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hep-ph2026

Constraining the Higgs potential using multi-Higgs production

Jia-Le Ding, Zach Gillis, Ulrich Haisch +10

The Higgs self-couplings remain only weakly constrained by current Large Hadron Collider (LHC) measurements, leaving ample room for physics beyond the Standard Model that could mod…

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

Cosmology of Gravi-Axions

Stephon Alexander, Gregory Gabadadze, Leah Jenks +1

We show how a mass term for gravitational axions (''gravi-axions'') with a Chern-Simons coupling to gravity can naturally arise due to non-perturbative contributions from Euclidean…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Lepton number violating signals of a parity symmetric model at TRISTAN

Keisuke Harigaya, Ryuichiro Kitano, Ryoto Takai

The parity solution to the strong CP problem necessarily extends the Standard Model to include the SU gauge sector and imposes restrictions on the structure of the Yuk…

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

Shedding Light on Dark Matter at the LHC with Machine Learning

Ernesto Arganda, Martín de los Rios, Andres D. Perez +3

We investigate a WIMP dark matter (DM) candidate in the form of a singlino-dominated lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) within the -symmetric Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetri…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

R-parity violation and 8 TeV four-jet events at the LHC

Pedro Bittar, Subhojit Roy, Carlos E. M. Wagner

The CMS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has observed two four-jet events with a total invariant mass of about 8 TeV; within each event, the jets can be paired into…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Beyond the Starobinsky model after ACT

Min Gi Park, Dhong Yeon Cheong, Seong Chan Park

We revisit higher order corrections to the Starobinsky inflationary model using the most recent P-ACT-LB-BK18 data, which exhibits a mild but definite tension with the predictions…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Cosmic-ray boosted inelastic dark matter from neutrino-emitting active galactic nuclei

R. Andrew Gustafson, Gonzalo Herrera, Mainak Mukhopadhyay +2

Cosmic rays may scatter off dark matter particles in active galactic nuclei, where both the densities of cosmic rays and dark matter are expected to be very large. These scattering…

hep-ph2025★ 7 cited

Charged Loops at the Cosmological Collider with Chemical Potential

Arushi Bodas, Edward Broadberry, Raman Sundrum +1

Cosmological collider physics allows the detection of heavy particles at inflationary scales through their imprints on primordial non-Gaussianities. We study the chemical potential…

hep-ph2025★ 3 cited

Gamma-Rays and Gravitational Waves from Inelastic Higgs Portal Dark Matter

Dan Hooper, Gordan Krnjaic, Duncan Rocha +1

We explore a simple and predictive dark matter scenario involving a complex scalar field, , coupled to the Higgs portal with no additional field content. In the UV, the field po…

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★ 8 cited

Spin correlations and Bell nonlocality in pair production from collisions with a thrust cut

Shi-Jia Lin, Ming-Jun Liu, Ding Yu Shao +1

We present a comprehensive theoretical study of spin correlations in production from annihilation, providing the theoretical predictions for the Belle II experime…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Probing Fundamental Constant Oscillation in the Galactic Center with S-Star Spectroscopy

Zhaoyu Bai, Vitor Cardoso, Yifan Chen +4

Astrophysical spectroscopy provides a powerful probe of spacetime variations of fundamental constants, as atomic and ionic emission and absorption lines depend sensitively on the f…

hep-ph2025★ 3 cited

Positivity bounds in scalar-QED EFT at one-loop level

Yunxiao Ye, Xiao Cao, Yu-Hang Wu +1

Understanding the implication of positivity bounds on loop-generated dim-8 operator coefficients is a nontrivial task, as these bounds only strictly hold when all the contributions…

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

Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics at Colliders

Bei Zhou, Pedro Machado

Nonzero neutrino masses guarantee new physics and neutrinos are excellent probes of extreme environments in the Universe. The recent collider neutrino experimental program, includi…

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★ 16 cited

Self Consistent Thermal Resummation: A Case Study of the Phase Transition in 2HDM

Pedro Bittar, Subhojit Roy, Carlos E. M. Wagner

An accurate description of the scalar potential at finite temperature is crucial for studying cosmological first-order phase transitions (FOPT) in the early Universe. At finite tem…

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-ph2025★ 8 cited

Acoustic Misalignment Mechanism for Axion Dark Matter

Arushi Bodas, Raymond T. Co, Akshay Ghalsasi +2

A rotation in the field space of a complex scalar field corresponds to a Bose-Einstein condensation of charges. We point out that fluctuations in this rotating condensate ex…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Direct Detection of Ultralight Dark Matter via Charged Lepton Flavor Violation

Innes Bigaran, Patrick J. Fox, Yann Gouttenoire +4

We propose a dark matter direct-detection strategy using charged particle decays at accelerator-based experiments. If ultralight dark matter has a misalignment…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Gauge hierarchy and metastability from Higgs-driven crunching

Sean Benevedes, Ameen Ismail, Thomas Steingasser

We present a new solution to the Higgs hierarchy problem based on dynamical vacuum selection in a landscape scanning the Higgs mass. In patches where the Higgs mass parameter takes…

hep-ph2025

Neutrino Induced Charged Current Coherent Pion Production for Constraining the Muon Neutrino Flux at DUNE

Mun Jung Jung, Vishvas Pandey, Gray Putnam +1

We study neutrino induced charge current coherent pion production () as a tool for constraining the neutrino flux at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DU…