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Isospin dependent Pauli blocking and nucleon mean free path in isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter
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Nuclear symmetry potential in the relativistic impulse approximation
Using the relativistic impulse approximation with the Love-Franey NN scattering amplitude developed by Murdock and Horowitz, we investigate the low-energy (100{<=}E{sub kin}{<=}400 MeV) behavior of the nucleon Dirac optical potential, the Schroedinger-equivalent potential, and the nuclear symmetry potential in isospin asymmetric nuclear matter. We find that the nuclear symmetry potential at fixed baryon density decreases with increasing nucleon energy. In particular, the nuclear symmetry potential at saturation density changes from positive to negative values at nucleon kinetic energy of about 200 MeV. Furthermore, the obtained energy and density dependence of the nuclear symmetry potential is consistent with those of the isospin- and momentum-dependent MDI interaction with x=0, which has been found to describe reasonably well both the isospin diffusion data from heavy-ion collisions and the empirical neutron-skin thickness of {sup 208}Pb.
17798154
Supersoft symmetry energy encountering non-Newtonian gravity in neutron stars.
Considering the non-Newtonian gravity proposed in grand unification theories, we show that the stability and observed global properties of neutron stars cannot rule out the supersoft nuclear symmetry energies at suprasaturation densities. The degree of possible violation of the inverse-square law of gravity in neutron stars is estimated using an equation of state of neutron-rich nuclear matter consistent with the available terrestrial laboratory data.
20283699
Momentum anisotropies in the quark coalescence model
Based on the quark coalescence model, we derive relations among the momentum anisotropies of mesons and baryons in relativistic heavy ion collisions from a given, but arbitrary azimuthal distribution for the partons. These relations allow us to estimate the higher-order anisotropies in the initial partonic matter from the measured hadronic anisotropies. Besides the familiar even Fourier coefficients such as the elliptic flow, we also pay attention to odd Fourier coefficients such as the directed flow, which has been observed at finite rapidity even at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider energies.
118398008
Constraining the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy with heavy-ion reactions and its astrophysical im- pact
Recent analyses of several isospin effects in heavy-ion reactions have allowed us to constrain the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy at sub-saturation densities within a narrow range. Combined with constraints on the Equation of State (EOS) of symmetric nuclear matter obtained previously from analyzing the elliptic flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the EOS of neutron-rich nuclear matter is thus partially constrained. Here we report effects of the partially constrained EOS of neutron-rich nuclear matter on the mass- radius correlation, moment of inertia, elliptical deformation and gravitational radiation of (rapidly) rotating neutron stars.
119110745
Causal loops in the theory of relative locality
We find that relative locality, a recently proposed Planck-scale deformation of special relativity, suffers from the existence of causal loops. A simple and general construction of such on-shell loop processes is studied. We then show that even in one of the weakest deformations of the Poincar\'e group in relative locality, causality can be violated.
118395281
NLO corrections to $\chi_{bJ}$ to two-$J/\psi$ exclusive decay processes
The next-to-leading order QCD corrections for $\chi_{bJ}$, the p-wave bottomonium, to $J/\psi$ pair decay processes are evaluated utilizing NRQCD factorization formalism. The scale dependence of $\chi_{b2}\rightarrow J/\psi J/\psi$ process is depressed with NLO corrections, and hence the uncertainties in the leading order results are greatly reduced. The total branch ratios are found to be the order of $10^{-5}$ for all three $\chi_{bJ}\rightarrow J/\psi J/\psi$ processes, indicating that they are observable in the LHC and super-B experiments.
119289860
P-wave quarkonium decays to meson pairs
A bstractThe processes of p-wave Quarkonium exclusive decays to two mesons are investigated, in which the final state vector mesons with various polarizations are considered separately. In the calculation, the initial heavy quarkonia are treated in the framework of non-relativistic quantum chromodynamics, whereas for light mesons, the light cone distribution amplitudes up to twist-3 are employed. It turns out that the higher twist contribution is significant and provides a possible explanation for the observation of the hadron helicity selection rule violated processes χc1→ φφ, ωω by the BESIII collaboration in recently. We also evaluate the χb1→ J/ψJ/ψ process and find that its branching ratio is big enough to be measured at the B-factories.
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Preliminary Lattice Design of the SSRF Storage Ring