Open bottom mesons in magnetized matter -- effects of (inverse) magnetic catalysis

TL;DR

This study investigates how strong magnetic fields influence the in-medium masses of open bottom mesons in nuclear matter, highlighting the roles of magnetic catalysis, Dirac sea effects, and nucleon magnetic moments.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive analysis of open bottom meson mass modifications in magnetized matter, incorporating Dirac sea effects, Landau levels, and nucleon anomalous magnetic moments.

Findings

Magnetic fields significantly alter meson masses via Dirac sea effects.

Inverse magnetic catalysis enhances light quark condensates with magnetic field.

Level repulsion occurs between vector and pseudoscalar mesons under magnetic influence.

Abstract

In-medium masses of the pseudoscalar and vector open bottom mesons ($B$, $\bar{B}$, $B_s$ and $B^*$, $\bar{B}^*$, $B_s^*$) are studied in the magnetized nuclear matter by considering the effects of Dirac sea, within the chiral effective model. The mass modifications arise due to the interactions of the open bottom mesons with the nucleons and the scalar mesons, calculated in terms of the scalar and number densities of the nucleons and the scalar fields fluctuations. The effects of the magnetized Dirac sea lead to the considerable changes in the scalar fields with magnetic field, which are related to the light quark condensates. There is observed to be a (reduction) enhancement in the light quark condensates with magnetic field, a phenomenon called (inverse) magnetic catalysis.The contribution of the magnetic field on the Fermi sea of nucleons are taken into account through the Landau energy levels of protons and anomalous magnetic moments (AMMs) of the nucleons. The additional contribution of the lowest Landau level for the charged mesons are considered. The spin-magnetic field interaction between the longitudinal component of the vector and the pseudoscalar mesons ($B^{*||}(\bar{B}^{*||})-B (\bar{B}))$ and ($B_s^{*||}-B_s$) are studied, which lead to a level repulsion between their masses with magnetic field. Magnetic fields are observed to have significant contribution on the in-medium masses of the open bottom mesons through the Dirac sea effect as comparedto the case when this effect is not considered. In vacuum, considerable changes are obtained only due to the magnetized Dirac sea at zero and finite nucleonic AMMs.