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Orbital Angular Momentum as a Transverse Probe of Elliptic Small- Gluon Tomography
Wei Kou, Xurong Chen
We propose a new way to probe elliptic small- gluon geometry in hard diffractive dijet deep inelastic scattering: a localized lepton wave packet carrying orbital angular momentu…
A Lawson-inspired Cycle-Closure Criterion for Deuterium--Tritium Muon-Catalyzed Fusion
Wei Kou, Xurong Chen
Deuterium--tritium muon-catalyzed fusion is limited by a cycle-closure problem: a negative muon must complete enough catalytic cycles before decay or effective alpha sticking remov…
Twisting Small- Gluon Tomography with Orbital Angular Momentum
Wei Kou, Xurong Chen
We propose an orbital-angular-momentum-resolved extension of small- gluon tomography in hard diffractive dijet deep inelastic scattering. In the standard plane-wave setup, the e…
External-Field-Assisted Muon Reactivation in Muon-Catalyzed Fusion: A Rate-Network Criterion for Reducing Alpha Sticking
Wei Kou, Xurong Chen
Alpha sticking is a major loss channel in deuterium--tritium muon-catalyzed fusion. We study whether an additional external-field-assisted stripping channel can reduce the residual…
Muon-Catalyzed Nuclear Fusion: Physical Mechanism, Bottleneck Breakthroughs, and an Engineering Pathway
Xiong Yin, Wei Kou, Xurong Chen
Muon-catalyzed nuclear fusion (\mucf) replaces atomic electrons with negative muons, compressing atomic orbitals by about two orders of magnitude and enabling deuterium--tritium (D…
Probing Proton Structure via Physics-Guided Neural Networks in Holographic QCD
Wei Kou, Xurong Chen
Describing the proton structure function across the nonperturbative and transition regimes of QCD remains a major theoretical challenge. We construct a physics-guided…
Probing a Fifth Force in Muonic Atoms through Lamb Shifts and Hyperfine Structure
Xiaoxuan Lin, Qian Wu, Wei Kou +1
Motivated by the ATOMKI anomalies in 8Be and 4He transitions, we study X17-induced Lamb shifts and hyperfine splittings in muonic atoms with stable nuclei up to Z <= 15. The bound-…
Extraction of the color dipole amplitude with physics-informed neural networks
Wei Kou, Xurong Chen
The process-independence of the color dipole amplitude is a cornerstone of high-energy Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). However, standard phenomenological approaches typically rely on…