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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 introduces PySiPMGUI, an open-source, platform-independent Python-based graphical user interface that automates the characterization of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) using PyVISA-controlled instruments to support quality assurance in diverse high-energy and astroparticle physics experiments.
Using 138 fb of proton-proton collision data at = 13 TeV collected by the CMS detector, this study presents the first comparison of corrected dijet angular distributions with next-to-next-to-leading order perturbative QCD predictions including electroweak corrections and sets the most stringent limits to date on various beyond-the-standard-model scenarios, including quark compositeness, extra dimensions, and anomalous gluon couplings.
This paper demonstrates that loop-level corrections to the leptonic decays of the , , and Higgs bosons provide stronger exclusion limits on heavy, flavor-specific leptophilic gauge bosons than current direct search constraints, offering a complementary probe for new physics at the TeV scale and beyond.
This paper introduces an uncertainty-aware machine learning framework that successfully classifies the pole structures of hadronic scattering amplitudes, achieving high accuracy on synthetic data and inferring a four-pole structure for the state in experimental LHCb data.
To support the BES-II program at RHIC, the STAR experiment implemented a complementary dual real-time framework combining a High Level Trigger for online event selection and an Express Data Production system for rapid, near offline-quality reconstruction, enabling prompt physics analysis and demonstrating scalability for future high-luminosity experiments.
This paper presents state-of-the-art NNLO QCD predictions for heavy-quark pair production in direct photon fusion by applying the Local Unitarity formalism to handle infrared singularities and combining these results with NLO electroweak corrections and NLP Coulomb resummation for top, bottom, and charm quarks.
This paper demonstrates that considering axionlike particle production from the full electromagnetic shower in beam dump targets, rather than just primary beams or specific meson decays, yields order-of-magnitude enhancements in detectable signals, thereby significantly expanding the sensitivity reach of the SHiP and BDX experiments to previously unexplored regions of ALP parameter space.
Using 41.6 fb of 13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment in 2018, this study searches for low-mass hidden-valley dark showers via non-prompt muon pairs from Higgs boson decays, setting new upper limits on the branching fraction to dark partons and establishing first constraints on extended dark-shower models with dark photons.
Using 5 fb⁻¹ of proton-proton collision data at 13 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment, this study searches for long-lived heavy neutral leptons in B-meson decays to a muon-pion final state, finding no significant excess and setting new constraints on their mixing with muon neutrinos in the 1.6–5.5 GeV mass range for both lepton-number-conserving and violating scenarios.
Using events, the BESIII experiment set the world's most stringent limits on invisible baryon decays and oscillations, finding no evidence for baryon-number violation or connections to the dark sector.