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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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This study computes net-proton number fluctuations across nine collision energies using a hydrodynamic model incorporating critical fluctuations from the functional renormalization group, revealing that while low-order cumulant ratios show minimal deviation from non-critical baselines, higher-order ratios like exhibit a distinct non-monotonic energy dependence driven by the critical end point.
This paper numerically demonstrates that symmetry breaking in Grand Unified models leads to biased domain walls interacting with magnetic monopoles, resulting in novel phenomena like monopole absorption and black hole formation that generate a detectable stochastic gravitational wave background.
This paper develops a robust worldline effective field theory framework to model perturbations in gravitational atoms, revealing that spinning bosonic clouds can exhibit parametrically enhanced negative Love numbers and significantly altering binary inspiral dynamics through shifted resonances and competing tidal effects.
This paper demonstrates that introducing non-minimal coupling to gravity in chain inflation models resolves the tension preventing high-energy scale inflation, thereby enabling viable scenarios at that predict distinct, testable signatures in the stochastic gravitational wave background and spectral index running.
This paper proposes that parity-violating weak interactions, which typically induce negligible energy differences between chiral systems, can be dramatically amplified during phase transitions by a factor proportional to the critical nucleus size (), offering a mechanism to measure experimentally and potentially explaining the cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry.
This paper demonstrates that employing state-of-the-art deep-learning jet flavor taggers combined with XGBoost classifiers at a future Higgs factory operating at 240 GeV with 20 ab luminosity significantly improves the precision of measuring Higgs decays to and $gg$ while enabling the first quantitative sensitivity estimate for the challenging channel.
This paper proposes using Bell-type inequalities as operator-level diagnostics in collider experiments to demonstrate that fundamental Standard Model interactions, when treated as measurement settings for entangled particle pairs, generate non-contextual correlations that violate local realism through their inherent algebraic structure.
This paper refines the theoretical upper bound on the central pressure-to-energy density ratio in neutron stars to approximately 0.385 by combining causality constraints with mass-sphere stability conditions within the IPAD-TOV framework, establishing a robust, EOS-insensitive probe for the microphysics of cold superdense matter.
This paper quantifies how astrophysical uncertainties in the dark matter velocity distribution impact direct detection rates across all non-relativistic effective field theory operators by employing Kullback-Leibler divergence to reveal that uncertainties can vary from less than one order of magnitude to as much as three orders of magnitude, depending on the specific operator's dependence on velocity-weighted moments.
This paper constructs a hybrid equation of state to investigate QCD matter under finite magnetic fields and nonzero chemical potential, revealing that these parameters significantly alter thermodynamic observables and the speed of sound, with the model successfully reproducing lattice QCD data at lower field strengths while underestimating magnitudes at higher fields.