English
Related papers

Related papers: Semiclassical and quantum production rates

200 papers

Thomas-Fermi theory is developed to evaluate nuclear matrix elements averaged on the energy shell, on the basis of independent particle Hamiltonians. One- and two-body matrix elements are compared with the quantal results and it is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-23 X. Vinas , P. Schuck , M. Farine , M. Centelles

Symmetric nuclear matter is studied within the conserving, self-consistent T-matrix approximation. This approach involves off-shell propagation of nucleons in the ladder diagrams. The binding energy receives contributions from the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Bozek

We present a method to compute off-shell effects for processes involving resonant particles at hadron colliders with the possibility to include realistic cuts on the decay products. The method is based on an effective theory approach to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-28 Pietro Falgari , Paul Mellor , Adrian Signer

A general scheme is proposed here to describe the production of semi soft and soft quarks and gluons that form the bulk of the plasma in ultra relativistic heavy ion collisions. We show how to obtain rates as a function of time in a self…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Ambar Jain , V. Ravishankar

The particle production in the self-interacting N-component complex scalar field theory is studied at large N. A non-Markovian source term that includes all higher order back-reaction and collision effects is derived. The kinetic amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Fuad M. Saradzhev

Photon production from a thermalized quark-gluon plasma of finite lifetime is studied directly in real time with a nonequilibrium formulation that includes off-shell (energy nonconserving) effects. To lowest order we find that production of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-31 Shang-Yung Wang , Daniel Boyanovsky

Detailed calculations of the contribution from off-shell effects to the quasiclassical tunneling of fusing particles are provided. It is shown that these effects change the Gamow rates of certain nuclear reactions in dense plasma by several…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. I. Savchenko

Nucleon drift and diffusion mechanisms in central collisions of asymmetric heavy-ions at near-barrier energies are investigated in the framework of a stochastic mean-field approach. Expressions for diffusion and drift coefficients for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-08 B. Yilmaz , S. Ayik , D. Lacroix , K. Washiyama

Non-equilibrium quasiparticle excitations degrade the performance of a variety of superconducting circuits. Understanding the energy distribution of these quasiparticles will yield insight into their generation mechanisms, the limitations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 K. Serniak , M. Hays , G. de Lange , S. Diamond , S. Shankar , L. D. Burkhart , L. Frunzio , M. Houzet , M. H. Devoret

Inner-shell vacancy production for the O$^{8+}$-Li collision system at 1.5 MeV/amu is studied theoretically. The theory combines single-electron amplitudes for each electron in the system to extract multielectron information about the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 M. D. Śpiewanowski , L. Gulyás , M. Horbatsch , T. Kirchner

Nonequilibrium steady-state currents, unlike their equilibrium counterparts, continuously dissipate energy into their physical surroundings leading to entropy production and time-reversal symmetry breaking. This letter discusses these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Pankaj Mehta , Natan Andrei

We present a general discussion of the mean field dynamics of finite nuclei prepared under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure. We compare the prediction of semi-classical approximation with complete quantum simulations. Many…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Lacroix , Ph. Chomaz

A three-body semiclassical model is proposed to describe the nucleon transfer and emission reactions in a heavy-ion collision. In this model the two heavy particles, i.e. nuclear cores A$_1(Z_{A_1}, M_{A_1})$ and A$_2(Z_{A_2}, M_{A_2})$,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Renat A. Sultanov , D. Guster

We present a fully relativistic and gauge invariant framework for calculating the cross sections of dilepton production in nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) collisions which is based on the meson-exchange approximation for the $NN$ scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-20 R. Shyam , U. Mosel

We study the quantum tunnel effect through a potential barrier employing a semiclassical formulation of quantum mechanics based on expectation values of configuration variables and quantum dispersions as dynamical variables. The evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 L. Aragon-Muñoz , G. Chacon-Acosta , H. Hernandez-Hernandez

Quantum states can be described equivalently by density matrices, Wigner functions or quantum tomograms. We analyze the accuracy and performance of three related semiclassical approaches to quantum dynamics, in particular with respect to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-27 G. Schubert , V. S. Filinov , K. Matyash , R. Schneider , H. Fehske

We study the interplay between an inhomogeneous quantum quench of the external potential in a system of relativistic fermions in one dimension and the well-known Klein tunneling. We find that the large time evolution is characterized by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-25 Leda Bucciantini , Spyros Sotiriadis , Tommaso Macrì

Two particles, initially in a product state, become entangled when they come together and start to interact. Using semiclassical methods, we calculate the time evolution of the corresponding reduced density matrix $\rho_1$, obtained by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Philippe Jacquod

We use a semiclassical approximation to derive the partition function for an arbitrary potential in one-dimensional Quantum Statistical Mechanics, which we view as an example of finite temperature scalar Field Theory at a point. We rely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. A. A. de Carvalho , R. M. Cavalcanti

We present numerical solutions of the semi-classical Boltzmann-Vlasov equation for fermion particle-antiparticle production by strong electric fields in boost-invariant coordinates in (1+1) and (3+1) dimensional QED. We compare the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 John F. Dawson , B. Mihaila , F. Cooper