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Chiral relativistic description of nuclear matter including effects of confinement mechanism
No full textLe but de cette thèse est de construire un modèle décrivant la matière nucléaire symétrique et asymétrique dans une approche relativiste incluant des effets de la chromodynamique quantique, en particulier la symétrie chirale et le confinement. Le système considéré est une assemblée de nucléons en interaction {\it via} l'échange de mésons. L'attraction est assurée par la présence d'un champ scalaire invariant chiral lié aux fluctuations du condensat de quarks. La saturation est obtenue après ajout de la réponse scalaire nucléo- nique liée à la sous-structure en quarks du nucléon. Les paramètres liés au secteur scalaire de l'interaction et au confinement des quarks dans le nucléon sont estimés à partir de données sur réseau. Le reste des paramètres est contraint autant que possible par la phénoménologie hadronique. Le modèle n'est ainsi quasiment pas ajustable, le fait qu'il donne de si bons résultats constitue l'originalité de ce travail de thèse. Dans un premier temps, nous avons choisi de travailler à l'approximation de champ moyen dans le schéma Hartree--Fock. La propagation du champ scalaire dans les termes de Fock conduit à des effets de réarrangement qui permettent de satisfaire le théorème de Hugenhotz--Van Hove. Nous soulignons également le rôle du terme tenseur du ρ dans l'énergie d'asymétrie ainsi que dans la dépendance en isospin de la masse effective de Landau. Enfin, nous donnons l'équation d'état des étoiles à neutrons prédite par ce modèle. Dans un deuxième temps, nous avons décidé d'inclure des effets au-delà du champ moyen en incluant l'énergie de corrélation due aux boucles de pions. Un ingrédient important est l'introduction d'un paramètre de Landau--Migdal contrôlant les interactions à courte portée. L'énergie de corrélation améliore la description des propriétés de la matière nucléaire au niveau du point de saturation.This work aims at constructing a model for symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter in a relativistic approach including effects from quantum chromodynamics, in particular chiral symmetry and confinement. We consider an assembly of nucleons interacting via meson exchange. The attraction is due to a chiral invariant scalar field associated with the fluctuations of the chiral condensate. The inclusion of scalar nucleonic effects due to the quark substructure of the nucleon ensures the saturation to occur. The parameters corresponding to the scalar sector of the interaction and to the quarks confinement in the nucleon are obtained from lattice calculations. The rest of the parameters are obtained as much as possible by hadron phenomenology. With such constrained inputs, the results are nevertheless very good: this constitutes the originality of this work. In one part, we chood to work at the mean-field level in the Hartree--Fock scheme. The propagation of the scalar field in the Hartree-Fock terms induce some rearrangement effects which play an essential role in the Hugenhotz--Van hove theorem. We discuss also the role of the tensor part of the ρ interaction in the symmetry energy and the isospin dependance of the Landau effective mass. Then, in the idea to enlarge this work to neutron stars, we give the equation of state predicted by our model. The last step corresponds to the introduction of effects after the mean-field including the correlation energy due to pion loops. An important ingredient is the Landau-Migdal parameter controling short range interactions. The correlation energy enhances the description of the saturation point of nuclear matte
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
A study of the transition between quark gluon plasma and hadronic matter in an effective model of QCD : the Polyakov -- Nambu -- Jona-Lasinio model
No full textLe plasma de quarks et de gluons (QGP) est un état de la matière observe lors de la collision d'ions lourds dans les accélérateurs tels que le LHC. Il est présent à haute température et/ou à haute densité, les quarks sont alors déconfinés : libres de se mouvoir et interagissant très peu entre eux. A basse température et basse densité, les quarks sont, au contraire, confines dans les hadrons formant la matière hadronique ordinaire. La présence d'une transition entre cette phase hadronique et le QGP a des conséquences importantes que ce soit 'a haute température (expériences RHIC et LHC) ou a haute densité (expérience CBM à FAIR, étude des étoiles compactes). Une première transition de phase est liée à la brisure de la symétrie chirale. Dans la matière hadronique, cette symétrie est brisée spontanément. Elle est restaurée en augmentant la température ou la densité. Au delà de la discussion habituelle sur la transition chirale, nous utiliserons un modèle, le modèle Polyakov Nambu Jona-Lasinio permettant de décrire une deuxième transition : la transition de deconfinement. Ceci permettra de séparer le diagramme Temperature-Densité en trois phases distinctes : la phase hadronique ou les quarks sont confines et o'u la symétrie chirale est brisée, la phase du QGP ou les quarks sont d'confines et o'u la symétrie chirale est restaurée et une phase hypothétique dite quarkyonique à basse température et haute densité ou les quarks sont encore confines mais ou la symétrie chirale est restaurée. On décrira, dans un premier temps les différentes transitions à l'aide des paramètres d'ordre suivant : le condensat de quark pour la transition chirale et la boucle de Polyakov pour le déconfinement. On verra ensuite comment l'évolution des fonctions spectrales des mésons sigma et pi peut nous renseigner sur le diagramme de phase. Le critère de transition chirale sera alors la différence entre les masses de ces mésons, la masse étant prise comme étant le maximum de la fonction spectrale. Le critère de transition de deconfinement sera, quant à lui, l'écart-type de la fonction spectrale. Enfin, nous verrons comment intégrer les mésons vecteurs au modèle, en particulier le méson rho, qui pourra jouer le rôle de sonde du plasma, ses propriétés étant modifiées suivant le milieu dans lequel il est émisThe quark and gluon plasma (QGP) is a state of matter observed in the collision of heavy ions in accelerators such as the LHC. It is formed at high temperature and / or high density, quarks are then deconfined : free to move and interacting very little with each other. At low temperature and low density, the quarks are, however, confined within hadrons forming the ordinary hadronic matter. The presence of the phase transition between hadronic matter and the QGP has observable consequences whatsoever at high temperature (RHIC and LHC experiments) or high density (FAIR experience, study of compact stars). A first phase transition is linked to the chiral symmetry breaking. In hadronic matter, this symmetry is spontaneously broken. It is restored by increasing the temperature or the density. Beyond the usual discussion on the chiral transition, we use a model called Polyakov Nambu Jona-Lasinio for describing a second transition, the deconfinement transition. This allows to separate the temperature-density diagram in three distinct phases : the hadronic phase where quarks are confined and where chiral symmetry is broken, the phase of the QGP where quarks are deconfined and chiral symmetry is restored and a hypothetical phase called quarkyonic at low temperature and high density in which quarks are confined but where chiral symmetry is still restored. We will describe, at first, the various transitions using the following order parameters : the quark condensate for the chiral transition and the Polyakov loop for the deconfinement one. Then we will see how the evolution of the spectral functions of sigma and pi mesons can provide information on the phase diagram. The chiral transition criterion will be the difference between the masses of these mesons, the mass being taken as the maximum of the spectral function. And the criterion for the deconfinement transition will be the standard deviation (also called variance) of the spectral function. Finally, we discuss how the vector mesons fit in the model, especially the meson, which can act as a probe of plasma properties which are modified by the environment from which it is issue
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Scalar field, nucleon structure and relativistic chiral theory for nuclear matter
Get PDFThe work that Peter Schuck and I carried out during the nineties in
collaboration with the Lyon and Darmstadt theory groups is summarized. I
retrace how our theoretical developments combined with experimental results
concerning the in-medium modification of the pion-pion interaction allowed a
clarification of the chiral status of the sigma meson introduced in
relativistic theories of nuclear matter. This enabled us to build a
relativistic chiral theory, now called the chiral confining model of nuclear
matter, which includes the effect of the nucleon substructure, namely the
response of the nucleon to the nuclear scalar field generating an efficient and
natural contribution to the saturation mechanism. Using parameters from a
QCD-connected version of the chiral confining model, I describe the relative
roles of the chiral scalar field and two-pion (or two-rho) exchange for the
in-medium attractive interaction and the associated sources of three-body
interactions needed for the saturation mechanism.Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:2307.0348
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