PaperPanorama

Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Tuesday·March 28, 2023

18 papers9 primary·9 cross-listed

  1. 01

    [Submitted on 25 Mar 2023]

    Soft dipole resonance in C and its isospin symmetry with He

    Takayuki Myo · Kiyoshi Kato

    We investigate the soft dipole resonance in the proton-rich nucleus C, which is a collective dipole oscillation of four valence protons against the core,and discuss the isospin symmetry with the mirror nucleus He. We use the five-body cluster model and many-body resonances are obtained using the complex-scaling method. The resonance of C is confirmed at the excitation energy of 13 MeV with a large decay width of 24 MeV, and its structure is similar to the soft dipole resonance in He, such as the configuration mixing and the spatial properties. These results indicate a good isospin symmetry in the soft dipole resonances of two nuclei with a common collective excitation of multiproton and multineutron, while the ground states of two nuclei show different properties due to the Coulomb repulsion of valence protons in C, leading to the symmetry breaking. In conclusion, the appearance of the isospin symmetry differs depending on the states of C and He.

    Comments:
    7 pages, 4 figures
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
    arXiv:
    2303.14318 [pdf]
    PRC(2023)·5 citations
  2. 02

    [Submitted on 25 Mar 2023]

    Importance of higher orders in opacity in QGP tomography

    Stefan Stojku🇷🇸 · Bojana Ilic🇷🇸 · Igor Salom🇷🇸 · Magdalena Djordjevic🇷🇸

    We consider the problem of including a finite number of scattering centers in dynamical energy loss and classical DGLV formalism. Previously, either one or an infinite number of scattering centers were considered in energy loss calculations, while attempts to relax such approximations were largely inconclusive or incomplete. In reality, however, the number of scattering centers is generally estimated to be 4-5 at RHIC and the LHC, making the above approximations (a priori) inadequate and this theoretical problem significant for QGP tomography. We derived explicit analytical expressions for dynamical energy loss and DGLV up to the order in opacity, resulting in complex mathematical expressions that were, to our knowledge, obtained for the first time. These expressions were then implemented into an appropriately generalized DREENA framework to calculate the effects of higher orders in opacity on a wide range of high- light and heavy flavor predictions. Results of extensive numerical analysis, together with interpretations of nonintuitive results, are presented. We find that, for both RHIC and the LHC, higher-order effects on high- observables are small, and the approximation of a single scattering center is adequate for dynamical energy loss and DGLV formalisms.

    Comments:
    23 pages, 8 figures
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph)
    arXiv:
    2303.14527 [pdf]
    PRC(2023)·4 citations
  3. 03

    [Submitted on 26 Mar 2023]

    Heavy-Flavour Jets in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

    Sa Wang🇨🇳 · Wei Dai🇨🇳 · Enke Wang🇨🇳 · Xin-Nian Wang🇺🇸 · Ben-Wei Zhang🇨🇳

    Reconstructed jets initiated from heavy quarks provide a powerful tool to probe the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and to explore the mass hierarchy of jet quenching. In this article, we review the recent theoretical progresses on heavy-flavour jets in high-energy nuclear collisions at the RHIC and LHC. We focus on the yields and substructures of charm and bottom quark jets with jet quenching effect, such as the nuclear modification factors, transverse momentum imbalance, angular correlation, radial profiles, fragmentation functions, the "dead-cone" effect, etc.

    Comments:
    27 pages, 9 figures. Contribution to the Special Issue "Heavy-Ion Collisions and Multiparticle Production"
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph)
    arXiv:
    2303.14660 [pdf]
    Symmetry(2023)·19 citations
  4. 04

    [Submitted on 26 Mar 2023]

    Constraining nuclear symmetry energy with the charge radii of mirror-pair nuclei

    Rong An · Shuai Sun · Li-Gang Cao · Feng-Shou Zhang

    The nuclear charge radius plays a vital role in determining the equation of state of isospin asymmetric nuclear matter. Based on the correlation between the differences in charge radii of mirror-partner nuclei and the slope parameter () of symmetry energy at the nuclear saturation density, an analysis of the calibrated slope parameter was performed in finite nuclei. In this study, relativistic and non-relativistic energy density functionals were employed to constrain the nuclear symmetry energy through the available databases of the mirror-pair nuclei Ca-S, Ca-Ar, and Ni-Fe. The deduced nuclear symmetry energy was located in the range 29.89-31.85 MeV, and of the symmetry energy essentially covered the range 22.50-51.55 MeV at the saturation density. Moreover, the extracted at the sensitivity density was located in the interval range 30.52-39.76 MeV.

    Comments:
    23 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, Published in Nuclear Science and Techniques
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
    arXiv:
    2303.14667 [pdf]
    Nucl.Sci.Tech.(2023)·30 citations
  5. 05

    [Submitted on 26 Mar 2023]

    The astrophysical factor and reaction rate for N()O within the modified potential cluster model

    S. B. Dubovichenko · A. S. Tkachenko · R. Ya. Kezerashvili · N. A. Burkova · B.M. Yeleusheva

    We study a radiative N capture on the ground state of O at stellar energies within the framework of a modified potential cluster model (MPCM) with forbidden states, including low-lying resonances. The investigation of the N()O reaction includes the consideration of resonances due to transitions and the contribution of scattering wave in + N channel due to transition. We calculated the astrophysical low-energy factor, and extrapolated turned out to be within keVb. The important role of the asymptotic constant (AC) for the N()O process with interfering (312) and (962) resonances is elucidated. A comparison of our calculation for factor with existing experimental and theoretical data is addressed, and a reasonable agreement is found. The reaction rate is calculated and compared with the existing rates. It has negligible dependence on the variation of AC, but shows a strong impact of the interference of (312) and (962) resonances, especially at temperatures, referring to the CNO Gamow windows. We estimate the contribution of cascade transitions to the reaction rate based on the exclusive experimental data by \textit{Imbriani, et al. 2012}. The reaction rate enhancement due to the cascade transitions is observed from and reaches the maximum factor \ 1.3 at . We present the Gamow energy window and a comparison of rates for radiative proton capture reactions N()O, N() O, N()O, and N()O obtained in the framework of the MPCM and give temperature windows, prevalence, and significance of each process.

    Comments:
    17 pages, 9 figures
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
    arXiv:
    2303.14680 [pdf]
    CPC(2024)·2 citations
  6. 06

    [Submitted on 26 Mar 2023]

    Can the PREX-2 and CREX results be understood by relativistic mean-field models with the astrophysical constraints?

    Tsuyoshi Miyatsu🇰🇷 · Myung-Ki Cheoun🇰🇷 · Kyungsik Kim🇰🇷 · Koichi Saito🇯🇵

    We construct new effective interactions using the relativistic mean-field models with the isoscalar- and isovector-meson mixing, and . Taking into account the particle flow data in heavy-ion collisions, the observed mass of PSR J07406620, and the tidal deformability of a neutron star from binary merger events, GW170817 and GW190814, we study the ground-state properties of finite, closed-shell nuclei, and try to explain the recent results from the PREX-2 and CREX experiments. It is found that the -- mixing is very powerful to understand the terrestrial experiments and astrophysical observations of neutron stars self-consistently. We can predict the large neutron skin thickness of Pb, ~fm, using the slope parameter of nuclear symmetry energy, ~MeV, which is consistent with the PREX-2 result. However, to explain the CREX data, it is preferable to adopt the small value of ~MeV. It is very difficult to understand the PREX-2 and CREX results simultaneously within relativistic mean-field models.

    Comments:
    7 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2303.14763 [pdf]
    PLB(2023)·54 citations
  7. 07

    [Submitted on 27 Mar 2023]

    + core structure described with an additional interaction in the nuclear matter saturation region

    M. A. Souza · H. Miyake

    In a phenomenological approach, the + core structure is investigated in the Ne, Ti, Mo, Te, and Po nuclei through the local potential model using a double-folding nuclear potential with effective nucleon-nucleon interaction of M3Y + type, where the term acts only between the saturation regions of -cluster and core. Properties such as energy levels, -widths, transition rates, and half-lives are calculated, and good level of agreement with experimental data is obtained in general. It is shown the inclusion of the term is determinant for a better description of the experimental energy levels compared to the ground state bands produced with the simple M3Y interaction. The properties calculated for Te reinforce the superallowed -decay feature for this nucleus, as indicated in previous studies.

    Comments:
    13 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in The European Physical Journal A
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2303.14927 [pdf]
    EPJA(2023)·4 citations
  8. 08

    [Submitted on 27 Mar 2023]

    Dynamical critical fluctuations near the QCD critical point with hydrodynamic cooling rate

    Shian Tang🇨🇳 · Shanjin Wu🇨🇳 · Huichao Song🇨🇳

    Within the model A in the Hohenberg's dynamical universality classification, we investigate the critical slowing down effects on the critical fluctuations driven by the expanding quark-gluon plasma, using a trajectory and cooling rate obtained from hydrodynamics. We numerically solved the Langevin dynamics of the non-conserved order parameter field and find that, compared with commonly used Hubble-like expansion, the cooling rate of a realistic hydrodynamic system is pretty large and the associated critical slowing down effects strongly suppress the higher-order cumulants of the order parameter field ({\it e.g.,} ). Furthermore, for an evolving system that approaches the critical point, such critical slowing down suppression overcomes the enhancement of the critical fluctuations, which indicates that the largest fluctuations of the order parameter field ({\it i.e.,} ) do not necessarily associate with the evolving trajectory closest to the critical point.

    Comments:
    7 pages,5 figures.Published version
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2303.15017 [pdf]
    PRC(2023)·10 citations
  9. 09

    [Submitted on 27 Mar 2023]

    Thermalization at the femtoscale seen in high-energy Pb+Pb collisions

    Rupam Samanta🇵🇱 · Somadutta Bhatta🇺🇸 · Jiangyong Jia🇺🇸 · Matthew Luzum🇧🇷 · Jean-Yves Ollitrault🇫🇷

    A collision between two atomic nuclei accelerated at a speed close to that of light creates a dense system of quarks and gluons. Interactions among them are so strong that they behave collectively like a droplet of fluid of ten-femtometer size, which expands into the vacuum and eventually fragments into thousands of particles. We report a new manifestation of thermalization in recent data from the Large Hadron Collider. Our analysis is based on results from the ATLAS Collaboration, which has measured the variance of the momentum per particle across Pb+Pb collision events with the same particle multiplicity. This variance decreases steeply over a narrow multiplicity range corresponding to central collisions. We provide a simple explanation of this newly-observed phenomenon: For a given multiplicity, the momentum per particle increases with increasing impact parameter. Since a larger impact parameter goes along with a smaller collision volume, this in turn implies that the momentum per particle increases as a function of density, which is a generic consequence of thermalization. Our analysis provides the first direct evidence of this phenomenon at the femtoscale.

    Comments:
    8 pages, 3 figures. v2: minor revision
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
    arXiv:
    2303.15323 [pdf]
    PRC(2024)·36 citations
  10. 10

    [Submitted on 23 Mar 2023] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Phenomenology of double deeply virtual Compton scattering in the era of new experiments

    K. Deja🇵🇱 · V. Martinez-Fernandez🇵🇱 · B. Pire🇫🇷 · P. Sznajder🇵🇱 · J. Wagner🇵🇱

    We revisit the phenomenology of the deep exclusive electroproduction of a lepton pair, i.e. double deeply virtual Compton scattering (DDVCS), in view of new experiments planned in the near future. The importance of DDVCS in the reconstruction of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) in their full kinematic domain is emphasized. Using Kleiss-Stirling spinor techniques, we provide the leading order complex amplitudes for both DDVCS and Bethe-Heithler sub-processes. Such a formulation turns out to be convenient for practical implementation in the PARTONS framework and EpIC Monte Carlo generator that we use in simulation studies.

    Comments:
    21 pages, 13 figures
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2303.13668 [pdf]
    PRD(2023)·53 citations
  11. 11

    [Submitted on 24 Mar 2023] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Centrality-dependent modification of hadron and jet production in electron-nucleus collisions

    Hai Tao Li🇨🇳 · Ze Long Liu🇨🇭 · Ivan Vitev🇺🇸

    Centrality-dependent measurements of hadron and jet cross section attenuation in deep inelastic scattering on nuclei can shed new light on the physics of final-state interactions in the nuclear matter, including the path-length dependence of the in-medium parton shower formation and evolution. Recent simulation studies have demonstrated the feasibility of experimental centrality determination in A reactions at the electron-ion collider via neutron detection in the zero-degree calorimeter. Motivated by these results, we present the first theoretical calculation of the production rate modification for hadrons and jets in central and peripheral Pb collisions. We find that the variation in the suppression of inclusive jet cross section as a function of centrality is less than a factor of two. In more differential measurements, such as the distribution of hadrons versus the hadronization fraction , the difference can be enhanced up to an order of magnitude.

    Comments:
    8 pages, 5 figures
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2303.14201 [pdf]
    PLB(2024)·8 citations
  12. 12

    [Submitted on 24 Mar 2023] (cross-list from hep-lat)

    SU(2) Gauge Theory in Dimensions on a Plaquette Chain Obeys the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis

    Xiaojun Yao🇺🇸

    We test the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) for 2+1 dimensional SU(2) lattice gauge theory. By considering the theory on a chain of plaquettes and truncating basis states for link variables at , we can map it onto a quantum spin chain with local interactions and numerically exactly diagonalize the Hamiltonian for reasonably large lattice sizes. We find energy level repulsion in momentum sectors with no remaining discrete symmetry. We study two local observables made up of Wilson loops and calculate their matrix elements in the energy eigenbasis, which are shown consistent with the ETH.

    Comments:
    7+6 pages, 4+4 figures, v3: published version, minor change compared with v2
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
    arXiv:
    2303.14264 [pdf]
    PRD(2023)·48 citations
  13. 13

    [Submitted on 25 Mar 2023] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Chiral symmetry breaking and the masses of hadrons: a review

    Su Houng Lee🇰🇷

    The masses of hadrons in the vacuum, where the chiral symmetry is restored, and in the medium are in general different even when the changes in the order parameters of chiral symmetry are the same. Here, we first discuss the relation between the hadron masses and the chiral symmetry breaking in approaches based on operator product expansion (OPE). We then discuss what additional changes occur to the hadron masses when going from the chiral symmetry restored vacuum to nuclear medium and/or finite temperature. The work will highlight how we can identify the effects of chiral symmetry restoration from experimental observations.

    Comments:
    Contribution to Special Issue of MDPI "Symmetries and Ultra Dense Matter of Compact Stars"
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2303.14415 [pdf]
    Symmetry(2023)·18 citations
  14. 14

    [Submitted on 27 Mar 2023] (cross-list from quant-ph)

    New derivation of Time-Independent Perturbation Theory

    A. N. Kvinikhidze · B. Blankleider

    We propose a new derivation of Time-Independent Perturbation Theory (PT) that has a fundamental advantage over the usual derivations presented in textbooks on Quantum Mechanics (QM): it is simpler and much shorter. As such, it can provide an easier and quicker way for students to learn PT, than afforded by current methods. In spite of that, our approach does not require the potentials to be energy independent or the inverse free Green function to be a linear function of energy , as is the case in QM, and can be applied directly to various extensions of QM including Relativistic QM, the Bethe-Salpeter equation, and all kinds of quasipotential approaches in Quantum Field Theory.

    Comments:
    10 pages, 0 figures
    Subjects:
    Quantum Physics (quant-ph); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Theory (hep-th); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2303.14862 [pdf]
    0 citations
  15. 15

    [Submitted on 27 Mar 2023] (cross-list from physics.atm-clus)

    Universal tetramer limit-cycle at the unitarity limit

    Tobias Frederico🇧🇷 · Mario Gattobigio🇫🇷

    We demonstrate that a four-boson limit-cycle independent of the Efimov one appears in Hamiltonian systems at the unitary limit. The model interaction contains two-, three- and four-body short-range potentials, which disentangle the interwoven three- and four-boson cycles, for the universal trimer and tetramer energy levels, respectively. The limit-cycle associated with the correlation between the energies of two successive universal tetramer levels for fixed weakly bound trimer is found to be largely model independent. This is a universal manifestation of an independent four-boson scale associated with a cycle beyond the Efimov one.

    Subjects:
    physics.atm-clus (physics.atm-clus); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
    arXiv:
    2303.14952 [pdf]
    PRA(2023)·4 citations
  16. 16

    [Submitted on 27 Mar 2023] (cross-list from cond-mat.str-el)

    Exact Excited-State Functionals of the Asymmetric Hubbard Dimer

    Sara Giarrusso · Pierre-François Loos

    The exact functionals associated with the (singlet) ground and the two singlet excited states of the asymmetric Hubbard dimer at half-filling are calculated using both Levy's constrained search and Lieb's convex formulation. While the ground-state functional is, as commonly known, a convex function with respect to the density (or, more precisely, the site occupation), the functional associated with the (highest) doubly-excited state is found to be concave. Also, because the density of the first-excited state is non-invertible, its ``functional'' is a partial, multi-valued function composed of one concave and one convex branch that correspond to two separate sets of values of the external potential. Remarkably, it is found that, although the one-to-one mapping between density and external potential may not apply (as in the case of the first excited state), each state-specific energy and corresponding universal functional are ``functions'' whose derivatives are each other's inverse, just as in the ground state formalism. These findings offer insight into the challenges of developing state-specific excited-state density functionals for general applications in electronic structure theory.

    Comments:
    7 pages, 6 figures
    Subjects:
    Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); cond-mat.mtrl-sci (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); math.MP (math.MP); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); physics.chem-ph (physics.chem-ph)
    arXiv:
    2303.15084 [pdf]
    J.Phys.Chem.Lett.(2023)·9 citations
  17. 17

    [Submitted on 27 Mar 2023] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Exploring QCD matter in extreme conditions with Machine Learning

    Kai Zhou🇩🇪 · Lingxiao Wang🇩🇪 · Long-Gang Pang🇨🇳 · Shuzhe Shi🇺🇸

    In recent years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful computational tool and novel problem-solving perspective for physics, offering new avenues for studying strongly interacting QCD matter properties under extreme conditions. This review article aims to provide an overview of the current state of this intersection of fields, focusing on the application of machine learning to theoretical studies in high energy nuclear physics. It covers diverse aspects, including heavy ion collisions, lattice field theory, and neutron stars, and discuss how machine learning can be used to explore and facilitate the physics goals of understanding QCD matter. The review also provides a commonality overview from a methodology perspective, from data-driven perspective to physics-driven perspective. We conclude by discussing the challenges and future prospects of machine learning applications in high energy nuclear physics, also underscoring the importance of incorporating physics priors into the purely data-driven learning toolbox. This review highlights the critical role of machine learning as a valuable computational paradigm for advancing physics exploration in high energy nuclear physics.

    Comments:
    152 pages,53 figures
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2303.15136 [pdf]
    PPNP(2024)·121 citations
  18. 18

    [Submitted on 27 Mar 2023] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Charmoniumlike tetraquarks in a chiral quark model

    Gang Yang🇨🇳 · Jialun Ping🇨🇳 · Jorge Segovia🇪🇸

    The lowest-lying charmonium-like tetraquarks and , with spin-parity , and , and isospin and , are systematically investigated within the theoretical framework of complex-scaling range for a chiral quark model that has already been successfully applied in former studies of various tetra- and penta-quark systems. A four-body -wave configuration which includes meson-meson, diquark-antidiquark and K-type arrangements of quarks, along with all possible color wave functions, is comprehensively considered. Several narrow resonances are obtained in each tetraquark channel when a fully coupled-channel computation is performed. We tentatively assign theoretical states to experimentally reported charmonium-like signals such as , , , , and . They can be well identified as hadronic molecules; however, other exotic components which involve, for instance, hidden-color channels or diquark-antidiquark structures play a considerable role. Meanwhile, two resonances are obtained at GeV and GeV which may be compatible with experimental data in the energy interval GeV. Furthermore, the and may be identified as color compact tetraquark resonances. Finally, we also find few resonance states in the energy interval from GeV to GeV, which would be awaiting for discovery in future experiments.

    Comments:
    22 pages, 10 figures, 21 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2101.04933, arXiv:2204.08556, arXiv:2109.04311
    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:
    2303.15388 [pdf]
    EPJC(2023)·14 citations

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