1442 papers
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 a search for new physics in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV via triple boson production using the effective field theory approach, where no excess over Standard Model expectations was observed, leading to stringent 95% confidence level bounds on dimension-6 and -8 Wilson coefficients.
Using 8.16 TeV +Pb collision data from the ATLAS detector, this study demonstrates that event geometry estimators based on forward energy deposition are sensitive to the initial-state hard-scattering kinematics, specifically showing a strong dependence on the proton-side parton's Bjorken- that is significantly more pronounced in the Forward Calorimeter than in the Zero-Degree Calorimeter.
This paper systematically investigates the historical origins of quantum entanglement in particle physics, highlighting key milestones such as the 1949 Wu-Shaknov experiment, the 1957 theoretical work by Lee, Oehme, and Yang on neutral kaons, and the 1958 Goldhaber-Lee-Yang formulation of entangled kaon pairs, which collectively established entanglement in both photon and high-energy particle systems prior to Bell's inequality.
By integrating new ReD calibration data with existing DarkSide-50, ARIS, and SCENE results to refine the liquid argon ionization response model for nuclear recoils, this study establishes new world-leading exclusion limits on low-mass WIMPs in the 1–3 GeV/c² range and demonstrates significantly enhanced discovery potential for the upcoming DarkSide-20k detector.
This paper presents a systematic study of atmospheric neutrino-antineutrino discrimination in large liquid-scintillator detectors by analyzing event characteristics such as inelasticity and neutron multiplicity, thereby establishing a foundation for determining the neutrino mass ordering through oscillation studies.
This paper establishes that the trace of the spin correlation matrix is a basis-invariant quantity for two-fermion production via single mediator exchange at lepton colliders, enabling the determination of spin-analyzing powers, the reconstruction of spin correlations to probe Bell non-locality (specifically in production at BESIII), and the exploration of new physics beyond the Standard Model.
This study demonstrates that pulse shape discrimination classifiers trained exclusively on gamma-ray data can effectively identify and reject alpha events in high-purity germanium detectors, offering a robust background suppression strategy for next-generation neutrinoless double beta decay searches like LEGEND where dedicated alpha training data is insufficient.
Using 2023 ALICE data from ultra-peripheral Pb–Pb collisions at TeV, this paper presents forward rapidity measurements of coherent J/ and (2S) photoproduction and exclusive dimuon production, revealing significant nuclear shadowing effects in quarkonium production and highlighting the sensitivity of dimuon measurements to photon flux modeling near the nuclear radius.
Using proton-proton collision data at 13 and 13.6 TeV collected by the CMS detector, this study performs the first dedicated search for pair-produced inert scalars in the Inert Doublet Model via a dilepton plus missing transverse momentum final state, finding no significant excess and setting 95% confidence level exclusion limits on the masses of the new neutral scalars.
The CMS collaboration presents the first search for single vector-like top quark (T) production decaying into a top quark and Higgs boson in opposite-sign dilepton final states using 138 fb⁻¹ of 13 TeV proton-proton collision data, finding no evidence of new physics and setting 95% confidence level upper limits on the production cross section ranging from 2.0 pb at 600 GeV to 0.1 pb at 1000 GeV.