1442 papers
Hep-Ex explores the fascinating intersection where particle physics meets experimental reality. This field investigates how scientists build massive detectors and accelerate particles to test the fundamental laws of nature, turning abstract theories into measurable data. It is the rigorous process of searching for new particles or forces that could reshape our understanding of the universe, often requiring years of collaboration and engineering.
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This paper establishes the strongest current constraints on millicharged particles with masses between 0.7 and 2 MeV by identifying overlooked -cascade sources in nuclear reactors and deriving new limits from electron recoil data, while also assessing sensitivity from solar production in low-threshold dark matter experiments.
This paper presents an updated extraction of unpolarized quark transverse momentum distributions in the pion by incorporating a more comprehensive treatment of theoretical uncertainties and, for the first time, investigating flavor-dependent differences using all available unpolarized pion-nucleus Drell-Yan data.
This paper investigates the semileptonic and nonleptonic weak decays of bottom baryons and using three-point QCD sum rules to calculate form factors, decay widths, and branching ratios, thereby providing theoretical predictions to test Standard Model validity and explore new physics in heavy baryonic systems.
This paper proposes that the KM3-230213A event's extreme energy and the scarcity of similar downward tracks in IceCube may result from detector geometry distortions misidentifying atmospheric muons as ultra-high-energy neutrinos, while also suggesting that future re-observations could validate new Tau neutrino astronomy and Z-boson resonance models for distant cosmic sources.
Using 164 fb of proton-proton collision data at TeV collected by the ATLAS detector, this paper presents inclusive, differential, and production-mode cross-section measurements of the Higgs boson in the decay channel, yielding results consistent with Standard Model predictions.
This paper proposes a method to distinguish between vector and scalar dark sector mediators by analyzing the angular distributions of their decay products, demonstrating that experiments like DUNE, SHiP, and FASER2 can determine the mediator's spin in significant regions of unconstrained parameter space.
This paper proposes a novel search for charged lepton flavor violation via muon-to-tau conversion using cosmic-ray muon samples in neutrino telescopes like IceCube, demonstrating their potential as a powerful complementary probe to low-energy experiments and colliders for constraining new physics models.
This paper presents a comprehensive operational characterization of second-generation Large-Area Picosecond Photodetectors (LAPPD Gen 2), detailing their charge-sharing mechanisms, dark-count relaxation behaviors, and resonant cavity effects through experimental measurements and first-principles Monte Carlo simulations.
This paper demonstrates that in particle physics, where high-fidelity simulators enable cheap synthetic data generation, the scaling behavior of hadronic jet classification models can be engineered to prioritize data diversity and alignment over model size by strategically curating pretraining datasets.
This paper proposes a theoretically grounded method for extracting charmonium branching fractions from radiative decays that resolves tensions between experimental data and theoretical predictions by eliminating the need for empirical damping functions in photon line shape analysis.