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hep-ph2026

LHEReader: Simplified Conversion from Les Houches Event Files to ROOT Format

Aman Desai

We present the \textsc{LHEReader} program that converts a Les Houches Event file into a \Root file, allowing one to subsequently analyse the file using \Root. We evaluate the perfo…

hep-ph2026★ 1 cited

Extracting a Toponium Signal at the LHC with Spin and Quantum Information Tools

Laura Antozzi, Esteban Chalbaud, Frédéric Déliot +6

We investigate near-threshold top-antitop production at the LHC, focusing on the impact of toponium formation on spin correlations and quantum information properties of the final s…

hep-ph2026

Analysing Toponium at the LHC using Recursive Jigsaw Reconstruction

Aman Desai, Amelia Lovison, Paul Jackson

Recent results from the \ATLAS ~and the \CMS ~experiments at the Large Hadron Collider indicate the presence of a top-quark pair bound state near the threshold region. We present a…

hep-ph2026

Reconstructing Toponium using Recursive Jigsaw Reconstruction

Aman Desai, Amelia Lovison, Paul Jackson

The results from the ATLAS and CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider indicate the existence of a top-quark pair bound state near the $\ttbar$ threshold region. We present a m…

hep-ph2025

Heavy dark matter in rapidly evolving massive stars

Sandra Robles, Walter Tangarife, Giorgio Busoni

We study the impact of heavy dark matter (DM) captured in massive stars via scattering(s) with the star constituents. We focus on the first stars and use stellar evolution simulati…

hep-ph2025

Relaxed constraints for dark matter with axial coupling to a dark photon

X. G. Wang, A. W. Thomas

We present a new model of the dark sector involving Dirac fermion dark matter, with axial coupling to a dark photon which provides a portal to Standard Model particles. In the non-…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Exploring vector-like -quark pair production at CLIC in fully hadronic final states

Baoxia Wang, Shuo Yang, Pengxuan Zhu

We investigate the discovery potential of the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) for a singlet vector-like bottom partner decaying via . Focusing on the ful…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

WIMP Dark Matter within the dark photon portal

X. G. Wang, B. M. Loizos, A. W. Thomas

We test the dark photon as a portal connecting to the dark sector in the case of Dirac fermion and complex scalar dark matter with masses up to 1 TeV. Both the dark photon and the…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

From Capture to Collapse: Revisiting Black Hole formation by Fermionic Asymmetric Dark Matter in Neutron Stars

Sandra Robles, Drona Vatsyayan, Giorgio Busoni

Fermionic asymmetric dark matter (ADM) can be captured in neutron stars (NSs) via scatterings with the star constituents. The absence of dark matter annihilation due to its asymmet…

hep-ph2025★ 7 cited

Structure of the with Hamiltonian Effective Field Theory

Fang-Chao Han, Zhan-Wei Liu, Derek B. Leinweber +1

We investigate the internal structure of the by analyzing lattice QCD simulation and experimental data within Hamiltonian effective field theory, considering both $J^P…

hep-ph2025

FLARE: FCCee b2Luigi Automated Reconstruction And Event processing

Cameron Harris, Aman Desai

FLARE is an open source data workflow orchestration tool designed for the FCC Analysis software and Key4HEP stack. Powered by b2luigi, FLARE automates and orchestrates the fccanaly…

hep-ph2025★ 9 cited

Emergent symmetry in a two-Higgs-doublet model from quantum information and nonstabiliserness

Giorgio Busoni, John Gargalionis, Ewan N. V. Wallace +1

Studies of scattering processes in scalar models with two Higgs doublets have recently hinted at a connection between the absence of flavour-space entanglement in scatteri…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Searching for the dark photon at the Future Circular Lepton Collider

X. G. Wang, A. W. Thomas

In the context of future electroweak precision measurements at the Future Circular Lepton Collider (FCC-ee), we consider recent proposals aimed at finding signatures of physics bey…

hep-ph2025★ 4 cited

Using neutron stars to probe dark matter charged under a symmetry

Nicole F. Bell, Giorgio Busoni, Avirup Ghosh

Kinetic heating of old cold neutron stars, via the scattering of dark matter with matter in the star, provides a promising way to probe the nature of dark matter interactions. We c…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Relaxing constraints on a broad dark photon

J. R. Felix, A. W. Thomas, X. G. Wang

We revisit the exclusion constraints on the parameters of a narrow dark photon set by direct experimental searches. We investigate how a dark photon with a larger decay width impac…

hep-ph2025★ 4 cited

Reflections on Chiral Symmetry within QCD

Anthony W Thomas

That chiral symmetry is a crucial feature of the strong force was realized before the discovery of Quantum Chromodynamics. However, the full power it exerts on the structure of the…

hep-ph2025★ 6 cited

t-channel dark matter at the LHC -- a whitepaper

Chiara Arina, Benjamin Fuks, Luca Panizzi +67

This report, summarising work achieved in the context of the LHC Dark Matter Working Group, investigates the phenomenology of -channel dark matter models, spanning minimal setup…

hep-ph2025★ 31 cited

Quantum Information meets High-Energy Physics: Input to the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

Yoav Afik, Federica Fabbri, Matthew Low +68

Some of the most astonishing and prominent properties of Quantum Mechanics, such as entanglement and Bell nonlocality, have only been studied extensively in dedicated low-energy la…

hep-ph2024

The magic of top quarks

Chris D. White, Martin J. White

In recent years, there has been increasing collaboration between the fields of quantum computing and high energy physics, including using LHC processes such as top (anti-)quark pai…

hep-ph2024

Revisiting CMSSM with Non-Universal Gaugino Masses under Current Constraints

Yabo Dong, Kun Wang, Hailong Yuan +2

To address the longstanding tension between the Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (CMSSM) and recent experimental data, we investigate non-universal gaugino masses…

hep-ph2024★ 4 cited

Limits on Kaluza-Klein Portal Dark Matter Models

R. Sekhar Chivukula, Joshua A. Gill, Kirtimaan A. Mohan +4

We revisit the phenomenology of dark-matter (DM) scenarios within radius-stabilized Randall-Sundrum models. Specifically, we consider models where the dark matter candidates are St…

hep-ph2024

Constraints on the model from global QCD analysis

X. G. Wang, N. T. Hunt-Smith, W. Melnitchouk +2

We perform the first global QCD analysis of electron-nucleon deep-inelastic scattering and related high-energy data including the beyond the Standard Model gauge boson…

hep-ph2024★ 11 cited

A comparison of Bayesian sampling algorithms for high-dimensional particle physics and cosmology applications

Joshua Albert, Csaba Balazs, Andrew Fowlie +4

For several decades now, Bayesian inference techniques have been applied to theories of particle physics, cosmology and astrophysics to obtain the probability density functions of…

hep-ph2024★ 8 cited

Pion photoproduction of nucleon excited states with Hamiltonian effective field theory

Yu Zhuge, Zhan-Wei Liu, Derek B. Leinweber +1

We refine our previous calculation of multipole amplitude for pion photoproduction process, . The treatment of final-state interactions is based upon an e…