Maria Laura Piscopo

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20192026

most citedSolving differential equations with neural networks: Applications to the calculation of cosmological phase transitions

126 citations · 274 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

hep-ph2026

Enhanced Standard Model bound on charm CP violation from QCD penguins

Ali Mohamed, Maria Laura Piscopo

We investigate the impact of QCD penguin operators on direct CP violation in singly Cabibbo-suppressed $D^{0}$ decays within the framework of light-cone sum rules (LCSR) using pion a…

hep-ph2026

A Standard Model analysis of $D^{0} \to π^{-} π^{+}, K^{-} K^{+}, K_{S}^{0} K_{S}^{0}$

Robert Fleischer, Maria Laura Piscopo, K. Keri Vos +1

We investigate the Standard Model (SM) description of the singly Cabibbo-suppressed charm decays $D^{0} \to π^{-} π^{+}$ , $D^{0} \to K^{-} K^{+}$ and $D^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} K_{S}^{0}$ . Using factori…

hep-ph2026

Predictions for $b$ -baryon lifetimes at NNLO-QCD

Alexander Lenz, Maria Laura Piscopo, Aleksey V. Rusov

Motivated by recent and forthcoming experimental progress, we provide updated predictions for the total decay rates of $b$ -baryons, their lifetime ratios and their lifetimes normal…

hep-ph2025

Standard Model Benchmarks for $D^{0} \to K^{-} K^{+}, π^{-} π^{+}, K_{S}^{0} K_{S}^{0}$ Decays

Robert Fleischer, Maria Laura Piscopo, K. Keri Vos +1

The non-leptonic $D^{0} \to K^{-} K^{+}$ and $D^{0} \to π^{-} π^{+}$ decays are powerful probes of the Standard Model and are related to each other through the $U$ -spin symmetry of the strong int…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

$B$ -meson decay width up to $1/ m_{b}^{3}$ corrections within and beyond the Standard Model

Martin Lang, Alexander Lenz, Ali Mohamed +2

Starting from the most general effective $∣Δ B ∣ = 1$ Hamiltonian describing non-leptonic $b$ -quark decays $b \to q_{1} q ˉ_{2} q_{3}$ , we compute analytic expressions for all matching c…

hep-ex2025★ 8 cited

Physics Briefing Book: Input for the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

Jorge de Blas, Monica Dunford, Emanuele Bagnaschi +127

The European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) reflects the vision and presents concrete plans of the European particle physics community for advancing human knowledge in fundam…

hep-ph2025

Charm physics

David Friday, Evelina Gersabeck, Alexander Lenz +1

50 years after the discovery of the first charmed particle, charm physics continues to be an extremely lively field of research and a cornerstone in particle physics. The study of…

hep-ph2025

Kaon Physics: A Cornerstone for Future Discoveries

Jason Aebischer, Atakan Tugberk Akmete, Riccardo Aliberti +153

The kaon physics programme, long heralded as a cutting-edge frontier by the European Strategy for Particle Physics, continues to stand at the intersection of discovery and innovati…

hep-ph2024

Total decay rates of $B$ mesons at NNLO-QCD

Manuel Egner, Matteo Fael, Alexander Lenz +4

We update the Standard Model (SM) predictions for the lifetimes of the $B^{+}$ , $B_{d}$ and $B_{s}$ mesons within the heavy quark expansion (HQE), including the recently determined NNLO-…

hep-ph2024

Towards a SM prediction for CP violation in charm

Alexander Lenz, Maria Laura Piscopo, Aleksey V. Rusov

We provide an overview of the current experimental and theoretical status of charm CP violation and discuss recent progress in obtaining a Standard Model prediction for $Δa_{\rm CP…

hep-ph2023

Two body non-leptonic $D^{0}$ decays from LCSR and implications for $Δ a_{CP}^{dir}$

Alexander Lenz, Maria Laura Piscopo, Aleksey V. Rusov

Motivated by the recent measurements of CP violating effects in singly Cabibbo suppressed $D^{0}$ decays, we revisit the theoretical predictions of these channels. Using up-to-date v…

hep-ph2023★ 2 cited

Non-factorisable effects in the decays $B ˉ_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{+} π^{-}$ and $B ˉ^{0} \to D^{+} K^{-}$ from LCSR

Maria Laura Piscopo, Aleksey Rusov

In light of the current discrepancies between the recent predictions based on QCD factorisation (QCDF) and the experimental data for several non-leptonic colour-allowed two-body $B…

hep-ph2023

Status of the lifetimes of heavy hadrons within the HQE

Maria Laura Piscopo

We present the theoretical status of the lifetimes of weakly decaying heavy hadrons containing a bottom or a charm quark, and discuss the current predictions, based on the framewor…

hep-ph2023★ 11 cited

Quark-hadron duality at work: lifetimes of bottom baryons

James Gratrex, Alexander Lenz, Blaženka Melić +3

In the 1990s, very low experimental values for the lifetime ratio $τ (Λ_{b}) / τ (B_{d})$ triggered a considerable amount of doubt in the applicability of the heavy quark expansion (HQE),…

hep-ph2022★ 2 cited

Taming New Physics in $b \to c u ˉ d (s)$ with $τ (B^{+}) / τ (B_{d})$ and $a_{s l}^{d}$

Alexander Lenz, Jakob Müller, Maria Laura Piscopo +1

Inspired by the recently observed tensions between the experimental data and the theoretical predictions, based on QCD factorisation, for several colour-allowed non-leptonic $B$ -me…

hep-ph2022★ 32 cited

Disintegration of beauty: a precision study

Alexander Lenz, Maria Laura Piscopo, Aleksey V. Rusov

We update the Standard Model (SM) predictions for $B$ -meson lifetimes within the heavy quark expansion (HQE). Including for the first time the contribution of the Darwin operator,…

hep-ph2021

Higher Order Corrections To The Lifetime Of Heavy Hadrons

Maria Laura Piscopo

In this work we discuss the theoretical status for the study of the lifetime of heavy hadrons. After presenting some introductory topics like the effective weak Hamiltonian and the…

hep-ph2021★ 37 cited

Revisiting Inclusive Decay Widths of Charmed Mesons

Daniel King, Alexander Lenz, Maria Laura Piscopo +3

Determining for the first time the Darwin operator contribution for the non-leptonic charm-quark decays and using new non-perturbative results for the matrix elements of $Δ C = 0$ fou…

hep-ph2020★ 25 cited

Renormalisation scale setting for D-mixing

Alexander Lenz, Maria Laura Piscopo, Christos Vlahos

A naive application of the heavy quark expansion (HQE) yields theory estimates for the decay rate of neutral $D$ mesons that are four orders of magnitude below the experimental det…

hep-ph2020★ 30 cited

Contribution of the Darwin operator to non-leptonic decays of heavy quarks

Alexander Lenz, Maria Laura Piscopo, Aleksey V. Rusov

We compute the Darwin operator contribution ( $1/ m_{b}^{3}$ correction) to the width of the inclusive non-leptonic decay of a $B$ meson ( $B^{+}$ , $B_{d}$ or $B_{s}$ ), stemming from the quark…

hep-ph2019★ 126 cited

Solving differential equations with neural networks: Applications to the calculation of cosmological phase transitions

Maria Laura Piscopo, Michael Spannowsky, Philip Waite

Starting from the observation that artificial neural networks are uniquely suited to solving optimisation problems, and most physics problems can be cast as an optimisation task, w…

Enhanced Standard Model bound on charm CP violation from QCD penguins

A Standard Model analysis of D0→π−π+,K−K+,KS0​KS0​

Predictions for b-baryon lifetimes at NNLO-QCD

Standard Model Benchmarks for D0→K−K+,π−π+,KS0​KS0​ Decays

B-meson decay width up to 1/mb3​ corrections within and beyond the Standard Model

Physics Briefing Book: Input for the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

Charm physics

Kaon Physics: A Cornerstone for Future Discoveries

Total decay rates of B mesons at NNLO-QCD

Towards a SM prediction for CP violation in charm

Two body non-leptonic D0 decays from LCSR and implications for ΔaCPdir​

Non-factorisable effects in the decays Bˉs0​→Ds+​π− and Bˉ0→D+K− from LCSR

Status of the lifetimes of heavy hadrons within the HQE

Quark-hadron duality at work: lifetimes of bottom baryons

Taming New Physics in b→cuˉd(s) with τ(B+)/τ(Bd​) and asld​

Disintegration of beauty: a precision study

Higher Order Corrections To The Lifetime Of Heavy Hadrons

Revisiting Inclusive Decay Widths of Charmed Mesons

Renormalisation scale setting for D-mixing

Contribution of the Darwin operator to non-leptonic decays of heavy quarks

Solving differential equations with neural networks: Applications to the calculation of cosmological phase transitions

A Standard Model analysis of $D^{0} \to π^{-} π^{+}, K^{-} K^{+}, K_{S}^{0} K_{S}^{0}$

Predictions for $b$ -baryon lifetimes at NNLO-QCD

Standard Model Benchmarks for $D^{0} \to K^{-} K^{+}, π^{-} π^{+}, K_{S}^{0} K_{S}^{0}$ Decays

$B$ -meson decay width up to $1/ m_{b}^{3}$ corrections within and beyond the Standard Model

Total decay rates of $B$ mesons at NNLO-QCD

Two body non-leptonic $D^{0}$ decays from LCSR and implications for $Δ a_{CP}^{dir}$

Non-factorisable effects in the decays $B ˉ_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{+} π^{-}$ and $B ˉ^{0} \to D^{+} K^{-}$ from LCSR

Taming New Physics in $b \to c u ˉ d (s)$ with $τ (B^{+}) / τ (B_{d})$ and $a_{s l}^{d}$