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Thursday·January 18, 2024

7 papers—3 primary·4 cross-listed

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  1. 01

    [Submitted on 16 Jan 2024]

    Carbon-12 in the generalized Skyrme model

    Christoph Adam🇪🇸 · Carlos Naya🇵🇱 · Andrzej Wereszczyński🇵🇱

    We study properties of the C nucleus within the generalized Skyrme model where, in addition to the standard massive Skyrme model, the sextic term and the pionic potential squared are included. We find that the model continues to accurately describe the rotational bands of the C nucleus. In addition, at variance with the case of the standard Skyrme model, it provides the correct energy ordering of the classical solutions which correspond to the ground state and the Hoyle state, respectively.

    Comments:
    13 pages, 2 figures
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Theory (hep-th)
    arXiv:
    2401.08778 [pdf]
    3 citations
  2. 02

    [Submitted on 17 Jan 2024]

    Progress and Challenges in Small Systems

    Jorge Noronha🇺🇸 · Björn Schenke🇺🇸 · Chun Shen🇺🇸 · Wenbin Zhao🇺🇸

    We present a comprehensive review of the theoretical and experimental progress in the investigation of novel high-temperature quantum chromodynamics phenomena in small systems at both the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider. We highlight the challenges and opportunities associated with studying small systems, by which we generally mean collision systems that involve at least one light ion or even a photon projectile. We discuss perspectives on possible future research directions to better understand the underlying physics at work in the collisions of small systems.

    Comments:
    62 pages; 9 figures; Contribution to Quark-Gluon Plasma 6 edited by Xin-Nian Wang; v2 matched to the publish version
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph)
    arXiv:
    2401.09208 [pdf]
    IJMPE(2024)·63 citations
  3. 03

    [Submitted on 17 Jan 2024]

    Deuteron gravitational form factors: exchange currents

    Fangcheng He🇺🇸 · Ismail Zahed🇺🇸

    Following on our recent analysis of the energy momentum tensor (EMT) of light nuclei in the impulse approximation, we evaluate the leading exchange corrections also upto momenta of the order of the nucleon mass. The exchange contributions to the EMT, are composed of the pair interaction, plus the seagull and the pion exchange interactions, modulo the recoil correction. The exchange contributions are shown to satisfy the current conservation requirement. These contributions are small compared to those from the impulse approximation for most of the deuteron gravitational form factors (GFFs), for momenta smaller than half of the nucleon mass. For larger momenta, the exchange contributions are significant for the deuteron A- and D-GFFs. We suggest that the pion GFFs can be extracted from the exchange contributions of select deuteron GFFs.

    Comments:
    17 pages, 4 figures
    Subjects:
    Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph)
    arXiv:
    2401.09318 [pdf]
    PRC(2024)·7 citations
  4. 04

    [Submitted on 16 Jan 2024] (cross-list from hep-lat)

    Searching for the QCD critical point using Lee-Yang edge singularities

    D. A. Clarke · P. Dimopoulos · F. Di Renzo · J. Goswami · C. Schmidt · S. Singh · K. Zambello

    Using QCD calculations at physical quark mass and purely imaginary baryon chemical potential, we locate Lee-Yang edge singularities in the complex chemical potential plane. These singularities have been obtained by the multi-point Padé approach applied to the net baryon number density. We recently showed that singularities extracted with this approach are consistent with universal scaling near the Roberge-Weiss transition. Here we study the universal scaling of these singularities in the vicinity of the QCD critical endpoint. Making use of an appropriate scaling ansatz, we extrapolate these singularities on and lattices towards the real axis to estimate the position of a possible QCD critical point. We find an approach toward the real axis with decreasing temperature. We compare this estimate with a HotQCD estimate obtained from poles of a [4,4]-Padé resummation of the eighth-order Taylor expansion of the QCD pressure.

    Comments:
    8 pages, 1 figure, presented at the 40th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2401.08820 [pdf]
    PoS(2024)·13 citations
  5. 05

    [Submitted on 17 Jan 2024] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Mass suppression effect in QCD radiation and hadron angular distribution in jet

    Chuan-Hui Jiang🇨🇳 · Hai Tao Li🇨🇳 · Shi-Yuan Li🇨🇳 · Zong-Guo Si🇨🇳

    The finite mass of the heavy quark suppresses the collimated radiations, which is generally referred to as the dead cone effect. In this paper, we study the distribution of hadron multiplicity over the hadron opening angle with respect to the jet axis in various flavors of jets. The corresponding measurement can be the most straightforward and simplest to explore the dynamical evolution of the radiations in the corresponding jet, which can expose the mass effect. We also propose the transverse energy-weighted angular distribution which sheds light on the interplay between perturbative and nonperturbative effects in the radiation. With Monte-Carlo simulations, our calculation shows that the dead cone effect can be clearly seen by taking the ratio between the b jet and the light-quark (inclusive) jet, promising to be measured at the LHC in the future.

    Comments:
    7 pages, 4 figures; published version in CPC
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2401.09033 [pdf]
    CPC(2024)·3 citations
  6. 06

    [Submitted on 17 Jan 2024] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Limiting attractors in heavy-ion collisions -- the interplay between bottom-up and hydrodynamic attractors

    Kirill Boguslavski🇦🇹 · Aleksi Kurkela🇳🇴 · Tuomas Lappi🇫🇮 · Florian Lindenbauer🇦🇹 · Jarkko Peuron🇫🇮

    In this contribution to the Quark Matter 2023 proceedings, we study the hydrodynamization process in heavy-ion collisions using QCD kinetic theory and introduce the new concept of limiting attractors. They are defined via an extrapolation of observables to vanishing and infinite couplings. We find that the pressure ratio exhibits both a hydrodynamic and a bottom-up limiting attractor, while the ratios of hard probes transport coefficients and are better described in terms of the new bottom-up limiting attractor.

    Comments:
    4 pages, 2 figures; Quark Matter 2023 Conference Proceeding
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2401.09088 [pdf]
    EPJ Web Conf.(2024)·2 citations
  7. 07

    [Submitted on 17 Jan 2024] (cross-list from hep-th)

    Hydrodynamical duals of the gravitational axial anomaly and the cosmological constant

    R. V. Khakimov🇷🇺 · G. Yu. Prokhorov🇷🇺 · O. V. Teryaev🇷🇺 · V. I. Zakharov🇷🇺

    We construct the hydrodynamic expansion for a rotating and accelerated medium in a curved space-time, and establish a duality between the currents related to the cosmological constant and the acceleration. Then we consider the more general case with a non-zero Weyl tensor, and show the relationship between the current in flat space-time and the gravitational axial anomaly. This generalizes the previous derivation to the case with a non-zero Ricci tensor.

    Comments:
    15 pages
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2401.09247 [pdf]
    PRD(2024)·3 citations

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