Hep-Lat, short for High Energy Physics – Lattice, explores the fundamental forces of nature by simulating particle interactions on a digital grid. Instead of relying solely on abstract equations, researchers in this field use powerful computers to model how quarks and gluons bind together, offering deep insights into the structure of matter that are often impossible to derive analytically.

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Naturally Light Composite Higgs as a Protected Collective Eigenmode

This paper proposes a novel mechanism for achieving a naturally light composite Higgs by identifying it as a protected collective eigenmode of the strong sector's scalar kernel, characterized by specific diagnostic parameters and a microscopic sensitivity of order one, which is realized through a rank-one locking invariant and universal vectorlike bridge fermions that lift the Higgs mass only at joint two-spurion order.

Gauhar Abbas2026-07-07✓ Author reviewed
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A Comprehensive Analysis of BsDsνB_s \to D_s^{**}\ell\nu_\ell Decays Within and Beyond the Standard Model

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of exclusive semileptonic BsDsνB_s \to D_s^{**} \ell \nu_\ell decays within and beyond the Standard Model by employing Heavy Quark Effective Theory with a data-driven zz-expansion to predict precise lepton flavor universality ratios and evaluate the sensitivity of various observables to new physics scenarios, including the Two Higgs Doublet Model and effective field theories.

Karthik Jain, Tarun Kumar, Barilang Mawlong, Shantanu Sahoo2026-07-03
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Isospin-breaking effects in inclusive hadronic τ\tau data for the muon (g2)(g-2) from first principles

This paper presents a first-principles Lattice QCD+QED strategy to calculate isospin-breaking effects in inclusive hadronic τ\tau decays, essential for improving the precision of the muon (g2)(g-2) determination, by separating radiative corrections into infrared-safe classes and addressing challenges in Euclidean-to-Minkowski analytic continuation and renormalization.

Mattia Bruno, Taku Izubuchi, Christoph Lehner, Aaron S. Meyer, Julian Parrino, Xin-Yu Tuo2026-07-02