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Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Friday·September 26, 2025

8 papers4 primary·4 cross-listed

  1. 05

    Roles of axial anomaly effects in cold and dense two-color QCD with flavors

    Manato Sakai🇯🇵 · Daiki Suenaga🇯🇵

    We explore phase structures and hadron mass spectra in cold and dense two-color QCD with flavors where the sign problem disappears. We particularly focus on axial anomaly effects. We employ an linear sigma model based on the Pauli-Gürsey symmetry to describe negative-parity as well as positive-parity hadrons, for which low-energy excitations are appropriately described particularly in the baryon superfluid phase with light diquark condensates. As a result, the strange chiral condensate is found to be enhanced in the superfluid phase owing to the flavor-mixing structure of axial anomaly effects. We also confirm this enhancement by means of the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. Besides, our present analysis predicts the existence of a novel superfluid phase where heavy diquarks condense in dense regime. The topological susceptibility with flavors from the viewpoints of the anomaly effects and chiral-symmetry restoration is investigated. Furthermore, we derive a complete inverse mass hierarchy for negative-parity diquarks with sufficient anomaly effects. Our findings are expected to provide future lattice simulations with useful information on flavor-symmetry violation from the axial anomaly aspects in cold and dense two-color QCD medium.

    hep-phhep-latnucl-thPRD(2025)·1 citation
  2. 06

    Spectrum of Light Hexaquark States in Triquark-antitriquark Configuration

    Xuan-Heng Zhang🇨🇳 · Sheng-Qi Zhang🇨🇳 · Cong-Feng Qiao🇨🇳

    To understand the nature of and observed by the BESIII collaboration in the system, we systematically investigate the possibility that these states are compact hexaquark with triquark-antitriquark configurations for the first time. Within the framework of QCD sum rules, the mass spectrum and decay constants of such hexaquark states with quantum numbers are studied. Consequently, six independent and nondegenerate hexaquark candidates are obtained, among which two states exhibit masses consistent with , while the two states differ markedly from the mass of or . The remaining two states with and may serve as predictions for potential compact hexaquark configurations. Furthermore, the possible decay modes of these hexaquark states are analyzed, which could be the experimental signatures for their identification.

    hep-phhep-exnucl-thPRD(2026)·7 citations
  3. 07

    Baryons as linked vortices in QCD matter with isospin asymmetry

    Yu Hamada🇩🇪 · Muneto Nitta🇯🇵 · Zebin Qiu🇯🇵

    We investigate a baryonic structure in low-energy QCD via a model-independent way using the chiral perturbation theory at the leading order, in the presence of the baryon chemical potential , the isospin chemical potential , and the electromagnetic coupling. For such a scenario in the chiral limit, it has been known that the neutral pion winds like in the chiral soliton lattice, confined within an Abrikosov-Nielsen-Olesen (ANO) vortex of the charged pions. This structure undergoes a drastic transformation when the pion mass is introduced, i.e., both charged and neutral pions condense in the bulk, allowing two distinct types of vortices: the charged pions constitute a local ANO-like vortex, while the neutral pion configures a global vortex which is further attached to a domain wall also known as the chiral soliton. Remarkably, the ANO vortex forms a topological linking with the closed global vortex line, when exceeds its critical value as a function of . The linking number has the physical meaning of the baryon number in view of the Wess-Zumino-Witten term. In this sense, the linked configuration realizes a stable Skyrmion-type solution, but innovatively without the Skyrme term. We therefore propose a novel phase of dense baryonic matter comprised of such vortices, which shall play a role in the low-energy QCD phase diagram.

    hep-phhep-thnucl-thJHEP(2026)·6 citations
  4. 08

    Thermal quarks and Polyakov loops in two-color dense QCD

    Yugo Kurebayashi🇯🇵 · Toru Kojo🇯🇵 · Daiki Suenaga🇯🇵

    We study confinement and deconfinement in dense two color QCD by analyzing the dynamics of thermal quarks and gluons. The Polyakov loop is used as a probe of the relevant thermal excitations, distinguishing quark and hadron dominated regimes in dense matter. To describe the Polyakov loop, we adopt both lattice informed phenomenological models and the massive Yang Mills framework. After calibrating these models at zero density, we investigate in medium modifications of the Polyakov loops and gluon propagators at finite temperature and density. Diquark gaps control the screening at zero temperature, whereas the screening due to thermal quarks is sensitive to the Polyakov loop. Inclusion of the Polyakov loop helps to reproduce lattice data at low temperature, suggesting that thermal excitations are predominantly hadronic rather than uncorrelated quarks.

    hep-phhep-latnucl-thUniverse(2025)·3 citations

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