2524 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 discusses the separation of energy scales in soft hadron scattering, distinguishing between the scale where total cross-sections begin to rise (governed by absorption features) and the asymptotic scale (dominated by unitarity effects), while establishing a relationship between them through the transition from shadow to reflective scattering.
The paper introduces **ggxy**, a fast and flexible C++ library that calculates Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) QCD corrections for gluon-initiated top-mediated processes like , , and with full top-quark mass dependence, featuring analytical approximations for two-loop virtual amplitudes and an interface to Powheg for parton shower matching.
This paper presents simultaneous measurements of -jet identification and -jet misidentification efficiencies for the GN2 tagger using 56 fb of TeV ATLAS data, achieving precisions better than 2% and 5% respectively by leveraging known branching fractions and kinematic likelihood reconstruction.
Using 2023 proton-proton collision data at TeV, this study measures the detection efficiency of 137 GE1/1 GEM chambers in the upgraded CMS Endcap Muon System, finding an average efficiency of approximately 93.3% (rising to 96% for fully functional detectors) that remains unaffected by pile-up.
This paper presents updated predictions for -baryon lifetimes and their ratios within the heavy quark expansion framework by incorporating next-to-next-to-leading-order QCD corrections to free -quark decay and complete next-to-leading-order corrections to dimension-five contributions, resulting in significantly reduced theoretical uncertainties and excellent agreement with experimental data.
This Letter proposes that the observation of a prominent Jacobian peak in the transverse momentum distribution of mesons in reactions serves as a definitive criterion to confirm the existence of the resonance and distinguish it from interference effects.
Using 140 fb⁻¹ of 13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector, this study presents the first direct probe of the -scattering vertex through a search for electroweak production in multileptonic final states, establishing a 95% CL upper limit on the cross section and constraining relevant Standard Model Effective Field Theory operators.
The paper introduces ASPIRE, a framework that leverages normalizing flows and Sequential Monte Carlo to efficiently update existing gravitational-wave posterior samples for alternative models without rerunning analyses, thereby significantly reducing computational costs while maintaining statistical robustness.
This paper investigates the sensitivity of quantum sensor arrays to composite ultraheavy dark matter interacting via gravity and a Yukawa force, demonstrating through Monte Carlo analysis that future accelerometer arrays can distinguish between different density profiles and characterize the mass and size of such extended dark matter objects.
This paper proposes that exclusive heavy (axial-)vector meson production in lepton-proton collisions at the Electron-Ion Collider can serve as a unique experimental channel to probe the elusive gluon generalized transverse momentum-dependent distributions and through specific azimuthal-angle-dependent observables arising from virtual-photon polarization interference.