Feng, Y. C., Gil, F., Döring, M., Molina, R., Mai, M., Shastry, V., et al. (2024). Unitary coupled-channel three-body amplitude with pions and kaons. Phys. Rev. D, 110(9), 094002–21pp.
Abstract: Three-body dynamics above threshold is required for the reliable extraction of many amplitudes and resonances from experiment and lattice QCD. The S-matrix principle of unitarity can be used to construct dynamical coupled-channel approaches in which three particles scatter off each other, rearranging two-body subsystems by particle exchange. This paper reports the development of a three-body coupled-channel, amplitude including pions and kaons. The unequal-mass amplitude contains two-body S- and P-wave subsystems (“isobars”) of all isospins, I = 0, 1/2, 1,3/2, 2, and it also allows for transitions within a given isobar. The f 0 ( 500 )( 6 ) ,f 0 ( 980 ) , p ( 700 ) ,K * 0 ( 700 )( K ) , and K * ( 892 ) resonances are included, apart from repulsive isobars. Different methods to evaluate the amplitude for physical momenta are discussed. Production amplitudes for a 1 quantum numbers are shown as a proof of principle for the numerical implementation.
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Liang, W. H., Molina, R., & Oset, E. (2024). Ωc→π+(π0, η)πΞ*, π+(π0, η)K¯Σ* reactions and the two Ξ(1820) states. Phys. Rev. D, 110(3), 036005–9pp.
Abstract: We have studied the Omega c-* pi+(pi 0, + ( pi 0 , eta)pi Xi ) pi Xi and Omega c-* pi+(pi 0, + ( pi 0 , eta ) K Sigma decays, where the final pi Xi Xi or K Sigma Sigma comes from the decay of two resonances around the nominal Xi ( 1820 ) , which are generated from the interaction of coupled channels made of a pseudoscalar and a baryon of the decuplet. The pi Xi Xi mass distributions obtained in the six different reactions studied are quite different, and we single out four of them, which are free of a tree level contribution, showing more clearly the effect of the resonances. The lower mass resonance is clearly seen as a sharp peak, but the higher mass resonance manifests itself through an interference with the lower one that leads to a dip in the mass distribution around 1850 MeV. Such a feature is similar to the dip observed in the S- wave pi pi cross section around the 980 MeV coming from the interference of the f 0 ( 500 ) and f 0 ( 980 ) resonances. Its observation in coming upgrades of present facilities will shed light on the existence of these two resonances and their nature. On the other hand, when the Omega c-* pi+(pi 0, + ( pi 0 , eta ) K Sigma reactions are studied, both peaks are observed.
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Berbig, M., Herrero-Garcia, J., & Landini, G. (2024). Dynamical origin of neutrino masses and dark matter from a new confining sector. Phys. Rev. D, 110(3), 035011–13pp.
Abstract: A dynamical mechanism, based on a confining non-Abelian dark symmetry, which generates Majorana masses for hyperchargeless fermions, is proposed. We apply it to the inverse seesaw scenario, which allows us to generate light neutrino masses from the interplay of TeV-scale pseudo-Dirac mass terms and a small explicit breaking of lepton number. A single generation of vectorlike dark quarks, transforming under a SU(3)D gauge symmetry, is coupled to a real singlet scalar, which serves as a portal between the dark quark condensate and three generations of heavy sterile neutrinos. Such a dark sector and the Standard Model (SM) are kept in thermal equilibrium with each other via sizable Yukawa couplings to the heavy neutrinos. In this framework, the lightest dark baryon, which has spin 3/2 and is stabilized at the renormalizable level by an accidental dark baryon number symmetry, can account for the observed relic density via thermal freeze-out from annihilations into the lightest dark mesons. These mesons, in turn, decay to heavy neutrinos, which produce SM final states upon decay. This model may be probed by next generation neutrino telescopes via neutrino lines produced from dark matter annihilations.
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Safi, S., Farhang, M., Mena, O., & Di Valentino, E. (2024). Semiblind reconstruction of the history of effective number of neutrinos using CMB data. Phys. Rev. D, 110(10), 103513–7pp.
Abstract: We explore the possibility of redshift-dependent deviations in the contribution of relativistic degrees of freedom to the radiation budget of the cosmos, conventionally parametrized by the effective number of neutrinos Neff, from the predictions of the standard model. We expand the deviations 0Neff(z) in terms of top-hat functions and treat their amplitudes as the free parameters of the theory to be measured alongside the standard cosmological parameters by the Planck measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies and baryonic acoustic oscillations, as well as performing forecasts for futuristic CMB surveys such as PICO and CMB-S4. We reconstruct the history of 0Neff and find that with the current data the history is consistent with the standard scenario. Inclusion of the new degrees of freedom in the analysis increases H0 to 68.71 +/- 0.44, slightly reducing the Hubble tension. With the smaller forecasted errors on the 0Neff(z) parametrization modes from future CMB surveys, very accurate bounds are expected within the possible range of dark radiation models.
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Albandea, D., Catumba, G., & Ramos, A. (2024). Strong CP problem in the quantum rotor. Phys. Rev. D, 110(9), 094512–11pp.
Abstract: Recent studies have claimed that the strong CP problem does not occur in QCD, proposing a new order of limits in volume and topological sectors when studying observables on the lattice. In order to shed light on this issue, we study the effect of the topological theta-term on a simple quantum mechanical rotor that allows a lattice description. The topological susceptibility and the theta-dependence of the energy spectrum are both computed using local lattice correlation functions. The sign problem is overcome by considering Taylor expansions in theta, exploiting automatic differentiation methods for Monte Carlo processes. Our findings confirm the conventional wisdom on the strong CP problem.
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