Axion Portal Dark Matter and the LUX-ZEPLIN High-Recoil EventLUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) has reported one event compatible with a 248~keV nuclear recoil. While initial attention has focused on inelastic dark matter, that interpretation depends sensitively on…James Unwin·Sep 3, 2026SaveLearn
Atmospheric neutrino up-scattering explanation of LZ 2026 excessThe recent observation of an isolated nuclear recoil at 248 23 23 keV energy by LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment has motivated the community to look for a new physics explanation, as the Standard…Sk Jeesun, Anirban Majumdar·Sep 3, 2026SaveLearn
Seasonal dark matter from the LUX-ZEPLIN high-energy eventThe LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has reported a single nuclear recoil at 24823( stat)23( sys) in an extended search window. Inelastic dark matter, in which the scattering is…Christopher McCabe·Sep 3, 2026SaveLearn
Confronting the Higgsino Interpretation of the LZ Event with the High-Energy SidebandThe LZ experiment has reported a single 248 keV nuclear recoil event in their 2.84 ton-yr exposure on a xenon target. The absence of lower nuclear recoil events is naturally explained by…Nicholas L. Rodd, Benjamin R. Safdi, Tracy R. Slatyer et al.·Sep 3, 2026SaveLearn
TeV Higgsino Interpretation of the LZ High-Recoil Event with Intermediate-Scale Electroweak GauginosThe high-recoil event reported by LUX--ZEPLIN motivates a TeV Higgsino with a sub-MeV neutral-state splitting. Away from cancellations, such a small gap in the MSSM points to electroweak-gaugino…Xiaokang Du, Fei Wang·Sep 3, 2026SaveLearn
Inelastic Signatures of Electroweak Dark MatterMinimal electroweak dark matter (DM) extended by a Majorana (M) and a Dirac (D) multiplet coupled through Higgs interactions provides a predictive framework for high-energy inelastic nuclear recoils.…Juri Smirnov, Spencer Griffith, John F. Beacom·Sep 3, 2026SaveLearn
TQ4Q2.0 Fragmentation Functions for Fully Heavy Tetraquark ProductionWe investigate the fragmentation dynamics underlying the production of fully heavy tetraquarks by means of the TQ4Q2.0 collinear FF set, covering scalar (0++), axial-vector (1+-), and…Francesco Giovanni Celiberto·Sep 3, 2026SaveLearn
Exploring Extended Higgs Dynamics via Higgsstrahlung at FCC-eeThe Future Circular Electron-Positron Collider (FCC-ee) will probe aspects of the Higgs boson and the electroweak scale with unprecedented precision via associated Higgs production with a Z boson.…Anisha, Francisco Arco, Stefano Di Noi et al.·Sep 3, 2026SaveLearn
Probing the Geometry of Viable Froggatt-Nielsen-like Flavor TexturesWe investigate the geometry of viable Froggatt--Nielsen-like flavor textures in a controlled toy landscape. In this first texture-level analysis, each point is represented by the eighteen integer…Davide Meloni·Sep 3, 2026SaveLearn
Light Leptoquarks in a Dark Sector: Scalar Dark Matter, Neutrino Mass, and Collider SignaturesWe investigate the dark matter (DM) phenomenology and subsequent collider signatures of a dark leptoquark (LQ) model containing dark vector-like quarks (VLQs) and a scalar singlet. The dark LQs and…Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay, Kirtiman Ghosh, Anirban Karan et al.·Sep 3, 2026SaveLearn
A Bayesian Pixel Based Approach for Model Independent TMD ReconstructionWe introduce a nonparametric pixel-based framework for the Bayesian inference and imaging of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distributions. The methodology integrates TMD evolution within…Marco Zaccheddu·Sep 3, 2026SaveLearn
CGC-py: A Monte Carlo Event Generator for Gluon Saturation PhysicsWe develop CGC-py, a Monte Carlo event generator for deep-inelastic scattering. It couples the full Color Glass Condensate (CGC) cross section for γ*p(A) q q+X to a Parton-Branching…Haowu Duan, Cong Yi, Si-Wei Dai et al.·Sep 3, 2026SaveLearn
Exploring millicharged particles in laboratory and astrophysical strong-field regimesThe probe of light dark particles beyond the Standard Model (SM) under a strong-field environment has drawn significant attention. In this work, we investigate the potential to search for and…Cheng-Rui Jiang, Tong Li, Kai Ma et al.·Sep 3, 2026SaveLearn
Meson mass spectrum in isospin QCD medium from the Nf=2+1 quark-meson modelWe study phase structures, meson mass spectra, and sound velocities at finite temperature and density in QCD with isospin chemical potential (μI). We employ the quark-meson model with Nf=2+1,…Yu-Han Gao, Xu-Guang Huang, Daiki Suenaga·Sep 3, 2026SaveLearn
Leading-Neutron Electroproduction at HERA and the EIC: Sullivan Process, Target Fragmentation, and Pion PDFsLeading-neutron electroproduction measurements from the H1 and ZEUS experiments at HERA have been used to constrain pion parton distribution functions (PDFs) at small momentum fractions within the…Wen-Chen Chang, Chia-Yu Hsieh, Satyajit Puhan·Sep 3, 2026SaveLearn
Statistical Symmetry Breaking and Emergent Colored Noise in a Stochastic Scalar-Doublet Field TheoryWe investigate a relativistic stochastic field theory in which a complex scalar doublet is coupled to a complex white-noise source. The action preserves Lorentz and…Pei Wang·Sep 3, 2026SaveLearn
Feasibility of a collider-based detector search for upward-going fermions produced from gravitationally-bound dark matter within the EarthDark matter is theorized to be gravitationally captured within the Earth and to subsequently annihilate into dark photons. The dark photons kinetically mix with the Standard Model photons which would…Tamas Almos Vami, Sanjit Masanam, Matt Bellis et al.·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Quark Mixing Model with Three Higgs Doublets and S3 Modular Symmetry at τ=iWe study the quark sector of a model with three Higgs electroweak doublets, complemented with a modular S3 symmetry. We show that a proper assignment of the quark and Higgs fields in S3 and…Carlos Cerón, Myriam Mondragón·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Energy-Energy Correlators in Z-Tagged Jets in pp CollisionsWe present predictions for the collinear energy-energy correlator (EEC) measured inside Z-tagged jets in proton-proton collisions across the confinement transition. Our framework combines…João Barata, Zhong-Bo Kang, Xoán Mayo López et al.·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Strong Constraints on Line Signals from Dark Matter Annihilation in a Nearby SubhaloWe present a dedicated search for monochromatic gamma-ray emission from a recently proposed nearby dark matter subhalo candidate. Using nearly 15 years of Fermi-LAT Pass 8 data, we perform a…Asier Salces Pérez, Thong T. Q. Nguyen, Pedro De la Torre Luque et al.·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
A Task Force on Strong Coupling Determinations from Event ShapesThe strong coupling constant αs is a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model. Its precise determination is essential for accurately predicting, studying, and understanding processes at the…Anthony Badea, Luca Buonocore, Gherardo Vita et al.·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Yukawa coupling deviations from four-quark interactionsNew physics generating four-quark interactions can be difficult to detect at the LHC, especially if it does not couple to first generation quarks. We investigate the possible role of such…Sophie Renner, Benjamin Smith·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Sub-TeV Singlino Dark Matter in light from Sagittarius A and LUX-ZEPLIN Nuclear-Recoil EventWe investigate the impact of a dark matter density spike surrounding the Milky Way's supermassive black hole (SMBH) on the detectability of Singlino-dominated neutralino dark matter within the…Utpal Chattopadhyay, Debottam Das, Rahul Puri et al.·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Probing Quantum Foundations in Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillations: Wave Packet Approach from MINOS Data to DUNE PredictionsWe investigate neutrino flavor oscillations in the wave packet formalism, extending the standard planewave treatment to incorporate the finite spatial coherence of neutrino mass eigenstates.We derive…Baktiar Wasir Farooq, Bipin Singh Koranga, Massimo Blasone·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Resolving Local Structure of Distribution Functions in Collider MeasurementsCollider measurements may blur narrow features in underlying distributions before fitting, since a data point samples a finite region. We show that observables linear in a selected target…Cong Li·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn