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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 presents sensitivity studies for detecting a leptophilic Z' boson at the International Linear Collider and the Linear Collider Facility at CERN, utilizing WHIZARD simulations to evaluate signal and background in the di-muon channel and establish expected limits on Z' couplings to Standard Model leptons at center-of-mass energies of 250 GeV and 550 GeV.
This paper introduces a novel molecular dynamics simulation approach that overcomes traditional Lindhard model limitations by incorporating crystal condensed matter effects to accurately predict ultra-low energy ionization yields in semiconductor detectors, thereby extending dark matter exclusion limits to 0.29 GeV/.
The paper evaluates the feasibility of achieving ~3% precision in coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering measurements using mono-energetic electron-capture neutrinos and a compact array of lithium-based bolometers, a capability that could resolve the gallium neutrino anomaly by distinguishing between nuclear effects, source activity errors, and short-baseline oscillations.
Following a major hardware upgrade at SNOLAB, the SENSEI experiment achieved an order-of-magnitude reduction in single-electron background rates to e/pix/day, enabling tighter constraints on sub-GeV dark matter and validating that previous higher rates were likely caused by light leaks in the older sensor tray design.
This paper calculates the tensor-polarized twist-3 parton distribution function for the spin-1 deuteron by applying twist-2 relations to the known twist-2 function , demonstrating that is comparable in magnitude to and suggesting that current and future facilities like JLab and the EIC are well-suited to investigate these higher-twist effects.
This paper presents an enhanced version of the TrackFormers framework for High-Energy Physics track reconstruction, introducing custom Transformer attention mechanisms, a novel geometric projection with lightweight clustering, and joint model conditioning to improve both accuracy and efficiency for upcoming High-Luminosity LHC data challenges.
This paper reviews the latest experimental results from the 18th Workshop on Top-Quark Physics, highlighting how the field has evolved over thirty years from initial discovery to a mature era characterized by precision measurements, new scattering processes, and the detection of subtle effects through refined techniques.
This paper outlines the development, production procedures, and advantages of Belle II's run-dependent Monte Carlo simulations, which utilize time-dependent detector conditions and beam backgrounds to achieve higher granularity and accuracy compared to traditional run-independent methods.
This paper summarizes the main features, Run-3 performance, and physics impact of the upgraded ATLAS Trigger system, which was enhanced to handle increased luminosity and pile-up conditions while reducing the event rate for offline analysis.
This paper presents the first CMS measurement of the -channel single top quark production cross section in proton-proton collisions at TeV, utilizing 302 pb of 2017 data to report combined and individual cross sections for top quarks and antiquarks that are consistent with Standard Model predictions.