Showing hep-phShow all

243 papers · 1 filter

hep-ph2026

Origin of the Covariant Wigner Operator as a Quantum Amplitude in QCD

Chueng-Ryong Ji, Daniel W. Piasecki

The Wigner function plays a central role in QCD as a phase space object encoding correlations among quarks, antiquarks, and gluons, yet its interpretation remains subtle due to its…

hep-ph2025

The Feynman path integral formulation of non-dispersive Airy wave packets and their applications to the heavy meson mass spectra and ultra-cold neutrons

Paul Ferrante, Connor Donovan, Chueng-Ryong Ji

We demonstrate the non-spreading behavior of Airy wave packets utilizing the Feynman path integral formulation of a linear potential, the Airy functions' zeros correspondence to he…

hep-ph2025

The (3+1)-dimensional scalar field model analysis of beam spin asymmetry in the electroproduction of a scalar meson off a scalar target

Andrew Lundeen, Chueng-Ryong Ji, Yongwoo Choi +1

We explore exclusive scalar meson electroproduction off a scalar target in the (3+1)-dimensional scalar field model. This model analysis is a straightforward extension of the previ…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Perturbative Corrections to Quark TMDPDFs in the Background-Field Method: Gauge Invariance, Equations of Motion, and Multiple Interactions

Swagato Mukherjee, Vladimir V. Skokov, Andrey Tarasov +1

We calculate the perturbative corrections in the strong coupling to the unpolarized quark transverse-momentum dependent parton distribution function (TMDPDF) operator within a back…

hep-ph2024★ 5 cited

Two lectures on Yang-Lee edge singularity and analytic structure of QCD equation of state

Vladimir V. Skokov

These lecture notes, prepared for the 2024 XQCD PhD, provide an introduction to the analytic structure of an equation of state near a second-order phase transition and its most pro…

hep-ph2024★ 6 cited

Non-conservation of Lepton Numbers in the Neutrino Sector Could Change the Prospects for Core Collapse Supernova Explosions

Anna M. Suliga, Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong, Julien Froustey +5

We show that interactions violating the conservation of lepton numbers in the neutrino sector could significantly alter the standard low entropy picture for the pre-supernova colla…

hep-ph2024★ 8 cited

Quantum Closures for Neutrino Moment Transport

James P. Kneller, Julien Froustey, Evan B. Grohs +3

A computationally efficient method for calculating the transport of neutrino flavor in simulations is to use angular moments of the neutrino one-body reduced density matrix, i.e.,…

hep-ph2024★ 8 cited

Quantum maximum entropy closure for small flavor coherence

Julien Froustey, James P. Kneller, Gail C. McLaughlin

Quantum angular moment transport schemes are an important avenue toward describing neutrino flavor mixing phenomena in dense astrophysical environments such as supernovae and mergi…

hep-ph2024★ 6 cited

Off-shell pion properties: electromagnetic form factors and light-front wave functions

Jurandi Leão, J. Pacheco B. C. de Melo, T. Frederico +2

The off-shell pion electromagnetic form factors are explored with corresponding off-shell light-front wave functions modeled by constituent quark and anti-quark. We apply the Mande…

hep-ph2024★ 25 cited

Constraints on primordial lepton asymmetries with full neutrino transport

Julien Froustey, Cyril Pitrou

Primordial neutrino-antineutrino asymmetries can be constrained through big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) relic abundances and cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, both obs…

hep-ph2023★ 5 cited

Incoherent diffractive dijet production and gluon Bose enhancement in the nuclear wave function

Tiyasa Kar, Alexander Kovner, Ming Li +1

We investigate the effect of gluon Bose enhancement in the nuclear wave function on the dijet production in incoherent diffractive processes in DIS and ultraperipheral collisions.…

hep-ph2023★ 14 cited

Global analysis of polarized DIS & SIDIS data with improved small- helicity evolution

Daniel Adamiak, Nicholas Baldonado, Yuri V. Kovchegov +6

We analyze the world polarized deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) and semi-inclusive DIS (SIDIS) data at low values of , using small- evolution equations for the flavor si…

hep-ph2023★ 16 cited

Pseudoscalar meson decay constants and distribution amplitudes up to twist-4 in the light-front quark model

Ahmad Jafar Arifi, Ho-Meoyng Choi, Chueng-Ryong Ji

In the light-front quark model (LFQM) amenable to the simultaneous study of both the mass spectroscopy and the wave function related observables, we examine the decay constants and…

hep-ph2023★ 14 cited

Entanglement entropy of the proton in coordinate space

Adrian Dumitru, Alex Kovner, Vladimir V. Skokov

We calculate the entanglement entropy of a model proton wave function in coordinate space by integrating out degrees of freedom outside a small circular region of radius $…

hep-ph2023★ 9 cited

Implications on Cosmology from Dirac Neutrino Magnetic Moments

E. Grohs, A. B. Balantekin

The mechanism for generating neutrino masses remains a puzzle in particle physics. If neutrino masses follow from a Dirac mass term, then neutrino states exist with opposite chiral…

hep-ph2023★ 6 cited

N-particle irreducible actions for stochastic fluids

Jingyi Chao, Thomas Schaefer

We construct one- and two-particle irreducible (1PI and 2PI) effective actions for the stochastic fluid dynamics of a conserved density undergoing diffusive motion. We compute the…

hep-ph2022★ 22 cited

Universal location of Yang-Lee edge singularity in classic O(N) universality classes

Gregory Johnson, Fabian Rennecke, Vladimir V. Skokov

Employing the functional renormalization group approach at next-to-leading order of the derivative expansion, we refine our earlier findings for the location of the Yang-Lee edge s…

hep-ph2022★ 9 cited

Far-off-equilibrium expansion trajectories in the QCD phase diagram

Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay, Ulrich Heinz, Thomas Schaefer

We consider the hydrodynamic evolution of a quark-gluon gas with non-zero quark masses and net baryon number in its phase diagram. For far-off-equilibrium initial conditions the ex…

hep-ph2022★ 2 cited

CGC for Ultra-Peripheral Pb+Pb Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider: a more realistic calculation

Haowu Duan, Alexander Kovner, Vladimir V. Skokov

We provide the first calculation of two-gluon production at mid-rapidity in ultra-peripheral collisions in the Color Glass Condensate framework. To estimate systematic uncertainty…

hep-ph2022★ 10 cited

Nucleon form factors and parton distributions in nonlocal chiral effective theory

P. Wang, Fangcheng He, Chueng-Ryong Ji +1

We present a review of recent applications of nonlocal chiral effective theory to hadron structure studies. Starting from a nonlocal meson--baryon effective chiral Lagrangian, we s…

hep-ph2022★ 35 cited

Mixing effects on 1S and 2S state heavy mesons in the light-front quark model

Ahmad Jafar Arifi, Ho-Meoyng Choi, Chueng-Ryong ji +1

The mass spectra and wave functions of both and state heavy pseudoscalar () and vector () mesons are analyzed within the light-front quark model. Important empirica…

hep-ph2022★ 80 cited

Neutrino Self-Interactions: A White Paper

Jeffrey M. Berryman, Nikita Blinov, Vedran Brdar +31

Neutrinos are the Standard Model (SM) particles which we understand the least, often due to how weakly they interact with the other SM particles. Beyond this, very little is known…

hep-ph2022★ 24 cited

Universal location of Yang-Lee edge singularity for a one-component field theory in

Fabian Rennecke, Vladimir V. Skokov

We determine the universal location of the Yang-Lee edge singularity in the entire relevant domain of spatial dimensions for the Ising universality class. To that en…

hep-ph2022★ 1 cited

Helicity-dependent distribution of strange quarks in the proton from nonlocal chiral effective theory

Fangcheng He, Chueng-Ryong Ji, W. Melnitchouk +4

The helicity-dependent strange quark distribution in the proton, , is calculated in a nonlocal chiral SU(3) effective field theory. The hadronic proton to meson plus octet or d…