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20162026
most citedA portrait of the Higgs boson by the CMS experiment ten years after the discovery

424 citations

440 papers

gr-qc2026

Emergence of Gravity's Dynamical and Topological Sectors from Pre-geometry

Andrea Addazi, Giuseppe Meluccio

We identify the complete set of fundamental building blocks for a 4D pre-geometric theory of gravity. Based on a gauge theory of or coupled to a Higgs-like fiel…

physics.gen-ph2026

Testing the Anton-Schmidt dark energy model with the DESI DR2 measurements

Himanshu Chaudhary, Salvatore Capozziello, Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi +1

We present a comparative cosmological analysis of the Anton-Schmidt, CDM, and CPL models using baryon acoustic oscillation measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instru…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 1 cited

Conformal Killing Gravity: New Constraints from DESI DR2 BAO datasets

Himanshu Chaudhary, Salvatore Capozziello, Carlo Alberto Mantica +3

We investigate a geometric approach referred to as the Conformal Killing Gravity (CKG), in which the dark energy sector emerges naturally from the conformal Killing symmetry of the…

astro-ph.CO2026

No preference for generalized emergent dark energy from current cosmological data

Vipin Kumar Sharma, Himanshu Chaudhary, Salvatore Capozziello +2

In this work, we revisit the generalized emergent dark energy model by confronting it with DESI DR2 baryon acoustic oscillation measurements, in combination with joint CMB data fro…

gr-qc2026

Equivalence Principle violation in metric-affine gravity and finite-temperature effects

Emmanuele Battista, Roberto Campagnola, Salvatore Capozziello +1

Possible violations of the equivalence principle are investigated within the framework of metric-affine gravity and their connection to finite-temperature effects are highlighted.…

hep-ph2026★ 1 cited

olographic aturalness and Information See-Saw Mechanism for Neutrinos

Andrea Addazi, Giuseppe Meluccio

The microscopic origin of the de Sitter entropy remains a central puzzle in quantum gravity related to the cosmological constant problem. Within olographic $\mathcal{N…

gr-qc2026

Primary Constraints of Newer General Relativity

Carmen Ferrara, Alexey Golovnev, María José Guzmán

We study the primary constraint structure of Newer General Relativity, a gravity theory based on a torsionless teleparallel geometry. The gravitational action is built from a scala…

hep-th2026★ 3 cited

olographic aturalness and Pre-Geometric Gravity

Andrea Addazi, Salvatore Capozziello, Giuseppe Meluccio

The cosmological constant (CC, ) problem represents a remarkable discrepancy of about 120 orders of magnitude between the observed dark energy and its natural expectation from q…

hep-ph2026

Asteroid-mass Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter from Supersymmetry

Andrea Boccia, Marco Chianese

We study the formation of asteroid-mass Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) as a dark matter candidate in supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model. We show that the presence of he…

gr-qc2026

Friedmann cosmology with fluids and hyperfluids

Ilaria Andrei, Damianos Iosifidis, Laur Järv +1

We discuss flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric-affine cosmology where the metric and connection as well as the matter energy-momentum and hypermomentum all obey…

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…

physics.ins-det2026

Cherenkov and scintillation light separation in BGO and BSO crystals coupled to SiPMs for dual-readout electromagnetic calorimetry at future colliders

M. Alviggi, B. Argiento, E. Auffray +29

We report on the separation of Cherenkov and scintillation light in BGO and BSO crystals read out with silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). The two light components are disentangled o…

hep-ex2026

Evidence of ZZ production and observation of in proton-proton collisions at = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Evidence of the production of two Z bosons and a photon in proton-proton collisions is reported for the first time in CMS. The analysis uses data collected by the CMS experiment be…

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…

gr-qc2026

Extended Theories of Electrodynamics in Gravity

Francesco Bajardi, Micol Benetti, Salvatore Capozziello +1

Within the general framework of gravity, we introduce a function of the electromagnetic curvature invariant that couples minimally to gravitation to ensure a…

gr-qc2026★ 9 cited

Energy Conditions in Gauss-Bonnet Gravity

Francesco Bajardi

We study the Energy Conditions in modified gravity, with being the topological Gauss-Bonnet term. Then we use the cosmographic parameters to constrain the functional for…

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

Exploring memory-burdened primordial black holes with ultra-high-energy cosmic-rays

Antonio Ambrosone, Marco Chianese, Carmelo Evoli

Quantum backreaction effects may quench Hawking evaporation through a ``memory burden'', allowing primordial black holes (PBHs) with formation masses well below $10^{15}~\mathrm{g}…

hep-ex2026

Search for a narrow resonance with a mass between 10 and 70 GeV decaying to a pair of photons in proton-proton collisions at = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

The existence of a new spin-zero particle with a mass below the electroweak scale is predicted by several theoretical models. Searches for resonant production of photon pairs at th…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

Minisuperspace Cosmology in Extended Geometric Trinity of Gravity

Emmanuele Battista, Salvatore Capozziello, Stefano Pastore

We investigate Extended Geometric Trinity of Gravity at both classical and quantum cosmological levels using the minisuperspace approach. Adopting Noether symmetries to select viab…

gr-qc2026★ 4 cited

Constraining -Exponential Inflation with the latest ACT observations

Jureeporn Yuennan, Farruh Atamurotov, Salvatore Capozziello +1

Recent observations from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), especially when combined with DESI baryon acoustic oscillation data, indicate a scalar spectral index higher t…

hep-ex2026

Search for pair production of heavy resonances in final states with a photon and large-radius jets in proton-proton collisions at = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for the pair production of heavy spin-1/2 or spin-3/2 resonances (t) in proton-proton collisions at = 13 TeV is presented. Data collected with the CMS detec…