Towards a bottom-up formulation of spin kinetic theoryWe develop a bottom-up formulation of spin-kinetic theory for hot and/or dense plasmas. We introduce scalar and axial-vector phase-space functions as dynamical variables that parametrize both…Zonglin Mo, Yi Yin·Dec 30, 2025SaveLearn
Fluctuations of Temperature in the Polyakov-loop extended Nambu--Jona-Lasinio ModelWe investigate temperature fluctuations in hot QCD matter using a 3-flavor Polyakov-loop extended Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model. The high-order cumulant ratios Rn2 (n>2) exhibit…He Liu, Peng Wu, Hong-Ming Liu et al.·Dec 30, 2025SaveLearn
Recent advancements in the strongly coupled many-body theory for nuclear spectral computationSome recent advancements of the nuclear many-body theory and selected results on nuclear giant and pygmy resonances are presented. The theory is compactly reviewed, with a special focus on the…Elena Litvinova·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
Basis truncation, statistical errors, and systematic uncertainties in relativistic approaches to nuclear responseAlthough there exists a clear and, in principle, exact theoretical formulation for the equation of motion for the response of a correlated fermionic system, its numerical implementations for atomic…A. V. Afanasjev, E. Litvinova, B. Osei·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
Neutron Star Equation of State with Nucleon Short-Range Correlations: A Concise Review and Open IssuesNucleon short-range correlations (SRCs) and the associated high-momentum tail (HMT) in its momentum distribution n(k) represent a universal feature of strongly interacting Fermi systems. In nuclear…Bao-Jun Cai, Bao-An Li, Yu-Gang Ma·Dec 29, 2025SaveLearn
The effect of inversion of p and f orbits on halo formation in heavy sodium isotopesThe role of the inversion of the p and f shell-model orbits in the emergence of halo structures in the ground states of neutron-rich 34,37,39Na is investigated. Families of two- and…Jagjit Singh, J. Casal, L. Fortunato et al.·Dec 28, 2025SaveLearn
Factorized distorted wave calculations for electron, neutrino, and BSM processesWe point out that, under certain conditions, the nuclear currents that couple to vector bosons can be written as the trace of the product of two matrices. One contains `nucleon dynamics', e.g. form…Alexis Nikolakopoulos, Raúl González-Jiménez·Dec 28, 2025SaveLearn
Kinematic and dynamical origins of mean-pT fluctuations in heavy-ion collisionsEvent-by-event fluctuations of the mean transverse momentum (mean-pT) provide a sensitive probe of collective dynamics beyond single-particle spectra and anisotropic flow. We present a systematic…Lipei Du·Dec 27, 2025SaveLearn
Elucidating the role of the surface energy in density functional theoryThe saturation of symmetric nuclear matter -- reflected in the nearly constant interior density of heavy nuclei -- is a defining property of nuclear matter. Modern relativistic energy density…Md Jafrul Islam, Athul Kunjipurayil, J. Piekarewicz et al.·Dec 27, 2025SaveLearn
Bound States of Baryons in Light NucleiWe investigate bound states of light 3x-clusters (x = s, c), motivated by the 3sN potential recently developed by the HAL QCD collaboration. To regularize this potential, we…Igor Filikhin, Roman Ya. Kezerashvili, Branislav Vlahovic·Dec 27, 2025SaveLearn
Exploring Interplays Between 3P2 Neutron Superfluid Vortices and 1S0 Proton Fluxtubes in the Outer Core of Neutron StarsIn the outer core of neutron stars, 3P2 superfluid neutrons and 1S0 superconducting protons are deemed to exist, forming quantum vortices and magnetic fluxtubes, respectively. Those…Tatsuhiro Hattori, Kazuyuki Sekizawa·Dec 27, 2025SaveLearn
Unified Royer law revision for alpha-decay half-lives: shell corrections, pairing,and orbital-angular-momentumThe Royer law is a widely used empirical relation for calculating alpha-decay half-lives; however, it requires 12 parity-dependent parameters.It exhibits systematic deviations near the shell closure.…Kai Ren, Pengfei Ma, Minghui Hu et al.·Dec 26, 2025SaveLearn
Multi-reference Trial State for Lattice Quantum Monte Carlo SimulationsNuclear lattice effective field theory (NLEFT) is an efficient ab initio tool for solving nuclear many-body systems using the imaginary-time projection technique, where the preparation of…Teng Wang, Xu Feng, Bing-Nan Lu·Dec 26, 2025SaveLearn
Nucleon momentum distributions of complex nuclei from inclusive electron scatteringNucleon momentum distributions (NMDs) reveal essential information about Fermi motion and short-range correlations (SRCs). In extracting NMDs from inclusive electron scattering data, theoretical…Tongqi Liang, Dong Bai, Zhongzhou Ren·Dec 26, 2025SaveLearn
Pre-Supernova (Anti)Neutrino Emission Due to Weak-Interaction Reactions with Hot NucleiReliable predictions of (anti)neutrino spectra and luminosities are essential for assessing the feasibility of detecting pre-supernova neutrinos. Using the stellar evolution code MESA, we calculate…Alan A. Dzhioev, Andrey V. Yudin, Natalia V. Dunina-Barkovskaya et al.·Dec 25, 2025SaveLearn
Model-Independent Bound on Neutrino Energy Reconstruction from Nuclear TargetsNeutrino energy reconstruction on nuclear targets underlies oscillation measurements and precision tests of weak interactions. Inclusive charged--current data have long exhibited degeneracies…Sanjeev Kumar Verma·Dec 25, 2025SaveLearn
Spontaneous fission half-lives for heavy and super-heavy nuclei from phenomenological modelsA phenomenological model is proposed for a systematic description of the spontaneous fission (SF) half-lives T SF of heavy and super-heavy nuclei. Based on the effective tunneling barrier…Yi Xie, Ning Wang, Zhongzhou Ren·Dec 25, 2025SaveLearn
Studying nuclear medium modification using the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum ruleThe Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule is a generic relation that has been used to make significant contributions to research in hadronic physics. It connects the spin-dependent cross-section for…A. Deur, M. M. Dalton, S. Širca·Dec 23, 2025SaveLearn
Proton-neutron correlations in baryon-number fluctuations near the liquid-gas transitionWe study net-baryon number density fluctuations in isospin-symmetric matter near the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition using the parity doublet model. We analyze second-order susceptibilities of…Michał Marczenko·Dec 23, 2025SaveLearn
Challenge of nuclear transmutation in heavy-ion collidersWe investigate the production of secondary nuclei in the hadronic fragmentation and electromagnetic dissociation (EMD) of 20Ne beams at the LHC and 124Xe beams at NICA. For light nuclei at…I. A. Pshenichnov, S. D. Savenkov, A. O. Svetlichnyi·Dec 23, 2025SaveLearn
Glauber-theory analysis of nuclear reactions on 12C target with variational Monte Carlo wave functionsThe application of Glauber theory has been playing an increasingly important role with the study of unstable or exotic nuclei. Its adaptation to medium and high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions is…W. Horiuchi, Y. Suzuki, R. B. Wiringa·Dec 23, 2025SaveLearn
Glauber-theory calculations of high-energy nuclear scattering observables using variational Monte Carlo wave functionsExperiments using intermediate- to high-energy radioactive nuclear beams present numerous findings. Extracting important properties of physical observables relies on a firm theoretical analysis.…W. Horiuchi, Y. Suzuki, R. B. Wiringa·Dec 23, 2025SaveLearn
Nuclear Responses to Two-Body External Fields Studied with the Second Random-Phase-ApproximationThis study investigates nuclear responses to two body external fields, interpreted as double phonon excitations, within the subtracted second random phase approximation (SSRPA) for 16O and 40Ca. To…Futoshi Minato·Dec 23, 2025SaveLearn
Neutron star crust and outer core equation of state from chiral effective field theory with quantified uncertaintiesWe study the order-by-order expansion of the energy per particle of asymmetric nuclear matter up to twice saturation density in chiral effective field theory (EFT) within a Bayesian framework. For…H. Göttling, L. Hoff, K. Hebeler et al.·Dec 22, 2025SaveLearn
Probing the delicate balance of the spontaneous fission instability in sub-μs superheavy nucleus 252RfStimulated by the recent experimental discovery of the sub-μs fission nucleus 252Rf [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134 (2025) 022501], we perform an improved configuration-constrained…Zhen-Zhen Zhang, Hua-Lei Wang, Kui Xiao et al.·Dec 22, 2025SaveLearn