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Note on neutron star equation of state in the light of GW170817
From the very first multimessenger event of GW170817, clean robust
constraints can be obtained for the tidal deformabilities of the two stars
involved in the merger, which provides us unique opportunity to study the
equation of states (EOSs) of dense stellar matter. In this contribution, we
employ a model from the quark level, describing consistently a nucleon and
many-body nucleonic system from a quark potential. We check that our sets of
EOSs are consistent with available experimental and observational constraints
at both sub-nuclear saturation densities and higher densities. The agreements
with ab-initio calculations are also good. Especially, we tune the density
dependence of the symmetry energy (characterized by its slope at nuclear
saturation ) and study its influence on the tidal deformability. The
so-called EOS is named after the case of , and it gives
and , for a
star. The tidal signals are demonstrated to be insensitive to
the uncertain crust-core matching, despite the good correlation between the
symmetry energy slope and the radius of the star.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, Submitted to the AIP Proceedings of the
Xiamen-CUSTIPEN Workshop on the EOS of Dense Neutron-Rich Matter in the Era
of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Jan. 3-7, Xiamen, Chin
Indirect unitarity violation entangled with matter effects in reactor antineutrino oscillations
If finite but tiny masses of the three active neutrinos are generated via the
canonical seesaw mechanism with three heavy sterile neutrinos, the 3\times 3
Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata neutrino mixing matrix V will not be exactly
unitary. This kind of indirect unitarity violation can be probed in a precision
reactor antineutrino oscillation experiment, but it may be entangled with
terrestrial matter effects as both of them are very small. We calculate the
probability of \overline{\nu}_e \to \overline{\nu}_e oscillations in a good
analytical approximation, and find that, besides the zero-distance effect, the
effect of unitarity violation is always smaller than matter effects, and their
entanglement does not appear until the next-to-leading-order oscillating terms
are taken into account. Given a 20-kiloton JUNO-like liquid scintillator
detector, we reaffirm that terrestrial matter effects should not be neglected
but indirect unitarity violation makes no difference, and demonstrate that the
experimental sensitivities to the neutrino mass ordering and a precision
measurement of \theta_{12} and \Delta_{21} \equiv m^2_2 - m^2_1 are robust.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figures, version to be published in PLB, more discussions
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Analytical result on the supercurrent through a superconductor/quantum-dot/superconductor junction
We present an analytical result for the supercurrent across a
superconductor/quantum-dot/superconductor junction. By converting the current
integration into a special contour integral, we can express the current as a
sum of the residues of poles. These poles are real and give a natural
definition of the Andreev bound states. We also use the exact result to explain
some features of the supercurrent transport behavior.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure
Nonlinear reconstruction
We present a direct approach to nonparametrically reconstruct the linear
density field from an observed nonlinear map. We solve for the unique
displacement potential consistent with the nonlinear density and positive
definite coordinate transformation using a multigrid algorithm. We show that we
recover the linear initial conditions up to the nonlinear scale
( for ) with minimal
computational cost. This reconstruction approach generalizes the linear
displacement theory to fully nonlinear fields, potentially substantially
expanding the baryon acoustic oscillations and redshift space distortions
information content of dense large scale structure surveys, including for
example SDSS main sample and 21cm intensity mapping initiatives.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, published versio
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