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Pich, A.; Rosell, I.; Santos, J.; Sanz-Cillero, J.J. |
Title |
Fingerprints of heavy scales in electroweak effective Lagrangians |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2017 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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04 |
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4 |
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012 - 60pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Chiral Lagrangians; Higgs Physics; Technicolor and Composite Models |
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The couplings of the electroweak effective theory contain information on the heavy-mass scales which are no-longer present in the low-energy Lagrangian. We build a general effective Lagrangian, implementing the electroweak chiral symmetry breaking SU(2)(L) circle times SU(2)(R) -> SU(2)(L+R), which couples the known particle fields to heavier states with bosonic quantum numbers J(P) = 0(+/-) and 1(+/-). We consider colour-singlet heavy fields that are in singlet or triplet representations of the electroweak group. Integrating out these heavy scales, we analyze the pattern of low-energy couplings among the light fields which are generated by the massive states. We adopt a generic non-linear realization of the electroweak symmetry breaking with a singlet Higgs, without making any assumption about its possible doublet structure. Special attention is given to the different possible descriptions of massive spin-1 fields and the differences arising from naive implementations of these formalisms, showing their full equivalence once a proper short-distance behaviour is required. |
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[Pich, Antonio; Santos, Joaquin] Univ Valencia, CSIC, IFIC, Dept Fis Teor, Apt Correus 22085, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: pich@ific.uv.es; |
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1029-8479 |
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WOS:000398449400004 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3074 |
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Aguilar-Saavedra, J.A.; Bernabeu, J.; Mitsou, V.A.; Segarra, A. |
Title |
The Z boson spin observables as messengers of new physics |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2017 |
Publication |
European Physical Journal C |
Abbreviated Journal |
Eur. Phys. J. C |
Volume |
77 |
Issue |
4 |
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234 - 6pp |
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We demonstrate that the eight multipole parameters describing the spin state of the Z boson are able to disentangle known Z production mechanisms and signals from new physics at the LHC. They can be extracted from appropriate asymmetries in the angular distribution of lepton pairs from the Z boson decay. The power of this analysis is illustrated by (1) the production of Z boson plus jets; (2) Z boson plus missing transverse energy; (3) W and Z bosons originating from the two-body decay of a heavy resonance. |
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[Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.] Univ Granada, Dept Fis Teor & Cosmos, E-18071 Granada, Spain, Email: jaas@ugr.es |
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Springer |
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1434-6044 |
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WOS:000399448700004 |
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no |
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yes |
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no |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3121 |
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Albiol, A.; Corbi, A.; Albiol, F. |
Title |
Automatic intensity windowing of mammographic images based on a perceptual metric |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Medical Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
Med. Phys. |
Volume |
44 |
Issue |
4 |
Pages |
1369-1378 |
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contrast stretching; Gabor filtering; human visual system; mammogram; mutual information; window level/width |
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Purpose: Initial auto-adjustment of the window level WL and width WW applied to mammographic images. The proposed intensity windowing (IW) method is based on the maximization of the mutual information (MI) between a perceptual decomposition of the original 12-bit sources and their screen displayed 8-bit version. Besides zoom, color inversion and panning operations, IW is the most commonly performed task in daily screening and has a direct impact on diagnosis and the time involved in the process. Methods: The authors present a human visual system and perception-based algorithm named GRAIL (Gabor-relying adjustment of image levels). GRAIL initially measures a mammogram's quality based on the MI between the original instance and its Gabor-filtered derivations. From this point on, the algorithm performs an automatic intensity windowing process that outputs the WL/WW that best displays each mammogram for screening. GRAIL starts with the default, high contrast, wide dynamic range 12-bit data, and then maximizes the graphical information presented in ordinary 8-bit displays. Tests have been carried out with several mammogram databases. They comprise correlations and an ANOVA analysis with the manual IW levels established by a group of radiologists. A complete MATLAB implementation of GRAIL is available at . Results: Auto-leveled images show superior quality both perceptually and objectively compared to their full intensity range and compared to the application of other common methods like global contrast stretching (GCS). The correlations between the human determined intensity values and the ones estimated by our method surpass that of GCS. The ANOVA analysis with the upper intensity thresholds also reveals a similar outcome. GRAIL has also proven to specially perform better with images that contain micro-calcifications and/or foreign X-ray-opaque elements and with healthy BI-RADS A-type mammograms. It can also speed up the initial screening time by a mean of 4.5 s per image. Conclusions: A novel methodology is introduced that enables a quality-driven balancing of the WL/WW of mammographic images. This correction seeks the representation that maximizes the amount of graphical information contained in each image. The presented technique can contribute to the diagnosis and the overall efficiency of the breast screening session by suggesting, at the beginning, an optimal and customized windowing setting for each mammogram. |
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[Albiol, Alberto] Univ Politecn Valencia, iTeam Res Inst, Valencia, Spain, Email: alberto.corbi@ific.uv.es |
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Wiley |
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0094-2405 |
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WOS:000400572700016 |
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no |
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yes |
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no |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3122 |
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del Rio, A.; Ferreiro, A.; Navarro-Salas, J.; Torrenti, F. |
Title |
Adiabatic regularization with a Yukawa interaction |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Physical Review D |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. D |
Volume |
95 |
Issue |
10 |
Pages |
105003 - 19pp |
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We extend the adiabatic regularization method for an expanding universe to include the Yukawa interaction between quantized Dirac fermions and a homogeneous background scalar field. We give explicit expressions for the renormalized expectation values of the stress-energy tensor < T-mu nu > and the bilinear <(psi) over bar psi > in a spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime. These are basic ingredients in the semiclassical field equations of fermionic matter in curved spacetime interacting with a background scalar field. The ultraviolet subtracting terms of the adiabatic regularization can be naturally interpreted as coming from appropriate counterterms of the background fields. We fix the required covariant counterterms. To test our approach we determine the contribution of the Yukawa interaction to the conformal anomaly in the massless limit and show its consistency with the heat-kernel method using the effective action. |
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[del Rio, Adrian; Ferreiro, Antonio; Navarro-Salas, Jose] Univ Valencia, Fac Fis, Ctr Mixto Univ Valencia CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, E-46100 Valencia, Spain, Email: adrian.rio@uv.es; |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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2470-0010 |
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WOS:000401447900006 |
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no |
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yes |
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no |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3127 |
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Das, D.; Lopez-Ibañez, M.L.; Jay Perez, M.; Vives, O. |
Title |
Effective theories of flavor and the nonuniversal MSSM |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Physical Review D |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. D |
Volume |
95 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
035001 - 16pp |
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Flavor symmetries a la Froggatt-Nielsen provide a compelling way to explain the hierarchies of fermionic masses and mixing angles in the Yukawa sector. In supersymmetric (SUSY) extensions of the Standard Model where the mediation of SUSY breaking occurs at scales larger than the breaking of flavor, this symmetry must be respected not only by the Yukawas of the superpotential but also by the soft-breaking masses and trilinear terms. In this work we show that contrary to naive expectations, even starting with completely flavor blind soft breaking in the full theory at high scales, the low-energy sfermion mass matrices and trilinear terms of the effective theory, obtained upon integrating out the heavy mediator fields, are strongly nonuniversal. We explore the phenomenology of these SUSY flavor models after the latest LHC searches for new physics. |
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[Das, Dipankar; Lopez-Ibanez, M. L.; Jay Perez, M.; Vives, Oscar] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, Dr Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain, Email: dipankar.das@uv.es; |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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2470-0010 |
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WOS:000402238100001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3149 |
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Gonzalez, P. |
Title |
A quark model study of strong decays of X(3915) |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2017 |
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Journal of Physics G |
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J. Phys. G |
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44 |
Issue |
7 |
Pages |
075004 - 13pp |
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quark; meson; potential |
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Strong decays of X(3915) are analyzed from two quark model descriptions of X(3915), a conventional one in terms of the Cornell potential and an unconventional one from a generalized screened potential. We conclude that the experimental suppression of the OZI allowed decay X(3915) -> D (D) over bar might be explained in both cases due to the momentum dependence of the decay amplitude. However, the experimental significance of the OZI forbidden decay X(3915) -> omega J/psi could favor an unconventional description. |
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[Gonzalez, P.] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, IFIC, E-46100 Valencia, Spain, Email: pedro.gonzalez@uv.es |
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Iop Publishing Ltd |
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0954-3899 |
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WOS:000402890800001 |
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no |
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yes |
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no |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3158 |
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Reig, M.; Valle, J.W.F.; Vaquera-Araujo, C.A. |
Title |
Three-family left-right symmetry with low-scale seesaw mechanism |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2017 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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05 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
100 - 10pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Guage Symmetry; Neutrino Physics |
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We suggest a new left-right symmetric model implementing a low-scale see-saw mechanism in which quantum consistency requires three families of fermions. The symmetry breaking route to the Standard Model determines the profile of the “next” expected new physics, characterized either by the simplest left-right gauge symmetry or by the 3-3-1 scenario. The resulting Z' gauge bosons can be probed at the LHC and provide a production portal for the right-handed neutrinos. On the other hand, its flavor changing interactions would affect the K, D and B neutral meson systems. |
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[Reig, Mario; Valle, Jose W. F.; Vaquera-Araujo, C. A.] Univ Valencia, AHEP Grp, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Parc Cient Paterna,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: mareiglo@alumni.uv.es; |
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1029-8479 |
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WOS:000402841900003 |
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no |
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yes |
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no |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3168 |
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Roca, L.; Oset, E. |
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Role of a triangle singularity in the pi Delta decay of N(1700)(3/2(-)) |
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Journal Article |
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2017 |
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Physical Review C |
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Phys. Rev. C |
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95 |
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6 |
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065211 - 8pp |
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We show the important role played by the pi Delta(1232) channel in the build up of the N(1700)(3/2(-)) resonance due to the nontrivial enhancement produced by a singularity of a triangular loop. The N(1700) is one of the dynamically generated resonances produced by the coupled-channel vector-baryon interaction. The pi Delta channel was neglected in previous works but we show that it has to be incorporated into the coupled-channel formalism due to an enhancement produced by a singularity in the triangular loop with., nucleon, and p as internal loop lines and pi and Delta as external ones. The enhancement is of nonresonant origin but it contributes to the dynamical generation of the N(1700) resonance due to the nonlinear dynamics involved in the coupled-channel mechanisms. We obtain an important increase of the total width of the N(1700) resonance when the pi Delta channel is included and provide predictions for the partial widths of the N(1700) decays into VB and pi Delta. |
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[Roca, L.] Univ Murcia, Dept Fis, E-30100 Murcia, Spain |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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2469-9985 |
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WOS:000404022100005 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3177 |
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Chala, M. |
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Direct bounds on heavy toplike quarks with standard and exotic decays |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2017 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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96 |
Issue |
1 |
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015028 - 14pp |
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Heavy vectorlike quarks with electric charge Q = 2/3 (also called heavy tops) appear naturally in many extensions of the Standard Model. Although these typically predict the existence of further particles below the TeV scale, direct searches for heavy tops have been performed assuming that they decay only into SM particles. The aim of this paper is to overcome this situation. We consider the most constraining experimental LHC searches for vectorlike quarks, including analyses of the 36 fb(-1) of data collected in the latest run at 13 TeV of center of mass energy, as well as searches sensitive to heavy tops decaying into a new scalar, S. Combining all these, we derive bounds for arbitrary values of the heavy top branching ratios. A simple code that automatizes this process is also provided. At the physics level, we demonstrate that bounds on heavy tops are not inevitably weaker in the presence of new light scalars. We find that heavy tops with masses below similar to 900 GeV are excluded by direct searches, independently of whether they decay into Zt, Ht, Wb or St (with S giving either missing energy of bottom quarks) or into any combination of them. |
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[Chala, Mikael] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, Dr Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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WOS:000406298500008 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3211 |
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Fernandez-Soler, P.; Ruiz Arriola, E. |
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Coarse graining of NN inelastic interactions up to 3 GeV: Repulsive versus structural core |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2017 |
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Physical Review C |
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Phys. Rev. C |
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96 |
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1 |
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014004 - 14pp |
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The repulsive short-distance core is one of the main paradigms of nuclear physics which even seems confirmed by QCD lattice calculations. On the other hand nuclear potentials at short distances are motivated by high energy behavior where inelasticities play an important role. We analyze NN interactions up to 3 GeV in terms of simple coarse grained complex and energy dependent interactions. We discuss two possible and conflicting scenarios which share the common feature of a vanishing wave function at the core location in the particular case of S waves. We find that the optical potential with a repulsive core exhibits a strong energy dependence whereas the optical potential with the structural core is characterized by a rather adiabatic energy dependence which allows one to treat inelasticity perturbatively. We discuss the possible implications for nuclear structure calculations of both alternatives. |
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[Fernandez-Soler, P.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Ctr Mixto, Inst Invest Paterna,Inst Fis Corpuscular IFIC, Apartado 22085, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: pedro.fernandez@ific.uv.es; |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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2469-9985 |
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WOS:000406536800002 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3230 |
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