1472 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 comprehensive five-year analysis of scintillation light performance in the MicroBooNE detector, detailing its simulation, calibration, and triggering efficiency while reporting novel observations of a significant long-term light yield decline and an unexpectedly high single photoelectron noise rate.
Using a novel method to tag antineutrons from decays within a sample of over 10 million events collected by the BESIII detector, researchers measured the cross sections for the inelastic scattering processes and to be mb and mb respectively, demonstrating the viability of this approach for future studies of antineutron-proton interactions.
Using data from the Belle and Belle II experiments, this paper reports the first search for the rare decay , finding no significant excess and setting an improved upper limit on its branching fraction of at the 90% confidence level.
This paper presents sensitivity projections for the NUCLEUS experiment at Chooz, demonstrating its potential to achieve a 4.7 observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and provide leading constraints on new physics by utilizing gram-scale cryogenic calorimeters to access unprecedentedly low nuclear recoil energies.
This chapter introduces the fundamentals of the three-flavor neutrino oscillation paradigm, detailing the six undetermined oscillation parameters, the experimental history of the phenomenon, and the theoretical framework including matter effects that guide current large-scale particle physics experiments.
Using low-energy electronic recoil data from the first science run of the XENONnT detector and a novel model accounting for charge cancellation effects, researchers established world-leading constraints on spontaneous quantum collapse models that exclude the original parameters of the Continuous Spontaneous Localization theory for the first time.
Using 138 fb of proton-proton collision data at = 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment, this paper presents measurements of differential cross sections and the leptonic charge asymmetry for top quark-antiquark pair production in association with a W boson, finding that normalized distributions agree with Standard Model predictions while absolute cross sections are slightly higher, consistent with previous inclusive results.
This paper summarizes the current status of next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to double-Higgs production within Standard Model and Higgs Effective Field Theory frameworks, highlighting how these calculations enhance sensitivity to Higgs self-couplings and provide complementary constraints on the Higgs potential for future collider experiments.
The COSINE-100 experiment reports world-leading constraints on spin-dependent dark matter-proton scattering in the 1.75–2.25 GeV/c² mass range and sets new sub-GeV limits via the Migdal effect by achieving a record-low detection threshold of 3–4 photoelectrons, despite observing no statistically significant annual modulation signal.
Using 140 fb of proton-proton collision data at TeV, the ATLAS experiment presents precise differential cross-section measurements for inclusive production to test Standard Model predictions, constrain parton distribution functions, and set improved limits on anomalous weak-boson self-interactions within an effective field theory framework.