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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 demonstrates that the sensitivity of future long-baseline neutrino experiments like DUNE and T2HK to leptonic CP violation is significantly degraded by model-dependent cross-section assumptions, but this loss can be largely recovered by incorporating precise, data-driven cross-section measurements from the proposed SCOPE experiment.
This paper demonstrates that combining scintillation light and charge signals in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers significantly enhances the energy reconstruction, particle identification, and directional accuracy of sub-GeV neutrino charged-current interactions, thereby improving the physics reach of future atmospheric neutrino analyses.
This paper addresses limitations in existing resonant anomaly detection methods by introducing new simulated signal benchmarks and a comprehensive "kitchen sink" observable set combining Energy Flow Polynomials and subjettiness variables, demonstrating that this approach offers superior sensitivity across diverse signal types while an attribute bagging variant significantly reduces training costs with comparable performance.
Using 138 fb of proton-proton collision data at 13 TeV collected by the CMS detector, this study sets the most stringent limits to date on dark matter production associated with a dark Higgs boson decaying into a bottom quark-antiquark pair, excluding mediator masses up to 4.5 TeV for specific dark Higgs mass hypotheses.
This paper introduces the first application of masked-token prediction, a technique adapted from Large Language Models, to anomaly detection at the Large Hadron Collider, demonstrating that a lightweight transformer trained solely on Standard Model background events can effectively identify rare new-physics signals through deviations in learned data structures.
This paper presents the operation, calibration, and performance evaluation of the upgraded LHCb muon detector during Run 3, demonstrating that despite a fivefold increase in instantaneous luminosity, the system achieves a muon identification efficiency above 90% with sub-percent hadron misidentification probability.
This paper proposes a dynamical framework linking the dark matter-baryon coincidence to a GeV-scale asymmetric dark matter scenario, where a strongly supercooled dark confinement phase transition—potentially responsible for observed nano-Hz gravitational waves—naturally correlates the dark matter mass with the ultraviolet completion of the neutron portal operator.
Using 13 TeV proton-proton collision data from the LHCb experiment, researchers observed a new excited charm-strange meson, , with a statistical significance exceeding 10 standard deviations, measuring its mass at approximately 2933 MeV and identifying it as a candidate for a state with .
This paper reports the design and initial performance of a 13-liter liquid argon test stand at Wellesley College, which successfully achieved an oxygen-equivalent impurity concentration of 0.25 ppb and an electron lifetime of 1.2 ms to support R&D for future large-scale liquid argon time projection chambers.
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment reports the first direct constraint on the individual positron emission branching levels of the activation product , measuring a total branching ratio of % with a statistical significance of 5.5.