高能物理 - 唯象学

We suggest three scalar leptoquarks, $S_1$, ${\tilde R}_2$, and $S_3$ which couple exclusively to the 3rd generation of leptons to explain the $B$ anomalies. The scalar singlet $S_1$ can explain $R(D^{(*)})$, while the doublet ${\tilde…

The reciprocal symmetry $f_s(z)=f_s(1/z)$ of the KNO-violating term in proton--proton charged-multiplicity distributions, observed at $\sqrt{s}=7$, $8$ and $13$ TeV, implies that the function $h(u)\equiv f_s(e^u)$ is even in $u=\ln z$. Each…

We investigate the critical behavior of the first four cumulants of the net-baryon number near the deconfinement critical point in QCD in the limit of heavy quarks. By connecting baryon-number fluctuations to Polyakov loop susceptibilities,…

Lepton flavor violating Higgs decays could appear in scenarios beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. In this article, we study the sensitivity of a future Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) to such processes, namely, $h\rightarrow…

Colliders continue to push our understanding of electroweak (EW) interactions to ever higher energies. At high energies, many observables in the broken EW theory are expected to approach the unbroken theory. This is the electroweak…

The data on cosmic antiprotons have reached an outstanding precision on energies spanning from GeV to hundreds of TeV, thanks to the space-based AMS-02 experiment. The balloon-borne GAPS experiment, which just completed its first Antarctic…

Coherent enhancement is a powerful mechanism for improving the sensitivity of a wide range of detectors, but its practical use is often limited by the difficulty of preparing the required quantum states. We show that this difficulty has a…

Light primordial black holes heat the surrounding plasma via Hawking radiation, forming localized hotspots whose temperature may far exceed that of the cosmological background. Previous studies of hotspot formation and cooling have treated…

We present a consistent analysis of elastic electron--deuteron scattering combining perturbative quantum chromodynamics (pQCD) scaling, helicity amplitudes, and phenomenological parameterizations of deuteron form factors. Particular…

In this work, we propose a novel mechanism for generating gamma rays from the Galactic Center via scattering of cosmic-ray protons off dark matter in the Milky Way halo, in contrast to conventional explanations based on dark matter…

Flavor remains one of the most successful yet least understood structures of the Standard Model. The discovery of the Higgs boson completed the electroweak account of mass generation, but did not explain the origin of fermion families, mass…

The nature of the $X(3872)$ and other exotic hadrons has been a subject of extensive investigation. While various theoretical models have been proposed, experimental evidence suggests that the $X(3872)$ may be a mixture state of a hadronic…

The discovery of hidden-charm pentaquarks and open-flavor tetraquarks motivates the search for even more exotic hadron configurations. In this work, we investigate genuinely exotic molecular pentaquark candidates comprising five different…

Pulsars possess strong dipole magnetic fields that can source axion fields through the axion-photon interaction. Pulsars may therefore be surrounded by axion field configurations oscillating with the pulsar's rotational period. These axions…

We revisit the one-loop calculation of the Higgs-mass spectrum of the scale-invariant THDM, relying on a direct calculation of the relevant Feynman diagrams. We highlight a number of incorrect assumptions in earlier calculations that relied…

The nature of dark matter remains an outstanding problem in particle physics and cosmology. Hidden-sector extensions of the Standard Model predict a neutral partner of the neutron, whose weak mixing with ordinary neutrons induces…

Following a nonperturbative formulation of strong-field QED developed in our earlier works, we consider photon emission accompanying vacuum instability under the action of a quasi-constant strong electric field of finite duration T. We…

The extension of the Higgs sector with an additional complex triplet field is often considered for generating the neutrino mass by the Type-II seesaw mechanism. Such an extension generally predicts $\rho\neq1$, where $\rho$ is the…

We extend our previous work on the energy loss of a heavy fermion in a QED plasma to the Quark-Gluon plasma, using the same Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook collisional kernel. The calculation is carried out with a theoretical method where the…

We study the renormalization group (RG) evolution induced breaking of $\mu$--$\tau$ reflection symmetry in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), with a special focus on the effects of varying $\tan\beta \equiv v_u/v_d$, the…