Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Wednesday·August 2, 2023

14 papers—8 primary·6 cross-listed

01
[Submitted on 29 Jul 2023]
Effects of Phi and $σ^{*}$ -meson on properties of hyperon stars including $Δ$ resonance
Chen Wu🇨🇳 · Wenjun Guo🇨🇳
In this work, we study the properties of neutron stars using the linear Relativistic Mean-Field (RMF) theory and consider multiple degrees of freedom inside neutron stars, including hyperons and $Δ$ resonances. We investigate different coupling parameters $x_{σ Δ}$ between $Δ$ resonances and nucleons and compare the differences between neutron stars with and without strange mesons $σ^{*}$ and $ϕ$ . These effects include particle number distributions, equations of state (EOS), mass-radius relations, and tidal deformabilities. To overcome the "hyperon puzzle," we employ the $σ - c u t$ scheme to obtain neutron stars with masses up to $2 M_{⊙}$ . We find that strange mesons appear at around 3 $ρ_{0}$ and reduce the critical density of baryons in the high-density region. With increasing coupling parameter $x_{σ Δ}$ , the $Δ$ resonances suppress hyperons, leading to a shift of the critical density towards lower values. The early appearance of $Δ$ resonances may play a crucial role in the stability of neutron stars. Strange mesons soften the EOS slightly, while $Δ$ resonances predominantly soften the EOS in the low-density region. By calculating tidal deformabilities and comparing with astronomical observation GW170817, we find that the inclusion of $Δ$ resonances decreases the radius of neutron stars.
Comments:
10 pages, 9 figures
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
arXiv:
2308.00007 [pdf]
Eur.Phys.J.Plus(2025)·3 citations
02
[Submitted on 27 Jul 2023]
Dynamical induced quark spin polarization by magnetic field at the early stage of heavy-ion collisions
Anping Huang🇨🇳 · Zilin Yuan🇨🇳 · Mei Huang🇨🇳
We present a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic process of quark spin polarization induced by magnetic fields at the pre-thermal stage in heavy-ion collisions by using the recently developed theoretical tool of chiral kinetic theory. Our findings demonstrate that the spin polarization of quarks is highly sensitive to the interactions between quarks. These interactions can delay the decay of early spin polarization vector while accelerating the decay of later spin polarization vector. Specifically, our simulations show the detailed process of how magnetic fields polarize quarks within the fireball and reveal that quark interactions lead to an acceleration effect on the average spin. Notably, the fireball of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in its early stages exhibits an incomplete electromagnetic response effect, which differs from the response predicted by Lenz's law. This discrepancy arises from quantum corrections involving the interactions between quark spin and electromagnetic fields.
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph)
arXiv:
2308.00075 [pdf]
PRD(2024)·1 citation
03
[Submitted on 31 Jul 2023]
Study of multinucleon transfer mechanism in $^{160} Gd +^{186} W$ collisions in stochastic mean-field theory}
S. Ayik · M. Arik · E. Erbayri · O. Yilmaz · A. S. Umar
Multinucleon transfer mechanism in collision of $^{160} Gd +^{186} W$ system is investigated in the framework of quantal transport description, based on the stochastic mean-field (SMF) theory. The SMF theory provides a microscopic approach for nuclear dynamics beyond the time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) approach by including mean-field fluctuations. Cross-sections for the primary fragment production are determined in the quantal transport description and compared with the available data.
Comments:
15 pages, 10 figures
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
2308.00131 [pdf]
0 citations
04
[Submitted on 31 Jul 2023]
Magnetic dipole operator from chiral effective field theory for many-body expansion methods
R. Seutin🇩🇪 · O. J. Hernandez🇩🇪 · T. Miyagi🇩🇪 · S. Bacca🇩🇪 · K. Hebeler🇩🇪 · S. König🇩🇪 · A. Schwenk🇩🇪
Many-body approaches for atomic nuclei generally rely on a basis expansion of the nuclear states, interactions, and current operators. In this work, we derive the representation of the magnetic dipole operator in plane-wave and harmonic-oscillator basis states, as needed for Faddeev calculations of few-body systems or many-body calculations within, e.g., the no-core shell model, the in-medium renormalization group, coupled-cluster theory, or the nuclear shell model. We focus in particular on the next-to-leading-order two-body contributions derived from chiral effective field theory. We provide detailed benchmarks and also comparisons with quantum Monte Carlo results for three-body systems. The derived operator matrix elements represent the basic input for studying magnetic properties of atomic nuclei based on chiral effective field theory.
Comments:
17 pages, 7 figures
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
arXiv:
2308.00136 [pdf]
PRC(2023)·13 citations
05
[Submitted on 1 Aug 2023]
Correlations between charge radii differences of mirror nuclei and stellar observables
P. Bano · S. P. Pattnaik · M. Centelles · X. Viñas · T. R. Routray
The correlation between the charge radii differences in mirror nuclei pairs and the neutron skin thickness has been studied with the so-called finite range simple effective interaction over a wide mass region. The so far precisely measured charge radii difference data within their experimental uncertainty ranges in the 34Ar-34S, 36Ca-36S, 38Ca-38Ar, and 54Ni-54Fe mirror pairs are used to ascertain an upper limit for the slope parameter of the nuclear symmetry energy L $\approx$ 100 MeV. This limiting value of L is found to be consistent with the upper bound of the NICER PSR J0740+6620 constraint at 1 $σ$ level for the radius R $_{1.4}$ of 1.4 M $_{⊙}$ neutron stars. The lower bound of the NICER R $_{1.4}$ data constrains the lower limit of L to $\approx$ 70 MeV. Within the range for L = 70-100 MeV the tidal deformability $Λ^{1.4}$ constraint, which is extracted from the GW170817 event at 2 $σ$ level, and the recent PREX-2 and CREX data on the neutron skin thickness are discussed.
Comments:
10 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
arXiv:
2308.00208 [pdf]
PRC(2023)·31 citations
06
[Submitted on 1 Aug 2023]
Orbital-free Density Functional Theory: differences and similarities between electronic and nuclear systems
Gianluca Colo' · Kouichi Hagino
Orbital-free Density Functional Theory (OF-DFT) has been used when studying atoms, molecules and solids. In nuclear physics, there has been basically no application of OF-DFT so far, as the Density Functional Theory (DFT) has been widely applied to the study of many nuclear properties mostly within the Kohn-Sham (KS) scheme. There are many realizations of nuclear KS-DFT, but computations become very demanding for heavy systems, such as superheavy nuclei and the inner crust of neutron stars, and it is hard to describe exotic nuclear shapes using a finite basis made with a limited number of orbitals. These bottlenecks could, in principle, be overcome by an orbital-free formulation of DFT. This work is a first step towards the application of OF-DFT to nuclei. In particular, we have implemented possible choices for an orbital-free kinetic energy and solved the associated Schrödinger equation either with simple potentials or with simplified nuclear density functionals. While the former choice sheds light on the differences between electronic and nuclear systems, the latter choice allows us discussing the practical applications to nuclei and the open questions.
Comments:
Submitted for publication
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); cond-mat.other (cond-mat.other)
arXiv:
2308.00357 [pdf]
PTEP(2023)·6 citations
07
[Submitted on 1 Aug 2023]
"Onishi" formulas
K. Neergård
The term "Onishi" formula refers to a family of related formulas for the overlap amplitude of two Bogolyubov quasi-fermion vacua. As a common feature, these formulas display a square root, which gives rise to an apparent sign ambiguity. For some members of the family, this sign ambiguity is real and unavoidable while in some other cases it is not. The relation between the different Onishi formulas is discussed.
Comments:
Presented at the 40th Anniversary International Workshop on Nuclear Theory, 2-8 July 2023, Rila Mountains, Bulgaria
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
2308.00485 [pdf]
Nucl.Theor.(2023)·1 citation
08
[Submitted on 1 Aug 2023]
Two-pion interferometry for partially coherent sources in relativistic heavy-ion collisions in a multi-phase transport model
Shi-Yao Wang🇨🇳 · Jun-Ting Ye🇨🇳 · Wei-Ning Zhang🇨🇳
We perform two-pion Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) interferometry for the partially coherent pion-emitting sources in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, using a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model. A longitudinal coherent emission length, as well as a transverse coherent emission length, are introduced to the pion generation coordinates in calculating the HBT correlation functions of the partially coherent sources. We compare the model results with and without coherent emission conditions with experimental data in Au-Au collisions at center-of-mass energy $s_{N N} =$ 200 GeV, and in Pb-Pb collisions at center-of-mass energy $s_{N N} =$ 2.76 TeV, and find that the HBT results of the partially coherent sources are closer to the experimental data than those of chaotic sources.
Comments:
20 pages,8 figures
Subjects:
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
2308.00567 [pdf]
PRC(2024)·3 citations
09
[Submitted on 31 Jul 2023] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Back-to-back inclusive dijets in DIS at small $x$ : Complete NLO results and predictions
Paul Caucal🇫🇷 · Farid Salazar🇺🇸 · Björn Schenke🇺🇸 · Tomasz Stebel🇵🇱 · Raju Venugopalan🇺🇸
We compute the back-to-back dijet cross-section in deep inelastic scattering (DIS) at small $x$ to next-to-leading order (NLO) in the Color Glass Condensate effective field theory. Our result can be factorized into a convolution of the Weizsäcker-Williams gluon transverse momentum dependent distribution function (WW gluon TMD) with a universal soft factor and an NLO coefficient function. The soft factor includes both double and single logarithms in the ratio of the relative transverse momentum $P_{⊥}$ of the dijet pair to the dijet momentum imbalance $q_{⊥}$ ; its renormalization group (RG) evolution is resummed into the Sudakov factor. Likewise, the WW TMD obeys a nonlinear RG equation in $x$ that is kinematically constrained to satisfy both lifetime and rapidity ordering of the projectile. Exact analytical expressions are obtained for the NLO coefficient function of transversely and longitudinally polarized photons. Our results allow for the first quantitative separation of the dynamics of Sudakov suppression from that of gluon saturation. They can be extended to other final states and provide a framework for precision tests of novel QCD many-body dynamics at the Electron-Ion Collider.
Comments:
41 pages, 9 figures, 5 supplemental materials, to be published in Physical Review Letters
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
2308.00022 [pdf]
PRL(2024)·83 citations
10
[Submitted on 31 Jul 2023] (cross-list from hep-ph)
A Formalism for Extracting Track Functions from Jet Measurements
Kyle Lee🇺🇸 · Ian Moult🇺🇸 · Felix Ringer🇺🇸 · Wouter J. Waalewijn🇳🇱
The continued success of the jet substructure program will require widespread use of tracking information to enable increasingly precise measurements of a broader class of observables. The recent reformulation of jet substructure in terms of energy correlators has simplified the incorporation of universal non-perturbative matrix elements, so called "track functions", in jet substructure calculations. These advances make it timely to understand how these universal non-perturbative functions can be extracted from hadron collider data, which is complicated by the use jet algorithms. In this paper we introduce a new class of jet functions, which we call (semi-inclusive) track jet functions, which describe measurements of the track energy fraction in identified jets. These track jet functions can be matched onto the universal track functions, with perturbatively calculable matching coefficients that incorporate the jet algorithm dependence. We perform this matching, and present phenomenological results for the charged energy fraction in jets at the LHC and EIC/HERA at collinear next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. We show that higher moments of the charged energy fraction directly exhibit non-linear Lorentzian renormalization group flows, allowing the study of these flows with collider data. Our factorization theorem enables the extraction of universal track functions from jet measurements, opening the door to their use for a precision jet substructure program.
Comments:
22 pages, 8 beautiful figures
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
2308.00028 [pdf]
JHEP(2024)·26 citations
11
[Submitted on 31 Jul 2023] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Study of the azimuthal asymmetry in heavy ion collisions combining initial state momentum orientation and final state collective effects
Lucas Soster Moriggi🇧🇷 · Érison dos Santos Rocha🇧🇷 · Magno Valério Trindade Machado🇧🇷
In the present work we investigate the source of azimuthal asymmetry for nuclear collision using a model that contemplates particles produced in the initial hard collisions and the collective effects described by a Blast-Wave like expansion. The latter is described by the relaxation time approximation of the Boltzmann transport equation. The parameters regarding collective flow and asymmetry are fitted by the experimental data from $p_{T}$ spectrum and $v_{2}$ for PbPb and XeXe collisions at different centrality classes. As a by-product the ratio of final elliptic flow with the initial anisotropy, $v_{2} / ϵ_{2}$ , and the average transverse momentum are predicted.
Comments:
Version to be published in Physical Review D
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
2308.00181 [pdf]
PRD(2023)·4 citations
12
[Submitted on 1 Aug 2023] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Inclusive, prompt and non-prompt $J / ψ$ identification in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider using machine learning
Suraj Prasad🇮🇳 · Neelkamal Mallick🇮🇳 · Raghunath Sahoo🇮🇳
Studies related to $J / ψ$ meson, a bound state of charm and anti-charm quarks ( $c c ˉ$ ), in heavy-ion collisions, provide genuine testing grounds for the theory of strong interaction, quantum chromodynamics (QCD). To better understand the underlying production mechanism, cold nuclear matter effects, and influence from the quark-gluon plasma, baseline measurements are also performed in proton-proton ( $pp$ ) and proton-nucleus ( $p$ --A) collisions. The inclusive $J / ψ$ measurement has contributions from both prompt and non-prompt productions. The prompt $J / ψ$ is produced directly from the hadronic interactions or via feed-down from directly produced higher charmonium states, whereas non-prompt $J / ψ$ comes from the decay of beauty hadrons. In experiments, $J / ψ$ is reconstructed through its electromagnetic decays to lepton pairs, in either $e^{+} + e^{-}$ or $μ^{+} + μ^{-}$ decay channels. In this work, for the first time, machine learning techniques are implemented to separate the prompt and non-prompt dimuon pairs from the background to obtain a better identification of the $J / ψ$ signal for different production modes. The study has been performed in $pp$ collisions at $s = 7$ and 13 TeV simulated using PYTHIA8. Machine learning models such as XGBoost and LightGBM are explored. The models could achieve up to 99\% prediction accuracy. The transverse momentum ( $p_{T}$ ) and rapidity ( $y$ ) differential measurements of inclusive, prompt, and non-prompt $J / ψ$ , its multiplicity dependence, and the $p_{T}$ dependence of fraction of non-prompt $J / ψ$ ( $f_{B}$ ) are shown. These results are compared to experimental findings wherever possible.
Comments:
Same as the published version in Phys. Rev. D
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
2308.00329 [pdf]
PRD(2024)·17 citations
13
[Submitted on 1 Aug 2023] (cross-list from hep-th)
Stark effect and dissociation of mesons in holographic conductor
Shuta Ishigaki🇨🇳 · Shunichiro Kinoshita🇯🇵 · Masataka Matsumoto🇨🇳
We study the meson spectrum of the $N = 4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with $N = 2$ fundamental hypermultiplets for a finite electric field by using the D3/D7 model. The spectrum for scalar and vector mesons is computed by analyzing the (quasi-)normal modes for the fluctuations of the D7-brane embedding and gauge fields. In the presence of an electric field, two different phases in the background are realized: the meson and dissociation phases. In this paper, we analyze the meson spectrum of scalar and vector mesons for all ranges of the electric field and explore the effect of the electric field on the meson spectrum, that is, the Stark effect. In the meson spectrum, we observe the avoided crossing between different levels due to the coupling of fluctuations via the electric field.
Comments:
31 pages, 12 figures. v2: match published version
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Theory (hep-th); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
2308.00361 [pdf]
JHEP(2023)·3 citations
14
[Submitted on 1 Aug 2023] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Exploring robust correlations between fermionic dark matter model parameters and neutron star properties: A two-fluid perspective
Prashant Thakur🇮🇳 · Tuhin Malik🇵🇹 · Arpan Das🇵🇱 · T. K. Jha🇮🇳 · Constança Providência🇵🇹
The current observational properties of neutron stars have not definitively ruled out the possibility of dark matter. In this study, we primarily focus on exploring correlations between the dark matter model parameters and different neutron star properties using a rich set of EOSs. We adopt a two-fluid approach to calculate the properties of neutron stars. For the nuclear matter EOS, we employ several realistic EOS derived from the relativistic mean field model (RMF), each exhibiting varying stiffness and composition. In parallel, we look into the dark matter EOS, considering fermionic matter with repulsive interaction described by a relativistic mean field Lagrangian. A reasonable range of parameters is sampled meticulously. Interestingly, our results reveal a promising correlation between the dark matter model parameters and stellar properties, particularly when we ignore the uncertainties in the nuclear matter EOS. However, when introducing uncertainties in the nuclear sector, the correlation weakens, suggesting that the task of conclusively constraining any particular dark matter model might be challenging using global properties alone, such as mass, radius, and tidal deformability. Notably, we find that dark-matter admixed stars tend to have higher central baryonic density, potentially allowing for non-nucleonic degrees of freedom or direct Urca processes in stars with lower masses. There is also a tantalizing hint regarding the detection of stars with the same mass but different surface temperatures, which may indicate the presence of dark matter. With our robust and extensive dataset, we delve deeper and demonstrate that even in the presence of dark matter, the semi-universal C-Love relation remains intact.
Comments:
15 Pages, 12 figures, 4 tables
Subjects:
High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
arXiv:
2308.00650 [pdf]
PRD(2024)·54 citations

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