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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 introduces an eigen-microstate framework that analyzes final-state particle fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions to identify the QCD critical point by extracting dominant critical modes as a robust order parameter, offering a background-insensitive tool directly applicable to RHIC Beam Energy Scan data without relying on equilibrium assumptions.
This paper proposes and validates a method to reconstruct the local dark matter speed distribution by combining a Maxwell-Boltzmann component for old merger debris with a kinematically boosted stellar tracer for recent massive mergers, demonstrating its application to the Milky Way using Gaia data.
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis demonstrating that future electron-positron and proton-proton colliders offer an order-of-magnitude improvement in sensitivity to anomalous CP-violating interactions in the gauge-Higgs sector compared to the high-luminosity LHC, thereby providing crucial insights into new physics sources for the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry.
This paper proposes and validates a method using Pythia 8.3 simulations to isolate the top-quark dead cone effect in decays by extrapolating hadronic momentum distributions to the forward direction, thereby successfully separating primary top radiation from secondary -quark radiation to test perturbative QCD in a new kinematic regime.
Using an improved AMPT model, this study demonstrates that the coalescence mechanism is essential for accurately reproducing the enhanced ratio observed in Au+Au collisions at RHIC, whereas fragmentation alone fails to capture this trend.
This paper presents a unified framework for studying the QCD dead-cone effect across charm, bottom, and top quark jets by combining precision LEP data with Monte Carlo simulations to validate momentum-space suppression in lighter heavy quarks and proposing a novel method to isolate the dead cone in top-quark jets despite finite lifetime and decay radiation challenges.
This paper investigates the thermodynamics of a Schwarzschild black hole within non-commutative gauge theory, demonstrating that non-commutative corrections remove temperature divergence, introduce logarithmic entropy corrections, and result in extremely sparse Hawking radiation that diverges as the black hole approaches the final stage of evaporation.
This paper develops a perturbative real-time framework using the Keldysh-Schwinger-Fradkin technique to derive the mean number density of emitted photons and the mean electromagnetic field in unstable QED vacua subjected to pair-creating external backgrounds, extending calculations up to second order in the fine-structure constant and verifying results through spectral decomposition and Schwinger-Dyson equations.
This paper proposes a generic mechanism where a light axion spectator induces a post-inflationary "tachyonic encore" that reshapes inflationary observables by enhancing the curvature power spectrum and suppressing the tensor-to-scalar ratio, thereby reconciling otherwise disfavored inflaton potentials with current CMB constraints while predicting observable local non-Gaussianity.
This paper challenges the prevailing view that Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are generically fine-tuned dark matter candidates by demonstrating that, when evaluated across a broad landscape of production mechanisms and compared to particle dark matter benchmarks using uniform naturalness measures, PBHs span a full spectrum of naturalness tiers ranging from as natural as standard WIMPs to severely tuned, thereby proving that dismissing them as a whole conflates worst-case scenarios with a diverse landscape of viable models.