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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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Decreasing Digital Distraction in College Students: Associated Online Learning Strategies Identified by Unsupervised Data Mining Approaches

Hui Shi, Ran Bi, Xi Lin +1

The proliferation of digital tools in education offers numerous benefits but also introduces significant challenges, notably digital distractions that hinder academic performance,…

nucl-th2026

Causality and Stability of First-Order Relativistic Spin Hydrodynamics with Conserved Charges

Wei Lu, Yang Zhong, Sheng-Qin Feng

We study the causality and stability of first-order relativistic spin hydrodynamics with particle-number conservation. By deriving the complete dispersion relations of linear pertu…

astro-ph.HE2026

AT2019ijn: a fast-rising, slow-decaying blue optical transient with exceptionally bright radio emission

Hucheng Ding, Xinwen Shu, Luming Sun +9

We report the discovery of a peculiar optical transient, AT2019ijn, occurred in the nuclear region of a dwarf galaxy at z=0.273. It rises rapidly to peak at a luminosity of Mg=-21.…

hep-ph2026

Analysis of Nuclear Fragmentation Functions for Pions with and Dependence

Mengyang Li, Zijian Ye, Jun Gao +3

We present a QCD analysis of pion nuclear fragmentation functions (nFFs), which encode nuclear modifications to hadronization in high-energy nuclear collisions. Within this framewo…

quant-ph2026

Chiral interaction enhanced magnon bundle emission

Zhicai Chen, Deyi Kong, Chengdeng Gou +2

In this paper, we suggest a chiral interaction scheme to enhance magnon bundle emission by placing a qubit and a magnon into a cascaded-cavity setup, respectively. It is found that…

hep-ph2026

Revisiting the role of saturation in diffractive vector meson production

Heikki Mäntysaari, Hendrik Roch, Björn Schenke +2

We perform a global Bayesian analysis of coherent and incoherent diffractive photoproduction in and collisions using a Color Glass Condensate (…

hep-ph2026

Pion structure in Holographic QCD

Jiali Deng, Defu Hou, Xiaolong Wang +1

We employ a holographic model with a modified background that incorporates effective descriptions of key QCD features, including linear confinement and gluon condensation, to study…

astro-ph.HE2026

Fast radio bursts, magnetars and earthquakes: their "family feud"?

Si-Lu Xu, Yong-Kun Zhang, Pei Wang +24

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration cosmic transients whose origin remains elusive. Competing models invoke either earthquake-like processes or flare-like mechanisms.…

hep-ph2026

Quantum simulating multi-particle processes in high energy nuclear physics: dijet production and color (de)coherence

João Barata, Meijian Li, Wenyang Qian +2

Hard scattering events in high-energy collisions produce highly virtual partons that subsequently fragment into collimated hadronic cascades. When such partonic showers evolve in a…

hep-ex2026

Measurement of the double Dalitz decay

BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov +689

Using a data sample of events collected with the BESIII detector, we study the rare double Dalitz decay of …

hep-ph2026

Nuclear structure and saturation effects from diffractive vector meson production

Heikki Mäntysaari, Hendrik Roch, Björn Schenke +2

We study exclusive vector meson production in ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) of a wide range of nuclei, and assess the potential of measurements to constrain the small- struc…

hep-ex2026

Amplitude Analysis of the Isospin-Violating Decay

BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov +759

Using events collected with the BESIII detector, we perform the first amplitude analysis of the process . The decay is dominated b…

astro-ph.GA2026

Full-polarization millimeter wavelength variability of Sagittarius A* during the 2018 EHT campaign

Ezequiel Albentosa-Ruiz, Jasmin E. Washington, Nicola Marchili +272

Sagittarius A* (Srg A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, provides a unique laboratory to study accretion dynamics and plasma processes near the event ho…

astro-ph.HE2026

Spectral Evidence of Heavy Nuclei from the Neutron Star Crust in Magnetar Bursts

Sheng-Lun Xie, Yun-Wei Yu, Shao-Lin Xiong +1

The crust of a neutron star (NS) provides a unique laboratory for studying matter under extreme density and magnetic field conditions that cannot be realized in terrestrial experim…

hep-ph2026

Chiral Condensation and Chiral Phase Diagram under Combined Rotation and Chemical Potential in Holographic QCD

D. -Y. Long, S. -Q. Feng

We investigate the combined effects of rotation and finite quark chemical potential on inhomogeneous chiral condensation and the chiral phase diagram within the soft-wall holograph…

hep-ph2026

The non-topological string in the 331 model and its classical stability

Zhengyang Bian, Ning Chen, Mian Guo +4

We study the classical stability of a non-topological string in the minimal 331 model, which arises from the maximal symmetry breaking pattern of an toy mo…

nucl-ex2026★ 2 cited

Physics of Collectivity and EOS from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan Program

Xionghong He, Shusu Shi, Nu Xu

In this article we will review recent measurements of directed flow and elliptic flow in Au+Au collisions from the STAR Beam Energy Scan (BES) program. We systematicall…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Transverse Oscillations and Wave Propagation in the Magnetically Dominated M87 Jet

Hyunwook Ro, Motoki Kino, Kazuhiro Hada +6

We present an in-depth analysis of transverse oscillations in the M87 jet, as identified in our previous study (Ro et al. 2023a), which reported oscillatory patterns with a charact…

hep-ex2026

Observation of the doubly charmed baryon with the LHCb Run 3 detector

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, M. Abdelfatah +1106

The first observation of the doubly charmed baryon is reported through its decay to the final state, with a statistical significance exceeding seven…

hep-ex2026

Observation of and search for

BESIII Collaboration, M. Ablikim, M. N. Achasov +719

By analysing 6.1 of data collected at center-of-mass energies between and 4.843 with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider, we obser…

hep-ex2026

-jet fragmentation with decays in TeV collisions at LHCb

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1166

The collinear and transverse-momentum-dependent jet fragmentation function and the radial profile for mesons in jets are measured. The mesons are reconstructed…

quant-ph2026

Connection-topology--dependent energy transport and ergotropy in quantum battery networks with reciprocal and nonreciprocal couplings

Bing-Bing Liu, Rui Chen, Jin-Lei Wu +2

The realization of scalable quantum battery architectures requires concern not only with how much energy can be stored, but also with how energy is transported, distributed, and co…

hep-ex2026★ 1 cited

First measurement of time-dependent violation in the flavor-changing neutral-current decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1165

A flavor-tagged time-dependent analysis of decays is performed across the full dimuon mass range excluding the and resonance re…

hep-ph2026

Three-gluon decays of radially excited quarkonia and with both relativistic and QCD radiative corrections

Chao-Jie Fan, Jun-Kang He

For the radially excited heavy quarkonia and , the nodal structure of the wave function renders the three-gluon decay acutely sensitive to relativistic…