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.

At Gist.Science, we ensure these discoveries become accessible to everyone. We process every new preprint in this category directly from arXiv, generating both plain-language explanations for curious readers and detailed technical summaries for specialists. Our goal is to bridge the gap between complex experimental results and public understanding without losing scientific nuance.

Below are the latest papers in Hep-Ex, freshly summarized and ready for you to explore.

⚛️ nuclear experiments

Comment on "Lattice QCD constraints on the critical point from an improved precision equation of state"

This paper critiques a recent lattice QCD study that claims to exclude a QCD critical endpoint below μB450\mu_B \approx 450 MeV, arguing that the entropy-contour method used fails to directly probe critical singularities and therefore cannot provide model-independent constraints on the critical point's location.

Roy A. Lacey (Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)2026-04-01
⚛️ lattice

Imprint of the adjoint meson spectrum in the decay patterns of hidden-bottom tetraquarks

This paper utilizes Born-Oppenheimer Effective Field Theory and lattice QCD calculations to demonstrate that the near-degeneracy and specific decay patterns of the hidden-bottom tetraquarks Zb(10610)Z_b(10610) and Zb(10650)Z_b(10650) arise from the degeneracy of their underlying light degrees of freedom, identified as 11^{--} and 0+0^{-+} adjoint mesons.

Sipaz Sharma, Juan Andrés Urrea-Niño, Nora Brambilla, Francesco Knechtli, Michael Peardon2026-04-01
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Up-type FCNC in presence of Dark Matter

This paper proposes a minimal extension of the Standard Model featuring a Z3\mathbb{Z}_3-stabilized complex scalar dark matter candidate coupled to up-type quarks via a heavy vector-like quark, successfully addressing up-type flavor-changing neutral currents and dark matter relic density while offering testable signatures at future muon colliders.

Subhaditya Bhattacharya, Lipika Kolay, Dipankar Pradhan, Abhik Sarkar2026-03-31
⚛️ high-energy experiments

The Scotogenic Model with Two Inert Doublets: Parameters Space and Electroweak Precision Tests

This paper investigates a scotogenic extension of the Standard Model with two inert doublets and three singlet Majorana fermions, identifying viable parameter spaces for radiative neutrino mass generation and dark matter while revealing that approximately 60% of these regions are excluded by recent CMS measurements of the WW boson mass due to constraints on the oblique parameter ΔT\Delta T.

Abdelrahman AbuSiam (University of Sharjah), Amine Ahriche (University of Sharjah)2026-03-31
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Dark photon dark matter constraints at the Taiwan axion search experiment with haloscope

By re-analyzing data from the Taiwan Axion Search Experiment with Haloscope (TASEH) while accounting for scanning timing information, the authors derive world-leading constraints on dark photon dark matter that exceed naive rescaling limits by a factor of two and demonstrate the critical importance of avoiding magnetic-field-only vetoes to prevent discarding valid dark photon signals.

Yuan-Hann Chang, Cheng-Wei Chiang, Hien Thi Doan, Nick Houston, Jinmian Li, Tianjun Li, Lina Wu, Xin Zhang2026-03-31
⚛️ high-energy experiments

An EFT study of the pptˉtZ(ll)h(bb)pp \to \bar{t} t Z(ll) h(bb) process at the FCC-hh\boldsymbol{hh}

This paper presents an Effective Field Theory study of the pptˉtZhpp \to \bar{t} t Zh process at the Future Circular Collider (FCC-$hh$), demonstrating its unique capability to probe anomalous tˉtZh\bar{t} t Zh and tˉtZ\bar{t} t Z couplings through a comprehensive collider analysis of the 4b+3+2j+\slashedET4b + 3 \ell + \ge 2j + \slashed{E}_T final state.

Shankha Banerjee, Rick S. Gupta, Shilpi Jain, Michelangelo Mangano, Elena Venturini2026-03-31
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Stable and Interpretable Jet Physics with IRC-Safe Equivariant Feature Extraction

This paper demonstrates that incorporating infrared and collinear safety along with E(2) and O(2) equivariance into graph neural networks for quark-gluon discrimination enhances model stability and interpretability by directly aligning learned latent representations with established QCD observables like Energy Flow Polynomials.

Partha Konar, Vishal S. Ngairangbam, Michael Spannowsky, Deepanshu Srivastava2026-03-31