186 papers
Using 20.3 fb⁻¹ of data from the BESIII detector, this study presents the most precise measurements to date of the branching fractions and hadronic form factors for the dominant decays, while also reporting the first observation of the process and the first model-independent measurement of the -wave phase shift in the system.
This paper demonstrates that various commercial off-the-shelf electronics components tested for radiation tolerance meet the specific Total Ionizing Dose and Non-Ionizing Energy Loss requirements for the Thin Gap Chamber frontend electronics in the ATLAS experiment's High-Luminosity LHC upgrade.
This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the Muon Endcap 0 (ME0) upgrade for the CMS experiment, detailing its design, production status, and quality assurance procedures aimed at extending forward muon coverage and enhancing reconstruction performance for the High-Luminosity LHC.
Using 13.6 TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS detector, this study measures angular correlations within jets induced by gluon polarization and finds that the results strongly favor theoretical models incorporating gluon spin effects over those that neglect them.
This paper introduces a new, computationally efficient matrix-based algorithm for determining antineutrino directionality in segmented reactor detectors, offering improved accuracy and error analysis over conventional methods while identifying optimal segmentation scales for low-count regimes.
This paper presents a novel two-dimensional shift and rotation method that leverages the correlation between time-of-flight mass-squared and ionization energy loss to significantly improve charged pion and kaon identification in heavy-ion collisions, extending the reliable measurement range to approximately 3 GeV/ while maintaining over 98% purity and preserving elliptic flow consistency.
This paper presents a radiation-hardened 130 nm CMOS delta-sigma current digitizer capable of achieving over 200 dB dynamic range and sub-picoampere resolution for beam loss monitoring, while maintaining a 10 µs response time for machine protection and demonstrating robust performance up to 100 Mrad total ionizing dose.
This paper presents a combined ATLAS and CMS analysis of Higgs boson pair production at 13 TeV using Run 2 data, which found no significant evidence for the signal but established upper limits on the production cross-section and set constraints on the Higgs trilinear self-coupling and its coupling to vector bosons.
This paper proposes a novel, decentralized approach to securing the domestic supply of the medical isotope Mo by adapting high-current deuterium cyclotrons, originally designed for neutrino research, to generate sufficient neutrons for isotope production without relying on nuclear reactors or highly enriched uranium.
To meet the ultra-low radioactive contamination requirements of the JUNO detector, the study details the implementation of a large-scale underground cleanroom system that maintains air cleanliness around class 74,000 and introduces a highly sensitive ICP-MS method for directly measuring and controlling U/Th deposition rates on detector surfaces.
This paper presents an updated baseline design for HALHF, a hybrid, asymmetric Higgs factory that combines plasma-wakefield acceleration for electrons with radio-frequency acceleration for positrons to overcome efficiency challenges and reduce costs, detailing the optimization process used to address issues identified in the original proposal.
The MAGNETO- experiment utilized a high-statistics measurement of Pu decays with metallic magnetic calorimeters to find no evidence for keV-scale heavy neutral leptons, thereby establishing an upper limit of at 95% confidence for an 11.5-keV HNL mixing with the electron neutrino.
This paper details the strategies and results of optimizing fresh air ventilation to successfully reduce radon concentration in the main hall of the 700-m deep JUNO underground laboratory from 1600 Bq/m³ to the required 100 Bq/m³, identifying underground water as a primary radon source.
This paper presents an end-to-end global event reconstruction framework combining geometric algebra transformers and object condensation clustering that significantly outperforms state-of-the-art rule-based algorithms in efficiency, fake-particle suppression, and mass resolution for future collider experiments like FCC-ee, thereby enabling rapid detector design iteration by decoupling performance from detector-specific tuning.
Using 1.4 years of atmospheric neutrino data from the first six detection units of the KM3NeT/ORCA detector, this study finds no evidence for isotropic Lorentz invariance violation and establishes competitive new limits on relevant coefficients.
This paper demonstrates that precise measurements of the forward-backward asymmetry in events at GeV are feasible at future linear colliders using full ILD simulations, provided that advanced particle identification techniques like Comprehensive PID and cluster counting are employed to optimize charge reconstruction and maximize sensitivity to electroweak and new-physics effects.
Using QCD sum rules, this study interprets the resonance as an -wave molecular pentaquark state and calculates its mass and decay properties, finding results consistent with experimental data.
This paper utilizes Fourier-Bessel transformations of exclusive meson production cross sections from photon-proton collisions to reveal that the proton's baryon number is concentrated in a transverse radius of 0.33–0.53 fm, which is significantly smaller than the proton's charge and mass radii.
This paper proposes a unified framework where a "flavor in ninths" structure arises from a discrete gauge symmetry that simultaneously explains quark and lepton hierarchies, stabilizes the QCD axion with and a specific ratio, and naturally solves the axion quality problem via high-dimensional operators, predicting a dark matter axion within the reach of near-term experiments.
This paper presents the first observational constraints on Luciano-Saridakis entropic cosmology using combined background data, demonstrating that the model provides a statistically robust fit to current observations and offers a viable extension to the standard CDM model with the potential to alleviate the Hubble tension.