High-energy nuclear physics meets machine learning

Although seemingly disparate,high-energy nuclear physics(HENP)and machine learning(ML)have begun to merge in the last few years,yielding interesting results.It is worthy to raise the profile of utilizing this novel mindset from ML in HENP,to help interested readers see the breadth of activities around this intersection.The aim of this mini-review is to inform the community of the current status and present an overview of the application of ML to HENP.From different aspects and using examples,we examine how scientific questions involving HENP can be answered using ML.

Implications of the Stellar Mass Density of High-z Massive Galaxies from JWST on Warm Dark Matter

A significant excess of the stellar mass density at high redshift has been discovered from the early data release of James Webb Space Telescope(JWST),and it may require a high star formation efficiency.However,this will lead to large number density of ionizing photons in the epoch of reionization(EoR),so that the reionization history will be changed,which can arise tension with the current EoR observations.Warm dark matter(WDM),via the free streaming effect,can suppress the formation of small-scale structure as well as low-mass galaxies.This provides an effective way to decrease the ionizing photons when considering a large star formation efficiency in high-z massive galaxies without altering the cosmic reionization history.On the other hand,the constraints on the properties of WDM can be derived from the JWST observations.In this work,we study WDM as a possible solution to reconcile the JWST stellar mass density of high-z massive galaxies and reionization history.We find that,the JWST high-z comoving cumulative stellar mass density alone has no significant preference for either CDM or WDM model.But using the observational data of other stellar mass density measurements and reionization history,we obtain that the WDM particle mass with mw=0.51_(-0.12)^(+0.22) keV and star formation efficiency parameter f_(*)^(0)> 0.39 in 2σ confidence level can match both the JWST high-z comoving cumulative stellar mass density and the reionization history.

Cross-correlation Forecast of CSST Spectroscopic Galaxy and MeerKAT Neutral Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Surveys

Cross-correlating the data on neutral hydrogen(HⅠ)21 cm intensity mapping with galaxy surveys is an effective method to extract astrophysical and cosmological information.In this work,we investigate the cross-correlation of MeerKAT single-dish mode HⅠintensity mapping and China Space Station Telescope(CSST)spectroscopic galaxy surveys.We simulate a survey area of~300 deg~2 of MeerKAT and CSST surveys at z=0.5 using MultiDark N-body simulation.The PC A algorithm is applied to remove the foregrounds of HⅠintensity mapping,and signal compensation is considered to solve the signal loss problem in HⅠ-galaxy cross power spectrum caused by the foreground removal process.We find that from CSST galaxy auto and MeerKAT-CSST cross power spectra,the constraint accuracy of the parameter productΩ_(HⅠ)b_(HⅠ)r_(HⅠ,g)can reach~1%,which is about one order of magnitude higher than the current results.After performing the full MeerKAT HⅠintensity mapping survey with5000 deg~2 survey area,the accuracy can be enhanced to<0.3%.This implies that the MeerKAT-CSST cross-correlation can be a powerful tool to probe the cosmic HⅠproperty and the evolution of galaxies and the Universe.

Ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts

Based on the recent association of IceCube TeV and PeV neutrino events with gamma-ray bursts(GRBs)by considering the Lorentz violation of neutrinos,we provide a new estimate on the GRB neutrino flux with a more significant result compared to the previous constraint by the IceCube Collaboration.Among these 24 neutrino“shower”events above 60 TeV,12 events are associated with GRBs.Such a result is compatible with the prediction from GRB fireball models.Analysis of track events provides a consistent result with the shower events to associate high energy cosmic neutrinos with GRBs under the same Lorentz violation features of neutrinos.We also make a background estimation and reveal GRBs as a significant source for the ultra-high energy IceCube neutrino events.Our work supports the Lorentz violation and CPT-violation of neutrinos,indicating new physics beyond relativity.

A simulation package—SASAL for X-ray and EUV spectroscopy of astrophysical and laboratory plasmas

For the laboratory astrophysics community, those spectroscopic modeling codes extensively used in astronomy, e.g. Chianti, AtomDB, Cloudy and Xstar, cannot be directly applied to analyzing laboratory measurements due to their discrepancies from astrophysical cases. For example, plasma from an electron beam ion trap has an electron energy distribution that follows a Gaussian profile, instead of a Maxwellian one. The laboratory miniature for a compact object produced by a laser-driven implo- sion shows a departure from equilibrium, that often occurs in celestial objects, so we setup a spectral analysis system for astrophysical and laboratory （SASAL） plasmas to act as a bridge between them, which benefits the laboratory astrophysical community.

Energy loss of an energetic Ga ion in hot Au plasmas

Self-consistent calculations of energy loss for a Ga ion moving in hot Au plasmas are made under the assumption of wide ranges of the projectile energy and the plasma temperature with all important mechanisms considered in detail.The relevant results are found to be quite different from those of an a particle or a proton.One important reason for this is the rapid increasing of the charge state of a Ga ion at plasma temperature.This reason also leads to the inelastic stopping which does not always decrease with the increase of plasma temperature,unlike the case of an a particle.The nuclear stopping becomes very important at high enough plasma temperature due to the heavy reduced mass of a Ga and an Au ion and the above-mentioned reason.The well-known binary collision model[Phys.Rev.126(1962)1]and its revised one[Phys.Rev.A 29(1984)2145]are not working or unsatisfactory in this case.

Sky reconstruction for the Tianlai cylinder array

We apply our sky map reconstruction method for transit type interferometers to the Tianlai cylin- der array. The method is based on spherical harmonic decomposition, and can be applied to a cylindrical array as well as dish arrays and we can compute the instrument response, synthesized beam, transfer func- tion and noise power spectrum. We consider cylinder arrays with feed spacing larger than half a wavelength and, as expected, we find that the arrays with regular spacing have grating lobes which produce spurious images in the reconstructed maps. We show that this problem can be overcome using arrays with a different feed spacing on each cylinder. We present the reconstructed maps, and study the performance in terms of noise power spectrum, transfer function and beams for both regular and irregular feed spacing configura- tions.

Erratum:A Search for Solar Axions and Anomalous Neutrino Magnetic Moment with the Complete PandaX-Ⅱ Data[CHIN.PHYS.LETT.38(2021)011301]

In our published letter,[1]we have identified a minor error in Figs.2 and 3.Instead,we have 2111 events in these two plots with 646,249,382,and 834 events in Run 9(20.0 ton·day),Run 10(19.4 ton·day),Run 11–1(24.2 ton·day),and Run 11–2(37.1 ton·day).The mistake is due to an incorrect application of a small energy non-linearity(known as the BLS non-linearity)in making plots,but has no impact to the final results.Figures 2 and 3 are now updated in this note.

A Proof of First Digit Law from Laplace Transform

The first digit law, also known as Benford’s law or the significant digit law, is an empirical phenomenon that the leading digit of numbers from real world sources favors small ones in a form log(1 + 1/d), where d= 1, 2,..., 9.Such a law has been elusive for over 100 years because it has been obscure whether this law is due to the logical consequence of the number system or some mysterious mechanism of nature. We provide a simple and elegant proof of this law from the application of the Laplace transform, which is an important tool of mathematical methods in physics. It is revealed that the first digit law originates from the basic property of the number system, thus it should be attributed as a basic mathematical knowledge for wide applications.

Electroweak Chiral Lagrangian for Neutral Higgs Boson

A neutral Higgs boson is added into the traditional electroweak chiral Lagrangian by writing down all possible high dimension operators. The matter part of the Lagrangian is investigated in detail. We find that if Higgs field dependence of Yukawa couplings can be factorized out, there will be no flavour changing neutral couplings; neutral Higgs can induce coupling between light and heavy neutrinos.

An Introduction to AdS/CFT Correspondence for Phenomenologists

We give a brief introduction to the AdS/CFT correspondence and its application to QCD physics,especiallyits application in the study of quark-gluon-plasma (QGP)formed in the relativistic heavy ion collision (RHIC).Thisreview is based on the talks given in several schools and programs for the phenomenologists working on nuclear physicsand particle physics.

Equivalence of Different Descriptions for η Particle in Simplest Little Higgs Model

In the SU（3） simplest little Higgs model, a characteristic particle is the light pseudoscalar boson η, it can leads to interesting signals in the LHC/ILC and has been studied in the literature with different parameterizations. We show that these different descriptions for η particle are equivalent up to some SU（3） rotations as long as we suitably redefine the pseudo-Goldstone boson fields. We evaluate the necessary SU（3） rotations and build up explicit expressions for redefined fields.

Effect of Electron Correlation and Breit Interaction on Energies, Oscillator Strengths, and Transition Rates for Low-Lying States of Helium

The transition energies, E1 transitional oscillator strengths of the spin-allowed as well as the spin-forbidden and the corresponding transition rates, and complete M1, E2, M2 forbidden transition rates for 1s^(2), 1s2s, and 1s2p states of He I, are investigated using the multi-configuration Dirac–Hartree–Fock method. In the subsequent relativistic configuration interaction computations, the Breit interaction and the QED effect are considered as perturbation, separately. Our transition energies, oscillator strengths, and transition rates are in good agreement with the experimental and other theoretical results. As a result, the QED effect is not important for helium atoms, however, the effect of the Breit interaction plays a significant role in the transition energies, the oscillator strengths and transition rates.

Classical trajectory Monte Carlo investigation for Lorentz ionization of H (1s)

Lorentz ionization of H（1s） is investigated by classical trajectory Monte Carlo （CTMC） simulation. The effect of the transverse magnetic field on the considered process is analyzed in terms of the time evolution of interactions in the system, total electron energy, and electron trajectories. A classical mechanism for the ionization is found, where the variation of the kinetic energy of the nuclei is found to be important in the process. Compared with the results of tunneling ionization, the classical mechanism becomes more and more important with the increase of the velocity of the H-atom or the strength of the magnetic field.

Charge transfer in low-energy collisions of Be^3+ and B^4+ ions with He

The nonradiative charge-transfer processes of Be3+(1s)/B4+(1s)colliding with He(1s2)are investigated by the quantum-mechanical molecular orbital close-coupling(QMOCC)method from 10 eV/u to 1800 eV/u.Total and state-selective cross sections are obtained and compared with other results available.Although the incident ions have the same number of electrons and collide with the same target,their cross sections are different due to the differences in molecular structure.For Be3+(1s)+He(1s2),only single-electron-capture(SEC)states are important and the total cross sections have a broad maximum around E=150 eV/u.While for B4+(1s)+He(1s2),both the SEC and double-electron-capture(DEC)processes are important,and the total SEC and DEC cross sections decrease rapidly with the energy decreasing.

New Terms for Compact Form of Electroweak Chiral Lagrangian

The compact form of the electroweak chiral Lagrangian is a reformulation of its original form and is expressed in terms of chiral rotated electroweak gauge fields, which is crucial for relating the information of underlying theories to the coefficients of the low-energy effective Lagrangian. However the compact form obtained in previous works is not complete. In this letter we add several new chiral invariant terms to it and discuss the contributions of these terms to the original electroweak chiral Lagrangian.

The optical/UV excess of X-ray-dim isolated neutron star Ⅱ.Nonuniformity of plasma on a strangeon star surface

Several X-ray-dim isolated neutron stars （XDINSs）, also known as the Magnificent Seven, exhibit a Planck-like soft X-ray spectrum. In the optical/ultraviolet （UV） band, there is an excess of radiation compared to an extrapolation from the X-ray spectrum. However, the majority exhibits ＂spec- tral deviations＂： the fact that there is more flux at longer wavelengths makes spectra deviate from the Rayleigh-Jeans law. A model of bremsstrahlung emission from a nonuniform plasma atmosphere is proposed in the regime of a strangeon star to explain the optical/UV excess and its spectral devi- ation as well as X-ray pulsation. The atmosphere is on the surface of strangeon matter, which has negligible emission, and is formed by the accretion of ISM-fed debris disk matter moving along the magnetic field lines to near the polar caps. These particles may spread out of the polar regions which makes the atmosphere non-uniform. The modeled electron temperatures are ~ 100 - 200 eV with radi- ation radii Ropt ~ 5 - 14km. The spectra of five sources （RX J0720.4-3125, RX J0806.4-4123, RX J1308.6＋2127, RX J1605.3＋3249, RX J1856.5-3754） from optical/UV to X-ray bands can be fitted well by the radiative model, and exhibit Gaussian absorption lines at ~ 100 - 500 eV as would be expected. Furthermore, the surroundings （i.e., fallback disks or dusty belts） of XDINSs could be tested by future infrared/submillimeter observations.

Single-and Double-Electron Capture Processes in Low-Energy Collisions of N^4+ Ions with He

We investigate the electron capture processes of N4+(1s22s)colliding with He(1s2)in the energy range of 10-1700 eV/amu using the quantum-mechanical molecular-orbital close-coupling(QMOCC)method.Total and stateselective single-electron capture and double-electron capture(SEC and DEC)cross sections are obtained and compared with other available studies.The results agree better with the experimental data in both trend and magnitude when the electron translation factor(ETF)effects are included.Our results indicate that both the SEC and DEC processes play important roles in the considered energy region.For the SEC processes,the N3+(1s22p2)+He+(1s)states are the dominant capture states,and the N^2+(1s^2 2s2p^2)+He^2+states are the main DEC states.

Probing dynamic interference in high-order harmonic generation from long-range molecular ion:Bohmian trajectory investigation

Using Bohmlan trajectory （151） method, we investigate the dynamic interference in nlgn-orcter narmonlc generauon from diatomic molecular ions. It is demonstrated that the main characteristics of the molecular harmonic spectrum can be well reproduced by only two BTs which are located at the two ions. This haiapens because these two localized trajectories can receive and store the whole collision information coming from all of the other re-collision trajectories. Therefore, the amplitudes and frequencies of these two trajectories represent the intensity and frequency distribution of the harmonic generation. Moreover, the interference between these two trajectories shows a dip in the harmonic spectrum, which reveals the molecular structure information.

Charge transfer and excitation processes in low energy collisions of He ions with Li atoms

Electron capture between solar wind ions and neutral species has contributed to the understanding of X-ray production from solar system bodies.The charge transfer and excitation processes in solar wind ions of He^(+)(1 s) colliding with Li(1 s^(2)2 s) atoms are studied by utilizing the full quantum-mechanical molecular-orbital close-coupling(QMOCC) method with impact energies of 0.003-2 keV amu-1.Comparisons of cross sections from single-and multi-configurational calculations for a selfconsistent field(SCF and MCSCF) process are carried out.Results show that the dominant reaction channels are He(1 s2 l ^(1,3) L)+Li^(+)(1 s^(2) ^(1) S).Good consistency is found among present total and state-selective charge transfer and excitation cross sections with other theoretical and experimental data in the same energy region.Due to the differences between coupling matrix elements in high-energy states,the charge transfer cross sections calculated from SCF and MCSCF split slightly as E> 0.4 keV amu-1.Weak Stueckelberg oscillations for charge transfer appear in the present work.In addition,the differences of cross sections for electron excitation to Li(ls^(2)2 p) in the singlet/triplet molecular states with He+(1 s) are much smaller than those of charge transfer processes because of the similar energy gaps from Li(ls^(2)2 p) to the ground state in singlet/triplet states in the large R region.