A decades-long fast-rise-exponential-decay flare in low-luminosity AGN NGC 7213

We analysed the four-decades-long X-ray light curve of the low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (LLAGN) NGC 7213 and discovered a fast-rise-exponential-decay (FRED) pattern, i.e. the X-ray luminosity increased by a factor of $\approx 4$ within 200d, and then decreased exponentially with an $e$-folding time $\approx 8116$d ($\approx 22.2$ yr). For the theoretical understanding of the observations, we examined three variability models proposed in the literature: the thermal-viscous disc instability model, the radiation pressure instability model, and the tidal disruption event (TDE) model. We find that a delayed tidal disruption of a main-sequence star is most favourable; either the thermal-viscous disk instability model or radiation pressure instability model fails to explain some key properties observed, thus we argue them unlikely.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, updated version after proof correction

Localized direct CP violation in B±→ρ0(ω)π±→π+π−π±B^\pm\rightarrow \rho^0 (\omega)\pi^\pm\rightarrow \pi^+ \pi^-\pi^\pm

We study the localized direct CP violation in the hadronic decays $B^\pm\rightarrow \rho^0 (\omega)\pi^\pm\rightarrow\pi^+ \pi^-\pi^\pm$, including the effect caused by an interesting mechanism involving the charge symmetry violating mixing between $\rho^0$ and $\omega$. We calculate the localized integrated direct CP violation when the low invariant mass of $\pi^+\pi^-$ [$m(\pi^+\pi^-)_{low}$] is near $\rho^0(770)$. For five models of form factors investigated, we find that the localized integrated direct CP violation varies from -0.0170 to -0.0860 in the ranges of parameters in our model when $0.750<m(\pi^+\pi^-)_{low}<0.800$\,GeV. This result, especially the sign, agrees with the experimental data and is independent of form factor models. The new experimental data shows that the signs of the localized integrated CP asymmetries in the regions $0.470<m(\pi^+\pi^-)_{low}<0.770$\,GeV and $0.770<m(\pi^+\pi^-)_{low}<0.920$\,GeV are positive and negative, respectively. We find that $\rho$-$\omega$ mixing makes the localized integrated CP asymmetry move towards the negative direction, and therefore contributes to the sign change in those two regions. This behavior is also model independent. We also calculate the localized integrated direct CP violating asymmetries in the regions $0.470<m(\pi^+\pi^-)_{low}<0.770$\,GeV and $0.770<m(\pi^+\pi^-)_{low}<0.920$\,GeV and find that they agree with the experimental data in some models of form factors.Comment: 22 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:hep-ph/0602043, arXiv:hep-ph/0302156 by other author

Coil-to-globule transition by dissipative particle dynamics simulation

The dynamics of a collapsing polymer under a temperature quench in dilute solution is investigated by dissipative particles dynamics. Hydrodynamic interactions and many-body interaction are preserved naturally by incorporating explicit solvent particles in this approach. Our simulation suggests a four-stage collapse pathway: localized clusters formation, cluster coarsening in situ, coarsening involving global backbone conformation change into a crumpled globule, and compaction of the globule. For all the quench depths and chain lengths used in our study, collapse proceeds without the chain getting trapped in a metastable “sausage” configuration, as reported in some earlier studies. We obtain the time scales for each of the first three stages, as well as its scaling with the quench depths ξ and chain lengths N. The total collapse time scales as τ_c ~ ξ^(−0.46 ± 0.04)N^(0.98 ± 0.09), with the quench depth and degree of polymerization