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hep-ex2026

MoEDAL-MAPP: the first dedicated search experiment at the LHC

John R. Ellis, Nick E. Mavromatos, Vasiliki A. Mitsou +1

This special issue brings together a collection of original research articles and review papers addressing topics directly related to the MoEDAL-MAPP experiment at the Large Hadron…

physics.atom-ph2026

A Cryogenic Penning Trap Based on Permanent Magnets

F. Völksen, K. K. Anjum, R. P. Czampiel +30

We report on a Penning trap based on NdFeB permanent magnets operated at 4\,K with a magnetic field strength of 280\,mT. Reliable loading and confinement of protons, H ions,…

physics.acc-ph2026

Design and Operation of a 3-Crystal Multi-Volume Reflection Array for Loss Reduction in CERN SPS Slow Extraction

F. M. Velotti, M. Bay, T. Calvet +10

The flux of protons slow-extracted from the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) to the North Area experiments is limited by the induced radioactivity of the beam lost on the electr…

hep-ex2026

Operation and performance of the Probe for Luminosity Measurement at LHCb

F. Alessio, S. Barsuk, C. Beigbeder +40

The Probe for LUminosity MEasurement (PLUME) detector is a dedicated luminosity monitor at the LHCb interaction point. It is a hodoscope comprising 48 Hamamatsu R760 photomultiplie…

physics.acc-ph2026

RF cavity design and beam loading effects in the rectilinear cooling channel for a muon collider

C. Barbagallo, A. Grudiev, D. Merenich +2

High-gradient normal-conducting RF cavities are crucial components of the rectilinear cooling channel in a muon collider, providing the accelerating field necessary to sustain the…

physics.acc-ph2026

First Synchrotron Injection Attempt into The SuperKEKB High Energy Ring

N. Iida, Y. Funakoshi, H. Kaji +17

A synchrotron injection scheme for the SuperKEKB electron high-energy ring (HER) was implemented and experimentally evaluated as the first attempt with a top-up injection during be…

cs.SE2026

How to Value Open Source Contributions? An Institutional Perspective from CERN

Julie Skoven Hinge, Micha Moskovic, Axel Naumann +2

We present a methodology to systematically assess the scale and impact of an organization's contributions to open source software (OSS). The methodology combines the archival data…

hep-lat2026★ 1 cited

Running of the Electroweak Gauge Couplings from First Principles

Alessandro Conigli, Dalibor Djukanovic, Georg von Hippel +6

We present a high-precision calculation of the hadronic running of electroweak gauge couplings from first principles. Employing lattice QCD in the low-energy regime, we achieve per…

hep-ph2026

Particle Cosmology

Venus Keus

Particle cosmology is the branch of science that seeks to understand the birth and evolution of the Universe by applying the principles of particle physics. It brings together the…

hep-ph2026

Application of Deep Learning to Jet Charge Discrimination

Meisam Ghasemi Bostanabad, Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produces an enormous volume of data in which the identification and characterization of hadronic jets is a central challenge. Determining the electr…

nucl-th2026

Charm quark production in heavy-ion collisions as a signature of pre-equilibrium

Maurice Coquet, Thomas Faure, Sören Schlichting +2

The relative abundances and kinematic distributions of hadrons containing (anti)charm quarks are key observables for deconfinement, heavy-quark diffusion and hadronization in heavy…

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…

physics.ins-det2026

Study of Particle Fluence Effects on Collected Charge and Depletion Voltage of the ATLAS IBL Planar Pixel Sensors

ATLAS Collaboration

After ten years of operation at the LHC, the planar pixel sensors of the innermost barrel layer of the ATLAS Pixel detector have accumulated an average bulk damage fluence in exces…

hep-ex2026

Measurements of the Higgs boson production, fiducial and differential cross-sections in the four lepton decay channel using 164 fb of data collected at = 13.6 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Inclusive, differential and production-mode cross-section measurements of the Higgs boson are performed in the decay channel. The analysis uses proton-prot…

hep-ph2026

W-boson helicity fractions in top decay as probes of dimension-6 and dimension-8 SMEFT operators

Afsaneh Kianfar, Gholamhossein Haghighat, Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

Precision measurements of top-quark decays provide powerful probes of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). While the impact of dimension-6 operators in the SM Effective Field Th…

nucl-ex2026

Energy-differential measurement of the C(n,p) and C(n,d) reactions at the n_TOF facility at CERN

P. Žugec, N. Colonna, D. Rochman +129

Energy-differential cross section of the C(n,p) and C(n,d) reactions was measured at the neutron time of flight facility n_TOF at CERN. The measur…

physics.ins-det2026

Performance Evaluation of Straw Tubes with Muon Beams at CERN

Linnuo Zhang, Chihao Li, Jiajin Ge +21

We present results from two test beam campaigns that investigate the performance of straw tube detectors as potential candidates for an FCC-ee straw tracker. These studies were car…

hep-ex2026

Proposal for the first measurement of antiproton polarization in proton-nucleus interactions

D. Alfs, D. Grzonka, G. Khatri +7

Spin dependent phenomena in inclusive hadron production have been extensively investigated, yet their microscopic origin and universality across different hadrons are still not ful…

physics.ins-det2026

A Data-Driven Fast Simulation Approach for MAPS-based Detectors and their Optimization

Dumitru Vlad Berlea, Lucian Fasselt, Prafulla Behera +21

A parametric simulation tool for pixel sensors is presented. A realistic pixel response is simulated purely based on measurement input, without requiring detailed knowledge of the…

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

Measurement of muon (anti-)neutrino charged-current quasielastic-like cross section using off-axis NuMI beam at ICARUS

ICARUS Collaboration, F. Abd Alrahman, P. Abratenko +176

This paper presents the first neutrino cross-section measurement from the ICARUS detector at Fermilab, using NuMI (Neutrinos at the Main Injector) beam data collected from two beam…

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

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…