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 presents the design, development, characterization, and applications of a portable Cosmic Muon Tracker (CMT), a stack of eight one-square-foot Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) derived from the India-based Neutrino Observatory's large-scale detector technology, intended for small-scale particle physics experiments and student training.
This study investigates transverse momentum spectra of light charged hadrons in RHIC d+Au and p+p collisions at GeV, revealing that effective temperatures derived from standard and Tsallis distributions exhibit systematic decreases across distribution types and collision centralities, while maintaining perfect linear relationships between them.
This paper presents a detailed background mitigation analysis for the DUNE near detector, evaluating its capability to constrain or discover long-lived beyond-Standard-Model particles by investigating hard electromagnetic signatures in , , , and final states while accounting for realistic neutrino-induced backgrounds and detector effects.
This paper demonstrates that precision measurements of Higgs boson production with neutrino pairs at future colliders, incorporating next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections, can reveal two-Higgs-doublet model effects even in the Higgs alignment limit.
This paper details the design, reconstruction, and commissioning of the cryogenic and purification systems for the ICARUS T600 detector, which was relocated from Gran Sasso to Fermilab and upgraded for operation with high-intensity neutrino beams to search for sterile neutrinos and measure neutrino-argon cross sections.
This paper demonstrates that dark matter-nucleon scattering mediated by axion-like particles (ALPs) can be significantly enhanced through light ALP exchange and loop-induced spin-independent interactions, thereby making current direct detection experiments like XENONnT and PandaX-4T sensitive to this previously overlooked mechanism.
Using a large sample of events collected by the BESIII detector, researchers observed the reaction with a statistical significance of 6.4 and measured its cross section, while finding no evidence for an -dibaryon in the final state.
The paper introduces "disperon QED," a novel method leveraging dispersion relations, automated tools like OpenLoops, effective field theory, and threshold subtraction to efficiently handle data input for hadronic vacuum polarization insertions in two-loop Monte Carlo calculations, specifically demonstrated through the process in McMule.
This paper presents general methods for extracting transverse single-spin asymmetries using both binned and unbinned maximum likelihood approaches, specifically designed to address experimental challenges such as time-varying polarization, unequal spin-state luminosities, and the need for background subtraction and kinematic unfolding.
Using the Gaussian Expansion and Complex Scaling methods within a hadronic molecular framework, this study predicts the existence of robust, compact three-body bound states in the $DNN$ and systems driven by realistic nucleon-nucleon correlations and heavy-quark symmetry, while finding no three-body resonances.