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Wednesday 5 August

High Energy Physics (Experiment) · Cross-listed from hep-ph

Generalized Glauber theorem for dark-matter axion and graviton detection

Jakub Bręczewski, Ayuki Kamada and Akira Miyazaki

We revisit the generalized Glauber theorem motivated by recent applications to dark-matter axion searches and graviton production. For Hamiltonian containing up to quadratic terms in annihilation and creation operators coupled to classical sources, the time-evolution operator can be factorized into displacement, squeezing, and rotation operators. We derive the differential equations governing time evolution of their parameters, reducing the quantum dynamics to c-number equations that can be solved analytically or numerically. To compare another form of the time-evolution operator, Dyson series, we demonstrate the essential role of time ordering. This formalism based on generalized Glauber theorem provides a unified description of particle production from classical backgrounds. Axion-photon conversion in microwave haloscopes is recovered as the linear-interaction limit, while squeezed graviton production from black-hole mergers follows naturally from quadratic interactions. Extending the theorem to thermal initial states yields a realistic quantum description of microwave cavities used in axion experiments. We show that higher-order photon statistics exhibit nontrivial behavior, providing a rigorous foundation for Monte Carlo simulations of quantum-enhanced axion searches beyond heuristic noise estimates.
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CP Polarimetry with Linearly Polarized Photon Fusion and Double-Tagged Protons

Qi-Hui Chang and Shuai Zhao

Double forward-proton tagging turns the forward detectors into event-by-event photon polarimeters because each measured proton recoil fixes the transverse momentum, and hence the linear-polarization axis, of the emitted photon. We show that this production-side polarimetry gives a decay-analyzer-independent measurement of the CP phase of a photon-coupled spin-zero resonance. We derive the leading-power photon-density contraction for a CP-mixed hard amplitude with scalar and pseudoscalar couplings. The CP phase appears as a translation of the second harmonic in the signed proton–proton azimuthal angle. This provides a compact production-side CP measurement for axionlike particles and more general spin-zero resonances.
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News on charged and neutral hadron production from NA61/SHINE

Yuliia Balkova and Maciej P. Lewicki

Strangeness production in high-energy hadronic and nuclear collisions remains a central topic in the study of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. The data collected by the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS allow for a comprehensive scan of hadron production across various collision energies and system sizes. This article focuses on new results on charged and neutral hadron production in central collisions of medium-sized nuclei, such as Ar+Sc and Xe+La, in the SPS energy range. First, the energy and system-size dependence of the $K^+/\pi^+$ ratio is discussed, confirming the “horn” structure in central Pb+Pb collisions and its absence in smaller systems. Furthermore, the inverse slope parameter $T$ of kaon transverse mass (transverse momentum) spectra is analyzed, showing that intermediate-size systems reach values comparable to those observed in central Pb+Pb collisions. Second, normalized proton rapidity spectra $(\text{d}n/\text{d}y)/\langle W \rangle$ in central Be+Be, Ar+Sc, and Pb+Pb collisions are presented, demonstrating energy-dependent baryon transport as a function of system size. Building on this baseline, $\Lambda$ hyperon production in central Ar+Sc collisions is explored across SPS energies, where rapidity spectra, mean multiplicities ($\langle \Lambda \rangle$), and ratios to pions are compared with model predictions and existing data. Finally, an anomalous excess of charged over neutral kaons ($R_K > 1$) in central Ar+Sc collisions is reported, highlighting a potential unexpectedly large violation of isospin symmetry.
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A large size of the pion-like excitations in the stringy fluid above $T_{ch}$ is model independent and required by current algebra

L. Ya. Glozman

Multiple lattice evidences support the existence of a confining but chirally symmetric stringy fluid regime of QCD above the chiral symmetry restoration temperature at T_{ch} ~ 155 MeV. This regime is characterized by an approximate chiral spin symmetry and its extensions which means that the propagating excitations represent the chirally symmetric quarks connected into color singlets by the chromoelectric string. Clear \pi,\pi' peaks above T_{ch} were extracted on the lattice from the spatial and temporal correlators, which become broader with temperature and disappear roughly at $3T_{ch}$. The meson-like excitations above T_{ch} were studied within the manifestly confining and chirally symmetric model. It has been demonstrated that the chiral symmetry restoration in the confining regime happens because of Pauli blocking of the levels, required for the existence of the quark condensate, by the thermal quark excitation. The same Pauli blocking leads to a huge swelling of the low-spin mesons above T_{ch} which become infinitely large in the chiral limit. This property should be crucial for the explanation of the high collectivity and a very small mean-free path of the constituents above $T_{ch}$ seen experimentally. Here we demonstrate that the swelling of pions above T_{ch} is a model-independent effect required by current algebra.
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Probing the CP violation effects via the angular coefficients in Drell-Yan production

Qingyi Situ and Bin Yan

The naive-$T$-odd angular coefficients $A_5$–$A_7$ in Drell–Yan production are highly suppressed in the Standard Model (SM), making them sensitive probes of CP-violating interactions beyond the SM. We study these observables within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), focusing on dimension-six electroweak and chromomagnetic quark dipole operators. Due to their chirality-flipping structure, the leading contributions from CP-violating dipole interactions arise at $\mathcal{O}(1/\Lambda^4)$ through the interference between electroweak and chromomagnetic dipole amplitudes. We find that the sensitivity is primarily driven by $A_6$ and $A_7$ in the high dilepton transverse momentum region, where the dipole contributions are enhanced, while $A_5$ remains largely insensitive. Combining the ATLAS and CMS measurements, we constrain the CP-violating dipole combinations of Wilson coefficients at the $\mathcal{O}(0.1)$ level for $\Lambda=1~{\rm TeV}$. Assuming statistically dominated uncertainties at the HL-LHC, the sensitivity can be improved to the $\mathcal{O}(10^{-3})$ level. Our results highlight $A_6$ and $A_7$ as complementary probes of CP-violating dipole interactions at hadron colliders.
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Tuesday 4 August

High Energy Physics (Experiment) · Cross-listed from physics.ins-det

Optical characterization and ionizing-radiation response of the BCF-20XL scintillating-wavelength-shifting fiber

W. Bae, L. Baker, K. Chen et al. (+12 more)

We report optical characterization and ionizing-radiation measurements of the scintillating-wavelength-shifting (Sci-WLS) fiber BCF-20XL from Luxium Solutions. Attenuation lengths were obtained from transmitted emission spectra using a 3.0 m fiber with a spectrophotometer and described with a two-component attenuation model, yielding a long attenuation length of 6.70 m and a short attenuation length of 0.16 m. The spectral measurements also reveal wavelength-dependent attenuation, with the long component increasing with wavelength and the short component becoming less significant at longer wavelengths. The scintillation response was also characterized under radioactive alpha, beta, and gamma irradiation using SiPM-based readout, providing a benchmark measurement of the light output from BCF-20XL.
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All authors W. Bae, L. Baker, K. Chen, J. Cho, K. Lang, C. Lee, E. Liang, C. Mathurin, C. Murthy, D. Myers, S. Nguyen, D. Phan, M. Proga, M. Zalikha, J. Zey

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Direct versus resolved photons in DPS in photoproduction on proton and nuclei

B. Blok and R. Segev

We study the process of double parton scattering (DPS) associated with the photoproduction at a future Electron-Ion collider (EIC) and HERA. We show that in the case of the resolved photon the 1 to 2 processes lead, even at small transverse momenta of the hard processes , to the increase of the DPS by a factor of order 1.6 in the significant part of the phase space, relative to the predictions of the mean field based models . Moreover we study the kinematic region where direct photon contribution is dominant and show it s boundaries for charm and light quark jets. For charmed jets we see that the relevant region is $x_\gamma\ge 0.2-0.4$. This region is even enhanced if we consider the photoproduction on the nuclei.
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Open-Charm Vector Mesons in Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter

N. Er and K. Azizi

We investigate the in-medium properties of the open-charm vector mesons $D_s^{*}$ and $D^{*}$ in hot and dense nuclear matter within the framework of finite-temperature and finite-density QCD sum rules. The analysis incorporates temperature- and density-dependent quark and gluon condensates together with an in-medium continuum threshold constrained by the light-quark condensate. By solving the resulting QCD sum rules, we determine the in-medium masses and leptonic decay constants of the $D_s^{*\pm}$ and $D^{*\pm}$ mesons over a broad region of the $(T,\rho)$ plane. Both vector mesons undergo substantial in-medium softening, with their masses and leptonic decay constants decreasing as the baryon density increases. The masses exhibit a non-monotonic dependence on baryon density, whereas the leptonic decay constants decrease monotonically throughout the investigated density range. Increasing temperature generally weakens the density-induced modifications, although baryon density remains the dominant driver of the in-medium evolution. The largest mass shifts occur at intermediate-to-high densities, reaching approximately $-413~\mathrm{MeV}$ for the $D_s^{*-}$ meson and $-207~\mathrm{MeV}$ for the $D^{*-}$ meson, while the leptonic decay constants are reduced by more than $68\%$ in both channels at the highest densities considered. We further investigate the particle–antiparticle splittings of the masses and leptonic decay constants induced by finite baryon density. Finite baryon density lifts the vacuum degeneracy between the charge-conjugate states, while increasing temperature generally suppresses the resulting asymmetries. Although the strange and non-strange channels exhibit similar qualitative behavior, quantitative differences emerge in both the in-medium modifications and the particle–antiparticle splittings. ....
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Quarkoniumlike states above open-flavor thresholds in Born-Oppenheimer EFT

Nora Brambilla, Roberto Bruschini, Abhishek Mohapatra et al. (+2 more)

Many quarkoniumlike states have been observed above open-flavor thresholds, but their organization and internal structure remain unsettled. We study the isoscalar hidden-charm and hidden-bottom sectors in Born–Oppenheimer effective field theory (BOEFT), between the spin–isospin averaged $S+S$ and $S+P$ thresholds. At leading order, heavy-quark spin decouples, and the quarkonium static potential mixes through string breaking with the lowest tetraquark/open-flavor BO potentials of the same quantum numbers. These potentials are constrained by QCD symmetries, their short- and long-distance behavior, and lattice-QCD data. The only calibrated parameter is the lowest $1^{--}$ adjoint meson mass, fixed from the shallow multiplet associated with the $\chi_{c1}(3872)$. Using $T$-matrix, $K$-matrix, and complex-scaling methods, we determine bound states and resonance poles, their masses, pole widths from the included nonstrange $S+S$ channels, normalized pole couplings, and prescription-dependent quarkonium–open-flavor composition measures. Uncoupled hybrid BOEFT multiplets are included as reference levels. The spectrum exhibits a common heavy-quark-spin-symmetry multiplet organization. Most poles are predominantly quarkonium resonances localized at short distances, with the largest open-flavor components closest to threshold. The same equations also generate shallow, spatially extended, open-flavor-dominated states with molecular long-distance characteristics. Their binding energies, radii, and small quarkonium components are highly sensitive to the adjoint meson mass, whereas the higher spectrum is more stable. Together with the hybrid reference levels, the spectrum provides multiplet assignments for most candidates. States not naturally accommodated point to the need for hidden-strange and $S+P$ tetraquark/open-flavor BO sectors and for hybrid–tetraquark and hybrid–quarkonium mixings.
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All authors Nora Brambilla, Roberto Bruschini, Abhishek Mohapatra, Fang-Zheng Peng, Tommaso Scirpa

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Language-Guided Hypotheses Generation for Sparse SMEFT Analyses

Ahmed Hammad and Veronica Sanz

Global fits of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory are challenged by the large number of operators, while any given database constrains only a small subset. Selecting relevant operator hypotheses therefore requires theoretical insight into operator correlations and the sensitivity of observables. We present llm4smeft, an open source framework that addresses this problem by combining a language model, fine-tuned on the SMEFT literature, with retrieval augmented generation based on quantitative summaries of SMEFiT package global fits. Given a set of observables, the framework proposes candidate relevant operators together with their corresponding Fisher information, while retrieval ensures that model outputs are grounded in existing fit results whenever available. The framework runs in an interactive mode in which accepted hypotheses are stored in a growing knowledge base. We publicly release the llm4smeft package together with the fine-tuned language model, in which the entire framework runs locally, requiring neither internet access nor paid cloud services.
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Moving a Detector to Probe New Neutrino Interactions: IWCD at Hyper-Kamiokande

Thomas Schwemberger and Volodymyr Takhistov

Moving a detector through a beam with a spatially varying energy spectrum exposes the same target and apparatus to distinct incident spectra, enabling interaction spectroscopy. While movable neutrino detectors were put forth primarily to control systematic uncertainties, we show that detector motion enables probing the structure of fundamental interactions. We demonstrate this with the Intermediate Water Cherenkov Detector (IWCD), the movable detector of Hyper-Kamiokande in the J-PARC off-axis beam, considering neutrino non-standard interactions (NSI) as a benchmark. Exploiting ratios of neutral current to charged current event rates reduces common normalization uncertainties, while measurements at multiple off-axis positions can break degeneracies that persist for a single incident spectrum. Combining three off-axis positions and adopting a $5\%$ correlated normalization uncertainty benchmark, we project $95\%$ CL sensitivities to axial neutral current NSI of $-0.07 \lesssim \varepsilon^{uA}_{\mu\mu} \lesssim 0.06$ and vector NSI of $-0.10 \lesssim \varepsilon^{uV}_{\mu\mu} \lesssim 0.12$, as well as for charged current NSI of $-0.05 \lesssim \varepsilon^{udL}_{\mu\mu} \lesssim 0.05$. Axial NSI, which do not contribute to the ordinary matter potential, are complementary to neutrino oscillation and high energy scattering measurements. More broadly, detector motion provides a new way to distinguish interactions with different energy dependence.
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A Bayesian approach to the long-baseline neutrino oscillation sensitivity of DUNE

DUNE Collaboration: S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman, A. Abed Abud et al. (+1283 more)

The sensitivity of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to neutrino oscillation is evaluated using a Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach. This analysis uses the same underlying sensitivity inputs as previous DUNE studies [Eur. Phys. J. C 80, 978 (2020)], and therefore does not present updated DUNE sensitivities, but instead explores the additional inferences accessible using a Bayesian approach. We present four-dimensional posterior probability distributions of the oscillation parameters, highlighting the breadth of correlation in the parameter space of interest, especially between $\sin^2 \theta_{23}$ and $\sin^2 \theta_{13}$. We exploit the flexibility of the Bayesian framework to incorporate parameter constraints post hoc and assess the impact of applying a reactor short-baseline $\theta_{13}$ constraint. A significant increase in the sensitivity to the $\theta_{23}$ octant is found when including the constraint. Posterior distributions of derived quantities can be easily constructed from MCMC results. This work presents the first study of DUNE's sensitivity to the Jarlskog invariant, $J$, a quantity that provides a parametrisation-independent measure of charge-parity violation in the leptonic sector.
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All authors DUNE Collaboration: S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman, A. Abed Abud, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. R. Adames, G. Adamov, M. Adamowski, K. Adhikari, C. Adriano, K. Agudelo-Jaramillo, F. Akbar, F. Alemanno, N. S. Alex, L. Aliaga Soplin, A. Alqaisi, O. Alterkait, A. Alton, R. Alvarez, T. Alves, A. Aman, H. Amar, R. M. Amarinei, P. Amedo, E. P. M. Amorim, D. A. Andrade, C. Andreopoulos, M. Andreotti, M. P. Andrews, M. Andriamirado, F. Andrianala, S. Andringa, S. Ansarifard, D. Antic, A. Antonakis, T. Araya-Santander, L. Arellano, E. Arrieta Diaz, M. A. Arroyave, M. Artero Pons, B. Aryal, J. Asaadi, M. Ascencio, A. Ashkenazi, L. Asquith, M. S. Athar, E. Atkin, A. Aurisano, V. Aushev, D. Autiero, M. B. Azam, F. Azfar, J. J. Back, Y. Bae, I. Bagaturia, L. Bagby, H. Bagdu, D. Baigarashev, S. Balasubramanian, A. Balboni, P. Baldi, W. Baldini, J. Baldonedo, B. Baller, B. Bambah, F. Barao, T. Barbera, D. Barbu, G. Barenboim, P. Barham Alzás, G. J. Barker, W. Barkhouse, E. Barlas Yucel, G. Barr, W. Barrett, D. Barrow, J. L. Barrow, A. Basharina-Freshville, A. Bashyal, V. Basque, M. Bassani, D. Basu, L. Bathe-Peters, J.B.R. Battat, F. Battisti, J. Bautista, F. Bay, J. L. L. Bazo Alba, J. F. Beacom, E. Bechetoille, A. Beever, B. Behera, E. Belchior, B. Bell, G. Bell, L. Bellantoni, G. Bellettini, V. Bellini, O. Beltramello, C. Benitez Montiel, D. Benjamin, A. Ben Porat, K. Benslama, F. Bento Neves, J. Berger, S. Berkman, J. Bernal, P. Bernardini, A. Bersani, E. Bertholet, E. Bertolini, S. Bertolucci, M. Betancourt, A. Betancur Rodríguez, Y. Bezawada, A. T. Bezerra, A. Bhat, V. Bhatnagar, M. Bhattacharjee, S. Bhattacharjee, M. Bhattacharya, S. Bhuller, B. Bhuyan, S. Biagi, J. Bian, K. Biery, B. Bilki, A. Binau, M. Bishai, A. Blake, A. Blanchet, F. D. Blaszczyk, G. C. Blazey, E. Blucher, A. Bodek, B. Bogart, J. Boissevain, T. Bolton, L. Bomben, M. Bonesini, C. Bonilla-Diaz, A. Booth, F. Boran, C. Borden, R. Borges Merlo, D. Borodulina, N. Bostan, G. Botogoske, B. Bottino, R. Bouet, J. Boza, B. Brahma, D. Brailsford, F. Bramati, A. Branca, A. Brandt, J. Bremer, S. J. Brice, S. Brickner, V. Brio, C. Brizzolari, C. Bromberg, J. Brooke, A. Bross, M. B. Brunetti, G. Buccino, N. Buchanan, H. Budd, J. Buergi, A. Bundock, D. Burgardt, S. Butchart, G. Caceres V., R. Calabrese, J. Calcutt, L. Calivers, S. Calvez, E. Calvo, A. Caminata, A. F. Camino, W. Campanelli, A. Campani, N. Canci, J. Capó, I. Caracas, D. Caratelli, G. Carini, M. F. Carneiro, P. Carniti, H. Carranza, N. Carrara, A. Carter, E. Casarejos, D. Casazza, J. F. Castaño Forero, F. A. Castaño, R. Castillo Fernandez, C. Castromonte, E. Catano-Mur, C. Cattadori, F. Cavalier, F. Cavanna, S. Centro, G. Cerati, C. Cerna, A. Cervelli, A. Cervera Villanueva, J. Chakrani, M. Chalifour, A. Chappell, A. Chatterjee, B. Chauhan, C. Chavez Barajas, H. Chen, M. Chen, W. C. Chen, Y. Chen, Z. Chen, D. Cherdack, S. S. Chhibra, F. Chiapponi, R. Chirco, K. Cho, S. Choate, G. Choi, D. Chokheli, O. Chow, B. Chowdhury, D. Christian, E. Church, M. F. Cicala, M. Cicerchia, V. Cicero, P. Clarke, J. Cleeve, G. Cline, A. G. Cocco, J. Collazo, J. Collot, H. Combs, J. M. Conrad, L. Conti, T. Contreras, M. Convery, S. Copello, P. Cova, C. Cox, L. Cremonesi, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, M. Crisler, E. Cristaldo, J. Crnkovic, G. Crone, R. Cross, A. Cudd, C. Cuesta, Y. Cui, F. Curciarello, D. Cussans, O. Dalager, W. Dallaway, R. D'Amico, H. da Motta, Z. A. Dar, R. Darby, L. Da Silva Peres, Q. David, G. S. Davies, S. Davini, C. Davis, J. Dawson, M. P. Decowski, A. de Gouvêa, P. C. De Holanda, P. De Jong, P. Del Amo Sanchez, G. De Lauretis, A. Delbart, M. Delgado, A. Dell'Acqua, G. Delle Monache, N. Delmonte, G. De Matteis, J. R. T. de Mello Neto, A. P. A. De Mendonca, D. M. DeMuth, S. Dennis, C. Densham, P. Denton, G. W. Deptuch, V. De Romeri, J. P. Detje, K. Dhanmeher, R. Dharmapalan, M. Dias, A. Diaz, J. S. Díaz, F. Díaz, F. Di Capua, A. Di Domenico, S. Di Domizio, S. Di Falco, D. Di Ferdinando, L. Di Giulio, P. Ding, L. Di Noto, E. Diociaiuti, G. Di Sciascio, C. Distefano, R. Di Stefano, R. Diurba, M. Diwan, Z. Djurcic, S. Dolan, M. Dolce, M. J. Dolinski, D. Domenici, S. Donati, S. Doran, D. Douglas, F. Drielsma, D. J. Drobner, D. Duchesneau, K. Duffy, K. Dugas, P. Dunne, S. Durando, B. Dutta, D. A. Dwyer, A. S. Dyshkant, S. Dytman, M. Eads, S. Edayath, J. Eisch, S. Elias, J. Ellis, W. Emark, P. Englezos, A. Ereditato, D. T. Ergonul, T. Erjavec, C. O. Escobar, J. J. Evans, E. Ewart, A. C. Ezeribe, K. Fahey, A. Falcone, C. Fang, M. Fani', F. Fanomezana, D. Faragher, C. Farnese, Y. Farzan, J. Felix, Y. Feng, C. Ferrari, M. Ferreira da Silva, E. Fialova, L. Fields, P. Filip, A. Filkins, F. Filthaut, G. Fiorillo, M. Fiorini, N. F. Fiuza De Barros, A. Flather, S. Fogarty, W. Foreman, B. Fossing, J. Franc, K. Francis, D. Franco, J. Franklin, J. Freeman, A. Friedland, S. Fuess, I. K. Furic, K. Furman, A. P. Furmanski, R. Gaba, A. Gabrielli, A. M Gago, F. Galizzi, H. Gallagher, M. Galli, N. Gallice, V. Galymov, E. Gamberini, T. Gamble, R. Gan, R. Gandhi, S. Ganguly, F. Gao, S. Gao, A. Garcia, D. Garcia-Gamez, M. Á. García-Peris, V. Garcia Pol, F. Gardim, S. Gardiner, P. Gauzzi, S. Gent, A. C. Germer, A. Ghosh, A. Ghosh, T. Giammaria, D. Gibin, I. Gil-Botella, A. Gioiosa, S. Giovannella, A. K. Giri, D. Gnani, O. Gogota, S. Gollapinni, K. Gollwitzer, R. A. Gomes, L. S. Gomez Fajardo, C. Gonzalez, D. Gonzalez-Diaz, J. Gonzalez-Santome, M. C. Goodman, S. Goswami, C. Gotti, J. Goudeau, C. Grace, E. Gramellini, R. Gran, E. Granados, P. Granger, C. Grant, D. R. Gratieri, P. Green, S. Greenberg, W. C. Griffith, K. Grzelak, L. Gu, W. Gu, M. Guarise, R. Guenette, D. Guffanti, A. Guglielmi, F. Y. Guo, A. Gupta, V. Gupta, G. Gurung, D. Gutierrez, P. Guzowski, M. M. Guzzo, S. Gwon, A. Habig, R. Hafeji, L. Hagaman, A. Hahn, J. Hakenmüller, A. Hambardzumyan, T. Hamernik, P. Hamilton, M. Handley, F. Happacher, B. Harris, D. A. Harris, L. Harris, A. L. Hart, J. Hartnell, T. Hartnett, T. Hasegawa, C. M. Hasnip, K. Hassinin, R. Hatcher, S. Hawkins, J. Hays, M. He, A. Heavey, K. M. Heeger, A. Heindel, J. Heise, K. Heller, P. Hellmuth, L. Henderson, A. Hergenhan, J. Hernández, M. A. Hernandez Morquecho, K. Herner, V. Hewes, A. Higuera, K. Hildebrandt, A. Himmel, E. Hinkle, L.R. Hirsch, J. Ho, A. Holin, G. A. Horton-Smith, R. Hosokawa, T. Houdy, B. Howard, I. Hristova, M. S. Hronek, Y. Hua, J. Huang, R.G. Huang, X. Huang, Z. Hulcher, A. Hussain, N. Ilic, A. M. Iliescu, R. Illingworth, G. Ingratta, A. Ioannisian, M. Ismerio Oliveira, C.M. Jackson, A. Jacobi, V. Jain, C. James, E. James, R. James, S. Jana, W. Jang, B. Jargowsky, C. Jiang, J. Jiang, X. Jin, A. Jipa, J. H. Jo, A. M. Johnson, W. Johnson, C. Jollet, M. Joshi, N. Jovancevic, M. Judah, C. K. Jung, K. Y. Jung, T. Junk, Y. Jwa, M. Kabirnezhad, A. C. Kaboth, I. Kadenko, O. Kalikulov, M. Kandemir, S. Kar, C. Karagianni, G. Karagiorgi, G. Karaman, A. Karcher, Y. Karyotakis, L. Kashur, A. Kauther, N. 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Yang, J. Yang, A. Yankelevich, L. Yates, U. Yevarouskaya, K. Yonehara, T. Young, B. Yu, H. Yu, J. Yu, K. Yu, X. Yu, W. Yuan, R. Zaki, J. Zalesak, L. Zambelli, B. Zamorano, A. Zani, L. Zazueta, G. P. Zeller, J. Zennamo, J. Zettlemoyer, C. Zhang, S. Zhang, Y. Zhang, L. Zhao, K. Zhu, E. D. Zimmerman, S. Zucchelli, A. Zummo, V. Zutshi, R. Zwaska

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Revised exclusion limits on doubly charged Higgs bosons from a reanalysis of the ATLAS multi-lepton search at $\sqrt{s} = 13$,TeV

Kirtiman Ghosh, Arun Kumar Nayak and Debabrata Sahoo

The ATLAS search for pair-produced doubly charged Higgs bosons in multi-lepton final states using the full Run 2 dataset [Eur. Phys. J. C 83 (2023) 605] reports the strongest limits to date on the mass of doubly charged scalars, driven by an essentially background-free four-lepton channel. We show that the four-lepton signal efficiency implied by the auxiliary cutflow of that analysis exceeds a strict, mass-independent upper bound derived from the equal-branching-ratio assumption of the search, the leptonic $\tau$ branching fractions, and the ATLAS lepton reconstruction efficiencies. We show that this excess cannot be explained by hadronic $\tau$ or jet misidentification without invoking fake rates far above realistic values. We regenerate the signal independently and recompute the exclusion limit, using the corrected signal yields, the ATLAS background predictions and uncertainties, and the same $CL_s$ procedure implemented in pyhf. The resulting expected limit lies systematically above the ATLAS expected limit, by roughly a factor of two or more. This shifts the expected lower mass bound from $1065$ GeV to $\sim950$ GeV in the left-right symmetric type-II seesaw model, and from $880$ GeV to $\sim770$ GeV in the Zee–Babu model.
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Timing-Based Search for Magnetic Monopoles with the NOvA Detector on the Surface

NOvA Collaboration

We report a search for a magnetic monopole component of the cosmic-ray flux in a 2743-live-day exposure of the NOvA experiment's Far Detector, a 14 kt segmented liquid scintillator detector designed primarily to observe GeV-scale electron neutrinos. No events consistent with monopoles were observed, setting an upper limit on the flux of $8\times 10^{-16}~\mathrm{cm^{-2}s^{-1}sr^{-1}}$ at 90% C.L. for monopole speed $6\times 10^{-4} < \beta < 5\times 10^{-3}$ and mass greater than $10^{9}$ GeV. Because of NOvA's small overburden of 3 meters-water equivalent, this constraint covers a previously unexplored low-mass region.
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Probing Heavy-Quark Spin Symmetry in Double $J/\psi$ Hadroproduction

Zhi-Guo He, Xiao-Bo Jin and Bernd A. Kniehl

We perform the first complete $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^5)$ analysis of the prompt hadroproduction of $J/\psi$ pairs with large transverse momenta $p_T^{\psi\psi}$ in the nonrelativistic-QCD factorization framework, including all possible Fock state combinations $c\bar{c}(m)+c\bar{c}(n)$, with $m,n={}^3S_1^{[1,8]},{}^1S_0^{[8]},{}^3P_J^{[1,8]}$. We observe that CMS and ATLAS data constrain a specific linear combination of the long-distance matrix elements (LDMEs) $\langle\mathcal{O}^{J/\psi}({}^1S_0^{[8]})\rangle$ and $\langle\mathcal{O}^{J/\psi}({}^3P_0^{[8]})\rangle$. In conjunction with two other combinations fixed by single prompt $J/\psi$ hadroproduction, we gain a new LDME set, which turns out to be largely compatible with the world data of prompt $J/\psi$ yield and polarization and to probe heavy-quark spin symmetry, by which agreement is established with LHCb data of prompt $\eta_c$ yield. Our $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^5)$ predictions also nicely agree with CMS and ATLAS data in the lowest bins of $J/\psi$ pair invariant mass $m^{\psi\psi}$, beyond leading-order kinematics.
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New measurements of $B^+_c$ decays into single charm final states

LHCb collaboration: R. Aaij, A.S.W. Abdelmotteleb, C. Abellan Beteta et al. (+1147 more)

Using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $9 \,\textrm{fb}^{-1}$ collected by the LHCb experiment, searches are performed for $B^+_c$ mesons decaying to a charm and a charmless meson pair. Five products of branching fraction, ${\cal B}(B^+_c\!\to DX)$, and fragmentation ratio $f_c\big/f_u$ are reported, \begin{align*} R_{D^+ K^{*0}} &= ( 1.42 \pm 0.23 \pm 0.07 \pm 0.11 ) \times 10^{-6}, \\ R_{D^{*0} K^+} &= (1.46 \pm 0.30 \pm 0.11 \pm 0.05 ) \times 10^{-6}, \\ R_{D^+_s \phi}\ \ \ &= ( 4.0\pm 1.3 \pm 0.2 \pm 0.5) \times 10^{-7 }, \\ R_{D^0 K^+}\ &= ( 9.7 \pm 1.0 \pm 0.4 \pm 0.3 ) \times 10^{-7}, \\ R_{D^0 \pi^+}\ &<\ 1.4 \times 10^{-7}\ \text{at 95% CL}. \end{align*} In each case, the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic and the third includes external uncertainties. The first result is a first observation, the second and third exhibit clear evidence and the fourth improves the precision of previous measurements by a factor two. Additionally, the $CP$ asymmetry in $B^+_c\!\to D^0 K^+$ decays is measured and found to be compatible with zero.
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All authors LHCb collaboration: R. Aaij, A.S.W. Abdelmotteleb, C. Abellan Beteta, F. Abudinén, T. Ackernley, A.A. Adefisoye, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, P. Adlarson, C. Agapopoulou, C.A. Aidala, Z. Ajaltouni, S. Akar, K. Akiba, P. Albicocco, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, Z. Aliouche, P. Alvarez Cartelle, R. Amalric, S. Amato, J.L. Amey, Y. Amhis, L. An, L. Anderlini, M. Andersson, A. Andreianov, P. Andreola, M. Andreotti, D. Andreou, A. Anelli, D. Ao, F. Archilli, M. Argenton, S. Arguedas Cuendis, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, R. Ataíde Da Silva, M. Atzeni, B. Audurier, D. Bacher, I. Bachiller Perea, S. Bachmann, M. Bachmayer, J.J. Back, P. Baladron Rodriguez, V. Balagura, A. Balboni, W. Baldini, L. Balzani, H. Bao, J. Baptista de Souza Leite, C. Barbero Pretel, M. Barbetti, I.R. Barbosa, R.J. Barlow, M. Barnyakov, S. Barsuk, W. Barter, M. Bartolini, J. Bartz, J.M. Basels, S. Bashir, G. Bassi, B. Batsukh, P.B. Battista, A. Bay, A. Beck, M. Becker, F. Bedeschi, I.B. Bediaga, N.A. Behling, S. Belin, K. Belous, I. Belov, I. Belyaev, G. Benane, G. Bencivenni, E. Ben-Haim, A. Berezhnoy, R. Bernet, S. Bernet Andres, A. Bertolin, C. Betancourt, F. Betti, J. Bex, Ia. Bezshyiko, J. Bhom, M.S. Bieker, N.V. Biesuz, P. Billoir, A. Biolchini, M. Birch, F.C.R. Bishop, A. Bitadze, A. Bizzeti, T. Blake, F. Blanc, J.E. Blank, S. Blusk, V. Bocharnikov, J.A. Boelhauve, O. Boente Garcia, T. Boettcher, A. Bohare, A. Boldyrev, C. Bolognani, R. Bolzonella, R.B. Bonacci, N. Bondar, A. Bordelius, F. Borgato, S. Borghi, M. Borsato, J.T. Borsuk, S.A. Bouchiba, M. Bovill, T.J.V. Bowcock, A. Boyer, C. Bozzi, A. Brea Rodriguez, N. Breer, J. Brodzicka, A. Brossa Gonzalo, J. Brown, D. Brundu, E. Buchanan, A. Buonaura, L. Buonincontri, A.T. Burke, C. Burr, J.S. Butter, J. Buytaert, W. Byczynski, S. Cadeddu, H. Cai, A. Caillet, R. Calabrese, S. Calderon Ramirez, L. Calefice, S. Cali, M. Calvi, M. Calvo Gomez, P. Camargo Magalhaes, J.I. Cambon Bouzas, P. Campana, D.H. Campora Perez, A.F. Campoverde Quezada, S. Capelli, L. Capriotti, R. Caravaca-Mora, A. Carbone, L. Carcedo Salgado, R. Cardinale, A. Cardini, P. Carniti, L. Carus, A. Casais Vidal, R. Caspary, G. Casse, M. Cattaneo, G. Cavallero, V. Cavallini, S. Celani, D. Cervenkov, S. Cesare, A.J. Chadwick, I. Chahrour, M. Charles, Ph. Charpentier, E. Chatzianagnostou, M. Chefdeville, C. Chen, S. Chen, Z. Chen, A. Chernov, S. Chernyshenko, X. Chiotopoulos, V. Chobanova, S. Cholak, M. Chrzaszcz, A. Chubykin, V. Chulikov, P. Ciambrone, X. Cid Vidal, G. Ciezarek, P. Cifra, P.E.L. Clarke, M. Clemencic, H.V. Cliff, J. Closier, C. Cocha Toapaxi, V. Coco, J. Cogan, E. Cogneras, L. Cojocariu, S. Collaviti, P. Collins, T. Colombo, M. Colonna, A. Comerma-Montells, L. Congedo, A. Contu, N. Cooke, I. Corredoira, A. Correia, G. Corti, J. Cottee Meldrum, B. Couturier, D.C. Craik, M. Cruz Torres, E. Curras Rivera, R. Currie, C.L. Da Silva, S. Dadabaev, L. Dai, X. Dai, E. Dall'Occo, J. Dalseno, C. D'Ambrosio, J. Daniel, A. Danilina, P. d'Argent, G. Darze, A. Davidson, J.E. Davies, A. Davis, O. De Aguiar Francisco, C. De Angelis, F. De Benedetti, J. de Boer, K. De Bruyn, S. De Capua, M. De Cian, U. De Freitas Carneiro Da Graca, E. De Lucia, J.M. De Miranda, L. De Paula, M. De Serio, P. De Simone, F. De Vellis, J.A. de Vries, F. Debernardis, D. Decamp, V. Dedu, S. Dekkers, L. Del Buono, B. Delaney, H.-P. Dembinski, J. Deng, V. Denysenko, O. Deschamps, F. Dettori, B. Dey, P. Di Nezza, I. Diachkov, S. Didenko, S. Ding, L. Dittmann, V. Dobishuk, A.D. Docheva, C. Dong, A.M. Donohoe, F. Dordei, A.C. dos Reis, A.D. Dowling, W. Duan, P. Duda, M.W. Dudek, L. Dufour, V. Duk, P. Durante, M.M. Duras, J.M. Durham, O.D. Durmus, A. Dziurda, A. Dzyuba, S. Easo, E. Eckstein, U. Egede, A. Egorychev, V. Egorychev, S. Eisenhardt, E. Ejopu, L. Eklund, M. Elashri, J. Ellbracht, S. Ely, A. Ene, J. Eschle, S. Esen, T. Evans, F. Fabiano, L.N. Falcao, Y. Fan, B. Fang, L. Fantini, M. Faria, K. Farmer, D. Fazzini, L. Felkowski, M. Feng, M. Feo, A. Fernandez Casani, M. Fernandez Gomez, A.D. Fernez, F. Ferrari, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, M. Ferrillo, M. Ferro-Luzzi, S. Filippov, R.A. Fini, M. Fiorini, M. Firlej, K.L. Fischer, D.S. Fitzgerald, C. Fitzpatrick, T. Fiutowski, F. Fleuret, M. Fontana, L.A. Foreman, R. Forty, D. Foulds-Holt, V. Franco Lima, M. Franco Sevilla, M. Frank, E. Franzoso, G. Frau, C. Frei, D.A. Friday, J. Fu, Q. Führing, Y. Fujii, T. Fulghesu, E. Gabriel, G. Galati, M.D. Galati, A. Gallas Torreira, D. Galli, S. Gambetta, M. Gandelman, P. Gandini, B. Ganie, H. Gao, R. Gao, T.Q. Gao, Y. Gao, Y. Gao, Y. Gao, L.M. Garcia Martin, P. Garcia Moreno, J. García Pardiñas, P. Gardner, K.G. Garg, L. Garrido, C. Gaspar, R.E. Geertsema, L.L. Gerken, E. Gersabeck, M. Gersabeck, T. Gershon, S. Ghizzo, Z. Ghorbanimoghaddam, L. Giambastiani, F.I. Giasemis, V. Gibson, H.K. Giemza, A.L. Gilman, M. Giovannetti, A. Gioventù, L. Girardey, P. Gironella Gironell, C. Giugliano, M.A. Giza, E.L. Gkougkousis, F.C. 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Ilin, P. Ilten, A. Inglessi, A. Iniukhin, A. Ishteev, K. Ivshin, R. Jacobsson, H. Jage, S.J. Jaimes Elles, S. Jakobsen, E. Jans, B.K. Jashal, A. Jawahery, V. Jevtic, E. Jiang, X. Jiang, Y. Jiang, Y.J. Jiang, M. John, A. John Rubesh Rajan, D. Johnson, C.R. Jones, T.P. Jones, S. Joshi, B. Jost, J. Juan Castella, N. Jurik, I. Juszczak, D. Kaminaris, S. Kandybei, M. Kane, Y. Kang, C. Kar, M. Karacson, D. Karpenkov, A. Kauniskangas, J.W. Kautz, M.K. Kazanecki, F. Keizer, M. Kenzie, T. Ketel, B. Khanji, A. Kharisova, S. Kholodenko, G. Khreich, T. Kirn, V.S. Kirsebom, O. Kitouni, S. Klaver, N. Kleijne, K. Klimaszewski, M.R. Kmiec, S. Koliiev, L. Kolk, A. Konoplyannikov, P. Kopciewicz, P. Koppenburg, M. Korolev, I. Kostiuk, O. Kot, S. Kotriakhova, A. Kozachuk, P. Kravchenko, L. Kravchuk, M. Kreps, P. Krokovny, W. Krupa, W. Krzemien, O. Kshyvanskyi, S. Kubis, M. Kucharczyk, V. Kudryavtsev, E. Kulikova, A. Kupsc, B. Kutsenko, D. Lacarrere, P. Laguarta Gonzalez, A. Lai, A. Lampis, D. 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Mancinelli, C. Mancuso, R. Manera Escalero, F.M. Manganella, D. Manuzzi, D. Marangotto, J.F. Marchand, R. Marchevski, U. Marconi, E. Mariani, S. Mariani, C. Marin Benito, J. Marks, A.M. Marshall, L. Martel, G. Martelli, G. Martellotti, L. Martinazzoli, M. Martinelli, D. Martinez Gomez, D. Martinez Santos, F. Martinez Vidal, A. Martorell i Granollers, A. Massafferri, R. Matev, A. Mathad, V. Matiunin, C. Matteuzzi, K.R. Mattioli, A. Mauri, E. Maurice, J. Mauricio, P. Mayencourt, J. Mazorra de Cos, M. Mazurek, M. McCann, L. Mcconnell, T.H. McGrath, N.T. McHugh, A. McNab, R. McNulty, B. Meadows, G. Meier, D. Melnychuk, F.M. Meng, M. Merk, A. Merli, L. Meyer Garcia, D. Miao, H. Miao, M. Mikhasenko, D.A. Milanes, A. Minotti, E. Minucci, T. Miralles, B. Mitreska, D.S. Mitzel, A. Modak, R.A. Mohammed, R.D. Moise, S. Mokhnenko, E.F. Molina Cardenas, T. Mombächer, M. Monk, S. Monteil, A. Morcillo Gomez, G. Morello, M.J. Morello, M.P. Morgenthaler, J. Moron, W. Morren, A.B. Morris, A.G. Morris, R. Mountain, H. Mu, Z. Mu, E. Muhammad, F. Muheim, M. Mulder, K. Müller, F. Muñoz-Rojas, R. Murta, P. Naik, T. Nakada, R. Nandakumar, T. Nanut, I. Nasteva, M. Needham, N. Neri, S. Neubert, N. Neufeld, P. Neustroev, J. Nicolini, D. Nicotra, E.M. Niel, N. Nikitin, Q. Niu, P. Nogarolli, P. Nogga, C. Normand, J. Novoa Fernandez, G. Nowak, C. Nunez, H.N. Nur, A. Oblakowska-Mucha, V. Obraztsov, T. Oeser, S. Okamura, A. Okhotnikov, O. Okhrimenko, R. Oldeman, F. Oliva, M. Olocco, C.J.G. Onderwater, R.H. O'Neil, D. Osthues, J.M. Otalora Goicochea, P. Owen, A. Oyanguren, O. Ozcelik, F. Paciolla, A. Padee, K.O. Padeken, B. Pagare, P.R. Pais, T. Pajero, A. Palano, M. Palutan, X. Pan, G. Panshin, L. Paolucci, A. Papanestis, M. Pappagallo, L.L. Pappalardo, C. Pappenheimer, C. Parkes, D. Parmar, B. Passalacqua, G. Passaleva, D. Passaro, A. Pastore, M. Patel, J. Patoc, C. Patrignani, A. Paul, C.J. Pawley, A. Pellegrino, J. Peng, M. Pepe Altarelli, S. Perazzini, D. Pereima, H. Pereira Da Costa, A. Pereiro Castro, P. Perret, A. Perrevoort, A. Perro, M.J. Peters, K. Petridis, A. Petrolini, J.P. Pfaller, H. Pham, L. Pica, M. Piccini, L. Piccolo, B. Pietrzyk, G. Pietrzyk, D. Pinci, F. Pisani, M. Pizzichemi, V.M. Placinta, M. Plo Casasus, T. Poeschl, F. Polci, M. Poli Lener, A. Poluektov, N. Polukhina, I. Polyakov, E. Polycarpo, S. Ponce, D. Popov, S. Poslavskii, K. Prasanth, C. Prouve, D. Provenzano, V. Pugatch, G. Punzi, S. Qasim, Q. Qian, W. Qian, N. Qin, S. Qu, R. Quagliani, R.I. Rabadan Trejo, J.H. Rademacker, M. Rama, M. Ramírez García, V. Ramos De Oliveira, M. Ramos Pernas, M.S. Rangel, F. Ratnikov, G. Raven, M. Rebollo De Miguel, F. Redi, J. Reich, F. Reiss, Z. Ren, P.K. Resmi, R. Ribatti, G. Ricart, D. Riccardi, S. Ricciardi, K. Richardson, M. Richardson-Slipper, K. Rinnert, P. Robbe, G. Robertson, E. Rodrigues, A. Rodriguez Alvarez, E. Rodriguez Fernandez, J.A. Rodriguez Lopez, E. Rodriguez Rodriguez, J. Roensch, A. Rogachev, A. Rogovskiy, D.L. Rolf, P. Roloff, V. Romanovskiy, A. Romero Vidal, G. Romolini, F. Ronchetti, T. Rong, M. Rotondo, S.R. Roy, M.S. Rudolph, M. Ruiz Diaz, R.A. Ruiz Fernandez, J. Ruiz Vidal, A. Ryzhikov, J. Ryzka, J.J. Saavedra-Arias, J.J. Saborido Silva, R. Sadek, N. Sagidova, D. Sahoo, N. Sahoo, B. Saitta, M. Salomoni, I. Sanderswood, R. Santacesaria, C. Santamarina Rios, M. Santimaria, L. Santoro, E. Santovetti, A. Saputi, D. Saranin, A. Sarnatskiy, G. Sarpis, M. Sarpis, C. Satriano, A. Satta, M. Saur, D. Savrina, H. Sazak, F. Sborzacchi, L.G. Scantlebury Smead, A. Scarabotto, S. Schael, S. Scherl, M. Schiller, H. Schindler, M. Schmelling, B. Schmidt, S. Schmitt, H. Schmitz, O. Schneider, A. Schopper, N. Schulte, S. Schulte, M.H. Schune, R. Schwemmer, G. Schwering, B. Sciascia, A. Sciuccati, I. Segal, S. Sellam, A. Semennikov, T. Senger, M. Senghi Soares, A. Sergi, N. Serra, L. Sestini, A. Seuthe, Y. Shang, D.M. Shangase, M. Shapkin, R.S. Sharma, I. Shchemerov, L. Shchutska, T. Shears, L. 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Evidence of the $e^+ e^-\to f_1(1285)$ reaction with the CMD-3 detector at VEPP-2000

E.P. Solodov, R.R. Akhmetshin, A.N. Amirkhanov et al. (+53 more)

A search for the $e^+ e^-\to f_1(1285)$ reaction is performed with the CMD-3 detector at the VEPP-2000 collider. Data from a scan in the center-of-mass energy range Ec.m.=1.20–1.36 GeV with 109.1 pb$^{-1}$ of the integrated luminosity is used. A dedicated 51.7 pb$^{-1}$ have been collected at the $f_1(1285)$ resonance peak energy Ec.m.=1282 MeV, where $26.5 \pm 7.4$ events have been found in the $e^+ e^-\to\eta\pi^0\pi^0$ reaction. No indication of the signal is observed in the scan data. We interpret the result as 4.5$\sigma$ evidence of the C-even resonance production in the $e^+ e^-\to f_1(1285)\to\eta\pi^0\pi^0$ reaction via the two-photon interaction. The production cross section is found to be $\sigma(e^+ e^-\to f_1) = 0.074 \pm 0.021 \pm 0.010$ nb, and the corresponding branching fraction to the $e^+ e^-$ pair is $B(f_1(1285)\to e^+e^-) = (8.3 \pm 2.3 \pm 1.1)\times 10^{-9}$.
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All authors E.P. Solodov, R.R. Akhmetshin, A.N. Amirkhanov, A.V. Anisenkov, V.M. Aulchenko, N.S. Bashtovoy, E.V. Bedarev, D.E. Berkaev, A.E. Bondar, A.V. Bragin, D.E. Chistyakov, V.S. Denisov, E.A. Eminov, D.A. Epifanov, L.B. Epshteyn, A.L. Erofeev, G.V. Fedotovich, L.B. Fomin, A.O. Gorkovenko, A.A. Grebenuk, S.S. Gribanov, D.N. Grigoriev, F.V. Ignatov, V.L. Ivanov, A.S. Kasaev, S.V. Karpov, V.F. Kazanin, I.A. Koop, A.A. Korobov, A.N. Kozyrev, P.P. Krokovny, A.S. Kuzmin, T.A. Kuznetsov, I.B. Logashenko, P.A. Lukin, K.Yu. Mikhailov, I.V. Obraztsov, V.G. Petrochenko, N.A. Petrov, A.S. Popov, S.A. Rastigeev, Yu.A. Rogovsky, A.A. Ruban, A.E. Ryzhenenkov, A.V. Semenov, V.E. Shebalin, D.N. Shemyakin, B.A. Shwartz, D.B. Shwartz, M.V. Timoshenko, V.M. Titov, A.A. Talyshev, S.S. Tolmachev, A.I. Vorobiov, D.S. Zhadan, Yu.V. Yudin

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On the nature of fully-charmed four-quark exotic state $X(6900)$ from its photoproduction off nuclei

E. Ya. Paryev

The possibility to study the nature of fully-charmed tetraquark state $X(6900)$ from its inclusive photoproduction off nuclei near the kinematic threshold is investigated within the collision model based on the nuclear spectral function. The model accounts for $X(6900)$ production in direct photon–nucleon interactions as well as three different scenarios for its internal structure: compact tetraquark, molecule of the two hidden-charm $J/\psi$ and $\psi(3770)$ mesons and the mixture of both of them. We calculate within these scenarios the absolute and relative excitation functions on $^{12}$C and $^{184}$W nuclei at near-threshold photon energies of 30–40 GeV, the absolute momentum differential cross sections and ratios of them for the $X(6900)$ meson production off these target nuclei at laboratory polar angles of 0$^{\circ}$–5$^{\circ}$ and for photon energy of 35 GeV as well as the A-dependences of its transparency ratios at photon energy of 35 GeV. We show that these observables reveal a definite sensitivity to the $X(6900)$ intrinsic structure. Therefore, they might be useful for the determination of this structure from the comparison of them with the experimental data from the future experiments at the upcoming experimental facilities, such as the planned electron-ion colliders in the United States and China.
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Measurement of the Higgs boson decay to a low-mass dilepton system and a photon in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 and 13.6 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

A measurement is presented for the Higgs boson decaying into a photon and a pair of electrons or muons with an invariant mass $m_{\ell\ell} <$ 30 GeV, using $pp$ collision data at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13.6 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider during the years 2022-2024, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 164 fb$^{-1}$. The best-fit value of the signal strength parameter, defined as the ratio of the observed signal yield to the one expected in the Standard Model, is measured to be $\mu = 0.64^{+0.44}_{-0.39}$ compared with the expected value of $\mu = 1.00^{+0.47}_{-0.41}$. The corresponding observed (expected) signal significance is 1.7 (2.5) standard deviations under the background-only hypothesis. The result is combined with a similar search performed using 139 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV collected during the years 2015-2018. This combination gives an observed (expected) signal strength of $\mu = 1.03^{+0.35}_{-0.32}\,(\mu = 1.00^{+0.34}_{-0.32})$, corresponding to an observed (expected) significance of 3.4 (3.3) standard deviations.
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Measurement of forward jet suppression in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02$$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Inclusive jet production is measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02$ TeV in Pb+Pb and $pp$ collisions, using data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of 1.72 nb$^{-1}$ and 255 pb$^{-1}$, respectively. The jet nuclear modification factor, $R_{\mathrm{AA}}$, is reported for anti-$k_t$ jets with radius parameter $R=0.4$ in the forward-rapidity intervals $2.8<|y|<3.2$ and $3.2<|y|<3.6$, probing transverse momenta $p_\mathrm{T}>74$ GeV. The observed $R_{\mathrm{AA}}$ values show a significant suppression of jet yields in Pb+Pb collisions relative to those measured in $pp$ collisions. The suppression increases monotonically from peripheral to central collisions and exhibits a mild jet $p_\mathrm{T}$ dependence. A comparison with previous ATLAS measurements indicates stronger jet suppression in the $2.8<|y|<3.2$ region than in the $|y| < 2.8$ region. In the $3.2<|y|<3.6$ region, the precision of the measurement does not allow a conclusive comparison with the $|y|<2.8$ region. These results constitute the first measurement of inclusive jet suppression at forward rapidity in heavy-ion collisions and provide new constraints on flavor, geometric, and medium-density dependence of parton energy loss.
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Mitigating warp divergence in GPU optical photon Monte Carlo: an order of magnitude speedup with Shader Execution Reordering

Gabor Galgoczi

In high energy, nuclear, and medical physics, optical photon transport Monte Carlo is a frequent bottleneck in detector simulation. GPU ray tracing accelerates photon propagation, but one thread per photon megakernels suffer from SIMT execution divergence when photon lifetimes vary widely. Short-lived photons leave inactive lanes while a few long-lived photons delay warp completion. We evaluate NVIDIA Shader Execution Reordering (SER) in an OptiX based optical photon transport kernel and use it to regroup surviving photons during propagation. In a 14.7 kton liquid argon time projection chamber benchmark with ~61 million photons from a 2.5 GeV electromagnetic shower, SER capable execution reduces propagation kernel cycles by 16.55(23)x and end-to-end optical simulation time, including transfers and initialization, by 14.72(30)x with bit-identical hit output. We decouple the speed-up into a 3.2x contribution from the launch configuration changes introduced when SER is enabled and a further 5.1x from executing the reorder. Profiling identifies active lane recovery as the dominant mechanism, while branch efficiency and memory bandwidth change little. A volume coherent SER hint enables an analytic navigation fast path in bulk argon, adding a further 1.13x wall-time speedup. Utilizing SER resulted in a ~90% reduction in GPU energy per simulated event.
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Strangeness production in light-ion collisions with ALICE at the LHC

Sara Pucillo for the ALICE Collaboration

Measurements in pp and p–A collisions have revealed that small collision systems exhibit most of the signs traditionally attributed to heavy-ion collisions, such as the smooth increase of the strange hadron yields with the collision multiplicity (strangeness enhancement). A key question is how these effects evolve with system size and whether they can be described within a unified framework. The recently collected oxygen–oxygen (OO) collision data by ALICE at $\sqrt{s}$ = 5.36 TeV provide an unprecedented opportunity to explore an intermediate-size system that naturally bridges the gap between pp and Pb–Pb collisions. In this contribution, we present the first results on the production of (multi-)strange particles as a function of charged-particle multiplicity in OO collisions. This allows us to investigate strangeness enhancement across different system sizes at comparable multiplicities, providing new insights into the mechanisms of strangeness production. The experimental results are compared with model predictions from various Monte Carlo generators.
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Flavor-violating dark matter at MEG-II and Mu3e

Daniele Barducci, Giulio Marino, Paolo Panci et al. (+1 more)

We investigate the potential of high-intensity muon experiments such as MEG~II and Mu3e to uncover dark matter (DM) through the lepton-flavor-violating decay $\mu^+\to e^+\chi\bar\chi$. We describe the underlying interactions in terms of dimension-six four-fermion operators and systematically explore all allowed Lorentz structures. We show that precision measurements of the Michel spectrum can probe new-physics scales of ${\cal O}({\rm TeV})$ for DM masses above approximately $1~{\rm MeV}$. For lighter DM, whose signal is confined close to the Michel endpoint, the radiative decay $\mu^+\to e^+\chi\bar\chi\gamma$ at MEG~II opens a complementary window, with sensitivity comparable to and, in some regions, stronger than that of the non-radiative channel. Remarkably, for reheating temperatures below the tens-of-MeV scale but above the BBN bound, MEG~II and Mu3e can probe regions in which freeze-in through the very same LFV interactions accounts for the observed DM abundance.
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All authors Daniele Barducci, Giulio Marino, Paolo Panci, Robert Ziegler

High Energy Physics (Experiment) · Cross-listed from hep-ph

Virtues and Vices of Equivariant Transformers

Luigi Favaro, Tilman Plehn, Huilin Qu et al. (+1 more)

We study for the first time the benefit of Lorentz-equivariant transformers for large-size jet tagging and flavor tagging. To control their computing demands, we optimize all implementations for inference cost metrics. In our scaling studies, we find that Lorentz-equivariant networks outperform standard transformers, provided geometric features are relevant. This holds true in an idealized world as well as for limited resources. The conditional gain from Lorentz equivariance provides interesting input to the development of foundation models for LHC data.
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All authors Luigi Favaro, Tilman Plehn, Huilin Qu, Jonas Spinner

High Energy Physics (Experiment) · Cross-listed from hep-ph

High-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection with Superconducting Qubits

Heechan Yi, Seong Chan Park, Kyoungchul Kong et al. (+1 more)

High-frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs) provide a unique window into high-energy and early-universe physics, yet they evade traditional macroscopic interferometry. To bridge this detection gap, we propose a novel quantum-sensing paradigm utilizing superconducting transmon qubits embedded in resonant microwave cavities. Through the inverse Gertsenshtein effect, HFGWs propagating in a static magnetic field resonantly excite a cavity mode. By leveraging the characteristic spin-2 quadrupolar pattern of the induced electromagnetic field, we position qubits directly at the electric-field hot spots of the $\mathrm{TE}_{212}$ mode to act as localized sensors. Crucially, configuring this array as an entangled quantum register via symmetric Dicke states unlocks a fundamental scaling advantage: the signal probability scales quadratically with the qubit number, translating to a $h_{\min} \propto n_q^{-3/4}$ strain sensitivity scaling. We demonstrate that an idealized global register of 800 qubits reaches a strain sensitivity that surpasses standard macroscopic cavity-power limits by five orders of magnitude. Benchmarked against representative axion-haloscope parameters, this collective quantum enhancement decisively mitigates the profound Planck-scale suppression inherent to gravitational interactions, establishing a transformative framework for next-generation HFGW searches in the GHz band.
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All authors Heechan Yi, Seong Chan Park, Kyoungchul Kong, Myeonghun Park

High Energy Physics (Experiment) · Cross-listed from hep-ph

The Forward Neutrino Flux and its Secondaries at a 10 TeV Muon Collider

Ju-Yeol Choi, Matheus Hostert, Peiran Li et al. (+1 more)

Muon decays in a muon collider ring would produce TeV neutrino and antineutrino beams of electron and muon flavor. We study this flux in the forward $\mu^+$ and $\mu^-$ beam directions at a 10 TeV muon collider and introduce \mint, a dedicated Monte Carlo simulation to model neutrino fluxes accounting for muon beam dynamics. We find that a benchmark detector at 5 km from the interaction point would see about $\mathcal{O}(10^{9})$ neutrino interactions per year in a $\sim3$~tonne fiducial volume with a beam spot size of $\mathcal{O}(1)$~meter. We calculate the number of secondary muons and neutrinos generated by neutrino interactions in the rock upstream of the forward detectors and find that about two secondary high-energy and highly polarized muons from the rock would cross each detector per bunch crossing. Neutrino productions of charmed mesons and taus in the rock generate a small $\nu_\tau+\bar\nu_\tau$ secondary flux, with $\mathcal{O}(0.2)$ events per year in the detectors, likely too small to be observed. Wrong-sign neutrinos from similar processes, such as $\nu_e+\bar\nu_\mu$ in the $\mu^-$ beam, are more numerous but still a fraction no larger than $\mathcal{O}(10^{-8})$ of the number of TeV neutrino interactions. Finally, we outline how the large forward neutrino exposure can be used to search for beyond-the-Standard-Model particles produced in neutrino interactions, with examples of heavy neutral leptons coupled to electron and muon flavors through mixing or electromagnetic dipole operators.
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All authors Ju-Yeol Choi, Matheus Hostert, Peiran Li, Zhen Liu

High Energy Physics (Experiment) · Cross-listed from hep-ph

Neutrino Fluxes at a Muon Collider

Francis M. Burk, Tao Han, Wolfgang Kilian et al. (+3 more)

While muon colliders are primarily considered precision machines for new physics searches at the energy frontier, they are also intense sources of high-energy neutrinos. Large fluxes of electron and muon neutrinos are produced in the decay of beam muons, especially along the straight sections around the experiments. In this work, we re-evaluate these neutrino fluxes using the latest design of a \SI{10}{TeV} muon collider and find that fluxes around the interaction region are almost two orders of magnitude higher than earlier estimates. We also compute the fluxes of neutrinos produced in $\mu^+\mu^-$ collisions, electromagnetic showers induced by electrons from muon decay, and interactions of neutrinos close to the collider ring. We find that these additional neutrino sources are non-negligible and would lead to a sizable number of neutrino interactions of all flavors, including several tau neutrino events, in a ton-scale detector placed in the forward direction. We discuss the physics opportunities offered by muon collider neutrinos in the context of QCD and nuclear physics, electroweak precision measurements, and searches for new physics.
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All authors Francis M. Burk, Tao Han, Wolfgang Kilian, Felix Kling, Joachim Kopp, Zahra Tabrizi

High Energy Physics (Experiment) · Cross-listed from nucl-th

Effects of light-cluster degrees of freedom on collective flows in heavy-ion collisions at FOPI energies

Xin Li, Si-Pei Wang, Rui Wang et al. (+4 more)

Within a lattice Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck transport model coupled to a kinetic approach for light-cluster formation, we investigate the impact of explicit light-cluster degrees of freedom on collective flows in Au+Au collisions at FOPI energies with beam energies $E_{\rm beam}$= $120$–$1500 A$ MeV by using a density-, momentum-, and isospin-dependent N$5$LO Skyrme pseudopotential. We first benchmark the kinetic approach by comparing the calculated light-cluster yields with FOPI data in central Au+Au collisions. We then analyze the collective flows of protons and light nuclei (deuterons, tritons, $^{3}\mathrm{He}$, and $^{4}\mathrm{He}$) in mid-central collisions. For protons, calculations with and without dynamical light-cluster degrees of freedom are compared to quantify the influence of dynamical cluster formation on proton directed ($v_1$), elliptic ($v_2$), triangular ($v_3$), and quadrangular ($v_4$) flows. We find that the dynamical light-cluster effect appreciably modifies proton $v_1$–$v_4$ flows at $E_{\rm beam}=120$–$150 A$ MeV, remains visible at $E_{\rm beam}=250$–$400 A$ MeV, and gradually weakens at $E_{\rm beam}\gtrsim 600 A$ MeV. For light nuclei, the kinetic approach captures the overall beam-energy dependence of the FOPI flow data, with better agreement for $E_{\rm beam}\geq 400 A$ MeV. We further examine the nucleon-number scaling of $v_2/A$ in both model calculations and experimental data, finding that the kinetic light-cluster formation approach qualitatively reproduces the observed scaling behavior. These results highlight the importance of a dynamical treatment of light-cluster formation for interpreting collective flows in heavy-ion collisions below about $600 A$ MeV, although the clustering effects on proton flows are minor at higher collision energies.
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All authors Xin Li, Si-Pei Wang, Rui Wang, Zhen Zhang, Jie Pu, Chun-Wang Ma, Lie-Wen Chen

High Energy Physics (Experiment)

Construction, commissioning, and performance of the ENUBET demonstrator

F. Acerbi, I. Angelis, L. Bomben et al. (+74 more)

A final full-size prototype of the instrumented decay tunnel of ENUBET, referred to as the Demonstrator, was constructed and its performance was tested during the 2022, 2023 and 2024 beam test campaigns at the CERN East Area facility. We demonstrate the full scalability of this specialized longitudinal sampling calorimeter technology, based on iron absorbers and scintillator tiles readout by wavelength-shifting fibers and SiPMs. In addition, we evaluate the channel-by- channel response and the performance in terms of electron energy resolution, linearity, and particle identification capabilities, using charged particle beams with energies up to 5 GeV. A comparison with the predictions of a GEANT4 simulation of the prototype is also presented. The results meet the requirements for neutrino monitoring through lepton identification in the decay tunnel and validate the ENUBET full simulation. Although some limitations have been identified, they can be readily addressed in future developments.
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All authors F. Acerbi, I. Angelis, L. Bomben, M. Bonesini, F. Bramati, A. Branca, C. Brizzolari, G. Brunetti, G. T. Burton, S. Capelli, M. Capitani, S. Carturan, M. G. Catanesi, S. Cecchini, N. Charitonidis, F. Cindolo, J. Cogan, G. Cogo, G. Collazuol, D. D'Ago, F. Dal Corso, C. Delogu, G. De Rosa, S. Dolan, A. Falcone, M. Feltre, A. Gola, D. Guffanti, L. Halić, F. Iacob, C. Jollet, A. Kallitsopoulou, B. Kliček, Y. Kudenko, Ch. Lampoudis, M. Laveder, P. Legou, S. Levorato, A. Longhin, L. Ludovici, E. Lutsenko, L. Magaletti, G. Mandrioli, S. Marangoni, A. Margotti, V. Mascagna, M. Mattiazzi, N. Mauri, J. McElwee, L. Meazza, A. Meregaglia, M. Mezzetto, L. Munteanu, M. Pari, T. Papaevangelou, E. G. Parozzi, L. Pasqualini, G. Paternoster, L. Patrizii, M. Perrin-Terrin, M. Pozzato, M. Prest, F. Pupilli, E. Radicioni, A. C. Ruggeri, G. Saibene, D. Sampsonidis, C. Scian, L. Silvestrin, G. Sirri, M. Stipčević, M. Tenti, F. Terranova, M. Torti, S. E. Tzamarias, E. Vallazza, C. Vallée

High Energy Physics (Experiment) · Cross-listed from nucl-ex

Charm-quark collectivity from small to large systems with ALICE

Marcello Di Costanzo

In these proceedings, the elliptic flow ($v_2$) measurement of prompt charm hadrons in lead-lead (Pb-Pb) and oxygen-oxygen (OO) collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 5.36$ TeV, using the data collected during LHC Run 3 by the ALICE detector, is presented. The analysis is performed at midrapidity ($|y| < 0.8$) and hadronic decay channels are used to reconstruct the signal candidates. The $v_2$ coefficient is measured via the Scalar Product (SP) technique. The $v_2$ of prompt D$^0$, D$^+$, D$_\text{s}^+$ mesons, and $\Lambda_{\text{c}}^+$ baryons in semicentral Pb-Pb collisions is reported. These results achieve unprecedented precision and low-$p_{\text{T}}$ reach for the D mesons and highlight the first observation of the splitting of baryon and meson elliptic flow at intermediate $p_{\text{T}}$ in the charm sector. The prompt D-meson $v_2$ is also measured in peripheral Pb-Pb collisions and central OO collisions, probing the degree of thermal equilibration reached by charm quarks propagating in progressively smaller quark-gluon plasma media.
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