High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

We present predictions for the ultraperipheral heavy-ion reaction ${\rm Pb} {\rm Pb} \to {\rm Pb} {\rm Pb} D \bar{D}$, where $D$ refers to either $D^0$ or $D^+$, limiting to low invariant mass of $D \bar{D}$ and at energies available at the…

Recent progress in experimental facilities, together with larger data samples and more refined analysis strategies has enabled the observation of many exotic hadronic states, adding new members to the hadron spectrum. Each newly reported…

We derive the factorization theorem for the quasi-transverse-momentum-dependent (quasi-TMD) correlator, including kinematic power corrections to all orders. The resulting expression involves only twist-two TMD distributions and is frame…

The study of dilepton emission from hot hadronic matter provides a unique probe of the medium properties in heavy-ion collisions. In strong magnetic fields expected in non-central collisions, the emission spectrum can develop anisotropic…

Since its discovery, global polarization of the $\Lambda$ hyperon in heavy-ion collisions has been firmly established and is widely attributed to the large vorticity generated in the rotating quark-gluon plasma. In contrast, nearly fifty…

We investigate the lineshape of the $e^{+}e^{-}\to J/\psi\,\pi^{+}\pi^{-}$ cross section in the vicinity of the $D^{*}\bar{D}+c.c.$ threshold, where the ``so-called" $G(3900)$ is observed in the $e^+e^-\to D\bar{D}$ channel. To take into…

Tree-level lepton-flavor-violating decays induced by Lorentz-violating effects within the Yukawa sector of the Standard Model Extension are studied. These new physics effects are parameterized by the $(Y_{f})_{\mu\nu}^{AB}$ tensor, with…

This paper investigates the crucial role of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in high-energy physics, particularly their impact on the extraction of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) at zero skewness. To this aim, we perform six…

We propose a simple and flexible mechanism by which sterile neutrinos with masses below the electroweak scale can simultaneously account for the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe and the dark matter abundance. Crucially, neutrinos…

Cosmic-ray (CR) antinuclei, especially antideuteron $\overline{\rm D}$ and antihelium-3 nuclei ${}^3\overline{\rm He}$, are among the most promising messengers for indirect dark matter (DM) searches. This is because secondary production in…

We show that the process of Coherent Elastic neutrino (v) Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) at nuclear reactor experiments has significant sensitivity to the so-called X17 particle, which has been invoked to explain the ATOMKI anomaly, wherein…

We analyze the fine structure and ``fall-apart'' decay patterns of hidden-strangeness tetraquarks within the dynamical diquark model. Several well-established negative-parity resonances listed by the Particle Data Group (PDG) [$\phi(2170)$,…

We revisit quantum tomography of $H \to ZZ$ and $H \to WW$ in the presence of higher-order corrections. We verify that neither the use of an effective spin analysing power (only for $ZZ$) or a photon veto are sufficient to render the…

High-performance machine learning tools in particle physics rest on two complementary directions: encoding symmetries explicitly in the architecture, and implicitly learning the structure of the data through large-scale (pre-) training. We…

Sub-GeV thermal dark matter weakly interacting with the Standard Model through vector-portal mediators provides a well-motivated and predictive framework that remains challenging to probe with conventional direct detection experiments.…

The relation between the effective degrees of freedom (EDOF) and the trace anomaly is studied in the hadron resonance gas (HRG) model. If we regard the thermodynamical relation as the evolution equation and define the EDOF as P/T^4, where P…

In this work, we obtain constraints on the intercepts of the Regge pole tra jectories (which we believe to have definite C-parity) based on the heuristic argument that C-even exchanges correspond to attractive forces between hadrons undergo…

CMB limits on cold-dark-matter isocurvature are often interpreted as excluding the simultaneous realization of high-scale inflation and large QCD axion decay constants in pre-inflationary Peccei--Quinn (PQ) scenarios. This conclusion can be…

The Atomki anomaly puts forward the hypothesis of an $X(17)$ particle to explain the observation. Utilizing experimental data from the Atomki experiments, measurements of the electron's anomalous magnetic moment, beam dump experiments, the…

We present a systematic study of the leading- and next-to-leading-twist light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) of ground-state pseudoscalar and vector quarkonium within the light-front quark model (LFQM). By implementing the replacement…