Probing the small-scale primordial power spectrum via relic neutrinos and acoustic reheatingWe show that the dissipation of small-scale perturbations through diffusion damping after neutrino decoupling lowers the present-day neutrino temperature compared to the expected value of…Giovanni Piccoli, Sunny Vagnozzi, Joseph Silk·May 12, 2026SaveLearn
Trace anomaly, effective degrees of freedom, and chemical potential effects near the QCD crossoverA compact analytical scheme is presented for describing ultra-dense hadronic matter, which combines a multicomponent van der Waals (vdW)-type description with temperature-dependent effective degrees…Yaroslav Krivenko-Emetov·May 12, 2026SaveLearn
Formulation of parton shower evolution beyond leading order for electron-positron annihilationParton shower evolution is given by a renormalization group equation that reflects the infrared behavior of perturbative QCD including color and spin and including quantum interference. With added…Zoltan Nagy, Davison E. Soper·May 12, 2026SaveLearn
In-medium Y(1S,2S,3S) suppression in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN)=5.02 TeVWe present model calculations for the in-medium suppression of the Y(1S,2S,3S) states in sqrt(sNN)=5.02 TeV Pb-Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider in comparison with recent CMS data for all…J. Majonica, G. Wolschin·May 12, 2026SaveLearn
Constraints on Anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings via γγ and Zγ Vector Boson Scattering at Muon CollidersIn the Standard Model, the couplings between gauge bosons are tightly constrained by the principles of gauge symmetry and renormalizability. However, the presence of anomalous couplings suggests the…M. Tekin, A. Senol, H. Denizli·May 12, 2026SaveLearn
Probing Bose-enhanced Inflaton Decay with Gravitational WavesWe investigate cosmic reheating dynamics in the presence of a transient condensate formed by bosonic decay products of the inflaton. We show that the emergence of such a condensate and the…Nicolás Bernal, Quan-feng Wu, Xun-Jie Xu et al.·May 12, 2026SaveLearn
Neutrino Mass, Vacuum Stability and Higgs Inflation with Vector-Like Quarks and a Single Right-Handed NeutrinoWe investigate a Standard Model extension containing n degenerate down-type isosinglet vector-like quarks (VLQs) with masses M D and Yukawa couplings y D, supplemented by…Canan Karahan·May 12, 2026SaveLearn
JUNO's Impact on the Neutrino Mass Ordering from Lorentz Invariance ViolationWe explore the potential of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) to probe new physics by searching for Lorentz-invariance violation (LIV). Using the 59.1-day dataset recently released…Tatiana Araya-Santander, Cesar Bonilla, Supriya Pan·May 12, 2026SaveLearn
Axial Quasi-normal Modes of Boson-Fermion StarsWe study axial quasi-normal modes of boson-fermion stars composed of ordinary nuclear matter and a self-interacting bosonic dark matter component. The equilibrium configurations are obtained by…Hamza Boumaza, Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Higgs-Portal Spin-1 Dark Matter with Parity-Violating Interaction for a Galactic Halo Gamma Ray ExcessWe study a dark photon dark matter scenario associated with a gauged U(1)X symmetry, stabilized by a dark parity that forbids kinetic mixing with the Standard Model. The leading interactions…Kimiko Yamashita·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
MSSM flavors from 7-brane configurations of magnetized SYM on R1,3 × (T2)3/(Z2 × Z'2)We show that chiral matters in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) with semi-realistic flavor structures can be obtained from 7-brane configurations of magnetized super Yang-Mills (SYM)…Hiroyuki Abe, Molin Chen, Itsuki Miyane et al.·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Gluon Entanglement Entropy inside a Nucleon: A Toy ModelWe construct a toy model of a nucleon, in which three static quarks interact via a SU(3) gauge field on a planar honeycomb lattice. The dynamics of the gauge field is described by the Kogut-Susskind…David Horn, Berndt Müller, Xiaojun Yao·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Connecting Neutrino Masses, Dark Matter and Leptogenesis from Δ(54) Flavor with Triple Inverse SeesawIn this present study, an extended Delta 54 flavor symmetry model incorporating two standard model Higgs doublets is investigated. This model generates neutrino masses through the triple inverse…H. Bora, N. Bharali, R. Sarkar et al.·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Two-loop neutrino mass model with modular S4 symmetryWe propose a two-loop radiative neutrino mass model based on the modular Γ4 S4 flavour symmetry supplemented by a discrete Z3 symmetry. After spontaneous modular symmetry breaking, a…A. E. Cárcamo Hernández, J. Echeverria-Puentes, Vishnudath K. N. et al.·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Dark Matter as a Source for Lepton Flavor ViolationWe will witness enormous progress in the experimental sensitivity to charged-lepton-violation processes in the near future. New physics signals of charged lepton violation might be around the corner…Jeremy Echeverria, Patricio Escalona, Farinaldo Queiroz et al.·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
An ultra-broadband axion dark matter experimentWe propose a novel broadband strategy to search for axions by leveraging observables controlled by the axion field squared. We present a practical implementation of this concept for probing the…Angelo Esposito, Kin Chung Fong, Lam Hui·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Time-dependent signals of new physics at the LHCThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is sensitive to signals of beyond the Standard Model physics through a variety of channels including missing energy and resonance searches. In most searches, the new…Max H. Fieg, Patrick J. Fox, Jinbo Zhang et al.·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Electronic Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter with Intermediate-Mass MediatorsRecent years have seen dramatic improvements in the sensitivity of electron-based direct detection experiments. Typically, the sensitivity to dark matter scattering is determined in the light and…Connor Stratman, Tanner Trickle·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Neutrino mixing and gravitational production via inflationWe develop the Bogolyubov coefficient formalism for gravitational production of fermions with time-dependent mixing, which allows us to study a prototype neutrino system. The neutrino masses and…Oleg Lebedev, Jong-Hyun Yoon·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Nodal mechanism for the suppressed D D decay of ψ(4040) in the Bethe--Salpeter frameworkThe strong decay ψ(4040) D D is anomalously suppressed despite ample phase space, whereas the D D* and Ds Ds channels remain sizable. In this work, we study this suppression…Bing-Dong Wan, Sheng-Qi Zhang·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Distinguishing Higgs portal and neutralino dark matter via vector boson fusionUnderstanding the nature of dark matter (DM) is a fundamental challenge in particle physics. In this paper, we investigate the potential of vector boson fusion (VBF) processes at the Large Hadron…Amit Chakraborty, Tathagata Ghosh, Rafiqul Rahaman·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Heavy-Quark Condensate and Vacuum Energy Anomalous Dimension at Five LoopsWe present the perturbative heavy-quark condensate at five-loop order in QCD. This constitutes the first calculation at this order accounting for non-vanishing quark masses. Our result confirms the…Andreas Maier, Peter Marquard, York Schröder·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Study of η ηππ Decays in Large-NC Chiral Perturbation TheoryWe investigate the η ηππ decays within the framework of large-NC chiral perturbation theory, by calculating the decay amplitudes up to next-to-next-to-leading order in a…Feng-Zhi Chen, Xin-Qiang Li, Ya-Dong Yang et al.·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
EEXICC: An event generator for doubly heavy baryon production at e+e- collidersWe present EEXICC, a Monte Carlo event generator designed to simulate the production of doubly heavy baryons (Ξcc, Ξbc, and Ξbb) via e+e- annihilation. Based on nonrelativistic QCD…Hong-Tai Li, Xu-Chang Zheng, Xing-Gang Wu et al.·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
RG-Consistent (P)NJL Model: Impact of Thermal Cutoff Modifications on Thermodynamics and Net-Baryon Number FluctuationsIn this paper, we investigate the impact of renormalization group (RG) consistency on the chiral phase transition and thermodynamic properties of QCD matter using the RGNJL and RGPNJL models. By…Jie Tang, Fan Lin, Xinyang Wang·May 11, 2026SaveLearn