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hep-ph2026

Hydrogenated carbon structures as directional sub-GeV dark matter detectors

Tomás Arias, Antonino Bellinvia, Gianluca Cavoto +5

We propose hydrogenated carbon structures as targets with a remarkable sensitivity to dark matter-nucleon interactions, in the mass range between the 1 MeV and 100 MeV. The ejectio…

hep-ph2026

Constraints on Loryons in a Two Higgs Doublet Model

Can Kilic, Sanjay Mathai, Taewook Youn

We consider Loryons, particles beyond the Standard Model that receive a significant fraction of their masses from electroweak symmetry breaking, in the context of a two Higgs doubl…

hep-ph2026

The Simplest B Decay, Precisely

Claudia Cornella, Max Ferré, Matthias König +1

We derive the QCDQED factorization theorem governing the leptonic decay at all orders in and . Electromagnetic corrections to this decay prob…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Neutrino Effects on Atomic Measurements of the Weinberg Angle

Mitrajyoti Ghosh, Yuval Grossman, Chinhsan Sieng +1

We derive a complete expression for the neutrino-mediated quantum force beyond the four-Fermi approximation within the Standard Model. Using this new result, we study the effect of…

hep-ph2025

WIMP Meets ALP: Coherent Freeze-Out of Dark Matter

Steven Ferrante, Maxim Perelstein, Bingrong Yu

We consider the cosmological history of a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) coupled to a light axion-like particle (ALP) via a quadratic coupling. Although the coupling is…

hep-ph2025★ 3 cited

Lepton Flavor Violation: From Muon Decays to Muon Colliders

Pouya Asadi, Hengameh Bagherian, Katherine Fraser +2

We investigate the unique potential of a high-energy muon collider to probe lepton-flavor-violating signals arising from physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Low-energy, precisi…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Electroweak Precision Constraints on Dark Photon Models with Generalized Mixing

Enrico Bertuzzo, Csaba Csaki, Fernanda Huller

We present a global fit to electroweak precision observables (EWPOs) in dark photon (DP) models containing both kinetic and mass mixing between the DP and the neutral gauge bosons…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Strong CP from a Hidden Chiral Condensate

Csaba Csáki, Samuel Homiller, Taewook Youn

Models which solve the strong CP problem by employing discrete spacetime symmetries generically suffer fine-tuning and quality problems. We demonstrate that these issues are greatl…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

CP violation in with and without time dependence through a tagged analysis

Giancarlo D'Ambrosio, Avital Dery, Yuval Grossman +4

We point out that using current knowledge of and , one can extract short-distance information from the combined measurement of th…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Stopping Dark Mesons in Their Tracks with Long-Lived Particle and Resonant Signatures

Pouya Asadi, Austin Batz, Elias Bernreuther +3

Dark sectors with confining gauge interactions can provide both simple dark matter candidates and striking signals at colliders. We recast Large Hadron Collider searches for two di…

hep-ph2025★ 4 cited

Ultralight Dilatonic Dark Matter

Abhishek Banerjee, Csaba Csáki, Michael Geller +2

The dilaton, a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) of broken scale invariance, is an appealing ultralight dark matter (DM) candidate. Its mass is protected by conformal invariance…

hep-ph2025★ 7 cited

Dark Matter Freeze-In and Small-Scale Observables: Novel Mass Bounds and Viable Particle Candidates

Francesco D'Eramo, Alessandro Lenoci, Ariane Dekker

The suppression of cosmological structure at small scales is a key signature of dark matter (DM) produced via freeze-in in the low-mass regime. We present a comprehensive analysis…

hep-ph2025★ 7 cited

Detecting Ultralight Dark Matter with Matter Effect

Xucheng Gan, Da Liu, Di Liu +2

Ultralight particles, with a mass below the electronvolt scale, exhibit wave-like behavior and have arisen as a compelling dark matter candidate. A particularly intriguing subclass…

hep-ph2025

Probing New Forces with Nuclear Clocks

Cédric Delaunay, Seung J. Lee, Roee Ozeri +3

Clocks based on nuclear isomer transitions promise exceptional stability and precision. The low transition energy of the thorium-229 isomer makes it an ideal candidate, as it has b…

hep-ph2024★ 14 cited

First Sub-MeV Dark Matter Search with the QROCODILE Experiment Using Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors

Laura Baudis, Alexander Bismark, Noah Brugger +15

We present the first results from the Quantum Resolution-Optimized Cryogenic Observatory for Dark matter Incident at Low Energy (QROCODILE). The QROCODILE experiment uses a microwi…

hep-ph2024★ 13 cited

Why detect forward muons at a muon collider

Maximilian Ruhdorfer, Ennio Salvioni, Andrea Wulzer

We survey the opportunities offered by the detection of the forward muons that accompany the creation of neutral effective vector bosons at a muon collider, in different kinematic…

hep-ph2024★ 5 cited

Neutrino force at all length scales

Mitrajyoti Ghosh, Yuval Grossman, Chinhsan Sieng +1

The Standard Model predicts a long-range force mediated by a pair of neutrinos, known as ``the neutrino force". It scales as , where is the Fermi constant. However…

hep-ph2024★ 3 cited

Barr-Zee Diagrams at a High-Energy Muon Collider

Samuel Homiller, Jackie Lodman, Aditya Parikh +1

The sensitivity of electron EDM experiments has been increasing at a rapid pace, and could yield indications of new physics in the coming decade. An intriguing possibility is that…

hep-ph2024★ 3 cited

Energy-scaling behavior of intrinsic transverse momentum parameters in Drell-Yan simulation

CMS Collaboration

An analysis is presented based on models of the intrinsic transverse momentum (intrinsic ) of partons in nucleons by studying the dilepton transverse momentum in Drel…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

How common are grand unified theories?

Johannes Herms, Maximilian Ruhdorfer

The individual fermion generations of the Standard Model fit neatly into a representation of a simple Grand Unified Theory gauge algebra. If Grand Unification is not realized in na…

hep-ph2024★ 9 cited

The neutrino force in neutrino backgrounds: Spin dependence and parity-violating effects

Mitrajyoti Ghosh, Yuval Grossman, Walter Tangarife +2

The neutrino force results from the exchange of a pair of neutrinos. A neutrino background can significantly influence this force. In this work, we present a comprehensive calculat…

hep-ph2024★ 3 cited

Two-loop contributions of axion-like particles to electromagnetic and chromomagnetic form factors

Matthias Neubert, Marvin Schnubel

Axions and axion-like particles emerge in many models for physics beyond the Standard Model. Thus, they have gained increasing research interest in both experimental and theoretica…

hep-ph2023★ 6 cited

Safe but Incalculable: Energy-weighting is not all you need

Samuel Bright-Thonney, Benjamin Nachman, Jesse Thaler

Infrared and collinear (IRC) safety has long been used a proxy for robustness when developing new jet substructure observables. This guiding philosophy has been carried into the de…

hep-ph2023★ 4 cited

Workshop summary -- Kaons@CERN 2023

G. Anzivino, S. Arguedas Cuendis, V. Bernard +60

Kaon physics is at a turning point -- while the rare-kaon experiments NA62 and KOTO are in full swing, the end of their lifetime is approaching and the future experimental landscap…