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DOE OSTI2025

Reactor antineutrino directionality measurement with the PROSPECT-I detector

The PROSPECT-I detector has several features that enable measurement of the direction of a compact neutrino source. Here, in this paper, a detailed report on the directional measurements made on electron antineutrinos emitted from the High Flux Isotope Reactor is presented. With an estimated true neutrino (reactor to detector) direction of φ = 40.8° ± 0.7° and θ= 98.6° ± 0.4°, the PROSPECT-I detector is able to reconstruct an average neutrino direction of φ = 39.4° ± 2.9° and θ = 97.6° ± 1.6°. This measurement is made with approximately 48 000 Inverse Beta Decay signal events and is the most precise directional reconstruction of reactor antineutrinos to date.

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DOE OSTI2025

Polarized and unpolarized gluon PDFs: Generative machine learning applications for lattice QCD matrix elements at short distance and large momentum

Lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) calculations share a defining challenge by requiring a small finite range of spatial separation z between quark/gluon bilinears for controllable power corrections in the perturbative QCD factorization, and a large hadron boost p z for a successful determination of collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs). However, these two requirements make the determination of PDFs from lattice data very challenging. We present the application of generative machine learning algorithms to estimate the polarized and unpolarized gluon correlation functions utilizing short-distance data and extending the correlation up to z p z ≲ 14 , surpassing the current capabilities of lattice QCD calculations. We train physics-informed machine learning algorithms to learn from the short-distance correlation at z ≲ 0.36 fm and take the limit, p z → ∞ , thereby minimizing possible contamination from the higher-twist effects for a successful reconstruction of the polarized gluon PDF. We also expose the bias and problems with underestimating uncertainties associated with the use of model-dependent and overly constrained functional forms, such as x α ( 1 − x ) β and its variants to extract PDFs from the lattice data. We propose the use of generative machine learning algorithms to mitigate these issues and present our determination of the polarized and unpolarized gluon PDFs in the nucleon. Published by the American Physical Society 2025

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DOE OSTI2011

Azimuthal asymmetries in single polarized proton-proton Drell-Yan processes

We study the azimuthal asymmetries in proton-proton Drell-Yan processes with one incident proton being transversely or longitudinally polarized. We consider particularly the asymmetries contributed by the leading-twist chiral-odd quark distributions. We analyze the asymmetries with sin(2{phi}+{phi}{sub S}) and sin(2{phi}-{phi}{sub S}) modulations in transverse single polarized p{sup {up_arrow}p} Drell-Yan and sin2{phi} asymmetries in longitudinal single polarized p{sup {yields}p} Drell-Yan at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, E906 (Fermi Lab), and the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research). We show that the measurements of the asymmetries in those facilities can provide valuable information of the chiral-odd structure of the nucleon both in the valence and sea regions.

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DOE OSTI2017

Search for B → h ν ν - decays with semileptonic tagging at Belle

We present the results of a search for the rare decays B → hνv¯, where h stands for K + , K$^{0}_{S}$, K* + , K* 0 , π + , π 0 , ρ + and ρ 0 . The results are obtained with 772 × 10 6 BB¯ pairs collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB e + e – collider. We reconstruct one B meson in a semileptonic decay and require a single h meson but nothing else on the signal side. We observe no significant signal and set upper limits on the branching fractions. The limits set on the B 0 → K$^{0}_{S}$νv¯, B 0 → K *0 νv¯, B + → π + νv¯, B 0 → π 0 νv¯, B + → ρ + νv¯, and B 0 → ρ 0 νv¯ channels are the world’s most stringent.

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DOE OSTI2012

Particle-Yield Modification in Jetlike Azimuthal Dihadron Correlations in Pb-Pb Collisions at s_NN = 2.76 TeV

The yield of charged particles associated with high-p{sub t} trigger particles (8 < p{sub t} < 15 GeV/c) is measured with the ALICE detector in Pb-Pb collisions at {radical}s{sub NN} = 2.76 TeV relative to proton-proton collisions at the same energy. The conditional per-trigger yields are extracted from the narrow jetlike correlation peaks in azimuthal dihadron correlations. In the 5% most central collisions, we observe that the yield of associated charged particles with transverse momenta p{sub t} > 3 GeV/c on the away side drops to about 60% of that observed in pp collisions, while on the near side a moderate enhancement of 20%-30% is found.

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DOE OSTI2020

Geometrizing Quantum Dynamics of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

In this work, we show that quantum dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in the weakly interacting regime can be geometrized by a Poincaré disk. Each point on such a disk represents a thermofield double state, the overlap between which equals the metric of this hyperbolic space. This approach leads to a unique geometric interpretation of stable and unstable modes as closed and open trajectories on the Poincaré disk, respectively. The resonant modes that follow geodesics naturally equate fundamental quantities including the time, the length, and the temperature. Our work suggests a new geometric framework to coherently control quantum systems and reverse their dynamics using SU (1, 1) echoes. In the presence of perturbations breaking the SU (1, 1) symmetry, SU (1, 1) echoes deliver a new means to measure these perturbations such as the interactions between excited particles.

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