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hep-ph2026

The Radial Mode of Composite Higgs Theories at the LHC

Gustavo Burdman, Marvin M. Janini, Lincoln Pereira +1

We examine the potential of the LHC to observe the scalar radial excitation present in extensions of the standard model where the Higgs boson is a pseudo Nambu Golstone boson. Thes…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

The -decay spectrum of Tritiated graphene: combining nuclear quantum mechanics with Density Functional Theory

Andrea Casale, Angelo Esposito, Guido Menichetti +1

We present the results of a multi-methodological study aimed at investigating the interaction between graphene and Tritium during its -decay to Helium, under different levels of…

hep-ph2025

Towards a Robust Exclusion of the Sterile-Neutrino Explanation of Short-Baseline Anomalies

Ohana Benevides Rodrigues, Matheus Hostert, Kevin J. Kelly +4

The sterile neutrino interpretation of the LSND and MiniBooNE neutrino anomalies is currently being tested at three Liquid Argon detectors: MicroBooNE, SBND, and ICARUS. It has bee…

hep-ph2024

A New Herwig7 Underlying Event Tune: from RHIC to LHC Energies

Umar Sohail Qureshi, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Luke Mozarsky +2

We present parameter sets corresponding to new underlying event tunes for the Herwig7.3 Monte Carlo event generator. The existing Herwig tunes are in good agreement with LHC data,…

hep-ph2024★ 3 cited

Semi-supervised permutation invariant particle-level anomaly detection

Gabriel Matos, Elena Busch, Ki Ryeong Park +1

The development of analysis methods to distinguish potential beyond the Standard Model phenomena in a model-agnostic way can significantly enhance the discovery reach in collider e…

hep-ph2024

Jet Definition and Transverse-Momentum-Dependent Factorization in Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering

Paul Caucal, Edmond Iancu, A. H. Mueller +1

Using the colour dipole picture of Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) and the Colour Glass Condensate effective theory, we study semi-inclusive jet production in DIS at small in t…

hep-ph2023★ 4 cited

Workshop summary -- Kaons@CERN 2023

G. Anzivino, S. Arguedas Cuendis, V. Bernard +60

Kaon physics is at a turning point -- while the rare-kaon experiments NA62 and KOTO are in full swing, the end of their lifetime is approaching and the future experimental landscap…

hep-ph2023

Statement from the American Linear Collider Committee to the P5 subpanel

J. A. Bagger, S. Belomestnykh, P. C. Bhat +15

This statement from the American Linear Collider Committee to the P5 subpanel has three purposes. It presents a brief summary of the case for an Higgs factory that has eme…

hep-ph2023

Probing gluon saturation via diffractive jets in ultra-peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions

E. Iancu, A. H. Mueller, D. N. Triantafyllopoulos +1

We argue that semi-inclusive photo-production of a pair of hard jets via coherent diffraction in nucleus-nucleus ultra-peripheral collisions at high energy is a golden channel to s…

hep-ph2023★ 2 cited

Implications of MicroBooNE's low sensitivity to electron antineutrino interactions in the search for the MiniBooNE excess

Nicholas W. Kamp, Matheus Hostert, Carlos A. Argüelles +2

The MicroBooNE experiment searched for an excess of electron-neutrinos in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB), providing direct constraints on -interpretations of the MiniBooNE lo…

hep-ph2022★ 16 cited

Forward production of prompt neutrinos from charm in the atmosphere and at high energy colliders

Weidong Bai, Milind Diwan, Maria Vittoria Garzelli +3

The high-energy atmospheric neutrino flux is dominated by neutrinos from the decays of charmed hadrons produced in the forward direction by cosmic ray interactions with air nuclei.…

hep-ph2022★ 13 cited

Dark Sector Physics at High-Intensity Experiments

Stefania Gori, Mike Williams, Phil Ilten +10

Is Dark Matter part of a Dark Sector? The possibility of a dark sector neutral under Standard Model (SM) forces furnishes an attractive explanation for the existence of Dark Matter…

hep-ph2022★ 16 cited

Axion-Like Particle Production at Beam Dump Experiments with Distinct Nuclear Excitation Lines

Loyd Waites, Adrian Thompson, Adriana Bungau +6

Searches for axion-like particles (ALPs) are motivated by the strong CP problem in particle physics and by unexplained dark matter in astrophysics. In this letter, we discuss novel…

hep-ph2022★ 21 cited

Dipole-Coupled Neutrissimo Explanations of the MiniBooNE Excess Including Constraints from MINERvA Data

Nicholas W. Kamp, Matheus Hostert, Austin Schneider +5

We revisit models of heavy neutral leptons (neutrissimos) with transition magnetic moments as explanations of the excess of electron-like events at MiniBooNE. We perform a d…

hep-ph2022★ 31 cited

Complementarity of experimental and lattice QCD data on pion parton distributions

P. C. Barry, C. Egerer, J. Karpie +8

We extract pion parton distribution functions (PDFs) in a Monte Carlo global QCD analysis of experimental data together with reduced Ioffe time pseudo-distributions and matrix elem…

hep-ph2022★ 70 cited

Snowmass White Paper: Beyond the Standard Model effects on Neutrino Flavor

C. A. Argüelles, G. Barenboim, M. Bustamante +23

Neutrinos are one of the most promising messengers for signals of new physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM). On the theoretical side, their elusive nature, combined with their un…

hep-ph2022★ 36 cited

Deeply virtual Compton scattering cross section at high Bjorken

F. Georges, M. N. H. Rashad, A. Stefanko +159

We report high-precision measurements of the Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) cross section at high values of the Bjorken variable . DVCS is sensitive to the Generaliz…

hep-ph2021★ 19 cited

Prospects for detecting axionlike particles at the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills experiment

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. S. M. Alves, S. Biedron +45

We show results from the Coherent CAPTAIN Mills (CCM) 2019 engineering run which begin to constrain regions of parameter space for axion-like particles (ALPs) produced in electroma…

hep-ph2021★ 33 cited

Chiral models of composite axions and accidental Peccei-Quinn symmetry

Roberto Contino, Alessandro Podo, Filippo Revello

We introduce a class of composite axion models that provide a natural solution to the strong CP problem, and possibly account for the observed dark matter abundance. The QCD axion…

hep-ph2021★ 48 cited

Probing parton saturation and the gluon dipole via diffractive jet production at the Electron-Ion Collider

E. Iancu, A. H. Mueller, D. N. Triantafyllopoulos

We demonstrate that hard dijet production via coherent inelastic diffraction is a promising channel for probing gluon saturation at the Electron-Ion Collider. By diffra…

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

Shear viscosity at finite baryon densities

Emma McLaughlin, Jacob Rose, Travis Dore +3

We use the excluded volume Hadron Resonance Gas (HRG) model with the most up-to-date hadron list to calculate at low temperatures and at finite baryon densities . This…

hep-ph2021★ 7 cited

High-dimensional Anomaly Detection with Radiative Return in Collisions

Julia Gonski, Jerry Lai, Benjamin Nachman +1

Experiments at a future collider will be able to search for new particles with masses below the nominal centre-of-mass energy by analyzing collisions with initial-stat…

hep-ph2021★ 39 cited

Anomalous Jet Identification via Sequence Modeling

Alan Kahn, Julia Gonski, Inês Ochoa +2

This paper presents a novel method of searching for boosted hadronically decaying objects by treating them as anomalous elements of a contaminated dataset. A Variational Recurrent…