13249846
Constraining the leading weak axial two-body current by SNO and Super-K
We analyze the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) and Super-Kamiokande (SK) data on charged current (CC), neutral current (NC) and neutrino electron elastic scattering (ES) reactions to constrain the leading weak axial two-body current parameterized by L{sub 1A}. This two-body current is the dominant uncertainty of every low energy weak interaction deuteron breakup process, including SNO's CC and NC reactions. Our method shows that the theoretical inputs to SNO's determination of the CC and NC fluxes can be self-calibrated, be calibrated by SK, or be calibrated by reactor data. The only assumption made is that the total flux of active neutrinos has the standard {sup 8}B spectral shape (but distortions in the electron neutrino spectrum are allowed). We show that SNO's conclusion about the inconsistency of the no-flavor-conversion hypothesis does not contain significant theoretical uncertainty, and we determine the magnitude of the active solar neutrino flux.
119519405
Parity Violation in Polarized-Gamma Proton Compton Scattering
Polarized beam gamma p Compton scattering provides a theoretically clean way to extract the isovector parity violating pion-nucleon coupling constant $h_{\pi NN}^{(1)}$. This channel is more tractable experimentally than the recently proposed extraction of $h_{\pi NN}^{(1)}$ from the Bedaque-Savage process --- polarized target gamma p compton scattering. The leading parity violating effect is calculated using Heavy Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory. The size of the asymmetry is estimated to be ~ 4 10^{-8} for 120 MeV photon energy.
119491739
Twisted valence quarks and hadron interactions on the lattice
Abstract We consider QCD with valence and sea quarks obeying different boundary conditions. We point out that the energy of low lying two hadron states do not depend on the boundary condition of the sea quarks (up to exponentially small corrections). Thus, the advantages in using twisted boundary conditions on the lattice QCD extraction of nucleon–nucleon phase shifts can be gained without the need of new gauge configurations, even in fully unquenched calculations.
119272530
Model analysis of thermal UV-cutoff effects on the chiral critical surface at finite temperature and chemical potential
We study the effects of temporal UV-cutoff on the chiral critical surface in hot and dense QCD using a chiral effective model. Recent lattice QCD simulations indicate that the curvature of the critical surface might change toward the direction in which the first-order phase transition becomes stronger on increasing the number of lattice sites. To investigate this effect on the critical surface in an effective model approach, we use the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with finite Matsubara frequency summation. We find that the nature of the curvature of the critical surface does not alter appreciably as we decrease the summation number, which is unlike the case that was observed in recent lattice QCD studies. This may suggest that the dependence of chemical potential on the coupling strength or some additional interacting terms such as vector interactions could play an important role at finite density.
13534760
Constructing parton convolution in effective field theory.
Parton convolution models have been used extensively in describing the sea quarks in the nucleon and explaining quark distributions in nuclei (the EMC effect). From the effective field theory point of view, we construct the parton convolution formalism which has been the underlying conception of all convolution models. We explain the significance of scheme and scale dependence of the auxiliary quantities such as the pion distributions in a nucleon. As an application, we calculate the complete leading nonanalytic chiral contribution to the isovector component of the nucleon sea.
119418730
Large-Nc quark distributions in the delta and chiral logarithms in quark distributions of the nucleon
Abstract In a world with two quark flavors and a large number of colors ( N c ), the polarized and unpolarized quark distributions in the delta are completely determined by those in the nucleon up to relative O (1/N c 2 ) . In particular, we find q Δ (x)=[(1±2T z )u N (x)+(1∓2T z )d N (x)]/2(1+ O (1/N c 2 )) and Δq Δ (x)=[(5±2T z )Δu N (x)+(5∓2T z )Δd N (x)]/10(1+ O (1/N c 2 )) , where q = u , d and T z the charge state of a delta. The result can be used to estimate the leading chiral-logarithmic corrections to the quark distributions in the nucleon.
119269362
LEPTON FLAVOR VIOLATION IN INVERSE SEESAW MODEL
We analyze the lepton flavor violation processes μ-e conversion, li→ljγ and li→3lj in framework of the Standard Model (SM) extended with inverse seesaw mechanism, as a function of that parametrizes the departure from unitary of the light neutrino mixing sub-matrix . In a wide range of , the predictions on the μ-e conversion rates and the branching ratio of μ→eγ are sizeable to be compatible with the experimental upper limits or future experimental sensitivities. For large scale of , the predictions on branching ratios of other lepton flavor processes can also reach the experimental upper limits or future experimental sensitivities. The value of depends on the determinant of the Majorana mass term Mμ. Finally, searching for lepton flavor violation processes in experiment provides us more opportunities for the searches of seesaw nature of the neutrino masses.
119072276
Quantum rearrangement and self-consistent BCS-BEC crossover thermodynamics
Based on previous works, analytical calculational procedures for dealing with the strongly interacting fermion ground state are further developed through a medium-dependent potential in terms of the Bethe-Peierls contact interaction model. The methods are exact in the unitary limit regime and they lead to self-consistent equations analogous to the Hartree ones. The single particle energy spectrum rearrangement effects on the thermodynamics due to the Hugenholtz\char21{}van Hove theorem constraint are addressed. These effects lead to an additional instantaneous correlation potential contribution to the system physical chemical potential and pressure, i.e., equation of state, in order to enforce the classical thermodynamic consistency. The Dyson-Schwinger equations represent implicitly the various Bethe-Goldstone expansion ones. In a thermodynamically self-consistent way, the universal dimensionless factor is analytically calculated to be $\ensuremath{\xi}=\frac{4}{9}$, which defines the ratio of the unitary fermions energy density to that of the ideal noninteracting ones at $T=0$.
120698543
The nonlinear spatial damping rate in QGP
Abstract The derivative expansion method has been used to solve the semiclassical kinetic equations of quark-gluon plasma. The nonlinear spatial damping rate, the imaginary part of the wave vector, for the longitudinal secondary color waves in the long wavelength limit has been calculated numerically.
118981397
125 GeV Higgs boson decays in the μ from ν supersymmetric standard model
Recently the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations have reported significant events that are attributed to the neutral Higgs boson with mass around 125 GeV. In this work, we investigate the signals of the Higgs boson decay channels $h\rightarrow\gamma\gamma$, $h\rightarrow VV^*$ ($V=Z,W$), and $h\rightarrow f\bar{f}$ ($f=b,\tau$) in the $\mu$ from $\nu$ supersymmetric standard model ($\mu\nu$SSM). In the numerical results, we show the light stop and stau effects on the signal strengths for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decay channels in the $\mu\nu$SSM, which can account for the updated experimental data on Higgs.
119355216
Spectral function of rho in dense and hot hadronic matter
The spectral function of rho meson in hot/dense hadronic matter is studied by taking into account the nucleon-loop on quantum hadrondynamics model level. Different from the hot pion gas effect which changes the spectral function slightly, the nucleon-antinucleon polarization (Dirac sea) makes the spectral function very sharp and shifted towards the low invariant mass region significantly due to the decreasing effective nucleon mass.