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.

At Gist.Science, we ensure these discoveries become accessible to everyone. We process every new preprint in this category directly from arXiv, generating both plain-language explanations for curious readers and detailed technical summaries for specialists. Our goal is to bridge the gap between complex experimental results and public understanding without losing scientific nuance.

Below are the latest papers in Hep-Ex, freshly summarized and ready for you to explore.

⚛️ high-energy experiments

A Novel Approach to Short Baseline Oscillation Searches Using Neutrino Tagging with nuSCOPE

This paper presents the first study demonstrating that the proposed nuSCOPE facility's tagged neutrino beamline offers a novel, high-precision approach to short-baseline oscillation searches, significantly improving sensitivity to sterile neutrinos across multiple channels while substantially reducing reliance on flux predictions.

Adrien Blanchet, César Jesús-Valls, Animesh Chatterjee, Stephen Dolan, Pierre Granger, Laura Munteanu2026-06-15
⚛️ phenomenology

Testing varying coupling constants through multi-Higgs production at the LHC

This paper proposes the One Scalar Theory (1ST), a predictive framework linking Higgs and top couplings to a single scale Λ0\Lambda_0, and demonstrates that current ATLAS data and future High-Luminosity LHC runs can test this model's dynamical origin of the electroweak sector by probing Λ0\Lambda_0 up to 4 TeV through multi-Higgs and multi-top resonance searches.

Ulf Danielsson, Rikard Enberg, Gunnar Ingelman, Soumyadip Kundu, Tanumoy Mandal, Subhadip Mitra2026-06-15
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Search for dark photons from Higgs boson decays in the gluon-gluon fusion channel in proton-proton collisions at s=13.6\sqrt{s}=13.6 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Using 135 fb1^{-1} of proton-proton collision data at s=13.6\sqrt{s}=13.6 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector, this paper presents a search for dark photons via semi-visible Higgs boson decays (HγγdH \to \gamma \gamma_d) in the gluon-gluon fusion channel, finding no significant excess over the Standard Model and setting an observed upper limit on the branching ratio of 1.4% (0.9% when combined with Run 2 results) at 95% confidence level.

ATLAS Collaboration2026-06-15
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Machine-learned particle flow as a foundation model for collider physics

This paper establishes machine-learned particle flow (MLPF) as a foundation model for collider physics by demonstrating that its learned latent representations serve as a shared, information-rich bridge between low-level detector data and diverse high-level analysis tasks, significantly improving performance and efficiency compared to traditional modular approaches.

Farouk Mokhtar, Joosep Pata, Michael Kagan, Javier Duarte2026-06-15✓ Author reviewed
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current cross section with SND@LHC

Using proton-proton collision data from LHC Run 3, the SND@LHC experiment reports the first measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current cross section on tungsten, observing 31 candidate events against a small expected background to determine a cross section of (3712+24)×1035 cm2(37^{+24}_{-12})\times 10^{-35}~\text{cm}^2 at a median energy of 228 GeV.

LHC Collaboration, D. Abbaneo, S. Ahmad, R. Albanese, A. Alexandrov, F. Alicante, F. Aloschi, K. Androsov, L. G. Arellan (…)2026-06-15
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Measurement of BK(892)γB \to K{}^{*}(892)γ decays at Belle II

Using 365 fb⁻¹ of data collected by the Belle II experiment, this paper presents measurements of branching fractions and CP asymmetries for BK(892)γB \to K^*(892)\gamma decays, yielding results that are consistent with world-average values and theoretical predictions.

Belle II Collaboration, I. Adachi, L. Aggarwal, H. Ahmed, H. Aihara, N. Akopov, A. Aloisio, N. Althubiti, N. Anh Ky, D. (…)2026-06-12
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Future Collider Perspectives on Higgs CP Violation

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis demonstrating that future electron-positron and proton-proton colliders offer an order-of-magnitude improvement in sensitivity to anomalous CP-violating interactions in the gauge-Higgs sector compared to the high-luminosity LHC, thereby providing crucial insights into new physics sources for the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry.

Arun Atwal, Jessica Burridge, António Jacques Costa, Christoph Englert, Sinead Farrington, Jay Nesbitt, Leonor Santos Pe (…)2026-06-12
⚛️ high-energy experiments

How to identify the dead cone in the top-quark jet

This paper proposes and validates a method using Pythia 8.3 simulations to isolate the top-quark dead cone effect in tbνt \to b\ell\nu decays by extrapolating hadronic momentum distributions to the forward direction, thereby successfully separating primary top radiation from secondary bb-quark radiation to test perturbative QCD in a new kinematic regime.

Stefan Kluth, Wolfgang Ochs, Redamy Perez-Ramos2026-06-12
⚛️ high-energy experiments

The Dead Cone Effect in Heavy-Quark Jets: A Unified Study from Charm and Bottom to Top

This paper presents a unified framework for studying the QCD dead-cone effect across charm, bottom, and top quark jets by combining precision LEP data with Monte Carlo simulations to validate momentum-space suppression in lighter heavy quarks and proposing a novel method to isolate the dead cone in top-quark jets despite finite lifetime and decay radiation challenges.

Redamy Perez-Ramos, Stefan Kluth, Wolfgang Ochs2026-06-12