumption that most of the star is filled with quark matter. We study the dependence of the mass-radius relation on the parameters of the model.

    Comments:
    6 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1907.05841
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph)
    arXiv:
    2102.12426 [pdf]
    Astron.Nachr.(2021)·0 citations
  4. 04

    [Submitted on 24 Feb 2021]

    A statistical model to calculate inclusive hadronic cross sections

    Gábor Balassa🇭🇺 · György Wolf🇭🇺

    Hadronic cross sections are important ingredients in many of the ongoing research methods in high-energy nuclear physics, and it is always important to measure and/or calculate the probabilities of different types of reactions. In heavy-ion transport simulations at a few GeV energies, these hadronic cross sections are essential and so far mostly the exclusive processes are used, however, if one interested in total production rates the inclusive cross sections are also necessary to know. In this paper, we introduce a statistical-based method, which is able to give good estimates to exclusive and inclusive cross sections as well in the energy range of a few GeV. The method and its estimates for not well-known cross sections, will be used in a Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (BUU) type off-shell transport code to explain charmonium and bottomonium mass shifts in heavy-ion collisions.

    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2102.12442 [pdf]
    EPJA(2020)·7 citations

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