Glueball interactions from the colour Van der Waals potentialWe examine pure Yang-Mills theory glueball-glueball interactions in constituent-gluon approaches. Because of the large mass gap, Van der Waals interactions are relatively more significant than in…Juan Cánovas Cúneo, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Generalized Chiral U(1)B-L with Inelastic Scalar Dark Matter for the LZ 248 keV EventThe high-energy nuclear recoil event with ER248 keV recently reported by the LZ collaboration, with a background-only significance of 2.6σ, offers an intriguing window into dark matter…Ranjeet Kumar, Hemant Kumar Prajapati·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
A Colour-Casimir Adjacency Matrix Approach to Fully-Heavy TetraquarksWe present a phenomenological framework for fully-heavy tetraquark spectroscopy based on spectral graph theory. The four valence partons are the vertices of \(K4\), with edge weights fixed by the…M. Monemzadeh, N. Tazimi·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Soft functions for generalised angularity event shapes at NNLOWe consider a class of dijet event shapes which tend to angularity in the forward limit. The factorisation formula for this class of event shapes differs from angularity only in the soft function.…Emmet P. Byrne, Jonathan R. Gaunt·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
EFT Approaches to Sommerfeld Enhancement and Bound States in Singular PotentialsThe Sommerfeld enhancement (SE) from long-range interactions, and the related bound state formation rate, can be important non-perturbative inputs to dark matter (DM) annihilation signals. In the…Arindam Bhattacharya, Rashmish K. Mishra, Tracy R. Slatyer·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Opening the Topological Portal to Dark Sectors with CollidersWe study the phenomenology of the topological portal between QCD and pseudo-Nambu--Goldstone dark matter proposed in~Davighi:2024zip. We construct a weakly coupled ultraviolet completion in…Joe Davighi, Admir Greljo, Lia Schöneweiß et al.·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Computationally Efficient Description of Medium Response to Jets in Heavy Ion CollisionsWe develop an Efficient Wake procedure for computing the distribution of hadrons originating from jet wakes in heavy ion collisions - the hydrodynamic response of a droplet of quark-gluon plasma to…Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, José Guilherme Milhano, Daniel Pablos et al.·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Re-examining the sensitivity of JWST to decaying axion dark matterAn eV-scale QCD axion comprising the observed dark matter (DM) abundance is expected to generate a photon line at infrared energies that would be observable or near-observable in data collected by…Caleb Gemmell, Christopher Dessert, Andrea Caputo et al.·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
On the Numerical Integration of One-Loop Cosmological Collider SignalsIn a broad class of inflationary models, the leading non-Gaussian bispectrum arises from one-loop rather than tree-level processes. However, realistic one-loop contributions remain largely unexplored…Michael Borinsky, Aidan Herderschee, Qianshu Lu·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Ultralight Axial Dark MatterUltralight dark matter could be an axial vector field, a simple possibility which motivates new experiments. Couplings to fermions, through an axial vector current or a dark electric dipole moment…Anson Hook, Junwu Huang, Kevin Zhou·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
The Dark Dimension and Majorana NeutrinosRecent developments in the Swampland program motivate the existence of a mesoscopic Dark Dimension of size 0.1-10~μm with bulk Majorana fermions in the 1-10 keV range. Motivated by this, we…Arturo de Giorgi, Dhruv Pasari·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Implications of Inelastic Dark Matter for Primordial Dark-Star Evolution: Kinematic Thresholds and Nonthermal CaptureThe recent 248-keV nuclear recoil candidate reported by LUX-ZEPLIN has renewed interest in endothermic inelastic dark matter, motivating us to examine its capture in primordial dark stars. Relative…Qinxun Li, Shengyi Liu·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Nonthermal Solar Stalling of an Inelastic Scalar Signal in XenonThe LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has reported one nuclear-recoil candidate at 248 in an extended-energy search. We construct an anomaly-free U(1)B-3Lτ model in which an 840 complex scalar…XinXin Qi, Hao Sun·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Can Elastic Neutrino Scattering Account for the LZ230616 Event?Recently, the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Collaboration reported an isolated nuclear-recoil event at 248 23stat 23syst~keVnr, in a region where the expected background is…Ayan Chattaraj, Anirban Majumdar, Dimitrios K. Papoulias et al.·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Inelastic Dark Matter and High-Energy Recoil Signatures in LZWe study the inelastic dark matter (iDM) that consists of two-component dark matter particles (χ1,χ2) and serves as a minimal extension beyond the commonly used one-component DM models. A…Zi-Tong Fan, Hong-Jian He, Yu-Chen Wang et al.·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Anomalies at the End of the Universe?The spatial distribution of anomalies in extra dimensional theories on a slice of AdS leads to a puzzle where anomalies may not match across different geometries that are dual to various states of…Jay Hubisz, Hanieh Moradipasha, Prakriti Singh·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Transition magnetic-dipole dark matter and the LZ230616 high-recoil candidateA transition magnetic dipole connects an endothermic nuclear recoil to a delayed photon. We study this interpretation of LZ230616, the 248-keV candidate in LZ's extended-energy search. Imposing…Yuxuan He·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Quantifying Information Hierarchy for Neutrino Oscillation Parameters at JUNOSince neutrinos are quantum systems inherently, the precision with which oscillation parameters can be estimated ultimately depends on how much information about these parameters is encoded in the…Yu-han Shu, Neetu Raj Singh Chundawat, Luis A. Delgadillo et al.·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Searching for New Physics with Reinforcement LearningFinding new physics (NP) is the most important problem in particle physics today. Studying ``anomalies'', i.e., measurements of low-energy observables whose values disagree with the…Jacky Kumar, Marianne Bouchard, David London·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Towards new D meson fragmentation functionsThe Heavy Meson (Hymn) collaboration presents a new extraction of D meson fragmentation functions using experimental data from LEP and LHC. We focus particularly on kinematical regimes where…Manuel Epele, Felix Hekhorn, Ilkka Helenius et al.·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
An improved partial-wave projection of the one-particle exchange in relativistic three-body scatteringA critical component of relativistic three-body scattering amplitudes is the one-particle exchange (OPE) process, wherein a single particle is exchanged between incoming and outgoing two-body…Nicholas C. Chambers, Andrew W. Jackura·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Decoding Heavy Top-Philic Resonances at the HL-LHC: From Parton Kinematics to Deep Learning SignaturesThe stabilization of the electroweak scale strongly motivates the search for new heavy resonances and top-partner states. We investigate the discovery potential of exotic resonances mediating the…Hadjer Boukhrouf, Zouina Belghobsi·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Zero-locus diagnostic of the direct contact term in ϕπ+π-π0We formulate, within a fixed FSI-improved amplitude convention, a zero-locus diagnostic for the direct contact term in ϕπ+π-π0. The resonant ρπ contribution is dressed channel by channel…Seung-il Nam, Jung Keun Ahn·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
Probing the Electromagnetic Structure of Heavy-Light Hybrid Mesons with Vector and Axial-Vector Quantum NumbersWe investigate the electromagnetic (EM) properties of vector and axial-vector heavy-light hybrid mesons within the light cone QCD sum rules framework. These states are characterized by an explicit…A. Amiri, K. Azizi, P. Eslami·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn
On the universality of soft emission beyond the next-to-soft orderThe Low-Burnett-Kroll theorem (extended to non-abelian gauge theory) states that the tree-level emission amplitude of a soft gauge boson from an arbitrary hard process can be expressed in terms of…Martin Beneke, Maria Santana, Michel Stillger·Sep 9, 2026SaveLearn