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most citedSp(4) gauge theory on the lattice: towards SU(4)/Sp(4) composite Higgs (and beyond)

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hep-lat2026

Ergodic topology sampling toward the continuum with Stochastic Normalizing Flows

Claudio Bonanno, Andrea Bulgarelli, Elia Cellini +4

In this work we provide numerical evidence that topological freezing in Yang-Mills theory can be mitigated with a flow-based approach, as tested at lattice spacing…

hep-lat2026

Progress on lattice theories with Grid: Möbius domain wall fermions and continuum extrapolations

Gianmarco Simonetti, Ed Bennett, Peter A. Boyle +10

We present preliminary results obtained in the first extensive study of the Möbius domain wall fermion (MDWF) lattice formulation of the four-dimensional Sp(4) gauge theory coupled…

hep-lat2026

Symplectic lattice gauge theories in the Grid framework: domain wall fermions and continuum extrapolations

Ed Bennett, Peter A. Boyle, Luigi Del Debbio +10

We report the results of the first numerical lattice study using domain-wall fermions in the Sp(4) gauge theory coupled to two flavours of (Dirac) fermions, transforming in the fun…

hep-lat2026

Resonant scattering in two-flavored Sp(4) lattice gauge theories

Ed Bennett, Yannick Dengler, Deog Ki Hong +8

We apply Lüscher's method to the vector channel of the scattering amplitude of Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone-Bosons (PNGBs), in the lattice gauge theory coupled to flavors…

hep-lat2026

Lattice studies of chimera baryons in Sp(4) gauge theory

Jong-Wan Lee, Ed Bennett, Luigi Del Debbio +10

We study chimera baryons, fermion bound states composed of two (hyper)quarks transforming in the fundamental and one in the antisymmetric representation of a non-Abelian gauge grou…

hep-lat2026

Vector-channel scattering of dark particles in a Sp(4) gauge theory

Jong-Wan Lee, Ed Bennett, Yannick Dengler +8

We report new results obtained in our lattice studies of the gauge theory coupled to two fundamental Dirac fermions. This theory provides a candidate for the dynamical orig…

hep-lat2026

Finite-temperature Sp(4) Yang-Mills theory: towards the continuum

Fabian Zierler, Ed Bennett, Biagio Lucini +4

We present numerical results obtained in a finite-temperature study of the Sp(4) Yang-Mills theory on the lattice. We study its first-order confinement/deconfinement phase transiti…

hep-lat2026

A scalable flow-based approach to mitigate topological freezing

Claudio Bonanno, Andrea Bulgarelli, Elia Cellini +4

As lattice gauge theories with non-trivial topological features are driven towards the continuum limit, standard Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations suffer for topological freezin…

hep-lat2025★ 2 cited

Scaling flow-based approaches for topology sampling in gauge theory

Claudio Bonanno, Andrea Bulgarelli, Elia Cellini +4

We develop a methodology based on out-of-equilibrium simulations to mitigate topological freezing when approaching the continuum limit of lattice gauge theories. We reduce the auto…

hep-lat2025

Finite-temperature Yang-Mills theories with the density of states method: towards the continuum limit

Ed Bennett, Biagio Lucini, David Mason +4

A first-order, confinement/deconfinement phase transition appears in the finite temperature behavior of many non-Abelian gauge theories. These theories play an important role in pr…

hep-lat2025

Chimera baryons and mesons on the lattice: a spectral density analysis

Ed Bennett, Luigi Del Debbio, Niccolò Forzano +10

We develop and test a spectral-density analysis method, based on the introduction of smeared energy kernels, to extract physical information from two-point correlation functions co…

hep-lat2025

Progress on lattice study of the chimera baryon spectrum in Sp(4) gauge theory

C. -J. David Lin, Ed Bennett, Niccolò Forzano +7

Investigation of composite Higgs models (CHMs) is of importance in contemporary particle physics. In this article, we present lattice computations of the chimera baryon masses in $…

hep-lat2024

Meson spectroscopy in the gauge theory with three antisymmetric fermions

Ed Bennett, Deog Ki Hong, Ho Hsiao +5

We report the results of an extensive numerical study of the lattice gauge theory with three (Dirac) flavors of fermion in the two-index antisymmetric representation. In th…

hep-lat2024

The imaginary- dependence of the SU() spectrum

Claudio Bonanno, Claudio Bonati, Mario Papace +1

In this talk we will report on a study of the -dependence of the string tension and of the mass gap of four-dimensional SU() Yang--Mills theories. The spectrum at and $…

hep-lat2024

Progress on the spectroscopy of an Sp(4) gauge theory coupled to matter in multiple representations

Ho Hsiao, Ed Bennett, Niccolò Forzano +7

We report progress on our lattice calculations for the mass spectra of low-lying composite states in the Sp(4) gauge theory coupled to two and three flavors of Dirac fermions trans…

hep-lat2024

Topological susceptibility of pure-gauge theory from out-of-equilibrium simulations

Claudio Bonanno, Alessandro Nada, Davide Vadacchino

In \textit{JHEP} \textbf{04} (2024) 126 [arXiv:2402.06561] we recently proposed an out-of-equilibrium setup to reduce the large auto-correlations of the topological charge in two-d…

hep-lat2024

Updates on the density of states method in finite temperature symplectic gauge theories

David Mason, Ed Bennett, Biagio Lucini +4

First-order phase transitions in the early universe have rich phenomenological implications, such as the production of a potentially detectable signal of stochastic relic backgroun…

hep-lat2024

Progress on the spectroscopy of lattice gauge theories using spectral densities

Ed Bennett, Luigi Del Debbio, Niccolò Forzano +10

Spectral densities encode non-perturbative information crucial in computing physical observables in strongly coupled field theories. Using lattice gauge theory data, we perform a s…

hep-lat2024

Progress on pseudoscalar flavour-singlets in Sp(4) with mixed fermion representations

Fabian Zierler, Ed Bennett, Niccolò Forzano +7

We measure the masses of the pseudoscalar flavour-singlet meson states in the gauge theory coupled to two Dirac fermions transforming in the fundamental representation and…

hep-lat2024★ 1 cited

The density of states method for symplectic gauge theories at finite temperature

Ed Bennett, Biagio Lucini, David Mason +3

We study the finite-temperature behaviour of the Yang-Mills lattice theory in four dimensions, by applying the Logarithmic Linear Relaxation (LLR) algorithm. We demonstrate…

hep-lat2024

Mixing between flavor singlets in lattice gauge theories coupled to matter fields in multiple representations

Ed Bennett, Niccolò Forzano, Deog Ki Hong +7

We provide the first extensive, numerical study of the non-trivial problem of mixing between flavor-singlet composite states emerging in strongly coupled lattice field theories wit…

hep-lat2024

Meson spectroscopy from spectral densities in lattice gauge theories

Ed Bennett, Luigi Del Debbio, Niccolò Forzano +10

Spectral densities encode non-perturbative information that enters the calculation of a plethora of physical observables in strongly coupled field theories. Phenomenological applic…

hep-lat2024

Mitigating topological freezing using out-of-equilibrium simulations

Claudio Bonanno, Alessandro Nada, Davide Vadacchino

Motivated by the recently-established connection between Jarzynski's equality and the theoretical framework of Stochastic Normalizing Flows, we investigate a protocol relying on ou…

hep-lat2024

The -dependence of the Yang-Mills spectrum from analytic continuation

Claudio Bonanno, Claudio Bonati, Mario Papace +1

We study the -dependence of the string tension and of the lightest glueball mass in four-dimensional Yang-Mills theories. More precisely, we focus on the coeffi…