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20162026
most citedSearch for production of four top quarks in final states with same-sign or multiple leptons in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

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69 papers

hep-ex2026

A Multimodal Domain-Adversarial Network for Fragmentation Background Suppression in AMS Heavy Nuclei Measurements

Zhen Liu, Valerio Formato, Muhammad Waqas

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) aboard the International Space Station provides high-precision measurements of cosmic-ray nuclei fluxes from charge Z=1 to Z=28 and beyond. Wi…

astro-ph.IM2026

Enhancing Water Cherenkov Detector Arrays through multiPMT Modules

D. Ambrosino, R. Colalillo, V. M. Grieco +6

Water Cherenkov Detectors (WCDs) are pivotal in various scientific fields, including neutrino physics, gamma-ray astronomy, and cosmic-ray research. The detection sensitivity and p…

hep-ph2026

Collectivity Signatures in High-Multiplicity pp Collisions from Hybrid Hydro+Tsallis Modeling of Pion Spectra

Murad Badshah, Haifa I. Alrebdi, Muhammad Waqas +2

The transverse momentum (pT) distributions up to pT = 20 GeV/c for pions produced in the ten different multiplicity classes (MCs) of symmetric pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV have…

hep-ph2025

Thermodynamic Analysis of Transverse Momentum Spectra in Pb-Pb Collisions at 2.76 TeV: Centrality Dependence of Temperature, Freezeout Parameters and Non-Extensitivity

M. Waqas, Hassan Ali Khan, Wolfgang Bietenholz +4

We study properties of Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV in mid-rapidity, , based on data by the ALICE Collaboration. In particular, we examine the transverse momentum ()…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Science Prospects for the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory: SWGO

SWGO Collaboration, P. Abreu, R. Alfaro +303

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is now well established as a key observational approach to address critical topics at the frontiers of astroparticle physics and high-energy astrop…

hep-ex2025

Enhancing Neutrino Reconstruction in Water-Cherenkov Air Shower Arrays Using Multi-Photosensors

J. Alvarez-Muñiz, R. Colalillo, R. Conceição +6

In this article, the potential of water Cherenkov detectors equipped with multi-PMT modules for background-free upward-going neutrino detection and improved direction reconstructio…

nucl-th2025★ 1 cited

Comment on "Evaluation of kinetic freeze-out properties in different relativistic heavy-ion collision systems at \sqrtsNN = 200 GeV'' (Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2025) 140:179) https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06119-0

M. U. Ashraf

The comment raises serious concerns regarding the authors claims about the phase transition from the QGP phase to the hadron gas phase. Additionally, the comment critiques the fund…

hep-ph2024★ 15 cited

Systematic analysis of the pp collisions at LHC energies with Tsallis function

Murad Badshah, Muhammad Waqas, Ahmed M. Khubrani +1

This work focuses on the study of identified hadrons and strange hadrons, recorded by CMS, and light nuclei and their anti-nuclei, recorded by ALICE, at 0.9 TeV, 2.76 TeV, 7 TeV an…

hep-ph2024★ 5 cited

Evolution of Effective Temperature, Kinetic Freeze-out Temperature and transverse flow velocity in pp Collision

Murad Badshah, Muhammad Ajaz, Muhammad Waqas +1

This article focuses on the study of strange hadrons at 0.2 TeV centre of mass energy, recorded by STAR at RHIC, and at 0.9 TeV, 5.02 TeV and 7 TeV, recorded by CMS at LHC, in pp c…

hep-ph2024

Investigating the Bulk Properties of Charged Particles in Different Bins Using a Modified Tsallis Model

Haifa I. Alrebdi, Muhammad Ajaz, Murad Badshah +2

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the double-differential distributions of charged particles in twelve distinct pseudorapidity regions of equal width in co…

hep-ph2024★ 3 cited

Comparative Analysis of Jet and Underlying Event Properties Across Various Models as a Function of Charged Particle Multiplicity at 7 TeV

Maryam Waqar, Haifa I. Alrebdi, Muhammad Waqas +2

In this study, a comprehensive analysis of jets and underlying events as a function of charged particle multiplicity in proton-proton (pp) collisions at a center-of-mass energy of…

hep-ph2024★ 4 cited

Analyzing the Correlation Between Thermal and Kinematic Parameters in Various Multiplicity Classes within 7 and 13 TeV pp Collisions

Muhammad Waqas, Wolfgang Bietenholz, Mohamed Bouzidi +3

We investigate the transverse momentum spectra of identified particles at 7 TeV and 13 TeV in pp collisions in the framework of the blast wave model with Tsallis statistics (TBW).…

hep-ph2024★ 7 cited

Thermodynamic Signatures and Phase Transitions in High-Energy Au-Au Collisions

Murad Badshah, Muhammad Waqas, Muhammad Ajaz +3

In this study, we systematically investigate the dynamics of various hadrons namely \( π^+ \), \( π^- \), \( K^+ \), \( K^- \), \( p \), \( \bar{p} \), \( Λ\), \( \barΛ \), \( Ξ^-…

hep-ph2024★ 7 cited

Multiplicity dependence of the freezeout parameters in high energy hadron-hadron collisions

Muhammad Ajaz, Majid Shehzad, Muhammad Waqas +7

We examined the transverse momentum spectra of various identified particles, across different multiplicity classes in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{…

hep-ex2022★ 26 cited

JUNO Sensitivity on Proton Decay Searches

JUNO Collaboration, Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam +602

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a large liquid scintillator detector designed to explore many topics in fundamental physics. In this paper, the potential on…

hep-ph2022

Analyses of the collective properties of hadronic matter in Au-Au collisions at 54.4 GeV

M. Waqas, G. X. Peng, M. Ajaz +2

We investigated the strange hadrons transverse momentum () spectra in Au-Au collision at = 54.4 GeV in the framework of modified Hagedorn function with embedd…

nucl-th2022★ 8 cited

Investigation of the freeze-out parameters in B-B, O-O, Ca-Ca and Au-Au collisions at 39 GeV

Muhammad Waqas, Guang Xiong Peng, Fu-Hu Liu +2

We analyzed the transverse momentum spectra of proton, deuteron and triton in Boron-Boron (B-B), Oxygen-Oxygen (O-O), and Calcium-Calcium (Ca-Ca) central collisions, as well as in…

hep-ph2022★ 6 cited

Particle species and energy dependencies of freeze-out parameters in high-energy proton-proton collisions

Muhammad Waqas, Guang Xiong Peng, Fu-Hu Liu +4

We used blast wave model with Tsallis statistics to analyze the experimental data measured by ALICE Collaboration in proton-proton collisions at Large Hadron Collider and extracted…

nucl-th2022★ 22 cited

Extraction of different temperatures and kinetic freeze-out volume in high energy collisions

M. Waqas, G. -X. Peng, M. Ajaz +3

We analyze the transverse momentum () spectra, [(1/2) /], of kaon, proton, deuteron and triton in different centrality events in gold-gold…

hep-ph2022★ 23 cited

Pseudorapidity dependence of the spectra of charged hadrons in collisions at = 0.9 and 2.36 TeV

Pei-Pin Yang, Muhammad Ajaz, Muhammad Waqas +2

We report the predictions of different Monte Carlo event generators including HIJING, Pythia, and QGSJETII in comparison with the experimental data measured by the CMS Collaboratio…

hep-ph2022★ 16 cited

Analyzing transverse momentum spectra by a new method in high-energy collisions

Li-Li Li, Fu-Hu Liu, Muhammad Waqas +1

We analyzed the transverse momentum spectra of positively and negatively charged pions ( and ), positively and negatively charged kaons ( and ), protons and ant…

hep-ph2021

Study of pT spectra of light particles using modified Hagedorn function and cosmic rays Monte Carlo event generators in proton-proton collisions at 900 GeV center of mass energy

Muhammad Ajaz, Muhammad Waqas, Guang-Xiong Peng +3

Transverse momentum spectra of charged particles including pions, kaons and (anti-)protons measured by ALICE experiment in the pT range of 0.1-2.5 GeV/c and pseudorapidity less tha…

hep-ph2021

Extraction of freezeout parameters and their dependence on collision energy and collision cross-section

Muhammad Waqas, Guang-Xiong Peng, Muhammad Ajaz +3

We used the Blast wave model with Boltzmann Gibbs statistics and analyzed the experimental data of transverse momentum spectra () measured by NA61/SHINE and NA 49 Collaboratio…

hep-ex2021★ 13 cited

Damping signatures at JUNO, a medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiment

JUNO collaboration, Jun Wang, Jiajun Liao +598

We study damping signatures at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiment. These damping signatures are motivat…