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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 argues that optimizing jet classifiers solely for high performance metrics like accuracy or AUC can lead to models with low resilience and high model dependence, advocating instead for a balanced approach that considers the trade-offs inherent in the Pareto frontier of resilient jet tagging.
The SNO+ collaboration measured a cosmogenic neutron yield in ultra-pure water at high muon energies, finding agreement with FLUKA simulations over GEANT4 and revealing a lower yield than in heavy water, which underscores the critical influence of target material composition on neutron production for future underground experiments.
This paper introduces a generalizable foundation model for calorimetry that leverages next-token transformer architectures combined with Mixture-of-Experts pre-training and parameter-efficient fine-tuning to enable modular, scalable, and computationally efficient simulation of particle showers across diverse materials and detector configurations without catastrophic forgetting.
This paper presents an indirect determination of the top-quark pole mass as GeV by performing a global analysis of parton distribution functions within the NNPDF framework, which incorporates high-precision QCD and electroweak corrections, toponium contributions, and lattice constraints on while refitting PDFs to properly correlate uncertainties across various ATLAS and CMS measurements.
This paper proposes that a future precision $ee$ Higgs factory could perform the first spacetime-resolved test of quantum nonlocality in Higgs boson decays by measuring spin correlations between spacelike-separated lepton decays, thereby enabling the exclusion of superluminal entanglement signaling theories.
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the FASER and SHiP experiments to dark photons and U(1) gauge bosons produced via dark Higgs boson decays, incorporating new single-boson production channels, deriving constraints from current FASER data, and projecting future discovery potential for these models including those with freeze-in sterile neutrino dark matter.
The paper introduces \textsc{Albert}, a neuro-symbolic AI framework that successfully rediscovered the Standard Model and autonomously predicted the top quark's mass using only legacy LEP data, demonstrating a rigorous, hallucination-free approach to discovering new physics.
This paper presents the development and characterization of pixelated Capacitive-Coupled LGAD (ACLGADpix) detectors with a 100 m pitch, demonstrating uniform high-precision timing performance through tests with beta rays, infrared lasers, and electron beams for future high-luminosity collider applications.
This paper critiques a recent lattice QCD study that claims to exclude a QCD critical endpoint below 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.
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 and arise from the degeneracy of their underlying light degrees of freedom, identified as and adjoint mesons.