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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 proposes a mechanism where an inflaton-gluon coupling dynamically raises the QCD confinement scale during inflation to suppress axion isocurvature perturbations, subsequently allowing the axion to become light and generate the observed dark matter abundance, with viability ensured through specific reheating scenarios and supersymmetry.
This paper elucidates the structure of next-to-leading-power soft-gluon emissions in arbitrary one-loop massless QCD amplitudes by deriving universal operators and novel double-collinear tree-level expansions, resulting in simplified, derivative-free formulae that are validated numerically for processes with up to six partons.
This paper demonstrates that in strongly interacting dark sectors where light vector mesons enable the process, dark matter freeze-out is significantly delayed, leading to a higher preferred mass scale that naturally evades Bullet Cluster constraints.
This paper proposes the design of two dedicated long-lived particle (LLP) detectors, DELIGHT and FOREHUNT, for the Future Circular Collider (FCC) facility, featuring a novel shared transverse detector for both FCC-ee and FCC-hh runs to optimize costs and significantly enhance sensitivity to elusive new physics.
Using four-dimensional causal dynamical triangulation simulations, this paper presents evidence for the existence of massive geons—self-bound graviton states—through curvature-curvature correlators, suggesting potential implications for dark matter and primordial black holes while noting a connection between their mass and the expansion phase of the de Sitter universe.
This paper analyzes recent electron and nuclear recoil data from XENONnT, PandaX-4T, and LUX-ZEPLIN to probe both Standard Model and Beyond the Standard Model physics, highlighting how xenon-based dark matter detectors can uniquely complement dedicated neutrino experiments by providing sensitivity to solar neutrino interactions and flavor-dependent new physics effects.
This study evaluates the potential for SHiP and Belle II to detect sub-GeV dark matter through multi-displaced vertex signatures arising from dark showers in strongly-interacting dark sectors, identifying a significant parameter space where such signals could reveal the structure of the dark sector.
This paper proposes a novel framework where interactions between a rotating QCD axion and dark magnetic monopoles simultaneously generate the observed baryon asymmetry and deplete the axion's kinetic energy to match the dark matter density, requiring an axion decay constant below GeV.
This paper resolves unphysical divergences in two-loop renormalization group functions within on-shell effective field theory bases by demonstrating that including omitted non-minimal source terms restores renormalizability and renders the RG functions finite, with remaining ambiguities restricted to unphysical flavor rotations.
This paper proposes a two-component dark matter model within an SU(2) dark sector stabilized by a residual symmetry and coupled to the Standard Model via a Higgs portal, demonstrating viable parameter spaces that satisfy theoretical consistency and a comprehensive set of experimental constraints.