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hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Complementary Planetary Spectroscopy Probes of Dark Matter

Carlos Blanco, Rebecca K. Leane, Marianne Moore +1

We investigate dark matter (DM) interactions via spectroscopic signatures of energy injection in planetary environments. We develop a general framework to account for how DM energy…

hep-ph2025★ 5 cited

Dark Matter Velocity Distributions for Direct Detection: Astrophysical Uncertainties are Smaller Than They Appear

Dylan Folsom, Carlos Blanco, Mariangela Lisanti +3

The sensitivity of direct detection experiments depends on the phase-space distribution of dark matter near the Sun, which can be modeled theoretically using cosmological hydrodyna…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Physics with high-luminosity proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC

D. d'Enterria, C. A. Flett, I. Grabowska-Bold +29

The physics case for the operation of high-luminosity proton-nucleus () collisions during Run 3 and 4 at the LHC is reviewed. The collection of (1-10 pb) of…

hep-ph2025

Probing fluctuating protons using forward neutrons in soft and hard inelastic proton-nucleus scattering

M. Alvioli, V. Guzey, M. Strikman

We present a model for the distribution of the number of forward neutrons emitted in soft (minimum bias) and hard inelastic proton-nucleus () scattering at the LHC. It is based…

hep-ph2025

Small resummation of photon impact factors and the high energy scattering

Dimitri Colferai

I present the renormalization group improved collinear resummation of the photon-gluon impact factors. We construct the resummed cross section for virtual photon-photon ()…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

Composite asymmetric dark matter with a dark photon portal: Multimessenger tests

Saikat Das, Ayuki Kamada, Takumi Kuwahara +2

Composite asymmetric dark matter (ADM) is the framework that naturally explains the coincidence of the baryon density and the dark matter density of the Universe. Through a portal…

hep-ph2024★ 5 cited

Cosmic-Ray Cooling in Active Galactic Nuclei as a New Probe of Inelastic Dark Matter

R. Andrew Gustafson, Gonzalo Herrera, Mainak Mukhopadhyay +2

We present a novel way to probe inelastic dark matter using cosmic-ray (CR) cooling in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Dark matter (DM) in the vicinity of supermassive black holes m…

hep-ph2024★ 10 cited

Probing superheavy dark matter through lunar radio observations of ultrahigh-energy neutrinos and the impacts of neutrino cascades

Saikat Das, Jose Alonso Carpio, Kohta Murase

Ultrahigh-energy neutrinos (UHEs) can be used as a valuable probe of superheavy dark matter above GeV, the latter being difficult to probe with collider and direct d…

hep-ph2024

Nuclear suppression of coherent photoproduction in heavy-ion UPCs and leading twist nuclear shadowing

V. Guzey, M. Strikman

We determine the nuclear suppression factor , where with the mass and the photon-nucleon energy, for the cross section of…

hep-ph2024

Suppression of diffraction in deep-inelastic scattering on nuclei and dynamical mechanism of leading twist nuclear shadowing

V. Guzey, M. Strikman

Using the leading twist approach (LTA) to nuclear shadowing, we calculate the ratios of diffractive and usual parton distributions for a heavy nucleus (Pb) and the proton, $R_{A/p}…

hep-ph2024

Slicing Pomerons in ultraperipheral collisions using forward neutrons from nuclear breakup

M. Alvioli, V. Guzey, M. Strikman

We argue that measurements of forward neutrons from nuclear breakup in inclusive high energy photon-nucleus () scattering provide a novel way to study small- dynamics of QCD…

hep-ph2024★ 16 cited

Transverse momentum moments

Oscar del Rio, Alexei Prokudin, Ignazio Scimemi +1

We establish robust relations between Transverse Momentum Dependent distributions (TMDs) and collinear distributions. We define weighted integrals of TMDs that we call Transverse M…

hep-ph2023★ 6 cited

Constraints on metastable superheavy dark matter coupled to sterile neutrinos with the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +368

Dark matter particles could be superheavy, provided their lifetime is much longer than the age of the universe. Using the sensitivity of the Pierre Auger Observatory to ultra-high…

hep-ph2023★ 6 cited

Detecting High-Energy Neutrinos from Galactic Supernovae with ATLAS

Alex Y. Wen, Carlos A. Argüelles, Ali Kheirandish +1

We show that ATLAS, a collider detector, can measure the flux of high-energy supernova neutrinos, which can be produced from days to months after the explosion. Using Monte Carlo s…

hep-ph2023★ 28 cited

First simultaneous global QCD analysis of dihadron fragmentation functions and transversity parton distribution functions

C. Cocuzza, A. Metz, D. Pitonyak +3

We perform a comprehensive study within quantum chromodynamics (QCD) of dihadron observables in electron-positron annihilation, semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering, and proton…

hep-ph2023★ 22 cited

Probing Light Dark Matter through Cosmic-Ray Cooling in Active Galactic Nuclei

Gonzalo Herrera, Kohta Murase

Recent observations of high-energy neutrinos from active galactic nuclei (AGN), NGC 1068 and TXS 0506+056, suggest that cosmic rays (CRs) are accelerated in the vicinity of the cen…

hep-ph2023★ 29 cited

Transversity distributions and tensor charges of the nucleon: extraction from dihadron production and their universal nature

C. Cocuzza, A. Metz, D. Pitonyak +3

We perform the first global quantum chromodynamics (QCD) analysis of dihadron production for a comprehensive set of data in electron-positron annihilation, semi-inclusive deep-inel…

hep-ph2023★ 17 cited

Forward Neutrinos from Charm at Large Hadron Collider

Atri Bhattacharya, Felix Kling, Ina Sarcevic +1

The currently operating FASER experiment and the planned Forward Physics Facility (FPF) will detect a large number of neutrinos produced in proton-proton collisions at the LHC. In…

hep-ph2023★ 1 cited

Small- Quark and Gluon Helicity Contributions to the Proton Spin Puzzle

Yossathorn Tawabutr

A small- helicity evolution has been derived in 2016-18 and received an important modification in 2022. This article discusses its general framework and summarizes the recent th…

hep-ph2023★ 4 cited

Color Reconnection Effects in Hadroproduction

Piotr Kotko, Leszek Motyka, Anna Stasto

We investigate production of mesons in hadron-hadron collisions, defined as low invariant mass singlets produced in a mixture of perturbative and nonperturbative m…

hep-ph2023★ 1 cited

Photoproduction of with neutron tagging in ultra-peripheral collisions of nuclei at RHIC and the LHC

E. Kryshen, M. Strikman, M. Zhalov

We present predictions for the cross sections of the coherent and incoherent photoproduction in ultra-peripheral collisions at RHIC and at the LHC calculated for different cl…

hep-ph2023★ 26 cited

Tomography of pions and protons via transverse momentum dependent distributions

P. C. Barry, L. Gamberg, W. Melnitchouk +4

We perform the first simultaneous extraction of parton collinear and transverse degrees of freedom from low-energy fixed-target Drell-Yan data in order to compare the transverse mo…

hep-ph2023★ 4 cited

LHC Run-3, Yukawa Unification and Dark Matter Implications in SUSY 4-2-2 model

Waqas Ahmed, Mohamed Belfkir, Salah Nasri +2

We revisit the bottom and Yukawa coupling unification in supersymmetric -- model and present for the first time the sbottom-neutralino co-annihilation scenario consist…

hep-ph2022★ 1 cited

Hot Spot model of Nucleon and Double Parton Scattering

B. Blok, R. Segev, M. Strikman

We calculate the rate of double parton scattering (DPS) in proton - proton collisions in the framework of the recently proposed hot spot model of the nucleon structure. The resulti…