High Energy Physics - Experiment
We report an experimental investigation of the reactions $\bar{n} p \to 2\pi^{+}\pi^{-}$, $\bar{n} p \to 2\pi^{+}\pi^{-}\pi^{0}$, and $\bar{n} p \to 2\pi^{+}\pi^{-}2\pi^{0}$ using $(10.087 \pm 0.044) \times 10^{9}$ $J/\psi$ events collected…
Scalar-mediated interactions may exist among neutrinos, dark matter particles, or between the two. Double $\beta$-decay experiments provide a powerful tool to probe such exotic interactions. Using $^{136}$Xe double $\beta$-decay data from…
Differential top quark pair production cross sections are measured in the dilepton final states e$^+$e$^-$, $\mu^+\mu^-$, and e$^\pm\mu^\mp$, as a function of kinematic variables of the two-neutrino system: the transverse momentum…
A search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson into a pair of low-mass scalars that subsequently decay into $\tau$-leptons, $H\rightarrow aa\rightarrow \tau^+\tau^-\tau^+\tau^-$, is presented. In models with Yukawa-like couplings, the decay…
Template histograms are the foundation of statistical inference at the Large Hadron Collider. The HistFactory likelihood encodes template uncertainty through per-bin Barlow-Beeston gamma factors for Monte Carlo statistical error and through…
Soft unclustered energy patterns (SUEPs) refer to high-multiplicity, isotropic distributions of low-momentum particles that could arise in strongly-coupled hidden sector theories. A search for SUEPs whose decay products contain muons in the…
Using 44.55 fb$^{-1}$ of $e^+e^-$ collision data collected by the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider, we report the first measurement of the Born cross sections for the $e^+e^- \to K^+\Xi^0\bar\Sigma^-$ reaction at fifty-six…
We present a novel experimental strategy for testing quantum entanglement in Higgs boson decays to $W$ boson pairs at the Large Hadron Collider. Unlike theoretical approaches that rely on expectation values of Bell operators, which are…
A search for Higgs boson (H) decays into a pair of neutral scalars $\phi_1$ and $\phi_2$, with $\phi_2$ heavier than $\phi_1$, is performed in final states with b quarks and tau leptons. Depending on the masses of the neutral scalars,…
Inclusive, differential and production-mode cross-section measurements of the Higgs boson are performed in the $H \to ZZ^{*} \to 4\ell$ decay channel. The analysis uses proton-proton collision data produced at the Large Hadron Collider at a…
A fast simulation of the detector response is a vital task in high-energy physics (HEP). Traditional Monte-Carlo methods form the backbone of modern particle physics simulation software but are computationally expensive. We present a…
Spin dependent phenomena in inclusive hadron production have been extensively investigated, yet their microscopic origin and universality across different hadrons are still not fully understood. In particular, it is presently unknown…
The BESIII experiment is currently the world's only electron-positron collider operating in the tau-charm physical energy region. Since starting data taking in 2009, BESIII has accumulated the world's largest data set in the center-of-mass…
A search for $CP$ violation with an entangled system of $\Xi^-\bar\Xi^+$ pairs is performed, using $(10,087\pm44)\times10^{6}$ $J/\psi$ events collected with the BESIII experiment. A nine-dimensional helicity amplitude is used to fit…
An amplitude analysis of the $B^0 \rightarrow \eta_{c}(1S) K^+ \pi^- $ decays with $\eta_{c}(1S) \to p \bar{p}$ is performed using a sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9$\text{fb}^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data collected by…
Particle identification at the Super Charm-Tau factory experiment will be provided by a Focusing Aerogel Ring Imaging CHerenkov detector (FARICH). The specifics of detector location make proper cooling difficult, therefore a significant…
Flavour Changing Neutral Current (FCNC) decays are forbidden at lowest perturbative order in the Standard Model (SM) and only allowed via quantum loops. These transitions are therefore heavily suppressed in the SM, and New Physics (NP) can…
Using $(2712.4 \pm 14.3) \times 10^6~\psi(3686)$ events collected by the BESIII detector operating at the BEPCII collider, the hadronic decay $\eta_{c}\to\Sigma^{0}\bar{\Sigma^{0}}$ is observed for the first time via the radiative…
Recently, the JUNO experiment published its measurement of the solar neutrino oscillation parameters $\Delta m^2_{21}$ and $\sin^2\theta_{12}$ based on 59 days of data, with central values differing by $0.2\sigma$ from those released by the…
A search is presented for the production of two additional Higgs bosons from an off-shell Z boson, where both additional particles decay to $\tau$ lepton pairs. The search is performed with a data sample collected with the CMS detector from…