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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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Coupled-channel analysis of the possible , and molecular states
We perform a coupled-channel study of the possible deuteron-like molecules
with two heavy flavor quarks, including the systems of with
double charm, with double bottom and
with both charm and bottom, within the
one-boson-exchange model. In our study, we take into account the S-D mixing
which plays an important role in the formation of the loosely bound deuteron,
and particularly, the coupled-channel effect in the flavor space. According to
our calculation, the states and
with double charm, the states
,
and
with double bottom, and
the states and
with both charm and bottom are good
molecule candidates. However, the existence of the states
with double charm and
with both charm and bottom is ruled out.Comment: 1 figure added, published in Physical Review
Hadronic molecules with both open charm and bottom
With the one-boson-exchange model, we study the interaction between the
S-wave meson and S-wave meson
considering the S-D mixing effect. Our calculation indicates that there may
exist the -like molecular states. We estimate their masses and list the
possible decay modes of these -like molecular states, which may be useful
to the future experimental search.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, 5 tables. Typos corrected. Version published in
Phys. Rev.
Probing Half-odd Topological Number with Cold Atoms in a Non-Abelian Optical Lattice
We propose an experimental scheme to probe the contribution of a single Dirac
cone to the Hall conductivity as half-odd topological number sequence. In our
scheme, the quantum anomalous Hall effect as in graphene is simulated with cold
atoms trapped in an optical lattice and subjected to a laser-induced
non-Abelian gauge field. By tuning the laser intensity to change the gauge
flux, the energies of the four Dirac points in the first Brillouin zone are
shifted with each other and the contribution of the single Dirac cone to the
total atomic Hall conductivity is manifested. We also show such manifestation
can be experimentally probed with atomic density profile measurements.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
The masses and axial currents of the doubly charmed baryons
The chiral dynamics of the doubly heavy baryons is solely governed by the
light quark. In this work, We have derived the chiral corrections to the mass
of the doubly heavy baryons up to NLO. The mass splitting of and
at the NLO depends on one unknown low energy constant .
With the experimental mass of as the input, we estimate the
mass of to be around 3.678 GeV. Moreover, we have also performed
a systematical analysis of the chiral corrections to the axial currents and
axial charges of the doubly heavy baryons. The chiral structure and analytical
expressions will be very useful to the chiral extrapolations of the future
lattice QCD simulations of the doubly heavy baryons.Comment: 10 pages, 2 tables, 3 figure. Accepted by Phys. Rev.
Simulating Z_2 topological insulators with cold atoms in a one-dimensional optical lattice
We propose an experimental scheme to simulate and detect the properties of
time-reversal invariant topological insulators, using cold atoms trapped in
one-dimensional bichromatic optical lattices. This system is described by a
one-dimensional Aubry-Andre model with an additional SU(2) gauge structure,
which captures the essential properties of a two-dimensional Z2 topological
insulator. We demonstrate that topologically protected edge states, with
opposite spin orientations, can be pumped across the lattice by sweeping a
laser phase adiabatically. This process constitutes an elegant way to transfer
topologically protected quantum states in a highly controllable environment. We
discuss how density measurements could provide clear signatures of the
topological phases emanating from our one-dimensional system.Comment: 5 pages +, 3 figures, to appear in Physical Review
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