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Pooja Pareek

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arXiv2024

Non-canonical Higgs inflation

The large value of non-minimal coupling constant $ξ$ required to satisfy CMB observations in Higgs inflation violates unitarity. In this work we study Higgs-inflation with non-canonical kinetic term of DBI form to find whether $ξ$ can be reduced. To study the inflationary dynamics, we transform the action to the Einstein frame, in which the Higgs is minimally coupled to gravity with a non-canonical kinetic term and modified potential. We choose the Higgs self coupling constant $λ=0.14$ for our analysis. We find that the value of $ξ$ can be reduced from $10^{3}-10^{4}$ to $\mathcal{O}(10)$ to satisfy Planck constraints on amplitude of scalar power spectrum. However, this model produces a larger tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$, in comparison to the Higgs inflation with canonical kinetic term. We also find that, to satisfy joint constraints on scalar spectral index $n_s$ and tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ from Planck-2018 and bounds on $r$ from Planck and BICEP3, the value of $ξ$ should be of the order of $10^4$. Thus, the issue of unitarity violation remains even after considering Higgs inflation with non-canonical kinetic term

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arXiv2023

Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=5.02 TeV at LHC energies using Boltzmann Transport Equation with Tsallis Blast Wave Description

In this article, we have studied the nuclear modification factor measured in Pb-Pb collisions ($R_{PbPb}$) for $π^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, $p+\bar{p}$, $K^{*0} + \bar{K^{*0}}$, $ϕ$ and in p-Pb collisions ($R_{pPb}$) for $π^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, $p+\bar{p}$ at Large hadron collider (LHC) energy of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV for the most central and peripheral collisions. We have also analysed the experimental data of transverse momentum ($p_T$) spectra for these identified hadrons at LHC for Pb-Pb as well as for p-Pb collisions. We have used Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) in relaxation time approximation (RTA) for this analysis. The Tsallis statistics is used as an initial distribution function and The Tsallis blast wave (TBW) model is employed as an equilibrium distribution in BTE. The present model fits the measured transverse momentum spectra, $R_{PbPb}$, and $R_{pPb}$ successfully upto $p_T$ = 8 GeV with a reasonable $χ^2/ndf$ for all the considered hadrons at various centralities. The experimental data for $R_{pPb}$ are generated using the particle yields at pPb and pp collisions where number of binary collisions are taken from Glauber model calculations. We find that the average transverse flow velocity ($<β_r>$) follows the mass and centrality ordering and decreases with the mass as well as when one move from the central collisions to peripheral collisions. These findings are inline with the results of the hydrodynamical calculations.

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arXiv2021

Reheating constraints on K-inflation

In this work we revisit constraints on K-inflation with DBI kinetic term and power-law kinetic term from reheating. For DBI kinetic term we choose monomial potentials, $V\propto ϕ^n$ with $n=2/3\,,1\,,\,2$ and $4$, and natural inflaton potential, and for power-law kinetic term we choose quadratic, quartic and exponential potentials. The phase of reheating can be parameterized in terms of reheating temperature $T_{re}$, number of e-folds during reheating $N_{re}$ and effective equation of state during reheating $w_{re}$. These parameters can be related to the spectral index $n_s$ and other inflationary parameters depending on the choice of inflaton kinetic term and potential. By demanding that $w_{re}$ should have a finite range and $T_{re}$ should be above electroweak scale, one can obtain the bounds on $n_s$ that can provide bounds on tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$. We find, for K-inflation with DBI kinetic term and quadratic and quartic potentials, that the upper bound on $r$ for physically plausible value of $0\le w_{re} \le 0.25$ is slightly larger than the Planck-2018 and BICEP2/Keck array bound, and for $n=2/3$ and $1$, the reheating equation of state should be less than $0$ to satisfy Planck-2018 joint constraints on $n_s$ and $r$. However, natural inflation with DBI kinetic term is compatible with Planck-2018 bounds on $r$ and joint constraints on $n_s$ and $r$ for physically plausible range $0 \le w_{re}\le 0.25$. The quadratic and quartic potential with power-law kinetic term are also compatible with Planck-2018 joint constraints on $n_s$ and $r$ for $0\le w_{re} \le 1$. However, for exponential potential with power-law kinetic term, the equation of state during reheating $w_{re}$ should be greater than $1$ for $r-n_s$ predictions to lie within $68\%$C.L. of joint constraints on $n_s$ and $r$ from Planck-2018 observations.

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arXiv2020

Energy dependence of light neutral meson $p_{\rm T}$ spectrum produced in pp collisions at the LHC measured in ALICE

We present the measurement of light neutral mesons, $π^{0}$ and $η$, in pp collisions at different center-of-mass energies obtained with the ALICE experiment at the LHC. The $π^{0}$ and $η$ mesons are measured via photons reconstructed by the electromagnetic calorimeters and the central tracking system. The invariant cross-section of $π^{0}$ and $η$ mesons are measured in a broad $p_{\rm T}$ range at $\sqrt{s} = 0.9, 2.76, 7, 5.02$ and 8 TeV. The spectra of $π^{0}$ and $η$ mesons measured in pp collisions at different collision energies show $x_{\rm T}$-scaling at high $p_{\rm T}$ and violation of $m_{\rm T}$-scaling at low $p_{\rm T}$. The smaller $x_{\rm T}$-scaling exponents of our measurements compared to RHIC may hint at a reduced importance of higher twist processes at LHC.

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arXiv2019

Limiting fragmentation in high-energy nuclear collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

The hypothesis of limiting fragmentation (LF) or it is called otherwise recently, as extended longitudinal scaling, is an interesting phenomena in high energy multiparticle production process. This paper discusses about different regions of phase space and their importance in hadron production, giving special emphasis on the fragmentation region. Although it was conjectured as a universal phenomenon in high energy physics, with the advent of higher center-of-mass energies, it has become prudent to analyse and understand the validity of such hypothesis in view of the increasing inelastic nucleon-nucleon cross-section ($σ_{\rm in}$). In this work, we revisit the phenomenon of limiting fragmentation for nucleus-nucleus (A+A) collisions in the pseudorapidity distribution of charged particles at various energies. We use energy dependent $σ_{\rm in}$ to transform the charged particle pseudorapidity distributions ($dN^{\rm AA}_{ch}/dη$) into differential cross-section per unit pseudorapidity ($dσ^{\rm AA}/dη$) of charged particles and study the phenomenon of LF. We find that in $dσ^{\rm AA}/dη$ LF seems to be violated at LHC energies while considering the energy dependent $σ_{\rm in}$. We also perform a similar study using A Multi-Phase Transport (AMPT) Model with string melting scenario and also find that LF is violated at LHC energies.

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arXiv2016

Energy and Centrality dependence of $dN_{\rm ch}/dη$ and $dE_{\rm T}/dη$ in Heavy-Ion Collisions from $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ =7.7 GeV to 5.02 TeV

The centrality dependence of pseudorapidity density of charged particles and transverse energy is studied for a wide range of collision energies for heavy-ion collisions at midrapidity from 7.7 GeV to 5.02 TeV. A two-component model approach has been adopted to quantify the soft and hard components of particle production, coming from nucleon participants and binary nucleon-nucleon collisions, respectively. Within experimental uncertainties, the hard component contributing to the particle production has been found not to show any clear collision energy dependence from RHIC to LHC. The effect of centrality and collision energy in particle production seem to factor out with some degree of dependency on the collision species. The collision of Uranium-like deformed nuclei opens up new challenges in understanding the energy-centrality factorization, which is evident from the centrality dependence of transverse energy density, when compared to collision of symmetric nuclei.

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arXiv2016

The q-Statistics and QCD Thermodynamics at LHC

We perform a Taylor series expansion of Tsallis distribution by assuming the Tsallis parameter $q$ close to 1. The $q$ value shows the deviation of a system from a thermalised Boltzmann distribution. By taking up to first order in $(q-1)$, we derive an analytical result for Tsallis distribution including radial flow. Further, in the present work, we also study the speed of sound ($c_s$) as a function of temperature using the non-extensive Tsallis statistics for different $q$ values and for different mass cut-offs.

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arXiv2016

Radial Flow in Non-Extensive Thermodynamics and Study of Particle Spectra at LHC in the Limit of Small $(q-1)$

We expand the Tsallis distribution in a Taylor series of powers of (q-1), where q is the Tsallis parameter, assuming q is very close to 1. This helps in studying the degree of deviation of transverse momentum spectra and other thermodynamic quantities from a thermalized Boltzmann distribution. After checking thermodynamic consistency, we provide analytical results for the Tsallis distribution in the presence of collective flow up to the first order of (q-1). The formulae are compared with the experimental data.

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