SPIN-ORBIT FORCE OF HYPERON-NUCLEON INTERACTION IN THE CHIRAL SU(3) QUARK MODEL
The spin-orbit (LS) force of the hyperon-nucleon interaction is studied in the chiral SU(3) quark model. The symmetric LS terms from the one gluon exchange (OGE) and the scalar nonet exchange (OSE) are taken into account. It is shown that two different treatments (the LS coupling from either OGE or OSE being artificially enhanced in order to reproduce the P-3(J) phase shifts of the nucleon-nucleon scattering) lead to very similar LS couplings in the Sigma N(I = 3/2) channel but give quite different results in the Lambda N - Sigma N(I = 1/2) coupled-channel system. A prominent resonance occurs in the P-1(1) state of the Lambda N channel mainly due to the stronger LS(-) couplings in the Lambda N - Sigma N(I = 1/2) coupled-channel system in the OGE enhanced case. Comparatively the Lambda N P-1(1) phase shift curve exhibits a rather smooth behaviour in the OSE enhanced case. Comparing our theoretical results with the experimental data available, and considering the requirement of the baryon spectrum, one can deduce that a stronger color-independent LS coupling is preferred in the chiral quark model.

title: Color screening effect in the quark potential model
abstract: By using the color confinement potential which includes the color screening effect, we studied the baryon spectra and the nucleon-nucleon interaction. The results show that the color screening effect not only improves the baryon spectrum calculation, but also can solve the long-tail problem of the color Van der Waals force. A part of the medium attraction of the nuclear force can be obtained from the color Van der Waals force.

title: Hyperon-Meson Vertices and Hyperon-Nucleon Interactions on Quark Model
abstract: In this paper, we introduce two parts of work: the hyperon-meson vertex structure from the one-gluon-exchange quark-antiquark pair creation model and the hyperon-nucleon interactions on a modified quark potential model. For both parts some significant results have been obtained.

title: Multi-strange hadronic systems in a chiral SU(3) quark mean field model
abstract: We apply the chiral SU(3) quark mean field model to investigate the finite nuclei. We find that the combined confining potential chi(c)(C) is more proper to describe finite nuclei compared with the scalar and scalar-vector potentials. The hypernuclei and multi-strange objects which include A and Xi are discussed in this model. The maximum binding energy for such kind of multi-strange objects is about 16-17 MeV and the corresponding strangeness fraction f(s) is around 1.2-1.3.

title: BARYON–BARYON INTERACTION IN THE EXTENDED CHIRAL SU(3) QUARK MODEL
abstract: The hyperon-nucleon scattering processes and some dibaryon states are studied both in the chiral SU(3) quark model and in the extended chiral SU(3) quark model by solving the resonating group method (RGM) equation. We find that the short-range interaction could be described either by the one-gluon exchange or by the vector meson exchange for baryon-baryon system.

title: E2/M1 ratio of the Delta gamma N transition within the chiral constituent quark model

title: The role of r-mode damping in the thermal evolution of neutron stars
abstract: The thermal evolution of neutron stars (NSs) is investigated through coupling with the evolution of r-mode instability, which is described by a second-order model. The heating effect due to shear viscous damping of the r modes enables us to understand the high temperature of two young pulsars (PSR B0531+21 and RX J0822-4300) in the framework of the simple neutron-proton-electron (npe) NS model, without superfluidity or exotic particles. Moreover, the light curves predicted by the model within an acceptable parameter regime probably cover all of the young and middle-aged pulsars in the Ig T ∞ s -lg t panel, and the artificially strong p superfluidity invoked in some early works is not needed here. Additionally, by considering the radiative viscous damping of the r modes, a surprising extra cooling effect is found that can even exceed the heating effect at times, although it plays a negligible role in the thermal history.

title: High-redshift gamma-ray bursts: observational signatures of superconducting cosmic strings?
abstract: The high-redshift gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), GRBs 080913 and 090423, challenge the conventional GRB progenitor models by their short durations, typical for short GRBs, and their high energy releases, typical for long GRBs. Meanwhile, the GRB rate inferred from high-redshift GRBs also remarkably exceeds the prediction of the collapsar model, with an ordinary star formation history. We show that all these contradictions could be eliminated naturally, if we ascribe some high-redshift GRBs to electromagnetic bursts of superconducting cosmic strings. High-redshift GRBs could become a reasonable way to test the superconducting cosmic string model because the event rate of cosmic string bursts increases rapidly with increasing redshifts, whereas the collapsar rate decreases.

title: A Supramassive Magnetar Central Engine for GRB 130603B
abstract: We show that the peculiar early optical emission and, in particular, the X-ray after glow emission of the short-duration burst GRB 130603B can be explained by continuous energy injection into the blastwave from a supramassive magnetar central engine. The observed energetics and temporal/spectral properties of the late infrared bump (i.e., the "kilonova") are also found to be consistent with emission from the ejecta launched during a neutron star (NS)-NS merger and powered by a magnetar central engine. The isotropic-equivalent kinetic energies of both the gamma-ray burst (GRB) blastwave and the kilonova are approximately E-k similar to 10(51) erg, consistent with being powered by a near-isotropic magnetar wind. However, this relatively small value requires that most of the initial rotational energy of the magnetar (similar to a few x 10(52) erg) is carried away by gravitational wave radiation. Our results suggest that (1) the progenitor of GRB 130603B was a NS-NS binary system, the merger product of which would have been a supramassive NS that lasted for about similar to 1000 s; (2) the equation of state of the nuclear matter should be stiff enough to allow the survival of a long-lived supramassive NS; thus this suggested that the detection of the bright electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave triggers without short GRB associations is promising in the upcoming Advanced LIGO/VIRGO era.

title: HIGH-ENERGY GAMMA-RAY AFTERGLOWS FROM LOW-LUMINOSITY GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
abstract: The observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) such as 980425, 031203 and 060218, with luminosities much lower than those of other classic bursts, lead to the definition of a new class of GRBs—LL-GRBs. The nature of the outflow responsible for them is not yet clear. Two scenarios have been suggested: one is the conventional relativistic outflow with initial Lorentz factor of order of Γ0 10 and the other is a trans-relativistic outflow with Γ0 1-2. Here, we compare the high-energy gamma-ray afterglow emission from these two different models, taking into account both synchrotron self-inverse Compton (SSC) scattering and the external inverse Compton scattering due to photons from the cooling supernova or hypernova envelope (SNIC). We find that the conventional relativistic outflow model predicts a relatively high gamma-ray flux from SSC at early times (<104 s for typical parameters) with a rapidly decaying light curve, while in the trans-relativistic outflow model, one would expect a much flatter light curve of high-energy gamma-ray emission at early times, which could be dominated by both the SSC emission and the SNIC emission, depending on the properties of the underlying supernova and the shock parameter e and B . The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope should be able to distinguish between the two models in the future.

title: Effect of a strong magnetic field on the surface electric field of strange stars
abstract: We made a detailed study of the properties of the electron layer near the quark surface of strange stars with strong (${\sim}10^{14}{-}10^{17}$ G) magnetic fields. The electrostatic potential and the electric field at the quark surface were calculated as functions of the magnetic field intensity of bare strange stars. Using an ultrastrong ($B\geq 2.5\times10^{16}$ G) magnetic field, we found that the distribution of electrons becomes an exponential function of radial distance, which is quite different in a magnetic field-free case. We also calculated the variation in gap width between the strange core and the normal nuclear crust for strange stars, which is due to magnetic field effect.