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Hep-Ph explores the fundamental forces that govern how particles interact and behave at the smallest scales imaginable. This field bridges the gap between theoretical predictions and experimental reality, helping scientists understand the building blocks of our universe without getting lost in complex mathematics. Whether investigating the Higgs boson or searching for new physics beyond current models, these studies push the boundaries of human knowledge about matter and energy.
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The paper demonstrates that small perturbations in the boost-invariant color fields of the glasma exhibit an exponential growth rate proportional to the square root of time, identifying this leading Lyapunov exponent as a key factor in entropy production and thermalization during the earliest stages of heavy-ion collisions.
Motivated by recent pulsar timing array evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background, this paper demonstrates that a full semi-analytical pipeline can accurately predict gravitational wave spectra from supercooled first-order phase transitions in a conformal extension of the Standard Model, thereby enabling efficient exploration of early Universe dynamics without relying on computationally intensive simulations.
This paper investigates how the collapse of large-amplitude primordial curvature perturbations into planetary-mass primordial black holes generates a detectable scalar-induced gravitational wave background in the Hz range, deriving projected constraints on such black hole populations from future Lunar and Satellite Laser Ranging data while considering the electroweak phase transition and recent HSC microlensing observations.
This paper investigates the potential of the JUNO experiment to detect sub-GeV dark mesons produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere via a vector portal, utilizing a modified Quark Combination Model for hadronization and GENIE for interaction simulation to establish projected 90% C.L. sensitivity limits on the dark gauge coupling for various dark sector masses.
This pedagogical review synthesizes experimental data from relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions with Lattice QCD predictions to explore the existence and properties of the quark-gluon plasma and the broader QCD phase diagram.
This paper proposes that ultra-wide-orbit exoplanets serve as a novel probe for small-scale dark matter objects, such as ultra-compact minihalos arising from large primordial perturbations, by deriving new dynamical constraints and identifying characteristic observational signatures that could significantly advance our understanding of the dark universe's primordial properties.
This paper presents the first first-principles calculation of the Migdal effect in isolated atoms, establishing the conditions for adiabatic suppression and confirming that direct dark matter searches operate within the unsuppressed regime.
This paper demonstrates that approximating the gravitational background as an exact FLRW spacetime in lattice inflation simulations prevents the freezing of superhorizon modes and significantly distorts inflationary observables, particularly during ultra-slow roll, prompting the authors to propose a validity criterion and implement it in CosmoLattice.
This paper proposes a parallel underdamped Langevin sampling method enhanced by learned Stein discrepancy diagnostics and neural network surrogate initialization to efficiently generate unweighted high-multiplicity collider events while minimizing expensive matrix-element evaluations.
This paper presents state-of-the-art, next-to-leading-order hadron-level predictions for deep-inelastic scattering with multiple final-state particles, consistently merged into single samples to support physics studies at future colliders including the Electron-Ion Collider, LHeC, and FCC-eh.