2160 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 reports the measurement of production cross-sections from 400 GeV/c protons interacting in a thick molybdenum/tungsten target, finding results consistent with Monte Carlo simulations and the NA50 experiment while observing no significant enhancement from secondary production or cascade collisions within the target.
This study utilizes Monte Carlo simulations of electron-positron collisions at the FCC-ee with a center-of-mass energy of 240 GeV and an integrated luminosity of 10.8 ab to search for vector-like leptons decaying into electrons and missing transverse energy within a lepton portal dark matter framework, ultimately establishing 95% confidence level exclusion limits on the vector-like lepton mass and Yukawa coupling in the absence of a signal.
This paper outlines the current understanding of how International Linear Collider detector concepts can be adapted for future Higgs Factory facilities with different properties, such as the FCC-ee.
This paper demonstrates that the recently observed need for a right-handed vector boson admixture in neutron decay successfully explains CP-violation effects in neutral meson oscillations (, , , and ) within an extended left-right weak interaction model, suggesting that the nature of CP violation is fundamentally linked to the presence of right-handed currents.
This paper presents a comprehensive Bayesian MCMC analysis of the meson spectrum using standard and logarithmically modified Cornell potentials to rigorously quantify uncertainties, probe the sensitivity of excited states to confinement forms, and provide updated theoretical predictions for future experimental benchmarks.
This paper derives updated supernova constraints on muon-philic scalars and pseudoscalars by incorporating two-photon couplings from muon triangle loops, revealing that while globular-cluster limits dominate for light masses, supernova 1987A gamma-ray observations and energy-loss arguments impose stringent bounds on heavier masses that challenge the viability of these bosons explaining the muon magnetic-moment anomaly.
This paper proposes a novel framework where a spontaneously broken global symmetry generates a residual symmetry that stabilizes dark matter while suppressing proton decay to the one-loop level, thereby linking the proton lifetime to dark matter mass and predicting distinctive TeV-scale leptoquark signatures accessible to current and future experiments.
This paper summarizes the implementation and performance of new machine-learning-based algorithms in the CMS high-level trigger for identifying hadronically decaying tau leptons, utilizing proton-proton collision data at 13.6 TeV collected during 2022–2023.
This paper presents a conceptual design for the ITACA detector, a 1-tonne high-pressure xenon gas TPC that utilizes a novel Magnetically Actuated Rotor System (MARS) and Topmetal CMOS ASICs to image both electron and ion tracks, thereby enhancing topological discrimination to achieve a neutrinoless double beta decay sensitivity exceeding years.
This paper details the successful production, cryogenic testing, and high yield (exceeding 87%) of the silicon photomultiplier-based "Veto Tiles" designed to instrument the Inner Veto volume of the DarkSide-20k experiment for discriminating background radiation in direct dark matter searches.