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Vector mesons in nuclear matter
In this talk, I will summarize the progress in understanding the changes the vector meson spectral density in nuclear medium using the constraint equations obtained from the Borel transformed dispersion relation and QCD Operator Product Expansion. We will discuss the results for the scalar mass shift and dispersion effects (three momentum dependence) for the light quark system (ρ,ω), the strange quark system (φ) and the heavy quark system (J/ψ) in nuclear medium. For the light quark systems, a nontrivial change in the mass and/or width are expected, while the dispersion effects are found to be small. Existing model calculations for the dispersion effects are compared to the constraint equation in detail. Very small, but accurate mass shift is obtained for the heavy quark system.
53550475
Subthreshold cascade production in heavy ion collisions
Using a gauged flavor SU(3)-invariant hadronic Lagrangian, we have calculated the cross sections for the strangeness-exchange reactions in the Born approximation. These cross sections are then used in the Relativistic Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (RVUU) transport model to study Ξ production in Ar+KCl collisions at incident energy of 1.76A GeV and impact parameter b = 3.5 fm. We find that including the contributions of hyperonhyperon scattering channels strongly enhances the yield of Ξ, leading to the abundance ratio which is essentially consistent with the recently measured value of by the HADES collaboration at GSI.
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Effects of chiral symmetry restoration in nuclear medium
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Color spin wave functions of heavy tetraquark states
Abstract Using the variational method, we calculate the mass of the J P = 1 + u d b ¯ b ¯ tetraquark containing two identical heavy antiquarks in a nonrelativistic potential model with color confinement and spin hyperfine interaction. In particular, we extend a previous investigation of the model by Brink and Stancu by investigating the effect of including the color anti-sextet component of the diquark configuration as well as using several more Gaussian parametrization for the L = 0 part of the spatial wave function. We find that for the heavy tetraquark, the 6 6 ¯ component among the color singlet bases is negligible and that the previously used specific Gaussian spatial configuration is good enough in obtaining the ground state energy.
122265337
A QCD Sum Rule Approach with an Explicit Di-quark Field
We introduce a phenomenological QCD sum rule with an explicit diquark field. We investigate certain configurations of hadrons are expected to have a good diquark structure. The parameters of the model are a diquark mass $${(m_\phi)}$$ and condensate $${(\langle \phi^2\rangle)}$$ . Assuming that Λ baryons can be represented by a diquark and a spectator quark configuration, we find the sum rule works well for Λ, Λc, and Λb. We also find a duality relation between the mass and the condensate for which the parameter sets give good Borel curves. To maintain good Borel curve, a smaller diquark condensate is needed for an increased diquark mass. Using these parameter sets, we test the diquark structure in some hadrons which contain both good and bad diquark configurations.
118665630
Neutron Skin size dependence of the nuclear binding energy
The nuclear binding energy is studied using a finite temperature density functional theory. A Skyrme interaction is used in this work. Volume, surface, and symmetry energy contributions to the binding energy are investigated. The case of neutron skin is considered in detail. The neutron skin modifies the mass $A$ dependence of various terms and $I$ dependence of the skin thickness is proportional to $I$ for the case of same central density.
124084827
Hamiltonian formalism for space charge dominated beams in a uniform focusing channel
Halo formation for a test particle in a mismatched KV beam is studied. Parametric resonances of the particle Hamiltonian due to envelope modulation are studied with particular emphasis on period 2 resonance which plays dominant role in halo formation. It is shown that the onset of global chaos exhibits a sharp transition when the amplitude of modulation is larger than a critical value which is a function of a single parameter, /spl kappa/, i.e., the ratio of the space charge perveance to the focusing strength.
116349147
Cluster number counts in quintessence models
Abstract Even though the abundance and evolution of clusters have been used to study the cosmologicalparameters includingthe propertiesof darkenergy owing to their puredependenceon the geometryof the Universe and the power spectrum, it is necessary to pay particular attention to the eﬀectsof dark energy on the analysis. We obtain the explicit dark energy dependent rms linear massﬂuctuation σ 8 which is consistent with the CMB normalization with less than 2 % errors for generalconstant dark energy equation of state, ω Q . Thus, we do not have any degeneracy between σ 8 and the matter energy density contrast Ω 0m . When we use the correct value of the critical densitythreshold δ c = 1.58 obtained recently [30, 31] into the cluster number density n calculation in thePress-Schechter (PS) formalism, n increases as compared to the one obtained by using δ c = 1.69by about 60, 80, and 110 % at z = 0, 0.5, and 1, respectively. Thus, PS formalism predictsthe cluster number consistent with both simulation and observed data at the high mass region.We also introduce the improved coeﬃcients of Sheth-Tormen (ST) formalism, which is consistentwith the recently suggested mass function [36]. We found that changing ω
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The Indiana University Cooler injector synchrotron RF system
A 2.2 Tesla-meter synchrotron with 17.4 m circumference is being built at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF). The purpose of the project is to achieve higher luminosity for nuclear physics experiments using electron cooled polarized light ion beams in the IUCF Cooler synchrotron. The injection line for the booster synchrotron consists of an RFQ/DTL linear accelerator delivering a 7 MeV proton beam and a 6 MeV deuteron beam for the booster injection. A debunching system will be installed in the injection beamline to reduce the energy spread of beams out of the linear accelerators. Charge-exchange injection is used for high intensity multiturn beam accumulation. The booster output beams, 200 MeV for protons and 105 MeV for deuterons, will be transferred bucket to bucket to the IUCF Cooler synchrotron. The rf system design for the booster synchrotron is presented in this paper.
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Nuclear Density-Dependent Effective Coupling Constants in the Mean-Field Theory
It is shown that the equation of state of nuclear matter can be determined within the mean-field theory of $\sigma \omega$ model provided only that the nucleon effective mass curve is given. We use a family of the possible nucleon effective mass curves that reproduce the empirical saturation point in the calculation of the nuclear binding energy curves in order to obtain density-dependent effective coupling constants. The resulting density-dependent coupling constants may be used to study a possible equation of state of nuclear system at high density or neutron matter. Within the constraints used in this paper to $M^*$ of nuclear matter at saturation point and zero density, neutron matter of large incompressibility is strongly bound at high density while soft neutron matter is weakly bound at low density. The study also exhibits the importance of surface vibration modes in the study of nuclear equation of state.