Crust-core properties of neutron stars in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model

We adopt the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio(NJL) model to study the crust-core transition properties in neutron stars(NSs). For a given momentum cutoff and symmetry energy of saturation density in the NJL model, decreasing the slope of the symmetry energy gives rise to an increase in the crust-core transition density and transition pressure.Given the slope of the symmetry energy at saturation density, the transition density and corresponding transition pressure increase with increasing symmetry energy. The increasing trend between the fraction of the crustal moment of inertia and the slope of symmetry energy at saturation density indicates that a relatively large momentum cutoff of the NJL model is preferred. For a momentum cutoff of 500 Me V, the fraction of the crustal moment of inertia clearly increases with the slope of symmetry energy at saturation density. Thus, at the required fraction(7%) of the crustal moment of inertia, the NJL model with momentum cutoff of 500 Me V and a large slope of the symmetry energy of saturation density can give the upper limit of the mass of the Vela pulsar to be above 1.40 M_⊙.     

Time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau equation in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model

We apply the closed time-path Green function formalism in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model. First of all, we use this formalism to obtain the well-known gap equation for the quark condensate in a stationary homogeneous system. We have also used this formalism to obtain the Ginzburg–Landau (GL) equation and the time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau (TDGL) equation for the chiral order parameter in an inhomogeneous system. In our derived GL and TDGL equations, there is no other parameters except for those in the original NJL model.     

Low-energy processes of meson production in the extended Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model

The processes of meson production in electron–positron collisions at low energies are characterized within the extended Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model. It is demonstrated that intermediate vector mesons (both in the ground state and in the first radially excited one) play a critical part in these processes. The obtained results are in reasonable agreement with the available experimental data. A number of theoretical predictions are made, which can be tested experimentally in the near future.     

Chemical potentials and parity breaking: the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model

Relying on the collinear factorization approach, we demonstrate that H1 and ZEUS measurements of exclusive light vector meson and photon electroproduction cross sections can be simultaneously described for photon virtualities of ${\mathcal {Q}}\gtrsim 2\, \mathrm{GeV}$ . Our findings reveal that quark exchanges are important in this small $x_\mathrm{Bj}$ region and that in leading order approximation the gluonic component is suppressed, e.g., the skewness ratio can be much smaller than one.     

Nonlocal Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model and chiral chemical potential

We derive the critical temperature in a nonlocal Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model with the presence of a chiral chemical potential. The model we consider uses a form factor derived from recent studies of the gluon propagator in Yang–Mills theory and has the property to fit in excellent way the form factor arising from the instanton liquid picture for the vacuum of the theory. Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model is derived form quantum chromodynamics providing all the constants of the theory without any need for fits. We show that the critical temperature in this case always exists and increases as the square of the chiral chemical potential. The expression we obtain for the critical temperature depends on the mass gap that naturally arises from Yang–Mills theory at low-energy as also confirmed by lattice computations.     

Chiral susceptibility and chiral phase transition in Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model

We give a general relation between the chiral susceptibility and the thermodynamical potential and a relation between the chiral susceptibility and the condition for furcations to appear in the Wigner solution(s) in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model. We find that the chiral susceptibility is a quantity able to represent the appearance of furcation in the solution(s) of the gap equation and the concavo–convexity of the thermodynamical potential in the NJL model. It indicates that the chiral susceptibility can identify the stability of the states and the chiral phase transition in NJL model. We propose that analyzing the chiral susceptibility may play an important role in studying the chiral phase transition in approaches superior to the NJL model.     

On the Problem of Spontaneous Isotopic Symmetry Breaking in Nambu–Jona-Lasinio Models

Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters - The problem of spontaneous isotopic symmetry breaking in Nambu–Jona-Lasinio quark models is considered. It is shown that, in models with light...     

Meson electro-magnetic form factors in an extended Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model including heavy quark flavors

Based on an extended NJL model including heavy quark flavors, we calculate the form factors of pseudoscalar and vector mesons. After taking into account the vector-meson-dominance effect, which introduces a form factor correction to the quark vector coupling vertices, the form factors and electric radii of π+and K+pseudo-scalar mesons in the light flavor sector fit the experimental data well. The magnetic moments of the light vector mesonsρ+and K*+are comparable with other theoretical calculations. The form factors in the light-heavy flavor sector are presented to compare with future experiments or other theoretical calculations.     

Pion–Pion Interaction in a Soluble Two-Level Nambu–Jona-Lasinio Model

We explore the interplay between the few-body aspects of few-pion states and the many-body aspects of their quark structure. We show for a schematic quasispin model similar to the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model how one can derive rather accurately the pion–pion scattering length from the excitation spectrum in a box.     

τ → K–ηντ Decay in the Extended Nambu–Jona-Lasinio Model Including the Final-State Interaction

JETP Letters - The width of the $$\tau \to {{K}^{ - }}\eta {{\nu }_{\tau }}$$ decay has been calculated within the extended Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model including the final-state interaction of...     

τ → K–π0ντ Decay in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio Model Including the Final-State Interaction of Mesons

JETP Letters - The $$\tau \to {{K}^{ - }}{{\pi }^{0}}{{\nu }_{\tau }}$$ decay has been described within the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model including the contact term and the contribution from an...     

Meson decays in an extended Nambu—Jona-Lasinio model with heavy quark flavors

In a previous work,we proposed an extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio(NJL)model including heavy quark flavors.In this work,we will calculate strong and radiative decays of vector mesons in this extended NJL model,including lightρ,ω,K*,(?)and heavy D~*,D_s~*,B~*,B_s~*.     

The Nambu–Jona–Lasinio model of light nuclei

The Nambu–Jona–Lasinio model of the deuteron suggested by Nambu and Jona–Lasinio (Phys. Rev. 124 (1961) 246) is formulated from the first principles of QCD. The deuteron appears as a neutron–proton collective excitation, i.e. a Cooper np–pair, induced by a phenomenological local four–nucleon interaction in the nuclear phase of QCD. The model describes the deuteron coupled to itself, nucleons and other particles through one–nucleon loop exchanges providing a minimal transfer of nucleon flavours from initial to final nuclear states and accounting for contributions of nucleon–loop anomalies which are completely determined by one–nucleon loop diagrams. The dominance of contributions of nucleon–loop anomalies to effective Lagrangians of low–energy nuclear interactions is justified in the large N _C expansion, where N _C is the number of quark colours. Received: 10 March 2000     

Calculation of the Width of the τ → K–K 0 ντ Decay in the Extended Nambu–Jona-Lasinio Model with Estimation of the Contribution from the Final-State Interaction

JETP Letters - The partial width of the $$\tau \to {{K}^{ - }}{{K}^{0}}{{\nu }_{\tau }}$$ decay has been calculated within the extended Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model including the contact and...     

Relation between the charged and neutral pion–nucleon coupling constants in the Yukawa model

In the Yukawa-model framework for NN forces, a simple relation between the charged and neutral pion–nucleon coupling constants is derived. The relation implies that the charged pion–nucleon constant is larger than the neutral one since the np interaction is stronger than the pp interaction. The derived value of the charged pion–nucleon constant shows a very good agreement with one of the recent measurements. In relative units, the splitting between the charged and neutral pion–nucleon constants is predicted to be practically the same as that between the charged and neutral pion masses. The charge dependence of the NN scattering length arising from the mass difference between the charged and neutral pions is also analyzed.     

Confinement potential in the dual monopole Nambu–Jona–Lasinio model with dual Dirac strings

Interquark confinement potential is calculated in the dual monopole Nambu–Jona–Lasinio model with dual Dirac strings suggested in [2,3] as a functional of the dual Dirac string length. The calculation is carried out by explicit integration over quantum fluctuations of a dual-vector field (monopole–antimonopole collective excitation) around the Abrikosov flux line and string shape fluctuations. The contribution of the scalar field (monopole–antimonopole collective excitation) exchange is taken into account in the tree approximation because of the London limit regime. The dominant role of quantum fluctuations for the formation of the linearly rising part of the confinement potential is argued. Received: 10 November 1998 / Revised version: 10 May 1999 / Published online: 12 August 1999     

On the Shukla–Nambu–Salimullah potential in magnetized plasmas

In magnetized plasmas, there are two electrostatic potentials, i.e., the almost spherical Debye–Hückel and the strongly anisotropic Shukla–Nambu–Salimullah potentials. The physics of the latter potential due to ion polarization drift is clarified. The exact solution for the Shukla–Nambu–Salimullah potential introduces a new shielding length across the external magnetic field which is much larger than that of the Debye–Hückel potential. There is no exponential decay of the potential for v_t=C_s, where v_t is the test particle velocity and C_s is the ion sound velocity.     

Isospin-breaking corrections in the pion–deuteron scattering length

It is shown that isospin-breaking corrections to the pion–deuteron scattering length can be very large, because of the vanishing of the isospin-symmetric contribution to this scattering length at leading order in chiral perturbation theory. We further demonstrate that these corrections can explain the bulk of the discrepancy between the recent experimental data on pionic hydrogen and pionic deuterium. We also give the first determination of the electromagnetic low-energy constant f₁$f_1$.