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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 proposes and analyzes a CMOS image sensor-based detector with active shielding and optimized readout parameters, demonstrating its feasibility for detecting coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) from nuclear reactors within days to weeks, thereby establishing CIS technology as a promising platform for reactor monitoring and precision neutrino measurements.
This paper reports the development and application of a new widely tunable photonic bandgap cavity haloscope featuring concentric sapphire shells and a rotating sapphire rod, which achieves high quality factors and rapid scanning speeds to constrain axion-to-photon coupling over the 10.25–10.45 GHz frequency range.
This paper presents a novel two-stage topological machine learning framework that combines Topological Data Analysis with deep learning to successfully isolate weak critical fluctuation signals from overwhelming non-critical backgrounds in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, thereby restoring power-law scaling and enabling the reliable identification of the QCD critical point.
Using QCD sum rules, this study systematically investigates the mass spectra and decay patterns of triply heavy tetraquark states with , predicting specific mass ranges for charmed and bottomed systems and identifying which candidates are likely to be narrow enough for experimental detection.
This paper introduces the Superconductor-Coupled Semiconductor Electron-Multiplying (SuperEM) detector, a novel architecture that overcomes the traditional trade-off between sub-meV energy thresholds, fast timing, and scalability to enable the direct detection of the Cosmic Neutrino Background and sub-GeV Light Dark Matter.
This paper introduces the Poisson–Fisher degeneracy index to diagnose how specific model misspecifications in rare-event searches can cause silent coverage failures in frequentist intervals, demonstrating that certain biases evade standard goodness-of-fit tests and necessitate constrained nuisance parameters to restore statistical validity.
The authors announce the transition of their community-maintained bibliography from the "Living Review," which served as a comprehensive archive up to June 2026, to a new "Living Guide" that curates and annotates foundational work to better navigate the rapidly diversifying field of machine learning in particle physics.
This paper provides an overview of the current status and future directions of Monte-Carlo event generators for high-energy physics, emphasizing the need for cohesive development, model tuning to experimental data, and open data preservation to reduce systematic uncertainties and ensure consistency across experiments.
This chapter provides a pedagogical overview of neutrino-nucleus scattering in the medium-energy regime, detailing the fundamental electroweak formalism, dominant interaction mechanisms, and critical nuclear effects that drive systematic uncertainties in modern accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments.
This paper demonstrates that incorporating full hadronic system information, rather than just lepton data, significantly improves the reconstruction resolution of atmospheric neutrino direction and energy in DUNE's horizontal-drift liquid argon time projection chamber, establishing a foundation for future oscillation sensitivity analyses.