6,878 papers

cs.CR2026★ 23 cited

PerSpectron: Detecting Invariant Footprints of Microarchitectural Attacks with Perceptron

Samira Mirbagher-Ajorpaz, Gilles Pokam, Esmaeil Mohammadian-Koruyeh +3

Detecting microarchitectural attacks is critical given their proliferation in recent years. Many of these attacks exhibit intrinsic behaviors essential to the nature of their opera…

astro-ph.SR2026

Panchromatic Spectra of Nearby Low-mass and Sun-like Stars with Directly Imageable Habitable Zones

Sarah Peacock, Breanna A. Binder, Edward W. Schwieterman +4

Characterizing the high-energy radiation environments of stars plays a critical role in determining which systems' planets are capable of retaining atmospheres and sustaining habit…

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: The Prime-Cam Instrument for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope -- Overview and Status

Eve M. Vavagiakis, Yuhan Wang, Lawrence T. Lin +33

Prime-Cam is a first-generation science instrument for the CCAT Observatory's six-meter aperture Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), under construction at an elevation of 56…

cs.AI2026

FLARE MCMC: Fidelity-based Layer-Adaptive REcursive proposals for MCMC

Harini Venkatesan, Christian Shelton, Ming-Feng Ho +2

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) requires only the ability to evaluate the likelihood, making it a common technique for inference in complex models. However, it can have a slow mixi…

astro-ph.IM2026

Early Exploration of the Scientific Discovery Space for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Courtney D. Dressing, Danica Adams, Evelyne Alecian +324

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a future NASA flagship mission concept identified by the Astro2020 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for large space missions. HWO sh…

astro-ph.EP2026

Setting the Stage: The Early History of the Solar System

Antgona Segura, Rachel L. Smith, Myriam Telus +3

This article reviews the early history of our solar system from an astrobiological perspective and presents evidence from meteorites and astronomical observations. The purpose is t…

cs.IT2026

Investigation of STEEP for Secure Communications Over SIMO and MISO Channels Subject to Full-Duplex Jamming and Eavesdropping

Md Saydur Rahman, Yingbo Hua

Secure communications over SIMO and MISO channels between wireless nodes are commonly encountered in applications and widely considered in the literature. This paper investigates s…

physics.ins-det2026

Machine Learning for Complex Instrument Design and Optimization

Barry C. Barish, Jonathan W. Richardson, Evangelos E. Papalexakis +1

In modern experimental physics, particle accelerators and gravitational-wave observatories enable a wide-range of research at the frontiers of science. These instruments are highly…

astro-ph.EP2026

A parameterised approach to disequilibrium retrievals in the JWST era: Application to NIRCam observations of HD 189733b

Jake Taylor, Shang-Min Tsai, Vivien Parmentier +2

Atmospheric retrievals are a widely used technique for inferring the physical and chemical properties of exoplanetary atmospheres from observed spectra. A common simplifying assump…

physics.ins-det2026

DarkFlow: Hierarchical Digital SiPM Architecture with Low-Loss Dataflow Readout for Dark Matter Detection

Zirui Wang, Aras Repond, Shawn Westerdale +1

Direct dark matter detection experiments require large-scale photon sensing arrays with hundreds of thousands of synchronized readout channels. Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) hav…

cs.CR2026

DIG: Oracle-Guided Directed Input Generation for One-Day Vulnerabilities

Andrew Bao, Haochen Zeng, Peng Chen +2

One-day vulnerabilities pose significant risks due to delayed or incomplete patch adoption. Generating proof-of-concept (PoC) inputs is therefore essential for assessing real-world…

astro-ph.GA2026

Matter Clustering in Astrid: Reduced Baryonic Suppression from Realistic Black Hole Dynamics

Yanhui Yang, Simeon Bird, Yihao Zhou +4

Baryonic feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is often invoked as a major source of suppression in the matter power spectrum, with implications for precision cosmology and th…

cs.LG2026★ 1 cited

Cloud Is Closer Than It Appears: Revisiting the Tradeoffs of Distributed Real-Time Inference

Pragya Sharma, Hang Qiu, Mani Srivastava

The increasing deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) in cyber-physical systems (CPS) enhances perception fidelity, but imposes substantial computational demands on execution pl…

astro-ph.GA2026

The abundance and radial distribution of faint and ultra-faint dwarfs in galaxy clusters

Pradyumna Sadhu, Laura V. Sales, Julio F. Navarro +3

Cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters are unable to resolve dwarf galaxies due to limited numerical resolution which drives the artificial disruption of dark matter substruct…

physics.optics2026

Enhanced Phase Sensitive SD-OCT for flow imaging using ultrasonically sculpted optical waveguides

Lloyd Lobo, Junze Liu, Hang Yang +3

Phase sensitive detection in spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) is a powerful method for functional imaging of biological events with high spatiotemporal resolut…

cs.AR2026

Overmind NSA: A Unified Neuro-Symbolic Computing Architecture with Approximate Nonlinear Activations and Preemptive Memory Bypass

Weilun Wang, Zirui Wang, Wantong Li

Neuro-symbolic AI is gaining traction in domains such as large language models, scientific discovery, and autonomous systems due to its ability to combine perception with structure…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 2 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Test of the Gravitational Force Law on Cosmological Scales Using the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

Patricio A. Gallardo, Kris Pardo, Oliver H. E. Philcox +38

The mean pairwise velocity of massive halos reflects the gravitational force law on cosmic scales. We combine cosmic microwave background intensity maps from the Atacama Cosmology…

nucl-ex2026

Measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in PbPb collisions at = 5.36 TeV

CMS Collaboration

The inclusive cross section for top quark pair () production in lead-lead (PbPb) collisions is reported for the first time at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon…

hep-ex2026

A search for microscopic black holes, string balls, and sphalerons in proton-proton collisions at = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for microscopic black holes, string balls, and electroweak sphalerons using proton-proton collisions at = 13 TeV recorded with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC…

hep-ex2026

Search for Higgs boson pair production in the decay channel with two leptons in the final state using proton-proton collision data at = 13.6 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for Higgs boson pair production is presented, targeting final states where one Higgs boson decays to a pair of bottom quarks and the other Higgs boson decays to two W boso…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 2 cited

Emergent giant topological Hall effect in twisted Fe3GeTe2 metallic system

Hyuncheol Kim, Kai-Xuan Zhang, Yu-Hang Li +3

The topological Hall effect, driven by the exchange interaction between conduction electrons and topological magnetic textures such as skyrmions, is a powerful probe for investigat…

astro-ph.EP2026

Hydrocarbon complexity and photochemical shielding of prebiotic feedstock molecules in exoplanet atmospheres

Marrick Braam, Ellery Gopaoco, Shang-Min Tsai +4

The potential of prebiotic chemistry to propagate on an exoplanet fundamentally depends on whether the atmospheric conditions can facilitate the production of prebiotic feedstock m…

hep-ex2026

Search for Higgs boson production at high transverse momentum in the WW decay channel in proton-proton collisions at = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for Higgs boson (H) production at high transverse momentum () in the WW decay channel is presented. The analysis uses proton-proton collisions at …

hep-ex2026

Measurement of the jet mass in hadronic decays of boosted W bosons at 13 TeV and extraction of the W boson mass

CMS Collaboration

The jet mass of W bosons decaying to a quark-antiquark pair is measured in W+jets events from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data used were coll…