Exploring Leptogenesis in the Era of First Order Electroweak Phase Transition

This paper proposes a novel low-scale leptogenesis mechanism enabled by a first-order electroweak phase transition, which keeps sphalerons active below the standard decoupling temperature to convert lepton asymmetry into baryon asymmetry even for right-handed neutrinos with masses as low as 35 GeV, offering potential detection signatures through stochastic gravitational waves and accelerator experiments.

Dipendu Bhandari, Arunansu Sil2026-04-14⚛️ hep-ph

Gravitational Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Dark Matter

This paper derives gravitational positivity bounds for the Higgs-portal scalar dark matter model, revealing that new physics must emerge below 101010^{10} GeV for light dark matter without self-coupling, while heavy dark matter (1010\sim 10^{10}101110^{11} GeV) with specific couplings can satisfy grand unified theory scale constraints and be consistent with the observed relic abundance via the freeze-in mechanism.

Kimiko Yamashita2026-04-14⚛️ hep-ph

Non-relativistic effective theories for fields with general potentials and their implications for cosmology

This paper presents a systematic framework for deriving non-relativistic effective field theories from relativistic theories with generic, potentially non-analytic self-interactions, establishing an effective fluid description and extending the formalism to cosmological settings to analyze ultra-light dark matter models, boson stars, and dark matter halo cores.

H. S. Modirzadeh, R. Moti, M. H. Namjoo2026-04-14⚛️ hep-ph

Revealing chiral-odd two-meson generalized distribution amplitudes in ee+(ππ)(ππ)e^- e^+ \to (\pi \pi) (\pi \pi) reactions

This paper demonstrates that chiral-odd dimeson generalized distribution amplitudes, which encode the spin-orbit correlation in spin-zero mesons, can be experimentally accessed in ee+(ππ)(ππ)e^- e^+ \to (\pi \pi)(\pi \pi) reactions through the interference between leading one-photon and two-photon exchange amplitudes, offering a direct path to probe this previously unmeasured sector of meson structure at facilities like BES III.

Shohini Bhattacharya, Renaud Boussarie, Bernard Pire, Lech Szymanowski2026-04-14⚛️ hep-lat

Completing Axion Double Level Crossings

This paper refines the theory of axion double level crossings in multi-axion systems, demonstrating that these phenomena—characterized by a high-temperature crossing followed by a QCD-induced crossing—are common in ZNZ_{\mathcal N} axion models but are constrained by the number of axions (N\mathcal N) in both light and heavy scenarios, with significant implications for axion cosmology.

Hai-Jun Li, Wei Chao, Huai-Ke Guo, Yu-Feng Zhou2026-04-14⚛️ hep-ph

Mass and Decay-Constant Evolution of Heavy Quarkonia and BcB_c States from Thermal QCD Sum Rules

This paper utilizes finite-temperature QCD sum rules with updated quark masses and lattice-informed condensates to predict the thermal evolution of masses and decay constants for J/ψJ/\psi, Υ\Upsilon, and BcB_c mesons up to near-critical temperatures, revealing a suppression hierarchy consistent with binding energies and confirming the BcB_c 1P1P--1S1S splitting observed by LHCb.

Enis Yazici2026-04-14⚛️ hep-ph

The color force acting on a quark in the pion and nucleon

This paper utilizes the instanton liquid model enhanced by correlated instanton-anti-instanton pairs to derive and analyze the transverse distribution of the color Lorentz force acting on quarks in pions and nucleons, demonstrating that these force form factors are intimately related to gravitational and transversity form factors and yield results for nucleons consistent with recent lattice QCD calculations.

Wei-Yang Liu, Edward Shuryak, Ismail Zahed2026-04-14⚛️ hep-lat

Improving Neutrino Oscillation Measurements through Event Classification

This paper proposes a machine-learning-based strategy that classifies neutrino interaction types prior to energy reconstruction to exploit intrinsic kinematic differences, thereby reducing modeling uncertainties and improving the accuracy and sensitivity of next-generation long-baseline oscillation experiments like DUNE by 10–20%.

Sebastian A. R. Ellis, Daniel C. Hackett, Shirley Weishi Li, Pedro A. N. Machado, Karla Tame-Narvaez2026-04-14⚛️ hep-ex