High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
In the standard thermal relic scenario, dark matter remains in chemical equilibrium with the Standard Model radiation bath until freeze-out occurs at $T \sim m_X/20$, where $m_X$ is the dark matter mass. In this familiar class of models,…
Super-Kamiokande has reported a small excess of electron antineutrino events in the 20 MeV energy range, in the search for the diffuse supernova neutrino background. We interpret this signal as a possible indication of dark matter that…
We investigate a non-relativistic realization of the boostless cosmological collider in a scenario where inflationary interactions are mediated by a massive tilted-ghost spectator field. Unlike standard boostless collider constructions, in…
We revisit the renormalisation of models with two U(1) gauge symmetries, in a formulation with non-canonical gauge kinetic terms which is covariant under field reparametrisations among the two gauge bosons. This approach is convenient to…
We study the production of the conventional quarkonium states in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions using an open quantum system framework based on the Lindblad equation. Starting from the complex-valued in-medium potential, we derive…
The analytic structure of the partition function in finite-volume systems is investigated at complex chemical potentials in a minimal mean-field effective model of QCD with finite-size effects incorporated. We discuss the temperature…
We propose the rare SM Higgs decay $H\to b\bar b b\bar b$ as a probe of the structure of Higgs interactions with bottom quarks and gauge bosons, and as a baseline for searches for new physics producing four-bottom final states in Higgs…
The shapes of light flavor sea quark distributions of the proton are examined directly from two rounds of NNLO global analysis of HERA $e^{\pm}p$ deep inelastic scattering cross section measurements, termed as HERAshape and the ATLAS…
Owing to the emergence of attractive interactions between quarks, color superconductivity is expected to occur, with the color-flavor-locked (CFL) phase favored at high densities. This work investigates the absolute stability of…
Quantum discord and steering offer crucial insights into the non-classical nature of hyperon-antihyperon pairs, a massive two-qubit system produced in high energy electron-positron annihilation. This work theoretically investigates the…
The production of exotic hadrons $T_{cc}$ and $X(3872)$ in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV is compared using the parton and hadron cascade model PACIAE together with the dynamically constrained phase-space coalescence model DCPC. In the…
Recently the CMS and ATLAS collaborations have found evidence for an unexpectedly large ttbar cross section in the threshold region, with an excess of the order of 5-10 pb relative to continuum perturbative calculations. A convenient…
Experimental limits on neutrino magnetic moments remain several orders of magnitude above the predictions of the Standard Model; therefore, any future detection would provide unambiguous evidence for new physics. In models with Dirac…
We present our results for the twist-3 gluon contribution to the single transverse-spin asymmetry(SSA) in $J/\psi$ production in proton-proton collisions. Although the data were reported by the RHIC experiment more than a decade ago, a…
This paper discusses a paradox encountered when employing the canonical approach, particularly in the high-temperature region where the Roberge-Weiss transition exists at finite imaginary chemical potential. The paradox is that the results…
Spectral fringes in Schwinger pair creation are usually attributed to structured driving, such as carrier oscillations, pulse trains, or multiple creation events. We show that pronounced fringes can arise even for smooth, carrier-free…
We investigate the interplay between the thermodynamic (Gibbs) entropy of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and the quantum entanglement entropy characteristic of confined hadronic states across the quark-hadron phase transition. In the deconfined…
Chiral perturbation theory is utilized to construct the renormalized magnetic masses and decay constants of the meson octet at next-to-leading order. While the neutral pion mass decreases identically to two-flavor chiral perturbation…
The majoron is the Nambu-Goldstone boson associated with the spontaneous breaking of a global $B-L$ symmetry. Remarkably, the minimal majoron framework can simultaneously address three key empirical indications of physics beyond the…
We present RooAgent as a natural-language interface for Root-based high energy physics data analysis. The package provides physics analysis functions as tools that an LLM agent invokes in response to plain-language prompts. Two operating…