1434 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 demonstrates that transformer-based models, particularly when enhanced by masked autoencoder pre-training, outperform traditional gradient-boosted decision trees in pulse-shape discrimination and energy regression for HPGe detectors by leveraging full waveform data and significantly reducing the need for labeled training samples.
This paper presents the updated 2025 Physics Briefing Book for the Latin American Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructure in High Energy, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics (LASF4RI-HECAP), which synthesizes 46 community white papers and symposium discussions to establish a long-term strategic roadmap across seven key scientific and technical working groups.
This paper reports on the early operation and single-phase commissioning of Proto-0, a small-scale dual-phase argon TPC at INFN Naples designed to validate key technologies for the upcoming DarkSide-20k experiment, with a specific focus on measuring scintillation light yield using calibration sources.
This paper reports recent advancements in GasPM technology aimed at mitigating photon-feedback-induced time-resolution degradation through improved beam tests with a high-speed digitizer and exploring the robustness of LaB photocathodes for future detector upgrades.
This review paper outlines the history, unique features, and current status of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), while detailing its major scientific experiments and future development plans.
This paper presents a reanalysis of archived ALEPH LEP data using modern deep learning-based jet flavour tagging techniques, which significantly improve the separation of b-, c-, and s-quark jets compared to legacy algorithms and demonstrate successful data calibration, thereby enabling more precise electroweak measurements and guiding future collider detector development.
This paper reaffirms the robustness of strong experimental constraints on light neutralino thermal dark matter within the phenomenological MSSM, explores the impact of light staus and non-standard cosmology, and proposes machine learning-optimized benchmarks for future LHC Run-3 searches.
This paper proposes and validates a Pearson correlation between spectator and charged-particle forward-backward asymmetries as a robust, data-driven observable to constrain models of preferential emission and spectator breakup dynamics in heavy-ion collisions.
This paper utilizes the CheckMATE 2 framework to analyze R-parity violating signatures from UDD couplings in the MSSM, revealing that while colored LSPs are well-constrained by current LHC data, electroweakino and slepton LSPs remain significantly under-covered due to a lack of targeted experimental searches.
This study evaluates the potential of the IDEA detector at the FCC-ee, alongside proposed dedicated LLP detectors like DELIGHT B, to detect long-lived particles arising from Higgs and B-meson decays within a Higgs portal model, finding that cylindrical configurations and DELIGHT B offer enhanced sensitivity against Standard Model backgrounds.