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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 introduces HadroTOPS, a flexible Monte Carlo event generator designed to simulate hadronic two-photon fusion events in electron-positron collisions with exact leading-order QED coupling and customizable phase space decays, specifically supporting partial wave analyses for various final states relevant to collaborations like BESIII.
This paper proposes that General Relativity can be modeled as a degenerate Otto cycle in emergent gravity, where introducing work-producing legs generates controlled Lorentz and energy-momentum violations that drive late-time cosmological acceleration.
This paper proposes that slow first-order phase transitions involving the collision of only two vacuum bubbles generate a unique signature of linearly polarized gravitational waves, which could be detected by future interferometers like LISA and the Einstein Telescope to probe the early universe.
This review argues that despite potential flaws in the assumption of near-simultaneous neutrino emission from SN 1987A, the data may still yield specific values for the three neutrino masses that exceed current cosmological and experimental upper limits, as originally suggested by Ramanath Cowsik.
This paper investigates the sensitivity of LHC displaced vertex searches to electroweak pair-produced heavy neutral leptons within a supersymmetric higgsino decay framework, deriving constraints from ATLAS Run 2 data and projecting discovery potential for the HL-LHC while assessing the generalizability of these results to broader models.
This paper proposes a data-driven calibration strategy using B solar neutrinos and muon-decay-at-rest neutrinos as standard candles to constrain the poorly known electron neutrino-argon cross section, thereby significantly reducing model-dependent biases in extracting Galactic supernova spectral properties at the DUNE experiment.
This paper elucidates the physical distinction between ghosts and unstable particles in quantum field theory by analyzing their differing asymptotic behaviors and analytic structures, demonstrating that ghosts do not decay but are masked by multi-particle interference, thereby confirming the absence of freely propagating ghost particles in the asymptotic limit.
This paper introduces a domain-agnostic, context-aware stress testing pipeline to evaluate the robustness of fast reconstruction models in fields like High Energy Physics, demonstrating that while local assumptions can fail to capture global dependencies (as seen in HL-LHC decays), an unsupervised regime-mapping framework can effectively restore reconstruction accuracy and resolution.
This paper proposes the "Coherence Principle," a falsifiable Bayesian framework for model selection that assigns prior probabilities based on a model's adherence to the validated structural "grammar" of existing theories, thereby penalizing unmotivated theoretical violations while remaining transparent and testable across historical and contemporary cases in physics.
This paper systematically investigates semi-invisible hyperon decays within the Mesogenesis mechanism using an effective Lagrangian approach, revealing that one-loop hadronic triangle diagram contributions are as significant as tree-level terms and result in branching ratios of order for hadronic modes while radiative modes remain below .