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hep-ph2026

Generation as Compositeness: A Subconstituent Interpretation of the -Lattice Flavor Hierarchy

Vernon Barger

We interpret the -lattice flavor framework as a compositeness hierarchy: all three fermion generations are elementary chiral fields, but third-generation Yukawa couplings are un…

hep-ph2026

Three-flavor supernova neutrino simulation using a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm with qutrits

Daniel J. Heimsoth, A. Baha Balantekin, Pooja Siwach

We simulate a self-interacting three-flavor neutrino system within a core-collapse supernova using a hybrid classical-quantum algorithm on a qutrit computer. Based on the Dirac-Fre…

hep-ph2026★ 1 cited

Two-over-Two Lattice Flavor from a Single Flavon with Three Messenger Chains

Vernon Barger

Flavor hierarchies are organized by a single parameter in a single-flavon Froggatt--Nielsen (FN) framework, in which each effective Yukawa entry arises from the sum…

hep-ph2026

Exploring Long-Range Interactions in the Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations at IceCube DeepCore

Gopal Garg

The IceCube neutrino observatory consists of an array of Digital Optical Modules (DOMs) instrumenting one cubic-kilometer of deep glacial ice at the South Pole. DeepCore, a densely…

hep-ph2026

Study of the internal structure of the Earth using neutrino oscillations at IceCube DeepCore

Sharmistha Chattopadhyay

Earth's mass and internal structure have been primarily studied through gravitational and seismic methods. Neutrinos, however, offer an independent way to explore Earth's interior…

hep-ph2026

Exploring Layered Structure Inside Earth Using Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation at IceCube DeepCore

J Krishnamoorthi

The IceCube detector, using its densely instrumented center, called DeepCore, can detect multi-GeV atmospheric neutrinos. The oscillation pattern of neutrinos is altered due to int…

hep-ph2026

Establishing Earth's Matter Effect in Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations at IceCube DeepCore

Anuj Kumar Upadhyay

The discovery of the non-zero value of has opened an exciting opportunity to probe the Earth's matter effects in three-flavor oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos. These…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

One-flavon flavor: A single hierarchical parameter organizes quarks and leptons at

Vernon Barger

Flavor hierarchies emerge from a single hierarchical parameter in a one-flavon Froggatt--Nielsen scheme. Fixing from charged-lepton ratios ($m_e:m_μ:m_τ\!\propto\!ε^5…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Interpretation of LHC excesses at 95 GeV and 152 GeV in an extended Georgi-Machacek model

Ting-Kuo Chen, Cheng-Wei Chiang, Sven Heinemeyer +1

We analyze the excesses at 95 GeV in the light Higgs-boson searches in the di-photon decay channel reported by CMS and ATLAS, which combined are at the level of three standard devi…

hep-ph2025★ 3 cited

Constraining neutrino electromagnetic properties with recent low-energy electron recoil data at dark matter direct detection experiments

M. Demirci, H. I. Sezer, M. F. Mustamin +1

Neutrinos that are elastically scattered off atomic electrons provide a unique opportunity to investigate the Standard Model (SM) and beyond SM physics. In this work, we explore th…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

A Practical Guide to Unbinned Unfolding

Florencia Canelli, Kyle Cormier, Andrew Cudd +12

Unfolding, in the context of high-energy particle physics, refers to the process of removing detector distortions in experimental data. The resulting unfolded measurements are stra…

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★ 1 cited

Toponia at the HL-LHC and FCC-ee

Yang Bai, Ting-Kuo Chen, Yiming Yang

The hint of a pseudoscalar toponium state at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) opens a new avenue for studying a novel class of QCD (quasi-)bound states with comparable formation and…

hep-ph2025★ 3 cited

Wess-Zumino-Witten Interactions of Axions: Three-Flavor

Yang Bai, Ting-Kuo Chen, Jia Liu +1

We present a complete Lagrangian describing axion interactions with pseudoscalar and (axial-)vector mesons within the three light-flavor quark framework. This formulation incorpora…

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

QCD Vacuum Energy and Its Implication for Quark Nugget Stability

Yang Bai, Ting-Kuo Chen

In this work, we employ both theoretical and data-driven methods to derive the QCD vacuum energy, utilizing the GMOR relation, the low-energy theorem, and the equation of state fro…

hep-ph2025★ 3 cited

Demonstrating the ability of IceCube DeepCore to probe Earth's interior with atmospheric neutrino oscillations

Sharmistha Chattopadhyay, Krishnamoorthi J, Anuj Kumar Upadhyay

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is an optical Cherenkov detector instrumenting one cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole. The Cherenkov photons emitted following a neutrino int…

hep-ph2025

Uncertainties in tellurium-based dark matter searches stemming from nuclear structure uncertainties

Daniel J. Heimsoth, Rebecca Kowalski, Danielle H. Speller +3

Using tellurium dioxide as a target, we calculate uncertainties on 90% upper confidence limits of Galilean effective field theory (Galilean EFT) couplings to a weakly-interacting m…

hep-ph2024

Darkonia at Colliders

Yang Bai, Susanne Westhoff

Dark matter may form bound states in a dark sector with an attractive force between two dark matter particles. Searches for dark matter at colliders can differ dramatically from ro…

hep-ph2024★ 2 cited

Approaching Stable Quark Matter

Yang Bai, Ting-Kuo Chen

The determination of whether the ground state of baryon matter in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the ordinary nucleus or a quark matter state remains a long-standing question in p…

hep-ph2024★ 6 cited

Non-conservation of Lepton Numbers in the Neutrino Sector Could Change the Prospects for Core Collapse Supernova Explosions

Anna M. Suliga, Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong, Julien Froustey +5

We show that interactions violating the conservation of lepton numbers in the neutrino sector could significantly alter the standard low entropy picture for the pre-supernova colla…

hep-ph2024

The π^+π^- Coulomb interaction study and its use in the data processing

B. Adeva, L. Afanasyev, A. Anania +52

In this work the Coulomb effects (Coulomb correlations) in pairs produced in p + Ni collisions at 24 GeV/, are studied using experimental pair distributions in…

hep-ph2024★ 2 cited

ADFilter -- A Web Tool for New Physics Searches With Autoencoder-Based Anomaly Detection Using Deep Unsupervised Neural Networks

Sergei V. Chekanov, Wasikul Islam, Rui Zhang +1

A web-based tool called ADFilter was developed to process collision events using autoencoders based on a deep unsupervised neural network. The autoencoders are trained on a small f…

hep-ph2024★ 3 cited

Energy-scaling behavior of intrinsic transverse momentum parameters in Drell-Yan simulation

CMS Collaboration

An analysis is presented based on models of the intrinsic transverse momentum (intrinsic ) of partons in nucleons by studying the dilepton transverse momentum in Drel…