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hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Dark Matter EFT Landscape Probed by QUEST-DMC

DMC Collaboration, N. Darvishi, S. Autti +27

We present the projected sensitivity to non-relativistic Effective Field Theory (EFT) operators for Dark Matter (DM) direct detection using the QUEST-DMC experiment. QUEST-DMC empl…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Fermionic sub-GeV Dark Matter from evaporating Primordial Black Holes at DarkSide-50

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. Albuquerque +125

We present a search for boosted dark matter from Primordial Black Holes (PBH) evaporation using the DarkSide-50 ionization-signal-only dataset corresponding to the experiment's ($1…

hep-ph2025★ 5 cited

Dark Matter Attenuation Effects: Sensitivity Ceilings for Spin-Dependent and Spin-Independent Interactions

DMC Collaboration, N. Darvishi, J. Smirnov +27

Direct detection experiments aimed at uncovering the elusive nature of dark matter (DM) have made significant progress in probing ever lower cross-sections for DM-nucleon interacti…

hep-ph2023★ 4 cited

Automated Ring-Diagram Framework for Classifying CP Invariants

Neda Darvishi, Yining Wang, Jiang-Hao Yu

In this study, we introduce a transformative, automated framework for classifying basis invariants in generic field theories. Utilising a novel ring-diagram methodology accompanied…

hep-ph2023★ 12 cited

Introducing the concept of the Widom line in the QCD phase diagram

G. Sordi, A. -M. S. Tremblay

Critical phenomena emerging from the critical end point of a first-order transition are ubiquitous in nature. Here we bring the concept of a supercritical crossover, the Widom line…

hep-ph2023★ 11 cited

Maximising CP Violation in Naturally Aligned Two-Higgs Doublet Models

Neda Darvishi, Apostolos Pilaftsis, Jiang-Hao Yu

The Two-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) is a well-motivated theoretical framework that provides additional sources of CP Violation (CPV) beyond the Standard Model (SM). After studying t…

hep-ph2023★ 7 cited

Higgs interference effects in top-quark pair production in the 1HSM

Andrea Banfi, Nikolas Kauer, Alexander Lind +2

We present a next-to-leading-order (NLO) study of the process in the 1-Higgs-singlet extension of the Standard Model with an addition…

hep-ph2022★ 3 cited

Dark Matter and Neutrino Masses in a Portalino-like Model

Dugald Hepburn, Stephen M. West

We explore a Portalino-like model of dark matter and neutrino masses in which right-handed neutrino fields connect gauge neutral operators from the Standard Model and Hidden Sector…

hep-ph2022★ 84 cited

Dark Photon Stars: Formation and Role as Dark Matter Substructure

Marco Gorghetto, Edward Hardy, John March-Russell +2

Any new vector boson with non-zero mass (a `dark photon' or `Proca boson') that is present during inflation is automatically produced at this time from vacuum fluctuations and can…

hep-ph2022★ 7 cited

A substandard candle: the low- method at few-GeV neutrino energies

Callum Wilkinson, Stephen Dolan, Luke Pickering +1

As accelerator-neutrino oscillation experiments improve oscillation parameter constraints, control over systematic uncertainties on the incoming neutrino flux and interaction model…

hep-ph2022★ 76 cited

Event Generators for High-Energy Physics Experiments

J. M. Campbell, M. Diefenthaler, T. J. Hobbs +209

We provide an overview of the status of Monte-Carlo event generators for high-energy particle physics. Guided by the experimental needs and requirements, we highlight areas of acti…

hep-ph2022★ 8 cited

Off-shell Higgs Interpretations Task Force: Models and Effective Field Theories Subgroup Report

Aleksandr Azatov, Jorge de Blas, Adam Falkowski +8

This report presents the results of the Models and Effective Field Theories Subgroup of the Off-Shell Interpretations Task Force in the LHC Higgs Working Group. The main goal of th…

hep-ph2021★ 50 cited

Publishing statistical models: Getting the most out of particle physics experiments

Kyle Cranmer, Sabine Kraml, Harrison B. Prosper +30

The statistical models used to derive the results of experimental analyses are of incredible scientific value and are essential information for analysis preservation and reuse. In…

hep-ph2021★ 6 cited

Effect of Systematic Uncertainty Estimation on the Muon Anomaly

Glen Cowan

The statistical significance that characterizes a discrepancy between a measurement and theoretical prediction is usually calculated assuming that the statistical and systematic un…

hep-ph2021★ 289 cited

Feebly-Interacting Particles:FIPs 2020 Workshop Report

Prateek Agrawal, Martin Bauer, James Beacham +43

With the establishment and maturation of the experimental programs searching for new physics with sizeable couplings at the LHC, there is an increasing interest in the broader part…

hep-ph2019★ 12 cited

BSM WW production with a jet veto

Luke Arpino, Andrea Banfi, Sebastian Jäger +1

We consider the impact on WW production of the unique dimension-six operator coupling gluons to the Higgs field. In order to study this process, we have to appropriately model the…

hep-ph2019★ 9 cited

Higgs interference effects at the one-loop level in the 1-Higgs-Singlet extension of the Standard Model

Nikolas Kauer, Alexander Lind, Philipp Maierhöfer +1

A detailed study of Higgs interference effects at the one-loop level in the 1-Higgs-Singlet extension of the Standard Model (1HSM) is presented for the WW and tt decay modes with f…

hep-ph2018★ 385 cited

Long-Lived Particles at the Energy Frontier: The MATHUSLA Physics Case

David Curtin, Marco Drewes, Matthew McCullough +85

We examine the theoretical motivations for long-lived particle (LLP) signals at the LHC in a comprehensive survey of Standard Model (SM) extensions. LLPs are a common prediction of…

hep-ph2018★ 25 cited

Vector boson scattering: Recent experimental and theory developments

C. F. Anders, A. Ballestrero, J. Balz +111

This document summarises the talks and discussions happened during the VBSCan Split17 workshop, the first general meeting of the VBSCan COST Action network. This collaboration is a…

hep-ph2016★ 10 cited

Can Tonne-Scale Direct Detection Experiments Discover Nuclear Dark Matter?

A. Butcher, R. Kirk, J. Monroe +1

Models of nuclear dark matter propose that the dark sector contains large composite states consisting of dark nucleons in analogy to Standard Model nuclei. We examine the direct de…

hep-ph2015★ 124 cited

Evidence of sub-nucleonic degrees of freedom in J/ photoproduction in ultraperipheral collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

E. Andrade-II, I. González, A. Deppman +1

We present calculations for the incoherent photoproduction of J/ vector mesons in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions (UPC) in terms of hadronic interactions. This study was c…

hep-ph2015★ 362 cited

Simplified Models for Dark Matter Searches at the LHC

Jalal Abdallah, Henrique Araujo, Alexandre Arbey +94

This document outlines a set of simplified models for dark matter and its interactions with Standard Model particles. It is intended to summarize the main characteristics that thes…

hep-ph2015★ 64 cited

Signatures of Large Composite Dark Matter States

Edward Hardy, Robert Lasenby, John March-Russell +1

We investigate the interactions of large composite dark matter (DM) states with the Standard Model (SM) sector. Elastic scattering with SM nuclei can be coherently enhanced by fact…

hep-ph2015★ 31 cited

Heavy Higgs signal-background interference in gg --> VV in the Standard Model plus real singlet

Nikolas Kauer, Claire O'Brien

For the Standard Model extended with a real scalar singlet field, the modification of the heavy Higgs signal due to interference with the continuum background and the off-shell lig…