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2026-01-17
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Resonant Landau-Zener conversion in multi-axion systems / Dunsky, David I. (New York U., CCPP) ; Manzari, Claudio Andrea (UC, Berkeley ; LBL, Berkeley) ; Quílez, Pablo (UC, San Diego ; CERN) ; Ramos, Maria (CERN) ; Sørensen, Philip (U. Padua, Dept. Phys. Astron. ; INFN, Padua)
Multiple axions may emerge in the low-energy effective theory of Nature. Generically, the potentials describing these axion fields are non-diagonal, leading to mass mixing between axion states which can be temperature-dependent due to QCD instanton effects. [...]
arXiv:2507.06287; CERN-TH-2025-131.- 2026-01-12 - 10 p. - Published in : JHEP 2601 (2026) 077 Fulltext: 2507.06287 - PDF; document - PDF;

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2025-11-21
04:10
The quark jet function for $k_T$-like variables in NNLO QCD / Buonocore, Luca (CERN) ; Grazzini, Massimiliano (Zurich U.) ; Guadagni, Flavio (Zurich U.) ; Haag, Jürg (U. Bern, AEC) ; Rottoli, Luca (Milan Bicocca U. ; INFN, Milan Bicocca)
The precise description of jet processes requires observables capable of efficiently capturing the dynamics of the energy flow in hadronic final states. We consider a class of tranverse-momentum like resolution variables that smoothly describe the $n+1$ to $n$ jet transition in multi-jet processes. [...]
arXiv:2508.19226; ZU-TH 54/25; CERN-TH-2025-167.- 2025-11-12 - 20 p. - Published in : Eur. Phys. J. C 85 (2025) 1290 Fulltext: document - PDF; 2508.19226 - PDF;

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2025-11-11
04:30
Fast and Flexible Neutrino Decoupling Part I: The Standard Model / Escudero, M. (CERN) ; Jackson, G. (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Laine, M. (U. Bern (main)) ; Sandner, S. (Los Alamos)
Cosmological determinations of the number of relativistic neutrino species, $N^{ }_{\rm eff}$, are becoming increasingly accurate, and further improvements are expected both from CMB and BBN data. Given this context, we update the evaluation of $N^{ }_{\rm eff}$ and the current entropy density via the momentum-averaged approach. [...]
arXiv:2511.04747; LA-UR-25-30442; CERN-TH-2025-225.- 2026-02-13 - 34 p.
Fulltext: 2511.04747 - PDF; document - PDF;

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2025-11-04
04:14
Towards a topological data analysis for heavy-ion collisions / Capellino, Federica (Darmstadt, GSI) ; Dubla, Andrea (Darmstadt, GSI) ; Masciocchi, Silvia (Darmstadt, GSI ; Heidelberg U.) ; Nijs, Govert (CERN) ; Spitz, Daniel (Leipzig, Max Planck Inst.)
The collective expansion of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in heavy-ion collisions suggests that geometry-inspired approaches can be useful in extracting information about the QGP. In this work, a systematic study of observables based on topological data analysis is provided for simulations of heavy-ion collisions. [...]
arXiv:2509.02339; CERN-TH-2025-168.- 2025-11-25 - 15 p. - Published in : Phys. Rev. C 112 (2025) 054909 Fulltext: 2509.02339 - PDF; document - PDF;

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2025-11-04
04:07
Can galactic magnetic fields diffuse into the voids? / Ghosh, Oindrila (Stockholm U., OKC) ; Brandenburg, Axel (Royal Inst. Tech., Stockholm ; Stockholm U., OKC ; Carnegie Mellon U. ; Ilia State U.) ; Caprini, Chiara (CERN ; U. Geneva (main)) ; Neronov, Andrii (APC, Paris ; LASTRO Observ.) ; Vazza, Franco (U. Bologna, DIFA)
Cosmic voids are magnetized at the level of at least $10^{-17}$ G on Mpc scales, as implied by blazar observations. We show that an electrically conducting plasma is present in the voids, and that, because of the plasma, \emph{diffusion} into the voids of galactic fields generated by a mean-field dynamo is far too slow to explain the present-day void magnetization. [...]
arXiv:2510.26918; NORDITA-2025-055; CERN-TH-2025-219.- 2026-01-15 - 14 p. - Published in : Phys. Rev. D Fulltext: PDF;

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2025-10-23
04:25
NLO analysis of the subleading-power $Q_1-Q_{7\gamma}$ interference in $\bar{B}\to X_s\gamma$ at large photon energies / Bartocci, Riccardo (Mainz U.) ; Böer, Philipp (CERN) ; Hurth, Tobias (Mainz U.)
We report on progress towards including next-to-leading order (NLO) radiative corrections to the subleading-power factorization formula for the $Q_1^{q}-Q_{7γ}$ interference contribution in $\bar{B}\to X_sγ$ at large photon energies, $m_b - 2E_γ= \mathcal{O}(Λ_{\rm QCD})$. The novel ingredients for a NLO analysis are the one-loop anomalous dimension of the subleading shape function $g_{17}(ω,ω_1;μ)$, which was recently computed by us, and the two-loop corrections to the jet function with an internal charm loop. [...]
arXiv:2510.18811; MITP-25-063; CERN-TH-2025-197.- 2025-10-21 - 10 p. - Published in : 10.22323/1.485.0301 Fulltext: PDF; Publication: PDF;
In : 2025 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2025), Marseille, France, 7 - 11 Jul 2025

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2025-10-21
04:04
Effects of Radiative Corrections on Starobinsky Inflation / Ellis, John (King's Coll. London ; CERN) ; Gherghetta, Tony (U. Minnesota, Minneapolis (main)) ; Kaneta, Kunio (Niigata U. (main)) ; Ke, Wenqi (U. Minnesota, Minneapolis (main)) ; Olive, Keith A. (U. Minnesota, Minneapolis (main))
We analyze radiative corrections to the Starobinsky model of inflation arising from self-interactions of the inflaton, and from its Yukawa couplings, $y$, to matter fermions, and dimensionful trilinear couplings, $κ$, to scalar fields, which could be responsible for reheating the Universe after inflation. The inflaton self-interactions are found to be of higher order in the Hubble expansion rate during inflation, and hence unimportant for CMB observations. [...]
arXiv:2510.15137; UMN-TH-4511/25; FTPI-MINN-25/13; KCL-PH-TH/2025-39; CERN-TH-2025-198.- 2025-12-15 - 15 p. - Published in : Phys. Rev. D 112 (2025) 123530 Fulltext: 2510.15137 - PDF; document - PDF;

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2025-10-15
04:29
Massive Feynman integrals at high energies: recent analytic results / Zhang, Hantian (CERN)
The high-energy behaviour of scattering amplitudes involving massive particles has attracted interest in recent years. In these proceedings, we report on the analytic tool AsyInt for solving massive multi-loop Feynman integrals in the high-energy limit, which are fundamental building blocks for such amplitudes in the full Standard Model. [...]
arXiv:2510.09838; CERN-TH-2025-195.- 2025-10-10 - 6 p. - Published in : 10.22323/1.485.0463 Fulltext: PDF; Publication: PDF;
In : 2025 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2025), Marseille, France, 7 - 11 Jul 2025

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2025-10-07
04:23
A Limit on the Total Lepton Number in the Universe from BBN and the CMB / Domcke, Valerie (CERN) ; Escudero, Miguel (CERN) ; Fernandez Navarro, Mario (Glasgow U.) ; Sandner, Stefan (Los Alamos)
At temperatures below the QCD phase transition, any substantial lepton number in the Universe can only be present within the neutrino sector. In this work, we systematically explore the impact of a non-vanishing lepton number on Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). [...]
arXiv:2510.02438; CERN-TH-2025-192; LA-UR-25-29666.- 2026 - 24 p. - Published in : JCAP 2602 (2026) 017 Fulltext: 2510.02438 - PDF; document - PDF;

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2025-09-27
04:05
Geometric Building Blocks of Effective Field Theory Amplitudes / Cohen, Timothy (CERN ; EPFL, Lausanne, LPTP ; Oregon U.) ; Li, Xu-Xiang (U. Utah, Salt Lake City) ; Zhang, Zhengkang (U. Utah, Salt Lake City)
On-shell amplitudes are invariant under field redefinitions. Nonderivative field redefinitions have a natural interpretation as coordinate transformations on the target manifold. [...]
arXiv:2509.20449; CERN-TH-2025-188.- 2026-02-05 - 49 p. - Published in : JHEP 2602 (2026) 076 Fulltext: 2509.20449 - PDF; document - PDF;

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