2551 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 outlines the physics motivation, experimental design, and expected sensitivity of the SHiP/NA67 experiment, a high-intensity beam dump facility at CERN approved in 2024 to search for feebly interacting particles and study neutrino phenomenology over a 15-year operational period.
This paper demonstrates the feasibility of implementing the Matrix Element Method at Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) accuracy using the POWHEG framework, showcasing its effectiveness as a near-optimal classifier for distinguishing beyond-the-Standard-Model effects in fully leptonic production.
This paper establishes a theoretically consistent quantum field theory formalism for dark matter scattering with atomic bound electrons, demonstrating that relativistic calculations are essential and can reduce the scattering phase space and differential cross section by 30% to 50% compared to commonly used non-relativistic approximations.
This paper argues that detecting neutrinos from binary neutron star mergers requires future megaton-scale detectors with low energy thresholds, but such observations could uniquely probe the lightest neutrino mass with sensitivity surpassing current terrestrial and galactic supernova constraints by leveraging time-of-flight delays relative to gravitational wave signals.
Using the full Run 2 dataset of 140 fb collected by the ATLAS detector at 13 TeV, this study presents differential measurements of -channel single top and top antiquark production cross-sections, finding good agreement with theoretical predictions and setting constraints on the Wilson coefficient within an effective field theory framework.
Using QCD sum rules and the iterative dispersion relation method, this study investigates the and dibaryons, finding that the scalar states are lighter than their tensor counterparts and that while the bottom system may form bound states in the scheme, both systems are predicted to be much heavier in the on-shell scheme.
This paper proposes using ultra-peripheral Au+Au collision data from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC to search for GeV-scale axion-like particles via the resonant process, demonstrating sensitivity to previously unexplored mass and coupling regions.
This paper utilizes the constituent quark model to establish a comprehensive framework demonstrating that excited nucleon () and hyperon () resonances are the key drivers behind the first observed baryonic violation in the four-body decay , successfully reproducing the measured branching fraction and asymmetry.
This paper reports the fabrication, conditioning, and comprehensive characterization of locally manufactured Thick-GEM detectors in India, demonstrating their suitability for muography applications through high muon detection efficiency (up to 99.5%) and excellent spatial resolution (30 m).
This paper evaluates the shielding efficiency of water, HDPE, and boron-loaded HDPE for the ALARM neutrino detector, demonstrating through experiments and simulations that a 30-cm thickness of boron-loaded HDPE achieves over 95% shielding against both fast and thermal neutrons.