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HEP Phenomenology·hep-ph

Fri·Jan 12, 2024

25 papers12 primary·13 cross-listed·reconstructed*

  1. 01*

    Orbital Angular Momentum Small- Evolution: Exact Results in the Large- Limit

    Brandon Manley🇺🇸

    We construct an exact solution to the revised small- orbital angular momentum (OAM) evolution equations derived recently, based on an earlier work. These equations are derived in the double logarithmic approximation (summing powers of with the strong coupling constant and the Bjorken variable) and the large- limit, with the number of quark colors. From our solution, we extract the small-, large- expressions of the quark and gluon OAM distributions. Additionally, we determine the large- small- asymptotics of the OAM distributions to be \begin{align} \notag L_{q+\bar{q}}(x,Q^2) \sim L_G(x,Q^2) \sim \Delta \Sigma (x,Q^2) \sim \Delta G(x,Q^2) \sim \left(\frac{1}{x} \right)^{\alpha_h}, \end{align} with the intercept the same as obtained in the small- helicity evolution, which can be approximated as . This result is in complete agreement with the literature. Additionally, we calculate the ratio of the quark and gluon OAM distributions to the flavor-singlet quark and gluon helicity parton distribution functions respectively in the small- region.

    hep-phhep-exnucl-exnucl-thJHEP(2024)·15 citations
  2. 02*

    Elastic scattering of supernova neutrinos with electrons in xenon

    Pijushpani Bhattacharjee🇺🇸 · Kamales Kar🇮🇳

    Neutrinos from a Galactic core collapse supernova can undergo elastic scattering with electrons in xenon atoms in liquid xenon based dark matter detectors giving rise to electrons of kinetic energy up to a few MeV. We calculate the scattered electron spectrum and the number of such elastic scattering events expected for a typical Galactic core collapse supernova in a xenon target. Although the expected number of events is small (compared to, for example, inelastic neutrino-nucleus charged current interaction with xenon nuclei, that also gives rise to final state electrons), the distinct spectral shape of the scattered electrons may allow identification of the elastic scattering events. Further, while the process is dominated by neutrinos and antineutrinos of electron flavor, it receives contributions from all the six neutrino species. Identification of the electron scattering events may, therefore, allow an estimation of the relative fractions of the total supernova explosion energy going into electron flavored and non-electron flavored neutrinos.

    hep-phastro-ph.HE0 citations
  3. 03*

    Data-driven approximations to the Hadronic Light-by-Light scattering contribution to the muon (g-2)

    Pere Masjuan🇪🇸 · Pablo Roig🇲🇽

    We review recent progress on the numerical determination of the Hadronic Light-by-Light contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. We advocate for a slight increase of the White Paper number for its Standard Model prediction, to , accounting for a revised contribution from axial-vector mesons and short-distance constraints. This larger result seems to be supported by the most recent lattice QCD evaluations.

    hep-phhep-exhep-latNuovo Cim.C(2024)·4 citations
  4. 04*

    Centrality and cumulative activities in hadron collisions

    S.M. Troshin🇷🇺 · N.E. Tyurin🇷🇺

    The notion of cumulative activity for elastic events in hadron collision is introduced. The interrelation between centrality and cumulative activities of the elastic and inelastic events has been established for hadron scattering. Considerations on its application are presented.

    hep-phInt.J.Mod.Phys.A(2024)·1 citation
  5. 05*

    Triplet scalar flavored leptogenesis with spontaneous CP violation

    Sreerupa Chongdar🇮🇳 · Sasmita Mishra🇮🇳

    The inclusion of two triplet scalars in the Standard Model (SM) enables to accommodate neutrino mass generation as well as baryogenesis through leptogenesis. One of the essential ingredients of leptogenesis is the violation of charge conjugation and parity (CP) symmetry in lepton number-violating decays of the triplet scalars. We work on the promising sector of spontaneous CP violation (SCPV) which is manifested by the involvement of one scalar singlet and two scalar fields, added to the SM. The predictive aspect of the model is accomplished by imposing symmetry which results in the traditional tribimaximal mixing pattern. With updated data on neutrino oscillation, we study the parameter space of the model. The phase of the complex vacuum expectation value (VEV) of the singlet scalar acts as the common source of CP violation in both low and high-energy sectors. Due to the flavor symmetry of the model, required baryon asymmetry cannot be accomplished via unflavored leptogenesis. In the temperature regime, GeV when flavor effects become important in the study of leptogenesis, it is shown that baryogenesis is achievable. The rich flavor interplay is explored through the study of the density matrix equations. We also study the interplay of hierarchical branching ratios of the decay of the triplet scalars and SCPV phase to accommodate the required CP asymmetry to account for the final baryon asymmetry in the observational range. Considering all possible mass hierarchies among the triplet scalars, the flavor structure of the triplet Yukawa couplings results in different scales of leptogenesis.

    hep-phJCAP(2024)·1 citation
  6. 06*

    corrections to holographic heavy meson dissociation

    Zhou-Run Zhu🇨🇳 · Manman Sun🇨🇳 · Rui Zhou🇨🇳 · Jinzhong Han🇨🇳

    In this paper, we investigate the corrections to the dissociation of heavy quarkonium in the Gauss-Bonnet gravitational background. We analyze the impact of Gauss-Bonnet parameter on the spectral function of charmonium and bottomonium, and examine how affects the dissociation of heavy quarkonium. Our results show that reduces the peak height and increases the peak width of the spectral function, suggesting that enhances the dissociation of heavy quarkonium. We also discuss how the dissociation of heavy quarkonium varies with the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density and find the dissociation will be easier in more perfect plasma. Additionally, we observe that the temperature decreases the peak height and widens the peak, thereby accelerating the dissociation.

    hep-phCPC(2025)·4 citations
  7. 07*

    Criterion for ultra-fast bubble walls: the impact of hydrodynamic obstruction

    Wen-Yuan Ai🇬🇧 · Xander Nagels🇧🇪 · Miguel Vanvlasselaer🇧🇪

    The Bödeker-Moore thermal friction is usually used to determine whether or not a bubble wall can run away. However, the friction on the wall is not necessarily a monotonous function of the wall velocity and could have a maximum before it reaches the Bödeker-Moore limit. In this paper, we compare the maximal hydrodynamic obstruction, a frictional force that exists in local thermal equilibrium, and the Bödeker-Moore thermal friction. We study the former in a fully analytical way, clarifying its physical origin and providing a simple expression for its corresponding critical phase transition strength above which the driving force cannot be balanced out by the maximal hydrodynamic obstruction. We find that for large parameter space, the maximal hydrodynamic obstruction is larger than the Bödeker-Moore thermal friction, indicating that the conventional criterion for the runaway behavior of the bubble wall may have to be modified. We also explain how to apply efficiently the modified criterion to particle physics models and discuss possible limitations of the analysis carried out in this paper.

    hep-phastro-ph.COhep-thJCAP(2024)·51 citations
  8. 08*

    The role of electromagnetic interaction in the and its analogs

    Ping Chen🇨🇳 · Zhan-Wei Liu🇨🇳 · Zi-Le Zhang🇨🇳 · Si-Qiang Luo🇨🇳 · Fu-Lai Wang🇨🇳 · Jun-Zhang Wang🇨🇳 · Xiang Liu🇨🇳

    We investigate the role of the electromagnetic interaction in the formation and decay of the . The binding properties of the are studied by assuming the molecular nature and considering the - wave mixing, isospin breaking, and coupled channel effects, and in particular the correction from the electromagnetic interaction. The radiative decays can better reflect the difference between the charged and neutral components, since the electromagnetic interaction explicitly breaks the isospin symmetry. We further study the radiative decay widths with the obtained wave functions for different channels. We also explore other similar hidden-charm molecular states. The electromagnetic interaction can make the molecule tighter. Our result of the radiative decay width for is in agreement with the experiment. The branching ratio is less than 1 in our framework, which supports the Belle and BESIII measurements.

    hep-phhep-exPRD(2024)·11 citations
  9. 09*

    Lepton pair production in muon-nucleus scattering

    G. Abbiendi🇮🇹 · E. Budassi🇮🇹 · C. M. Carloni Calame🇮🇹 · A. Gurgone🇮🇹 · F. Piccinini🇮🇹

    The MUonE experiment aims at providing a novel determination of the leading hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment through the study of elastic muon-electron scattering. Since the initial-state electrons are bound in a low- atomic target, the interaction between the incoming muons and the nuclei is expected to be the main source of experimental background. In this article, we study the production of a real lepton pair from the muon-nucleus scattering, discussing its numerical impact in the MUonE kinematic configuration. The process is described as a scattering of a muon in an external Coulomb field with the addition of a form factor to describe the nuclear charge distribution. The calculation is implemented in the fully differential Monte Carlo event generator MESMER, without introducing any approximation on the angular variables.

    hep-phhep-exPLB(2024)·17 citations
  10. 10*

    The chiral phase transition and the axial anomaly

    Robert D. Pisarski🇺🇸 · Fabian Rennecke🇩🇪

    To date numerical simulations of lattice QCD have not found a chiral phase transition of first order which is expected to occur for sufficiently light pions. We show how the restoration of an exact global chiral symmetry can strongly decrease the breaking of the approximate, anomalous symmetry. This is testable on the lattice through simulations for one through four flavors. In QCD a small breaking of the symmetry in the chirally symmetric phase generates novel experimental signals.

    hep-phhep-lathep-thnucl-thPRL(2024)·43 citations
  11. 11*

    QGSJET-III model of high energy hadronic interactions: The formalism

    Sergey Ostapchenko🇩🇪

    The physics content of the QGSJET-III Monte Carlo generator of high energy hadronic collisions is described. In particular, a phenomenological implementation of higher twist corrections to hard parton scattering processes is discussed in some detail. Additionally addressed is the treatment of the so-called ``color fluctuation'' effects related to a decomposition of hadron wave functions into a number of Fock states characterized by different spatial sizes and different parton densities. Selected model results regarding the energy-dependence of the total, elastic, and diffractive proton-proton cross sections are presented.

    hep-phPRD(2024)·29 citations
  12. 12*

    Constraining New Physics models from observables in bottom-up EFT

    Marco Ardu🇪🇸 · Sacha Davidson🇫🇷 · Stéphane Lavignac🇫🇷

    Upcoming experiments will improve the sensitivity to processes by several orders of magnitude, and could observe lepton flavour-changing contact interactions for the first time. In this paper, we investigate what could be learned about New Physics from the measurements of these observables, using a bottom-up effective field theory (EFT) approach and focusing on three popular models with new particles around the TeV scale (the type II seesaw, the inverse seesaw and a scalar leptoquark). We showed in a previous publication that observables have the ability to rule out these models because none can fill the whole experimentally accessible parameter space. In this work, we give more details on our EFT formalism and present more complete results. We discuss the impact of some observables complementary to transitions (such as the neutrino mass scale and ordering, and LFV decays) and draw attention to the interesting appearance of Jarlskog-like invariants in our expressions for the low-energy Wilson coefficients.

    hep-phEPJC(2024)·27 citations
  13. 13*

    Exploring the Critical Points in QCD with Multi-Point Padé and Machine Learning Techniques in (2+1)-flavor QCD

    Jishnu Goswami🇯🇵 · D. A. Clarke🇺🇸 · P. Dimopoulos🇮🇹 · F.Di Renzo🇮🇹 · C. Schmidt🇩🇪 · S. Singh🇩🇪 · K. Zambello🇮🇹

    Using simulations at multiple imaginary chemical potentials for -flavor QCD, we construct multi-point Padé approximants. We determine the singularties of the Padé approximants and demonstrate that they are consistent with the expected universal scaling behaviour of the Lee-Yang edge singularities. We also use a machine learning model, Masked Autoregressive Density Estimator (MADE), to estimate the density of the Lee-Yang edge singularities at each temperature. This ML model allows us to interpolate between the temperatures. Finally, we extrapolate to the QCD critical point using an appropriate scaling ansatz.

    hep-lathep-phEPJ Web Conf.(2024)·8 citations
  14. 14*

    Factorization of Coupling Constant in Background Field

    Cong Li🇨🇳

    Due to color confinement, hadrons are inseparable when studying strong interactions. The paper mainly studies the scattering in the background field, especially the scattering of quarks in the hadronic background field. We discovered that the coupling constant within the background field is made up of the distribution function of background field. The finding provides a foundational comprehension of coupling constants, which significantly contributes to our understanding of running coupling constant and the perturbative nature of theory.

    hep-thhep-ph0 citations
  15. 15*

    Advancing real-time Yang-Mills: towards real-time observables from first principles

    Kirill Boguslavski🇦🇹 · Paul Hotzy🇦🇹 · David I. Müller🇦🇹

    The complex Langevin (CL) method shows great promise in enabling the calculation of observables for theories with complex actions. Nevertheless, real-time quantum field theories have remained largely unsolved due to the particular severity of the sign problem. In this contribution, we discuss our recent progress in applying CL to a thermal SU(2) Yang-Mills theory on a 3+1 dimensional lattice. We present our anisotropic kernel that stabilizes the CL approach for real times longer than the inverse temperature - a first for Yang-Mills theory. We provide explicit evidence of reproducing symmetries and relations among different types of propagators when the complex time path approaches the Schwinger-Keldysh contour. This method paves the way for calculating transport coefficients and other real-time observables from first principles.

    hep-latcond-mat.otherhep-phhep-th+1PoS(2024)·2 citations
  16. 16*

    Field theory expansions of string theory amplitudes

    Arnab Priya Saha🇮🇳 · Aninda Sinha🇮🇳

    Motivated by quantum field theory (QFT) considerations, we present new representations of the Euler-Beta function and tree-level string theory amplitudes using a new two-channel, local, crossing symmetric dispersion relation. Unlike standard series representations, the new ones are analytic everywhere except at the poles, sum over poles in all channels and include contact interactions, in the spirit of QFT. This enables us to consider mass-level truncation, which preserves all the features of the original amplitudes. By starting with such expansions for generalized Euler-Beta functions and demanding QFT like features, we single out the open superstring amplitude. We demonstrate the difficulty in deforming away from the string amplitude and show that a class of such deformations can be potentially interesting when there is level truncation. Our considerations also lead to new QFT-inspired, parametric representations of the Zeta function and , which show fast convergence.

    hep-thhep-phmath-phmath.MPPRL(2024)·24 citations
  17. 17*

    Gravity limits the kinetic energy of a massive elementary particle

    Justin C. Feng🇹🇼

    In this note, I argue that tidal effects generically limit the kinetic energy of a single massive elementary particle in the vicinity of a compact object. As the kinetic energy is increased, the differences in the tidal potential over a Compton wavelength will at some point exceed the rest mass of the particle. Above the threshold, one expects tidal effects to disrupt single-particle states, and in turn, one might expect an incident particle scattering off a compact object with an energy significantly exceeding the threshold to result in a shower of lower energy particles. A calculation reveals that the threshold for neutrinos scattering off a black hole within three Schwarzschild radii is roughly .

    gr-qcastro-ph.HEhep-ph2 citations
  18. 18*

    From NS observations to nuclear matter properties: a machine learning approach

    Valéria Carvalho🇵🇹 · Márcio Ferreira🇵🇹 · Constança Providência🇵🇹

    This study is devoted to the inference problem of extracting the nuclear matter properties directly from a set of mass-radius observations. We employ Bayesian neural networks (BNNs), which is a probabilistic model capable of estimating the uncertainties associated with its predictions. To simulate different noise levels on the observations, we create three different sets of mock data. Our results show BNNs as an accurate and reliable tool for predicting the nuclear matter properties whenever the true values are not completely outside the training dataset statistics, i.e., if the model is not heavily dependent on its extrapolating capacities. Using real mass-radius pulsar data, the model predicted, for instance, MeV and MeV ( interval). Our study provides a valuable inference framework when new NS data becomes available.

    nucl-thastro-ph.HEhep-phPRD(2024)·21 citations
  19. 19*

    Classical and Quantum solutions in Scalar field cosmology via the Eisenhart lift and linearization

    Andronikos Paliathanasis🇿🇦

    This study introduces a novel approach for solving the cosmological field equations within scalar field theory by employing the Eisenhart lift. The field equations are reformulated as a system of geodesic equations for the Eisenhart metric. In the case of an exponential potential, the Eisenhart metric is shown to be conformally flat. By applying basic geometric principles, a new set of dynamical variables is identified, allowing for the linearization of the field equations and the derivation of classical cosmological solutions. However, the quantization of the Eisenhart system reveals a distinct set of solutions for the wavefunction, particularly in the presence of symmetry breaking at the quantum level.

    gr-qchep-phmath-phmath.MPPhys.Dark Univ.(2024)·7 citations
  20. 20*

    Gamma-rays and Neutrinos from Giant Molecular Cloud Populations in the Galactic Plane

    Abhijit Roy🇮🇳 · Jagdish C. Joshi🇮🇳 · Martina Cardillo🇮🇹 · Prantik Sarmah🇮🇳 · Ritabrata Sarkar🇮🇳 · Sovan Chakraborty🇮🇳

    The recent IceCube detection of significant neutrino flux from the inner Galactic plane has provided us valuable insights on the spectrum of cosmic rays in our Galaxy. This flux can be produced either by a population of Galactic point sources or by diffused emission from cosmic ray interactions with the interstellar medium or by a mixture of both. In this work, we compute diffused gamma-ray and neutrino fluxes produced by a population of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in our Galaxy, assuming different parametrizations of the Galactic diffused cosmic ray distribution. In particular, we take into account two main cases: (I) constant cosmic ray luminosity in our Galaxy, and (II) space-dependent cosmic ray luminosity, based on the supernovae distribution in our Galaxy. For Case-I, we found that the neutrino flux from GMCs is a factor of below compared to and KRA best-fitted models of IceCube observations at GeV. Instead, for Case-II the model can explain up to of the neutrino flux at that energy. Moreover, for this last scenario IceCube detector could be able to detect neutrino events from the Galactic centre regions. We then calculated gamma-ray and neutrino fluxes from individual GMCs and noticed that several current and future Cherenkov telescopes and neutrino observatories have the right sensitivities to study these objects. In particular, very neutrino-bright region such as Aquila Rift is favourable for detection by the IceCube-Gen2 observatory.

    astro-ph.HEhep-phJCAP(2024)·4 citations
  21. 21*

    Effects on neutrino propagation in space-time foam of D-branes revisited

    Chengyi Li🇨🇳 · Bo-Qiang Ma🇨🇳

    Neutrinos from the cosmos have proven to be ideal for probing the nature of space-time. Previous studies on high-energy events of IceCube suggested that some of these events might be gamma-ray burst neutrinos, with their speeds varying linearly with their energy, implying also the coexistence of subluminal and superluminal propagation. However, a recent reanalysis of the data, incorporating revised directional information, reveals stronger signals that neutrinos are actually being slowed down compared to previous suggestion of neutrino speed variation. Thus, it is worth discussing its implications for the brane/string inspired framework of space-time foam, which has been used to explain previous observations. We revisit effects on neutrino propagation from specific foam models within the framework, indicating that the implied violation of Lorentz invariance could necessarily cause the neutrino to decelerate. We therefore argue that this sort of model is in agreement with the updated phenomenological indication just mentioned. An extended analysis of the revised IceCube data will further test these observations and stringy quantum gravity.

    hep-thastro-ph.HEgr-qchep-phJHEP(2024)·5 citations
  22. 22*

    Unifying Ordinary and Null Memory

    Lavinia Heisenberg🇩🇪 · Guangzi Xu🇨🇭 · Jann Zosso🇨🇭

    Based on a recently proposed reinterpretation of gravitational wave memory that builds up on the definition of gravitational waves pioneered by Isaacson, we provide a unifying framework to derive both ordinary and null memory from a single well-defined equation at leading order in the asymptotic expansion. This allows us to formulate a memory equation that is valid for any unbound asymptotic energy-flux that preserves local Lorentz invariance. Using Horndeski gravity as a concrete example metric theory with an additional potentially massive scalar degree of freedom in the gravitational sector, the general memory formula is put into practice by presenting the first account of the memory correction sourced by the emission of massive field waves. Throughout the work, physical degrees of freedom are identified by constructing manifestly gauge invariant perturbation variables within an SVT decomposition on top of the asymptotic Minkowski background, which will in particular prove useful in future studies of gravitational wave memory within vector tensor theories.

    gr-qcastro-ph.COhep-phhep-thJCAP(2024)·18 citations
  23. 23*

    Post-Newtonian effects in compact binaries with a dark matter spike: A Lagrangian approach

    Diego Montalvo🇨🇦 · Adam Smith-Orlik🇨🇦 · Saeed Rastgoo🇨🇦 · Laura Sagunski🇩🇪 · Niklas Becker🇩🇪 · Hazkeel Khan🇨🇦

    We apply the Lagrangian method to study the post-Newtonian evolution of a compact binary system with environmental effects, including a dark matter spike, and obtain the resulting gravitational wave emission. This formalism allows one to incorporate post-Newtonian effects up to any desired known order, as well as any other environmental effect around the binary, as long as their dissipation power or force formulae are known. In particular, in this work, we employ this method to study a black hole--black hole binary system of mass ratio by including post-Newtonian effects of order 1PN and 2.5PN, as well as the effect of relativistic dynamical friction. We obtain the modified orbits and the corresponding modified gravitational waveform. Finally, we contrast these modifications against the LISA sensitivity curve in frequency space and show that this observatory can detect the associated signals.

    gr-qcastro-ph.COhep-phUniverse(2024)·16 citations
  24. 24*

    Anomalous dispersion, superluminality and instabilities in two-flavour theories with local non-Hermitian mass mixing

    Maxim N. Chernodub🇫🇷 · Peter Millington🇬🇧

    Pseudo-Hermitian field theories possess a global continuous ``similarity'' symmetry, interconnecting the theories with the same physical particle content and an identical mass spectrum. In their regimes with real spectra, within this family of similarity transformations, there is a map from the non-Hermitian theory to its Hermitian similarity partner. We promote the similarity transformation to a local symmetry, which requires the introduction of a new vector similarity field as a connection in the similarity space of non-Hermitian theories. In the case of non-Hermitian two-flavour scalar or fermion mixing, and by virtue of a novel IR/UV mixing effect, the effect of inhomogeneous non-Hermiticity then reveals itself via anomalous dispersion, instabilities and superluminal group velocities at very high momenta, thus setting an upper bound on the particle momentum propagating through inhomogeneous backgrounds characterised by Lagrangians with non-Hermitian mass matrices. Such a non-Hermitian extension of the Standard Model of particle physics, encoded in a weak inhomogeneity of the non-Hermitian part of the fermion mass matrix, may nevertheless provide us with a low-energy particle spectrum consistent with experimentally observed properties.

    hep-thcond-mat.otherhep-phPRD(2024)·3 citations
  25. 25*

    A SymTFT for Continuous Symmetries

    T. Daniel Brennan🇺🇸 · Zhengdi Sun🇺🇸

    Symmetry is a powerful tool for studying dynamics in QFT: it provides selection rules, constrains RG flows, and often simplifies analysis. Currently, our understanding is that the most general form of symmetry is described by categorical symmetries which can be realized via Symmetry TQFTs or ``SymTFTs." In this paper, we show how the framework of the SymTFT, which is understood for discrete symmetries (i.e. finite categorical symmetries), can be generalized to continuous symmetries. In addition to demonstrating how global symmetries can be incorporated into the paradigm of the SymTFT, we apply our formalism to study cubic anomalies in QFTs, describe the non-invertible chiral symmetry in theories, and conjecture the SymTFT for general continuous global symmetries.

    hep-thcond-mat.str-elhep-phmath-ph+1JHEP(2024)·117 citations

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