Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Thursday·January 11, 2024

9 papers—3 primary·6 cross-listed

01
Light Hypernuclei Production in Au+Au Collisions at $s_{N N} =$ 3 GeV within Thermodynamic Approach
M. Kozhevnikova🇷🇺 · Yu. B. Ivanov🇷🇺
Simulations of the $Λ$ -hyperon and light-hypernuclei production in Au+Au collisions at $s_{N N} =$ 3 GeV were performed within updated Three-fluid Hydrodynamics-based Event Simulator Extended by UrQMD (Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics) final State interactions (THESEUS). The light (hyper)nuclei are treated thermodynamically, i.e. they are considered on the equal basis with hadrons. The only additional parameter is related to the late freeze-out that imitates the afterburner stage for the light (hyper)nuclei because the UrQMD is not able to dynamically treat them. The calculation of hypernuclei production is completely similar to that of light nuclei. The hypernuclei results are compared with recent STAR data. It is found that the calculated midrapidity $_{Λ}^{3}$ H/ $Λ$ ratio falls within the error bars of the experimental point. It is remarkable that large difference between the $t / p$ and $_{Λ}^{3}$ H/ $Λ$ ratios is reproduced without any additional parameters. Rapidity distributions of $_{Λ}^{3}$ H/ $Λ$ and $_{Λ}^{4}$ He/ $Λ$ ratios are predicted. Midrapidity mean transverse momenta of protons, $Λ$ s and light (hyper)nuclei in central collisions well agree with the data. The calculated directed flow also reasonably well reproduces of the data.
nucl-thhep-phnucl-exPRC(2024)·7 citations
02
Prediction of two-neutron halos in the $N = 28$ isotones $^{40}$ Mg and $^{39}$ Na
Jagjit Singh · J. Casal · W. Horiuchi · N. R. Walet · W. Satula
The ground states of the nuclei $^{40}$ Mg and $^{39}$ Na are investigated using the hyperspherical formalism. Since they are located at the edge of the "big island of inversion", we concentrate on whether we are likely to find two-neutron Borromean halos in these nuclei. A three-body model with effective $n$ - $n$ and $^{38}$ Mg $+ n$ interactions is built for $^{40}$ Mg based on the available data. We also give predictions for the low-lying spectrum of $^{38}$ Na $=^{37}$ Na $+ n$ and two-neutron separation energy of the $^{39}$ Na nucleus. Depending on parameter choice, we report an increase in the matter radii in the range $0.1$ - $0.5$ fm relative to those of the core nuclei. The results suggest a two-neutron halo structure in $^{40}$ Mg for a subset of parameters, reinforcing the prediction of a Borromean halo nucleus. The calculations indicate that a two-neutron halo is even more likely for $^{39}$ Na. As expected, the halo is linked to the disappearance of the shell gap in these nuclei due to the inversion of the $2 p_{3/2}$ and $1 f_{7/2}$ orbitals. We study the total cross section for scattering of these nuclei from a carbon target using a Glauber model and show that these provide a clear signal to assess the halo structure.
nucl-thPLB(2024)·15 citations
03
Deciphering yield modification of hadron-triggered semi-inclusive recoil jets in heavy-ion collisions
Yang He🇨🇳 · Maowu Nie🇨🇳 · Shanshan Cao🇨🇳 · Rongrong Ma🇺🇸 · Li Yi🇨🇳 · Helen Caines🇺🇸
In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, a hot and dense state of matter, called the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), is produced. Semi-inclusive jets recoiling from trigger hadrons of high transverse momenta ( $p_{T}$ ) can serve as an effective probe of the QGP properties, as they are expected to experience jet quenching when traversing the QGP. Recent experimental results on the ratio of recoil jet yields normalized by the trigger counts in heavy-ion collisions to that in $p$ + $p$ collisions ( $I_{AA}$ ) pose an unexpected challenge in its interpretation. It is observed that $I_{AA}$ rises with the jet $p_{T}$ and possibly exceeds unity at high $p_{T}$ , while traditionally it is expected that jet quenching would lead to $I_{AA} < 1$ . To address this challenge, we utilize the Linear Boltzmann Transport (LBT) model to simulate jet transport in the QGP, and study the effect of jet quenching for high- $p_{T}$ triggers and recoil jets separately on $I_{AA}$ . We find that the quenching of the colored triggers alone is responsible for the rising trend and larger-than-unity value observed experimentally.
nucl-thnucl-exPLB(2024)·13 citations
04
Understanding the nature of baryon resonances
Derek B. Leinweber🇦🇺 · Curtis D. Abell🇦🇺 · Liam C. Hockley🇦🇺 · Waseem Kamleh🇦🇺 · Zhan-Wei Liu🇨🇳 · Finn M. Stokes🇦🇺 · Anthony W. Thomas🇦🇺 · Jia-Jun Wu🇨🇳
This presentation opens with a brief review of lattice QCD calculations showing the $2 s$ radial excitation of the nucleon sits at approximately 2 GeV, well above the Roper resonance position. We then proceed to reconcile this observation with experimental scattering data. While the idea of dressing quark-model states in a coupled-channel analysis to describe scattering data has been around for decades, it's now possible to bring these descriptions to the finite-volume of lattice QCD for confrontation with lattice-QCD calculations. This combination of lattice QCD and experiment demands that we reconsider our preconceived notions about the quark-model and its excitation spectrum. We close with a discussion of an unanticipated resolution to the missing baryon resonances problem.
↳ hep-lathep-phnucl-thNuovo Cim.C(2024)·12 citations
05
Toward an estimate of the amplitude $X (3872) \to π^{0} χ_{c 1} (1 P)$
N. N. Achasov🇷🇺 · G. N. Shestakov🇷🇺
The well-known model of the triangle diagrams with $D^{*} D ˉ D^{*}$ and $D ˉ^{*} D D ˉ^{*}$ mesons in the loops is compared with the modern data on the amplitude of the $X (3872) \to π^{0} χ_{c 1} (1 P)$ decay. Considering the $X (3872)$ object as a $χ_{c 1} (2 P)$ charmonium state, we introduce a parameter $ξ$ characterizing the scale of the isotopic symmetry violation in this decay and find a lower limit of $ξ ≃ 0.0916$ . The model incorporates the only fitted parameter associated with the form factor. We analyze in detail the influence of the form factor on the amplitude $X (3872) \to π^{0} χ_{c 1} (1 P)$ and on the parameter $ξ$ . As the suppression of the amplitude by the form factor increases, $ξ$ increases. Due to the fact that the $X (3872)$ resonance is located practically at the threshold of the $D^{0} D ˉ^{* 0}$ channel, the amplitude of $X (3872) \to π^{0} χ_{c 1} (1 P)$ turns out to be proportional to $m_{d} - m_{u}$ . Using the estimating values for the coupling constants $g_{X D D ˉ^{*}}$ , $g_{χ_{c 1} D D ˉ^{*}}$ , and $g_{D^{* 0} D^{* 0} π^{0}}$ , we show that the model of the triangle loop diagrams is in reasonable agreement with the available data. Apart from the difference in the masses of neutral and charged charmed mesons, any additional exotic sources of isospin violation in $X (3872) \to π^{0} χ_{c 1} (1 P)$ (such as a significant difference between the coupling constants $g_{X D^{0} D ˉ^{* 0}}$ and $g_{X D^{+} D^{*-}}$ ) are not required to interpret the data. This indirectly confirms the isotopic neutrality of the $X (3872)$ , which is naturally realized for the $c c ˉ$ state $χ_{c 1} (2 P)$ .
↳ hep-phhep-exnucl-thPRD(2024)·10 citations
06
Lee-Yang edge singularities in QCD via the Dyson-Schwinger Equations
Zi-Yan Wan🇨🇳 · Yi Lu🇨🇳 · Fei Gao🇨🇳 · Yu-Xin Liu🇨🇳
We take the Dyson-Schwinger Equation approach of QCD for the quark propagator at complex chemical potential to study the QCD phase transition. The phase transition line of the $(2 + 1)$ -flavor QCD matter in the imaginary chemical potential region is computed via a simplified truncation scheme, whose curvature is found to be consistent with the one at real chemical potential. Moreover, the computation in the complex chemical potential plane allows us to determine the location of the Lee-Yang edge singularities. We show explicitly that the critical end point coincides with the Lee-Yang edge singularities on the real $μ_{B}$ axis. We also investigate the scaling behavior of the singularities and discuss the possibility of extrapolating the CEP from a certain range of chemical potential.
↳ hep-phhep-thnucl-thEPJC(2024)·10 citations
07
Importance of strange sea to the charge radii and quadrupole moment of $J^{P} = \frac{1}{2}^{+}, \frac{3}{2}^{+}$ baryons
Preeti Bhall🇮🇳 · A. Upadhyay🇮🇳
A statistical framework in conjugation with the principle of detailed balance is employed to examine the low-energy properties i.e. charge radii and quadrupole moment of J $^{P}$ = $\frac{1}{2}^{+}$ octet and J $^{P}$ = $\frac{3}{2}^{+}$ decuplet baryon. The statistical approach assumes the expansion of baryonic system in terms of quark-gluon Fock states. We systematically apply operator formalism along with the statistical approach to study the charge radii and quadrupole moment of baryons. Based on the probabilities of all possible Fock states in spin, flavor and color space, the importance of sea with quarks and gluons is studied. The individual contribution of the constituent quarks and sea which contains terms of scalar, vector and tensor is explored. Due to large mass difference between strange and non-strange content, the SU(3) breaking effect are also investigated. The extent to which strange quark-antiquark pair is considered in sea is constrained by the mass of hadrons, the free energy of gluons in conformity with experimental indications. We focus on the individual contribution of strange and non-strange sea (g, $⟨ u u ˉ ⟩$ , $⟨ d d ˉ ⟩$ and $⟨ s s ˉ ⟩$ ) accomodability in the respective hadrons for their charge radii and quadrupole moment. The present work has been compared with various theoretical approaches and some known experimental observations. Our computed results may provide important information for upcoming experimental findings.
↳ hep-phnucl-thPTEP(2024)·3 citations
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State-Specific Coupled-Cluster Methods for Excited States
Yann Damour · Anthony Scemama · Denis Jacquemin · Fábris Kossoski · Pierre-François Loos
We reexamine $Δ$ CCSD, a state-specific coupled-cluster (CC) with single and double excitations (CCSD) approach that targets excited states through the utilization of non-Aufbau determinants. This methodology is particularly efficient when dealing with doubly excited states, a domain where the standard equation-of-motion CCSD (EOM-CCSD) formalism falls short. Our goal here is to evaluate the effectiveness of $Δ$ CCSD when applied to other types of excited states, comparing its consistency and accuracy with EOM-CCSD. To this end, we report a benchmark on excitation energies computed with the $Δ$ CCSD and EOM-CCSD methods, for a set of molecular excited-state energies that encompasses not only doubly excited states but also doublet-doublet transitions and (singlet and triplet) singly-excited states of closed-shell systems. In the latter case, we rely on a minimalist version of multireference CC known as the two-determinant CCSD method to compute the excited states. Our dataset, consisting of 276 excited states stemming from the \textsc{quest} database [Véril \textit{et al.}, \textit{WIREs Comput. Mol. Sci.} \textbf{2021}, 11, e1517], provides a significant base to draw general conclusions concerning the accuracy of $Δ$ CCSD. Except for the doubly-excited states, we found that $Δ$ CCSD underperforms EOM-CCSD. For doublet-doublet transitions, the difference between the mean absolute errors (MAEs) of the two methodologies (of \SI{0.10}{\eV} and \SI{0.07}{\eV}) is less pronounced than that obtained for singly-excited states of closed-shell systems (MAEs of \SI{0.15}{\eV} and \SI{0.08}{\eV}). This discrepancy is largely attributed to a greater number of excited states in the latter set exhibiting multiconfigurational characters, which are more challenging for $Δ$ CCSD.
↳ physics.chem-phcond-mat.mtrl-scinucl-thJ.Chem.Theor.Comput.(2024)·5 citations
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Exploring the QCD phase diagram with three flavors of Möbius domain wall fermions
Yu Zhang🇯🇵 · Yasumichi Aoki🇯🇵 · Shoji Hashimoto🇯🇵 · Issaku Kanamori · Takashi Kaneko🇯🇵 · Yoshifumi Nakamura🇯🇵
We present an update on the study of the QCD phase transition with 3 flavors of Möbius domain wall fermions at zero baryon density. We performed simulations on lattices of size $3 6^{3} \times 12 \times 16$ and $2 4^{3} \times 12 \times 32$ with a variety of quark masses at a fixed lattice spacing $a = 0.1361 (20)$ fm, which correspond to a temperature 121(2) MeV. By analyzing the chiral condensate, chiral susceptibilitities and Binder cumulant on $3 6^{3} \times 12 \times 16$ lattices together with the result obtained from our previous study on $2 4^{3} \times 12 \times 16$ lattices, we identified a crossover occurring at quark mass around $m_{q}^{MS} (2 GeV) \sim 3 - 4$ MeV for this temperature. Besides, we show the effects of residual chiral symmetry breaking on chiral condensate and chiral susceptibilities between $L_{s} = 16$ and 32.
↳ hep-lathep-phhep-thnucl-thPoS(2024)·11 citations

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