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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 details the analysis pipeline for forecasting the Square Kilometre Array's sensitivity to dark photons via resonant conversions in the intergalactic medium, demonstrating that combining SKA with galaxy surveys and 21-cm experiments could detect dark photons with masses between and eV and kinetic mixing parameters as low as .
This paper provides a brief overview of tensor-polarized parton distribution functions and fragmentation functions for spin-1 hadrons, highlighting unique observables like the , structure functions and gluon transversity that offer insights into hadron dynamics beyond simple nucleon models.
This paper theoretically demonstrates that nuclear modifications to the longitudinal-transverse structure function ratio in the deuteron, arising from transverse Fermi motion, result in a few-percent effect that must be accounted for in high-energy nuclear data analysis and is expected to be confirmed by upcoming experiments at JLab.
This paper presents data-driven hydrodynamic predictions for the new observable in Pb+Pb collisions at TeV, demonstrating its agreement with existing data and forecasting unique features such as a high- decrease, meson-baryon splitting, and non-monotonic proton behavior that distinguish it from traditional flow observables.
This paper investigates the Higgs-coupled Minimal Dark Matter interpretation of a recent LZ nuclear-recoil event and finds that, while the model successfully reproduces the terrestrial signal, the resulting high-energy solar neutrino flux from DM annihilation strongly conflicts with IceCube constraints for most thermal mass benchmarks, particularly those below 48 TeV.
This paper demonstrates that the SHiP experiment can distinguish the underlying production mechanisms of a feebly coupled axion-like particle decaying into diphotons by analyzing the kinematics of just a few reconstructed events, even in the presence of realistic detector effects.
This paper proposes that a secondary period of lukewarm inflation can simultaneously dilute unwanted thermal relics and generate a nearly scale-invariant enhancement of small-scale curvature perturbations, thereby producing a stochastic gravitational wave background consistent with the NANOGrav signal and a population of sub-solar mass primordial black holes that could constitute a significant fraction of dark matter.
This paper proposes that the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB) can serve as a novel probe for scalar-induced first-order phase transitions in core-collapse supernovae, demonstrating that current and future neutrino detectors can constrain the associated scalar parameter space, particularly depending on the neutrino mass ordering.
This paper proposes a "lukewarm inflation" scenario driven by right-handed neutrinos at temperatures near the QCD scale, which dilutes the QCD axion abundance to resolve fine-tuning issues for GUT-scale axions while simultaneously offering testable predictions through primordial black holes, gravitational waves, and modifications to relativistic species.
This paper investigates the High-Luminosity LHC's potential to discover resonant di-Higgs production in the channel, finding that while Supersymmetry benchmarks face significant background challenges, Compositeness models offer substantial discovery potential in a background-free environment.