Physics, Particles & Fields

Article Physics, Nuclear

Relativistic constraints on 3N contact interactions

Alessia Nasoni, Elena Filandri, Luca Girlanda

Summary: In this paper, the relativistic corrections to the leading order three-nucleon (3N) contact interactions are analyzed. It is shown that the inclusion of five additional terms with fixed coefficients is required in order to describe the 3N potential in reference frames other than the center-of-mass frame, and these terms will be relevant in systems with mass number A > 3.

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL A (2023)

Article Physics, Nuclear

Light clusters in the liquid proto-neutron star inner crust

H. Dinh Thi, A. F. Fantina, F. Gulminelli

Summary: In this study, we investigated the liquid phase of the crust of a proto-neutron star using a self-consistent multi-component approach. We found that our multi-component calculations provided more accurate predictions of the abundance of helium clusters compared to the single-nucleus approach.

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL A (2023)

Article Physics, Particles & Fields

Hawking radiation under generalized uncertainty principle

Tin-Long Chau, Pei-Ming Ho, Hikaru Kawai, Wei-Hsiang Shao, Cheng-Tsung Wang

Summary: In this study, the effect of the generalized uncertainty relation on the Hawking radiation of a Schwarzschild black hole is examined. By incorporating a minimal uncertainty length scale into the radial coordinate of the background, it is found that Hawking radiation is turned off at around the scrambling time, while the Hawking temperature remains largely unmodified.

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C (2023)

Article Physics, Nuclear

Universality of three identical bosons with large, negative effective range

Harald W. Griesshammer, Ubirajara van Kolck

Summary: Resummed-Range Effective Field Theory is a nonrelativistic Effective Field Theory that investigates three identical bosons in a two-body system with one bound and one virtual state, or with two virtual states. It is found that no three-body interaction is needed to renormalize and stabilize the system at leading order, and a well-defined ground state exists in certain parameter ranges. Three-body excitations appear near the quasi-unitarity point and obey discrete scaling relations. The trajectories of the ground state and lowest three excitations are explored, as well as the discrete scale invariance in the Short-Range EFT.

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL A (2023)

Article Astronomy & Astrophysics

Tetraquark mass relations in quark and diquark models

Muhammad Naeem Anwar, Timothy J. Burns

Summary: This article presents new linear relations among the masses of S-wave tetraquarks, which can help to reveal the internal structure of tetraquarks and discriminate among different theoretical models. The validity of these relations is confirmed through a thorough comparison with experimental data.

PHYSICS LETTERS B (2023)

Article Astronomy & Astrophysics

The study of weak decays induced by 1/2+ → 3/2- transition in light-cone sum rules

T. M. Aliev, S. Bilmis, M. Savci

Summary: In this study, we analyzed weak decays induced by J(P) = 1/2(+) -> 3/2(-) transitions and investigated the decay processes of bottom baryons. The form factors for the transitions were obtained and used to calculate the decay widths. Our findings were found to be consistent with experimental measurements and were compared with predictions from other approaches.

PHYSICS LETTERS B (2023)

Article Astronomy & Astrophysics

Odd-even shape staggering and kink structure of charge radii of Hg isotopes by the deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum

Myeong-Hwan Mun, Seonghyun Kim, Myung-Ki Cheoun, W. Y. So, Soonchul Choi, Eunja Ha

Summary: This study examined the shape staggering of charge radii in Hg isotopes and found that it is caused by a transition in nuclear shape. The analysis revealed that prolate shapes have larger charge radii compared to oblate shapes. The researchers explained the phenomenon in terms of the evolution of occupation probabilities of specific states.

PHYSICS LETTERS B (2023)

Article Astronomy & Astrophysics

Revealing dark matter dress of primordial black holes by cosmological lensing

Masamune Oguri, Volodymyr Takhistov, Kazunori Kohri

Summary: Stellar-mass primordial black holes (PBHs) can contribute to gravitational wave (GW) events and can be detected through the gravitational lensing effect. This provides a new way to explore dark matter (DM) models and test their validity.

PHYSICS LETTERS B (2023)

Article Astronomy & Astrophysics

Event-by-event investigation of the two-particle source function in √sNN=2.76 TeV PbPb collisions with EPOS

Balazs Korodi, Daniel Kincses, Mate Csanad

Summary: This study presents the investigation of the two-particle source function in lead-lead collisions simulated by the EPOS model. The results show that a Levy source shape, deviating significantly from a Gaussian shape, is observed for pions, kaons, and protons in individual events. The source parameters extracted are found to be related to the collision centrality and pair average transverse mass. Furthermore, the effects of decay products on the Levy exponent are studied, showing a decrease when including decay products, and no mT-scaling is found across different particle species.

PHYSICS LETTERS B (2023)

Article Astronomy & Astrophysics

Shape polarization in the tin isotopes near N=60 from precision g-factor measurements on short-lived 11/2- isomers

T. J. Gray, A. E. Stuchbery, J. Dobaczewski, A. Blazhev, H. A. Alshammari, L. J. Bignell, J. Bonnard, B. J. Coombes, J. T. H. Dowie, M. S. M. Gerathy, T. Kibedi, G. J. Lane, B. P. Mccormick, A. J. Mitchell, C. Nicholls, J. G. Pope, P. -g. Reinhard, N. J. Spinks, Y. Zhong

Summary: The g factors of 11/2(-) isomers in semimagic Sn-109 and Sn-111 were measured and found to be significantly lower than those of heavier isotopes, indicating a deviation from the theoretical expectation.

PHYSICS LETTERS B (2023)

Article Astronomy & Astrophysics

Model independent analysis of femtoscopic correlation functions: An application to the D∗s0(2317)

Natsumi Ikeno, Genaro Toledo, Eulogio Oset

Summary: This study uses the correlation function method to investigate the interaction between coupled channels. By analyzing synthetic data, we successfully determine the interaction of the (DK+)-K-0, (D+K0), and D-s(+)eta channels as well as the existence of a bound state. The study also evaluates the scattering characteristics of the three channels and the coupling of the bound state to its components.

PHYSICS LETTERS B (2023)

Article Astronomy & Astrophysics

MONDified gravity

Martin Bojowald, Erick I. Duque

Summary: A new class of modified gravity theories, based on the canonical formulation of general covariance, naturally exhibits MOND-like behavior without introducing new fields. This relationship with quantum gravity features suggests a fundamental origin of MOND and a possible solution to the dark-matter problem.

PHYSICS LETTERS B (2023)

Article Astronomy & Astrophysics

Quantum state-channel duality for the calculation of Standard Model scattering amplitudes

Clelia Altomonte, Alan J. Barr

Summary: This paper analyzes the mathematical details of applying quantum information theory to scattering amplitudes associated with Standard Model processes, focusing on the theoretical principle of the Choi-Jamiolkowski isomorphism or state-channel duality.

PHYSICS LETTERS B (2023)

Article Astronomy & Astrophysics

Neutron polarisation transfer, Cx′, in π+ photoproduction off the proton, d(γ⊙, (n)over-right-arrowπ+)nspec

M. Bashkanov, D. P. Watts, S. J. D. Kay, S. Abt, P. Achenbach, P. Adlarson, F. Afzal, Z. Ahmed, C. S. Akondi, J. R. M. Annand, R. Beck, M. Biroth, N. Borisov, A. Braghieri, W. J. Briscoe, F. Cividini, C. Collicott, S. Costanza, A. Denig, E. J. Downie, P. Drexler, S. Fegan, A. Fix, S. Gardner, D. Ghosal, D. I. Glazier, I. Gorodnov, W. Gradl, D. Gurevich, L. Heijkenskjoeld, D. Hornidge, G. M. Huber, V. L. Kashevarov, M. Korolija, B. Krusche, A. Lazarev, K. Livingston, S. Lutterer, I. J. D. MacGregor, D. M. Manley, P. P. Martel, R. Miskimen, E. Mornacchi, C. Mullen, A. Neganov, A. Neiser, M. Ostrick, P. B. Otte, D. Paudyal, P. Pedroni, T. Rostomyan, V. Sokhoyan, K. Spieker, O. Steffen, I. I. Strakovsky, T. Strub, I. Supek, A. Thiel, M. Thiel, A. Thomas, Yu. A. Usov, S. Wagner, N. K. Walford, J. Wettig, M. Wolfes, R. L. Workman, N. Zachariou

Summary: We present the first measurement of the double-polarisation observable, C-x', in pi(+) photoproduction off the proton. The experiment provides new constraints on models aiming to understand the spectrum and properties of nucleon resonances. The inclusion of the new data in the analysis database has improved the description of various single and double polarisation observables in charged pion photoproduction.

PHYSICS LETTERS B (2023)

Article Astronomy & Astrophysics

Generalized parton distributions of gluon in proton: A light-front quantization approach

Bolang Lin, Sreeraj Nair, Siqi Xu, Zhi Hu, Chandan Mondal, Xingbo Zhao, James P. Vary

Summary: In this study, the authors solve for the gluon generalized parton distributions (GPDs) inside the proton using light-front wavefunctions (LFWFs) and explore the properties of the gluon, such as its transverse size dependence and contribution to the total angular momentum of the proton.

PHYSICS LETTERS B (2023)

Article Astronomy & Astrophysics

Isospin-dependence of the charge-changing cross-section shaped by the charged-particle evaporation process

J. W. Zhao, B. -H. Sun, I. Tanihata, S. Terashima, A. Prochazka, J. Y. Xu, L. H. Zhu, J. Meng, J. Su, K. Y. Zhang, L. S. Geng, L. C. He, C. Y. Liu, G. S. Li, C. G. Lu, W. J. Lin, W. P. Lin, Z. Liu, P. P. Ren, Z. Y. Sun, F. Wang, J. Wang, M. Wang, S. T. Wang, X. L. Wei, X. D. Xu, J. C. Zhang, M. X. Zhang, X. H. Zhang

Summary: The charge-changing cross sections (CCCS) of C11-15, N13-17, and O-15,O-17-18 on a carbon target at around 300 MeV/nucleon are presented, extending to p-shell isotopes with N<28.

PHYSICS LETTERS B (2023)

Article Astronomy & Astrophysics

Forbidden dark matter combusted around supermassive black hole

Yu Cheng, Shao-Feng Ge, Xiao-Gang He, Jie Sheng

Summary: The possibility of reactivating the forbidden annihilation channel of dark matter around supermassive black holes has been discovered, providing a unique signal that can serve as evidence for its existence. Fermi-LAT data around Sgr ★ provides preliminary support for this theory.

PHYSICS LETTERS B (2023)

Letter Astronomy & Astrophysics

Parallel seesaw mechanisms for neutrinos and freeze-in long-lived dark matter

Ernest Ma

Summary: The study suggests that dark matter could be a type of light fermion which interacts with the W particle, similar to neutrinos. It also proposes the existence of a spontaneously broken dark U(1) gauge symmetry, resulting in the production of long-lived light dark matter.

PHYSICS LETTERS B (2023)

Letter Astronomy & Astrophysics

Investigating the potential of RτμK(∗)to probe lepton flavor universality violation

Ashutosh Kumar Alok, Neetu Raj Singh Chundawat, Arindam Mandal

Summary: In this study, we investigate the potential of lepton flavor ratios to probe lepton flavor universality violation in the tau-mu sector. Our findings show that these ratios can deviate from their Standard Model values even when the new physics couplings are universal. Therefore, in order to detect lepton flavor universality violation, it is necessary to compare the range of these ratios for solutions with only universal couplings and solutions with both universal and non-universal components.

PHYSICS LETTERS B (2023)