collaborators

6 papers

hep-ph2026

Toponia at the HL-LHC and FCC-ee

Yang Bai, Ting-Kuo Chen, Yiming Yang

The hint of a pseudoscalar toponium state at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) opens a new avenue for studying a novel class of QCD (quasi-)bound states with comparable formation and…

hep-ph2026

QCD Vacuum Energy and Its Implication for Quark Nugget Stability

Yang Bai, Ting-Kuo Chen

In this work, we employ both theoretical and data-driven methods to derive the QCD vacuum energy, utilizing the GMOR relation, the low-energy theorem, and the equation of state fro…

hep-ph2026

Baryoid Dark Matter from Domain Walls: The origin of the dark matter-baryon coincidence

Yang Bai, Ting-Kuo Chen

We propose an explanation for the dark matter-baryon coincidence based on collapsing domain walls, which form a novel compact baryonic state: the baryoid. A baryoid…

hep-ph2026

Wess-Zumino-Witten Interactions of Axions: Three-Flavor

Yang Bai, Ting-Kuo Chen, Jia Liu +1

We present a complete Lagrangian describing axion interactions with pseudoscalar and (axial-)vector mesons within the three light-flavor quark framework. This formulation incorpora…

hep-ph2026

Approaching Stable Quark Matter

Yang Bai, Ting-Kuo Chen

The determination of whether the ground state of baryon matter in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the ordinary nucleus or a quark matter state remains a long-standing question in p…

hep-lat2025

Flow-based Nonperturbative Simulation of First-order Phase Transitions

Yang Bai, Ting-Kuo Chen

We present a flow-based method for simulating and calculating nucleation rates of first-order phase transitions in scalar field theory on a lattice. Motivated by recent advancement…