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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

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hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Defect Formation in NaI Crystals: A Novel Pathway to Dark Matter Detection

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, A. Böhmer +44

Sodium iodide (NaI) is a widely used scintillator in direct dark matter searches. In particular, NaI-based cryogenic scintillating calorimeters have emerged as promising candidates…

hep-ph2025★ 4 cited

Stripped-Envelope Supernovae for QCD Axion Detection

Francisco R. Candón, Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Ángel Gil Muyor +3

QCD axions would be copiously produced in the proto-neutron star formed in a core-collapse supernova (SN). After escaping, they would convert into gamma rays in the Galactic magnet…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Modelling production for the LHC at 13.6 TeV

Christian Biello, Alessandro Gavardi, Rebecca von Kuk +10

We present new state-of-the-art predictions for Standard Model Higgs boson production in association with a bottom-quark pair (). Updated cross sections are computed in a…

hep-ph2025★ 7 cited

Axion-photon conversion in transient compact stars: Systematics, constraints, and opportunities

Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Ángel Gil Muyor, Hans-Thomas Janka +2

We study magnetic conversion of ultra-relativistic axion-like particles (ALPs) into photons in compact-star environments, focusing on the hot, transient conditions of core-collapse…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Excitonic contributions to dark matter-electron scattering

Nora Taufertshöfer, Vanessa Zema, Riccardo Catena +2

We determine whether excitonic effects affect predictions of dark matter (DM)-electron scattering rates by calculating the energy- and momentum-dependent energy-loss function, incl…

hep-ph2025★ 6 cited

Polarized-boson pairs at NLO in the SMEFT

Ulrich Haisch, Jakob Linder, Giovanni Pelliccioli +2

We present a computation of diboson production in the channel at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), incorporating leptonic decays of the gauge bosons and considering interm…

hep-ph2025★ 10 cited

Flavoured jet algorithms: a comparative study

Arnd Behring, Simone Caletti, Francesco Giuli +17

The accurate identification of heavy-flavour jets, those which originate from bottom or charm quarks, is crucial for precision studies of the Standard Model and searches for new ph…

hep-ph2025★ 13 cited

Neutrinos from Primordial Black Holes in Theories with Extra Dimensions

Luis A. Anchordoqui, Francis Halzen, Dieter Lust

The quantum gravity scale within the dark dimension scenario () roughly coincides with the energy scale of the KM3-230213A neutrino ($E_ν\sim 10^{8}~{\rm…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Investigating sub-MeV dark matter annihilation to neutrinos using direct detection experiments

Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia, Jong-Chul Park, Merlin Reichard +1

Dark matter (DM) could self-annihilate into neutrinos in dense regions of the Universe. We consider the resulting flux of neutrinos from the Milky Way DM halo and derive exclusion…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

NNLOJET: a parton-level event generator for jet cross sections at NNLO QCD accuracy

A. Huss, L. Bonino, O. Braun-White +37

The antenna subtraction method for NNLO QCD calculations is implemented in the NNLOJET parton-level event generator code to compute jet cross sections and related observables in el…

hep-ph2025★ 19 cited

Warm Inflation with the Standard Model

Kim V. Berghaus, Marco Drewes, Sebastian Zell

We show for the first time that warm inflation is feasible with Standard Model (SM) gauge interactions alone. Our model consists of a minimal extension of the SM by a single scalar…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

One-Loop QCD Corrections to at

Matteo Becchetti, Maximilian Delto, Sara Ditsch +3

We present a computation of the one-loop QCD corrections to top-quark pair production in association with a boson, including terms up to order in dimensional re…

hep-ph2025★ 12 cited

Collective flavor conversions are interactions of neutrinos with quantized flavor waves

Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Georg G. Raffelt

Collective oscillations in dense neutrino gases (flavor waves) are notable for their instabilities that cause fast flavor conversion. We develop a quantum theory of interacting neu…

hep-ph2025★ 6 cited

Cooling the Shock: New Supernova Constraints on Dark Photons

Andrea Caputo, Hans-Thomas Janka, Georg Raffelt +1

During the accretion phase of a core-collapse supernova (SN), dark-photon (DP) cooling can be largest in the gain layer below the stalled shock wave. In this way, it could counter-…

hep-ph2025★ 6 cited

Boosted dark matter from semi-annihilations in the galactic center

Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia, Motoko Fujiwara, Alejandro Ibarra +1

In some scenarios, the dark matter relic abundance is set by the semi-annihilation of two dark matter particles into one dark matter particle and one Standard Model particle. These…