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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 paper refines theoretical predictions for light-by-light scattering by improving two-loop helicity amplitudes with asymptotic expansions and Coulomb resummation, providing state-of-the-art Standard Model cross-section calculations and a new Monte Carlo event generator named LbLatNLO.
This paper presents generalized predictions for the optical and infrared electromagnetic signatures of optically thick mirror star nuggets by solving stellar structure equations and characterizing their emission spectra, thereby providing a comprehensive framework to distinguish these objects from regular stars in existing and future astronomical catalogues.
This paper presents expanded lecture notes from a 2025 training school that explore the detection of axions, axion-like particles, and high-frequency gravitational waves using compact objects such as neutron stars and white dwarfs, including discussions on superradiance and practical exercises.
This paper proposes a Pati-Salam-based UV completion of the Standard Model that simultaneously solves the strong CP problem via the Nelson-Barr mechanism, corrects fermion mass relations for the heaviest generations, and predicts a distinctive neutron decay mode () testable by upcoming nucleon-decay experiments.
This paper presents continuum-estimated (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD results demonstrating that the baryon-electric charge correlation serves as a sensitive magnetometer for strong magnetic fields, while also mapping the equation of state up to and constructing detector-compatible observables to bridge theoretical predictions with experimental heavy-ion collision data.
The paper advocates for a bold, long-term shift in particle physics research toward the development of a yotta-eV scale tau-lepton collider located in the Oort cloud, arguing that despite requiring Kardashev Level-I or II civilization capabilities, this approach should become the community's primary focus for precision Higgs studies and new particle discovery.
Using the parity doublet model, this paper demonstrates that gravitational waves from the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition in QCD could produce detectable signals in the millihertz to nanohertz bands, whereas those from the chiral phase transition are too weak to be observed, thereby linking the chiral invariant mass to potential gravitational wave signatures of nucleon mass origins.
This paper utilizes the Herwig 7 framework to demonstrate that massive bosons produced via BSM parton shower radiation, rather than direct hard processes, populate non-isolated regions within jets, offering a novel and previously overlooked avenue for discovering new physics through jet substructure analysis at the LHC and future colliders.
This paper investigates the photoproduction and nuclear absorption of charmonium on C and W targets near the kinematic threshold using a collision model with nuclear spectral functions, demonstrating that calculated observables are sensitive to absorption scenarios and could help determine the -nucleus cross section for future experiments at the CEBAF facility.
This paper establishes an analytical connection between triaxial nuclear shapes and three-particle correlations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, demonstrating that specific flow and momentum fluctuation observables are directly proportional to the nuclear triaxiality parameter .