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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 demonstrates that by imposing specific momentum correlations among Volkov states, a charged lepton in an electromagnetic plane wave can form a structured wavepacket whose probability-density peak travels at an arbitrary, tailored velocity independent of the field amplitude and the standard expectation value.
This paper employs non-relativistic effective field theory and the Keldysh-Schwinger formalism to self-consistently compute pair production and Sommerfeld-enhanced annihilation, demonstrating that this approach unitarizes the cross-section in a temperature-dependent manner while confirming vacuum results and revealing that bound states remain on-shell during out-of-equilibrium decay despite having Breit-Wigner spectral functions.
This paper introduces "SemiCharmTag," a novel tool for LHCb that utilizes secondary vertex hadron track tagging to effectively reject or isolate charm semileptonic backgrounds in dimuon Drell-Yan measurements at 13.6 TeV, significantly improving signal-to-background ratios while enabling the creation of unbiased charm-enriched samples.
This paper numerically demonstrates that false-vacuum decay between metastable honeycomb and stripe supersolid phases in a uniform dipolar gas is driven by bubble nucleation whose growth speed is limited by the slowest sound mode, establishing dipolar supersolids as a versatile platform for studying this phenomenon with direct real-space imaging capabilities.
This paper systematically compares HERWIG, PYTHIA, and SHERPA event generators for jet photoproduction in and $ep$ collisions, finding that while all provide decent descriptions of LEP and HERA data, achieving precision predictions for the future EIC requires a global refit of photon parton distributions and dedicated measurements to constrain non-perturbative parameters.
This paper proposes a novel method using linear regression through the origin on Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) scale-invariant series to reliably estimate unknown one-order higher QCD corrections, demonstrating its effectiveness and superior predictive stability through the application to the ratio.
This paper investigates two models of interacting scalar fields in Einstein scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity as unified dark energy and dark matter candidates, demonstrating that while they align with current supernova data and the CDM model, they show a statistically significant preference over CDM when incorporating future Roman Space Telescope mock data at higher redshifts.
This paper systematically investigates and calculates the decay rates of baryon-number-violating nucleon decays into three leptons mediated by noncontact dimension-6 operators, establishing stringent new bounds on these processes that significantly revise previous estimates and improve upon existing experimental limits.
This paper proposes a TeV-scale quark-lepton symmetric Pati-Salam model featuring a softly broken symmetry that suppresses tree-level flavor violations, allowing a leptoquark gauge boson to be as light as 1.1 TeV (though LHC constraints on associated bosons push the limit to 4.3 TeV) while predicting distinctive signatures like vector-like down-type quarks with baryon number and specific neutrino mass generation mechanisms.
Using a double-dilaton Holographic QCD model with a non-perturbative running strong coupling, this study computes neutral and charged pion form factors in the intermediate-energy region to explain experimental deviations from asymptotic behavior and demonstrate that non-perturbative effects persist at higher energy scales than previously thought.