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Amand Faessler

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arXiv2004

Elliptic flow at RHIC: where and when does it formed?

Evolution of the elliptic flow of hadrons in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC energies is studied within the microscopic quark-gluon string model. The elliptic flow is shown to have a multi-component structure caused by (i) rescattering and (ii) absorption processes in spatially asymmetric medium. Together with different freeze-out dynamics of mesons and baryons, these processes lead to the following trend in the flow formation: the later the mesons are frozen, the weaker their elliptic flow, whereas baryon fraction develops stronger elliptic flow during the late stages of the fireball evolution. Comparison with the PHOBOS data demonstrates the model ability to reproduce the v2(eta) signal in different centrality bins.

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arXiv2004

Nuclear muon-positron conversion mediated by Majorana neutrinos

We study lepton number violating (LNV) process of muon-positron conversion in nuclei mediated by the exchange of light and heavy Majorana neutrinos. Nuclear structure calculations have been carried out for the case of experimentally interesting nucleus 48Ti in the framework of renormalized proton-neutron Quasiparticle Random Phase Approximation. We demonstrate that the imaginary part of the amplitude of light Majorana neutrino exchange mechanism gives an appreciable contribution to the muon-positron conversion rate. This specific feature is absent in the allied case of neutrinoless double beta decay. Using the present neutrino oscillations, tritium beta decay, accelerator and cosmological data we derived the limits on the effective masses of light _{μe} and heavy _{μe} neutrinos. The expected rates of muon-positron nuclear conversion, corresponding to these limits, were found to be so small that even within a distant future the muon-positron conversion experiments will hardly be able to detect the neutrino signal. Therefore, searches for this LNV process can only rely on the presence of certain physics beyond the trivial extension of the Standard Model by inclusion of massive Majorana neutrinos.

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arXiv2004

Remarcs on the shape transition from spherical to deformed gamma unstable nuclei

Energies and transition probabilities for low lying states in $^{134}$Ba and $^{104$Ru were calculated within a hybrid model.The ground and the first $2^+$ states are described alternatively as a harmonic and anharmonic vibrator states while the remaining states as states with E(5) symmetry. One concludes that a gradual setting of the 'critical' potential yields a better agreement with the experimental data. Very good agreement with the data is obtained for $^{104}$Ru. Comparing the present results with those of E(5) symmetry, it is conspicuous that the present formalism add corrections to the E(5) formalism by bringing the predictions closer to the experimental data. Analytical relationship between the states with U(5) symmetry and those given by the E(5) description is established.

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arXiv2004

Sensitive behavior of $2νββ$-decay amplitude within QRPA and broken SU(4) symmetry in nuclei

Making use of an identity transformation independent of a nuclear model, we represent the {\bb}-amplitude as a sum of two terms. One term accounts for most of the sensitivity of the original {\bb}-amplitude to $g'_{pp}$ for realistic $g'_{pp}\simeq 1$ (with $g'_{pp}$ being the ratio of the triplet and singlet p-p interaction strengths) and is determined by a specific energy-weighted sum rule. The sum rule depends only on the particle-particle residual interaction (being linear function of $g'_{pp}$ in the QRPA) and passes through zero at the point $g'_{pp}=1$ where the Wigner SU(4) symmetry is restored in the p-p sector of the Hamiltonian. The second term in the decomposition of the {\bb}-amplitude is demonstrated within the QRPA to be a much smoother function for the realistic values of $g'_{pp}$ than the original {\bb}-amplitude. This term is mainly determined by the intensity of the spin-orbit interaction of the nuclear mean field. Thus, the analysis of the present work reveals the reasons for the sensitivity of the {\bb}-amplitude to different components of the nuclear Hamiltonian and thereby can help in constraining nuclear model uncertainties in calculations of the amplitude.

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arXiv2004

The Relativistic Dirac-Brueckner Approach to Asymmetric Nuclear Matter

The properties of asymmetric nuclear matter have been investigated in a relativistic Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock framework using the Bonn A potential. The components of the self-energies are extracted by projecting on Lorentz invariant amplitudes. Furthermore, the optimal representation scheme for the $T$ matrix, the subtracted $T$ matrix representation, is applied and the results are compared to those of other representation schemes. Of course, in the limit of symmetric nuclear matter our results agree with those found in literature. The binding energy $E_b$ fulfills the quadratic dependence on the asymmetry parameter and the symmetry energy is 34 MeV at saturation density. Furthermore, a neutron-proton effective mass splitting of $m_n^* < m_p^*$ is found. In addition, results are given for the mean-field effective coupling constants.

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arXiv2004

Pionic atoms probing pi-NN resonances

The pion optical potential generated by the hypothetical pi-NN-coupled NN-decoupled dibaryon resonance d'(2065) is calculated to the lowest order in nuclear matter density. The contribution to the pion optical potential is found to be within the empirical errors, so the d'(2065) existence currently does not contradict to the observed properties of the pi-nucleus bound states. Future progress in the pionic X-ray spectroscopy can reveal contributions of pi-NN resonances to energy levels and widths of the pionic atoms.

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arXiv2004

Effective Lagrangian approach to nuclear mu-e conversion and the role of vector mesons

We study nuclear mu-e conversion in the general framework of an effective Lagrangian approach without referring to any specific realization of the physics beyond the standard model (SM) responsible for lepton flavor violation (LFV). We examine the impact of a specific hadronization prescription on the analysis of new physics in nuclear mu-e conversion and stress the importance of vector meson exchange between lepton and nucleon currents. A new issue of this mechanism is the presence of the strange quark vector current contribution induced by the phi meson. This allows us to extract new limits on the LFV lepton-quark effective couplings from the existing experimental data.

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arXiv2004

Vector meson angular distributions in proton-proton collisions

The resonance model is used to analyze the omega- and phi-meson angular distributions in proton-proton collisions at sqrt{s} = 2.83 and 2.98 GeV. The assumption of dominant contributions from N^*(1720)3/2+ and N^*(1900)3/2+ resonances which both have, according to the pi N scattering multichannel partial-wave analysis and/or quark models predictions, dominant p_{1/2} N-omega decay modes yields the right pattern of the omega angular distribution at sqrt{s} = 2.83 GeV. The angular distribution at sqrt{s} = 2.98 GeV can be reproduced assuming the dominance of N^*(2000)5/2+ and N^*(1900)3/2+. The experimental phi-meson angular distributions do not shown any asymmetry which requires the existence of a massive negative-parity spin-half resonance. This resonance could be identified with the N^*(2090)1/2-.

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arXiv2004

Chiral symmetry restoration in strange hadronic matter

The phase transition of chiral symmetry restoration in strange hadronic matter is studied in the chiral SU(3) quark mean field model. When the baryon density is larger than a critical density $ρ_c$, the minimal energy density of the system occurs at the point where the effective masses of nucleon, $Λ$ or $Ξ$ drop to zero. The physical quantities change discontinuously at this density and the system will be in the phase of chiral symmetry restoration. A rich phase structure of strange hadronic matter with different strangeness fraction $f_s$ is obtained.

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arXiv2004

The Majorana neutrino masses, neutrinoless double beta decay and nuclear matrix elements

The effective Majorana neutrino mass is evaluated by using the latest results of neutrino oscillation experiments. The problems of the neutrino mass spectrum,absolute mass scale of neutrinos and the effect of CP phases are addressed. A connection to the next generation of the neutrinoless double beta decay (0nbb-decay) experiments is discussed. The calculations are performed for 76Ge, 100Mo, 136Xe and 130Te by using the advantage of recently evaluated nuclear matrix elements with significantly reduced theoretical uncertainty. An importance of observation of the 0nbb-decay of several nuclei is stressed.

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arXiv2004

Nucleon QCD sum rules in nuclear matter including four-quark condensates

We calculate the nucleon parameters in nuclear matter using the QCD sum rules approach in Fermi gas approximation. Terms up to 1/q^2 in the operator product expansion (OPE) are taken into account. The higher moments of the nucleon structure functions are included. The complete set of the nucleon expectation values of the four-quark operators is employed. Earlier the lack of information on these values has been the main obstacle for the further development of the approach. We show that the four-quark condensates provide the corrections of the order 20% to the results obtained in the leading orders of the OPE. This is consistent with the assumption about the convergence of the OPE. The nucleon vector self-energy Σ_v and the nucleon effective mass m^* are expressed in terms of the in-medium values of QCD condensates. The numerical results for these parameters at the saturation value of the density agree with those obtained by the methods of nuclear physics.

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arXiv2004

Medium modifications of kaons in pion matter

Kaon in-medium masses and mean-field potentials are calculated in isotopically symmetric pion matter to one loop of chiral perturbation theory. The results are extended to RHIC temperatures using experimental data on $πK$ scattering phase shifts. The kaon in-medium broadening results in an acceleration of the $ϕ\to K\bar{K}$ decay. The increased apparent dilepton branching of the $ϕ$-mesons, observed recently by NA50, NA49, and the PHENIX collaborations at RHIC, is interpreted in terms of rescattering of secondary kaons inside of the pion matter.

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arXiv2004

Covariant kaon dynamics and kaon flow in heavy ion collisions

The influence of the chiral mean field on the $K^+$ transverse flow in heavy ion collisions at SIS energy is investigated within covariant kaon dynamics. For the kaon mesons inside the nuclear medium a quasi-particle picture including scalar and vector fields is adopted and compared to the standard treatment with a static potential. It is confirmed that a Lorentz force from spatial component of the vector field provides an important contribution to the in-medium kaon dynamics and strongly counterbalances the influence of the vector potential on the $K^+$ in-plane flow. The FOPI data can be reasonably described using in-medium kaon potentials based on effective chiral models. The information on the in-medium $K^+$ potential extracted from kaon flow is consistent with the knowledge from other sources.

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arXiv2004

Nucleon pole contributions in $J/ψ\to N \bar{N} π$, $p \bar{p} η$, $p \bar{p} η^{\prime}$ and $p \bar{p} ω$ decays

Nucleon pole contributions in $J/ψ\to N \bar N π$, $p \bar p η$, $p \bar p η^{\prime}$ and $p \bar{p} ω$ decays are re-studied. Different contributions due to PS-PS and PS-PV couplings in the $π$-N interaction and the effects of $NNπ$ form factors are investigated in the $J/ψ\to N \bar N π$ decay channel. It is found that when the ratio of $|F_0| /|F_M|$ takes small value, without considering the $NNπ$ form factor, the difference between PS-PS and PS-PV couplings are negligible. However, when the $NNπ$ form factor is included, this difference is greatly enlarged. The resultant decay widths are sensitive to the form factors. As a conclusion, the nucleon-pole contribution as a background is important in the $J/ψ\to N\bar{N}π$ decay and must be accounted. In the $J/ψ\to N\bar{N}η$ and $N\bar{N}η'$ decays, its contribution is less than 0.1% of the data. In the $J/ψ\to N\bar{N}ω$ decay, it provides rather important contribution without considering form factors. But the contribution is suppressed greatly when adding the off-shell form factors. Comparing these results with data would help us to select a proper form factor for such kind of decay.

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arXiv2004

Ground-state baryon masses in the perturbative chiral quark model

Mass differences of the flavor octet and decuplet ground-state baryons are studied in the perturbative chiral quark model. We present a way to understand the nontrivial spin- and flavor dependent mass differences, where both pseudoscalar mesons and gluons play a significant role.

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arXiv2004

Vector mesons in nuclear mu-e conversion

We study nuclear mu-e conversion in the general framework of an effective Lagrangian approach without referring to any specific realization of the physics beyond the standard model (SM) responsible for lepton flavor violation (LFV). We show that vector meson exchange between lepton and nucleon currents plays an important role in this process. A new issue of this mechanism is the presence of the strange quark vector current contribution induced by the phi meson. This allows us to extract new limits on the LFV lepton-quark effective couplings from the existing experimental data.

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arXiv2004

Axial form factor of the nucleon in the perturbative chiral quark model

We apply the perturbative chiral quark model (PCQM) at one loop to analyze the axial form factor of the nucleon. This chiral quark model is based on an effective Lagrangian, where baryons are described by relativistic valence quarks and a perturbative cloud of Goldstone bosons as dictated by chiral symmetry. We apply the formalism to obtain analytical expressions for the axial form factor of the nucleon, which is given in terms of fundamental parameters of low-energy pion-nucleon physics (weak pion decay constant, strong pion-nucleon form factor) and of only one model parameter (radius of the nucleonic three-quark core).

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arXiv2004

Dilepton production in elementary and in heavy ion reactions

We present a unified description of the vector meson and dilepton production in elementary and in heavy ion reactions. The production of vector mesons ($ρ,ω,ϕ$) is described via the excitation of nucleon resonances ($R$). The theoretical framework is an extended vector meson dominance model (eVMD) for resonance decays $R\longmapsto NV$ with arbitrary spin which is covariant and kinematically complete. The eVMD includes thereby excited vector meson states in the transition form factors. The model has successfully been applied to $ω$ and $ϕ$ production in $p+p$ reactions. The same model is used to describe the dilepton production in elementary reactions where corresponding data are well reproduced. However, when the model is applied to heavy ion reactions in the BEVALAC/SIS energy range the experimental dilepton spectra measured by the DLS Collaboration are significantly underestimated at small invariant masses. In view of this fact we discuss further medium effects: One is a substantial collisional broadening of the $ρ$ and in particular of the $ω$ meson in the vicinity of the $ρ/ω$-peak. The second medium effect is the destruction of quantum interference in a dense medium. A decoherent dilepton emission through vector mesons decays enhances the corresponding low mass dilepton yield in heavy ion reactions and improves the agreement with existing data.

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