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Morgan K, Azuma T, Baptista G, Becker D, Bennett D, Butin F, Dean JW, Eizenberg O, Fowler JW, Fujioka H, Gamba D, Gard JD, Garroum N, Guerra M, Hashimoto T, Higuchi T, Hori M, Indelicato P, Keller M, Machado J, Mates JAB, Nakamura N, Nobles J, Nez F, Ohayon B, Okada S, Ortiz N, Rathi S, Roosa M, Rousse JY, Saito T, Schmidt D, Senetaire Q, Sommerfeldt J, Szypryt P, Ullom J, Weber J, Yzombard P, Zito M, Paul N, Swetz Det al., 2026,

Transition-Edge Sensor Spectrometer for Precision Spectroscopy of Antiprotonic Atoms

, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, Vol: 36, ISSN: 1051-8223

antiProtonic Atom X-ray (PAX) spectroscopy is an experiment that aims to test strong-field quantum electrodynamics (QED) effects by performing high-precision X-ray spectroscopy of antiprotonic atoms. PAX will use a low-energy antiproton beam provided by the Extra Low ENergy Antiproton (ELENA) ring at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to create antiprotonic atoms. A superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) spectrometer will be used to measure the energy of transitions between circular Rydberg states in these atoms. The energy range of interest for the experiment spans 50 keV to 250 keV, and the desired precision for measuring the centroids of the emission lines is 10^{-5}. The spectrometer for PAX is intended to have four 96-pixel TES arrays and will be read out with a microwave superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) multiplexer. As a step toward building the full instrument, we built a scaled-down version of the spectrometer that was installed at the TEst Line for Machine And Antimatter eXperiments (TELMAX) facility at ELENA in April 2025. The purpose of this deployment was to make an observation of X-ray emission by antiprotonic atoms and to better understand the effect of the pionic charged particle background due to antiproton annihilation on the performance of the TES array. This pilot spectrometer had an array of 60 TES pixels in a compact adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator cryostat. The sensors were read out with a microwave SQUID multiplexer. Each pixel consisted of a molybdenum/gold bilayer TES with a coplanar gold “landing pad” for a bulk tin absorber that was attached by an epoxy joint. We discuss the design of the TES pixels, the microwave SQUID readout, and the cryogenic platform. Finally, we present calibration data obtained at TELMAX using radioactive sources to assess the performance of the spectrometer in the antiproton beam-off condition.

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Walker T, Marchant AL, Bentine E, Buchmüller O, Clarke K, Foot C, Hawkins L, Hughes KM, Hussain K, Iannizzotto Venezze L, Josset A, Labiad H, Lee D, Thornton-Sparkes TC, Valenzuela T, van der Grinten M, Vick A, Bason MG, Baynham CFA, Hobson Ret al., 2026,

A high-flux source of cold strontium with a loading rate of 4×1010 atoms/s for open release

, AVS Quantum Science, Vol: 8

<jats:p>We present a high-flux source of cold strontium atoms based on a two-dimensional magneto-optical trap (2D MOT) and a Zeeman slower. We use the source to load a 3D MOT in a separate science chamber, observing a loading rate of 4×1010 atoms/s—to our knowledge, the highest reported loading flux for strontium. To characterize the vacuum pressure in the science chamber, we load the atoms into a magnetic trap and measure a lifetime of between 8 and 24 s, depending on the oven temperature. Finally, we characterize the atom flux and velocity distributions from the oven and from the 2D MOT source, finding reasonable agreement with models in the free molecular flow regime. Our results show that it is possible to readily produce a cold strontium flux at comparable levels to those of alkali species, at oven temperatures compatible with long-term operation, and at vacuum pressures suitable for state-of-the-art quantum experiments. We make our design available at no cost to benefit researchers in the quantum community.</jats:p>

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Belyaev A, Gevorgyan A, Hayrapetyan A, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Benato L, Bergauer T, Dragicevic M, Gundacker S, Guven AK, Hussain PS, Jeitler M, Krammer N, Li A, Liko D, Matthewman M, Schieck J, Schöfbeck R, Shooshtari M, Sonawane M, Van Den Bossche N, Waltenberger W, Wulz C-E, Janssen T, Kwon H, Ocampo Henao D, Van Laer T, Van Mechelen P, Ahmadi D, Bierkens J, Breugelmans N, Dansana S, De Moor A, Delcourt M, Gupta C, Heyen F, Hong Y, Kang K, Kashko P, Lowette S, Makarenko I, Nandakumar S, Tavernier S, Tytgat M, Van Onsem GP, Van Putte S, Vannerom D, Wybouw T, Beshr A, Bilin B, Caviglia Roman F, Clerbaux B, Das AK, De Bruyn I, De Lentdecker G, Ducarme E, Evard H, Favart L, Kalaitzidou I, Khalilzadeh A, Malara A, Shahzad MA, Thomas L, Vanden Bemden M, Vander Velde C, Vanlaer P, Yuan C, Zhang F, Cauwels A, De Coen M, Dobur D, Giordano C, Gokbulut G, Kaspar K, Kavtaradze D, Marckx D, Mehta A, Skovpen K, Tomaru AM, van der Linden J, Vandenbroeck J, Aarup Petersen H, Benecke A, Bethani A, Cappati A, De Favereau De Jeneret J, Delaere C, Gameiro Casalinho F, Giammanco A, Guzel AO, Hussain M, Lawrence Z, Lemaitre V, Lidrych J, Malek P, Turkcapar S, Alves GA, Barroso Ferreira Filho M, Coelho E, Gonçalves Sales MV, Hensel C, Matos Figueiredo D, Menezes De Oliveira T, Mora Herrera C, Rebello Teles P, Soeiro M, Tonelli Manganote EJ, Vilela Pereira A, Aldá Júnior WL, Brandao Malbouisson H, Carvalho W, Chinellato J, Correia Silva G, Costa Reis M, Da Costa EM, Da Silva Dalto D, Da Silveira GG, De Jesus Damiao D, Fonseca De Souza S, Gomes De Souza R, Jesus SS, Laux Kuhn T, Maslova K, Mota Amarilo K, Mundim L, Nogima H, Pinheiro JP, Santoro A, Sznajder A, Thiel M, Torres Da Silva De Araujo F, Torres Machado D, Bernardes CA, Calligaris L, Carvalho Leite J, Coelho MP, Damas F, Tomei TRFP, Gregores EM, Lopes Da Costa B, Maietto Silverio I, Mercadante PG, Novaes SF, Padula SS, Scheurer V, Aleksandrov A, Antchev G, Danev P, Hadjiiska R, Iaydjiev P, Shopova M, Sultanov G, Dimitrov A, Litov Let al., 2026,

System-size dependence of charged-particle suppression in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions

, Physics Letters B, Vol: 880, Pages: 140679-140679, ISSN: 0370-2693

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Hayrapetyan A, Makarenko V, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Benato L, Bergauer T, Dragicevic M, Hussain PS, Jeitler M, Krammer N, Li A, Liko D, Matthewman M, Schieck J, Schöfbeck R, Shooshtari M, Sonawane M, Waltenberger W, Wulz CE, Janssen T, Kwon H, Ocampo Henao D, Van Laer T, Van Mechelen P, Bierkens J, Breugelmans N, DHondt J, Dansana S, De Moor A, Delcourt M, Heyen F, Hong Y, Kashko P, Lowette S, Makarenko I, Müller D, Tavernier S, Tytgat M, Van Onsem GP, Van Putte S, Vannerom D, Bilin B, Clerbaux B, Das AK, De Bruyn I, De Lentdecker G, Evard H, Favart L, Gianneios P, Khalilzadeh A, Khan FA, Malara A, Shahzad MA, Sharma A, Thomas L, Vanden Bemden M, Vander Velde C, Vanlaer P, Zhang F, De Coen M, Dobur D, Giordano C, Gokbulut G, Kaspar K, Kavtaradze D, Marckx D, Skovpen K, Tomaru AM, Van Den Bossche N, van der Linden J, Vandenbroeck J, Aarup Petersen H, Bein S, Benecke A, Bethani A, Bruno G, Cappati A, De Favereau De Jeneret J, Delaere C, Gameiro Casalinho F, Giammanco A, Guzel AO, Lemaitre V, Lidrych J, Malek P, Mastrapasqua P, Turkcapar S, Alves GA, Barroso Ferreira Filho M, Coelho E, Hensel C, Matos Figueiredo D, Menezes De Oliveira T, Mora Herrera C, Rebello Teles P, Soeiro M, Tonelli Manganote EJ, Vilela Pereira A, Aldá Júnior WL, Brandao Malbouisson Het al., 2026,

Search for soft unclustered energy patterns produced in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV

, Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics, Vol: 879, ISSN: 0370-2693

A search for a Higgs boson produced in association with a W or Z boson and decaying via a soft unclustered energy pattern (SUEP) is presented. The analysis is based on proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138fb−1 collected between 2016 and 2018 at the LHC. Final states with a leptonic W or Z boson decay associated with a high multiplicity of low-momentum charged particles are explored for the first time. The results show no significant excess over the standard model background expectation. Limits are set on the production cross section of a Higgs boson that decays to a SUEP, for a range of parameters of the SUEP model. Material is provided to facilitate further interpretation of the results.

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Hayrapetyan A, Makarenko V, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, Benato L, Bergauer T, Dragicevic M, Giordano C, Hussain PS, Jeitler M, Krammer N, Li A, Liko D, Matthewman M, Mikulec I, Schieck J, Schöfbeck R, Schwarz D, Shooshtari M, Sonawane M, Waltenberger W, Wulz C-E, Janssen T, Kwon H, Ocampo Henao D, Van Laer T, Van Mechelen P, Bierkens J, Breugelmans N, DHondt J, Dansana S, De Moor A, Delcourt M, Heyen F, Hong Y, Kashko P, Lowette S, Makarenko I, Müller D, Song J, Tavernier S, Tytgat M, Van Onsem GP, Van Putte S, Vannerom D, Bilin B, Clerbaux B, Das AK, De Bruyn I, De Lentdecker G, Evard H, Favart L, Gianneios P, Khalilzadeh A, Khan FA, Malara A, Shahzad MA, Thomas L, Vanden Bemden M, Vander Velde C, Vanlaer P, Zhang F, De Coen M, Dobur D, Gokbulut G, Knolle J, Marckx D, Skovpen K, Van Den Bossche N, van der Linden J, Vandenbroeck J, Wezenbeek L, Bein S, Benecke A, Bethani A, Bruno G, Cappati A, De Favereau De Jeneret J, Delaere C, Giammanco A, Guzel AO, Lemaitre V, Lidrych J, Malek P, Mastrapasqua P, Turkcapar S, Alves GA, Barroso Ferreira Filho M, Coelho E, Hensel C, Menezes De Oliveira T, Mora Herrera C, Rebello Teles P, Soeiro M, Tonelli Manganote EJ, Vilela Pereira A, Aldá Júnior WL, Brandao Malbouisson H, Carvalho W, Chinellato J, Costa Reis M, Da Costa EM, Da Silveira GG, De Jesus Damiao D, Fonseca De Souza S, Gomes De Souza R, Jesus SS, Laux Kuhn T, Macedo M, Mota Amarilo K, Mundim L, Nogima H, Pinheiro JP, Santoro A, Sznajder A, Thiel M, Torres Da Silva De Araujo F, Bernardes CA, Damas F, Tomei TRFP, Gregores EM, Lopes Da Costa B, Maietto Silverio I, Mercadante PG, Novaes SF, Orzari B, Padula SS, Scheurer V, Aleksandrov A, Antchev G, Danev P, Hadjiiska R, Iaydjiev P, Shopova M, Sultanov G, Dimitrov A, Litov L, Pavlov B, Petkov P, Petrov A, Keshri S, Laroze D, Thakur S, Brooks W, Cheng T, Javaid T, Wang L, Yuan L, Hu Z, Liang Z, Liu J, Wang X, Chen GM, Chen HS, Chen M, Chen Y, Hou Q, Hou X, Iemmi F, Jiang CH, Kapoor A, Liao H, Liu G, Liu Z-A, Song JNet al., 2026,

Search for a boosted Higgs boson decaying to bottom quark pairs in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV

, Physics Letters B, Vol: 879, Pages: 140534-140534, ISSN: 0370-2693

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Hayrapetyan A, Makarenko V, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, Benato L, Bergauer T, Dragicevic M, Giordano C, Hussain PS, Jeitler M, Krammer N, Li A, Liko D, Matthewman M, Mikulec I, Schieck J, Schöfbeck R, Schwarz D, Shooshtari M, Sonawane M, Waltenberger W, Wulz C-E, Janssen T, Kwon H, Ocampo Henao D, Van Laer T, Van Mechelen P, Bierkens J, Breugelmans N, DHondt J, Dansana S, De Moor A, Delcourt M, Heyen F, Hong Y, Kashko P, Lowette S, Makarenko I, Müller D, Song J, Tavernier S, Tytgat M, Van Onsem GP, Van Putte S, Vannerom D, Bilin B, Clerbaux B, Das AK, De Bruyn I, De Lentdecker G, Evard H, Favart L, Gianneios P, Khalilzadeh A, Khan FA, Malara A, Shahzad MA, Sharma A, Thomas L, Vanden Bemden M, Vander Velde C, Vanlaer P, Zhang F, De Coen M, Dobur D, Gokbulut G, Knolle J, Marckx D, Skovpen K, Tomaru AM, Van Den Bossche N, van der Linden J, Vandenbroeck J, Wezenbeek L, Aarup Petersen H, Bein S, Benecke A, Bethani A, Bruno G, Cappati A, De Favereau De Jeneret J, Delaere C, Gameiro Casalinho F, Giammanco A, Guzel AO, Lemaitre V, Lidrych J, Malek P, Mastrapasqua P, Turkcapar S, Alves GA, Barroso Ferreira Filho M, Coelho E, Hensel C, Menezes De Oliveira T, Mora Herrera C, Rebello Teles P, Soeiro M, Tonelli Manganote EJ, Vilela Pereira A, Aldá Júnior WL, Brandao Malbouisson H, Carvalho W, Chinellato J, Costa Reis M, Da Costa EM, Da Silveira GG, De Jesus Damiao D, Fonseca De Souza S, Gomes De Souza R, Jesus SS, Laux Kuhn T, Macedo M, Mota Amarilo K, Mundim L, Nogima H, Pinheiro JP, Santoro A, Sznajder A, Thiel M, Torres Da Silva De Araujo F, Bernardes CA, Damas F, Fernandez Perez Tomei TR, Gregores EM, Lopes Da Costa B, Maietto Silverio I, Mercadante PG, Novaes SF, Orzari B, Padula SS, Scheurer V, Aleksandrov A, Antchev G, Danev P, Hadjiiska R, Iaydjiev P, Shopova M, Sultanov G, Dimitrov A, Litov L, Pavlov B, Petkov P, Petrov A, Keshri S, Laroze D, Thakur S, Brooks W, Cheng T, Javaid T, Wang L, Yuan L, Hu Z, Liang Z, Liu J, Wang X, Yang H, Chen GM, Chen HS, Chen M Cet al., 2026,

Measurement of the jet mass in hadronic decays of boosted W bosons at 13 TeV and extraction of the W boson mass

, Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol: 2026

<jats:title> A <jats:sc>bstract</jats:sc> </jats:title> <jats:p> The jet mass of W bosons decaying to a quark-antiquark pair is measured in W+jets events from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data used were collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb <jats:sup> <jats:italic>−</jats:italic> 1 </jats:sup> . Hadronic decays of W bosons with high momenta produce strongly collimated decay products due to the large Lorentz boost, and are reconstructed as single large-radius jets. These jets have a characteristic substructure that is exploited to distinguish them from the large background of quark- and gluon-initiated jets. The jet mass is computed using the soft-drop algorithm, which suppresses soft wide-angle radiation that leads to a broadening of the jet mass distribution. For the first time, unfolded measurements are presented of the double-differential W+jets cross section as a function of the jet transverse momentum and soft-drop mass. From these distributions, the W boson mass is obtained, with a value of 80.83 ± 0.55 GeV in a scheme with mass-dependent width, achieving the smallest uncertainty available today from an all-jets final state at a hadron collider. </jats:p>

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Hayrapetyan A, Makarenko V, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, Benato L, Bergauer T, Dragicevic M, Giordano C, Hussain PS, Jeitler M, Krammer N, Li A, Liko D, Mikulec I, Schieck J, Schöfbeck R, Schwarz D, Shooshtari M, Sonawane M, Waltenberger W, Wulz C-E, Janssen T, Kwon H, Ocampo Henao D, Van Laer T, Van Mechelen P, Bierkens J, Breugelmans N, DHondt J, Dansana S, De Moor A, Delcourt M, Heyen F, Hong Y, Kashko P, Lowette S, Makarenko I, Müller D, Song J, Tavernier S, Tytgat M, Van Onsem GP, Van Putte S, Vannerom D, Bilin B, Clerbaux B, Das AK, De Bruyn I, De Lentdecker G, Evard H, Favart L, Gianneios P, Khalilzadeh A, Khan FA, Malara A, Shahzad MA, Thomas L, Vanden Bemden M, Vander Velde C, Vanlaer P, Zhang F, De Coen M, Dobur D, Gokbulut G, Knolle J, Lambrecht L, Marckx D, Skovpen K, Van Den Bossche N, van der Linden J, Vandenbroeck J, Wezenbeek L, Bein S, Benecke A, Bethani A, Bruno G, Cappati A, De Favereau De Jeneret J, Delaere C, Giammanco A, Guzel AO, Lemaitre V, Lidrych J, Malek P, Mastrapasqua P, Turkcapar S, Alves GA, Barroso Ferreira Filho M, Coelho E, Hensel C, Menezes De Oliveira T, Mora Herrera C, Rebello Teles P, Soeiro M, Tonelli Manganote EJ, Vilela Pereira A, Aldá Júnior WL, Brandao Malbouisson H, Carvalho W, Chinellato J, Costa Reis M, Da Costa EM, Da Silveira GG, De Jesus Damiao D, Fonseca De Souza S, Gomes De Souza R, Jesus SS, Laux Kuhn T, Macedo M, Mota Amarilo K, Mundim L, Nogima H, Pinheiro JP, Santoro A, Sznajder A, Thiel M, Torres Da Silva De Araujo F, Bernardes CA, Tomei TRFP, Gregores EM, Lopes Da Costa B, Maietto Silverio I, Mercadante PG, Novaes SF, Orzari B, Padula SS, Scheurer V, Aleksandrov A, Antchev G, Danev P, Hadjiiska R, Iaydjiev P, Misheva M, Shopova M, Sultanov G, Dimitrov A, Litov L, Pavlov B, Petkov P, Petrov A, Keshri S, Laroze D, Thakur S, Brooks W, Cheng T, Javaid T, Wang L, Yuan L, Hu Z, Liang Z, Liu J, Wang X, Chen GM, Chen HS, Chen M, Chen Y, Hou Q, Hou X, Iemmi F, Jiang CH, Kapoor A, Liao H, Liu G, Liu Z-A, Song JNet al., 2026,

Measurement of <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mi>B</mml:mi> </mml:math> meson production fraction ratios in proton-proton collisions at <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msqrt> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>s</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:msqrt> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mn>13</mml:mn> <mml:mtext> </mml:mtext> <mml:mtext> </mml:mtext> <mml:mi>TeV</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> using open-charm and charmonium decays

, Physical Review D, Vol: 114, ISSN: 2470-0010

<jats:p> Production fraction ratios of <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <a:msup> <a:mi>B</a:mi> <a:mo>+</a:mo> </a:msup> </a:math> , <c:math xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <c:msup> <c:mi>B</c:mi> <c:mn>0</c:mn> </c:msup> </c:math> , and <e:math xmlns:e="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <e:msubsup> <e:mi>B</e:mi> <e:mi>s</e:mi> <e:mn>0</e:mn> </e:msubsup> </e:math> mesons are measured in proton-proton collisions at <g:math xmlns:g="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <g:mrow> <g:msqrt> <g:mrow> <g:mi>s</g:mi> </g:mrow> </g:msqrt> <g:mo>=</g:mo> <g:mn>13</g:mn> <g:mtext> </g:mtext> <g:mtext> </g:mtext> <g:mi>TeV</g:mi> </g:mrow> </g:math> using a special dataset recorded in 2018 with high-rate

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Abe K, Abe S, Asaoka Y, Harada M, Hayato Y, Hiraide K, Hosokawa K, Hung TH, Ieki K, Ikeda M, Kameda J, Kanemura Y, Kataoka Y, Miki S, Mine S, Miura M, Moriyama S, Nakahata M, Nakayama S, Noguchi Y, Pronost G, Sato K, Sekiya H, Shinoda R, Shiozawa M, Suzuki Y, Takeda A, Takemoto Y, Tanaka H, Yano T, Itow Y, Kajita T, Nishijima R, Okumura K, Tashiro T, Tomiya T, Wang X, Fernandez P, Labarga L, Samudio D, Zaldivar B, Yanagisawa C, Kearns E, Mirabito J, Wan L, Wester T, Pointon BW, Bian J, Cortez B, Griskevich NJ, Jiang Y, Smy MB, Sobel HW, Takhistov V, Yankelevich A, Hill J, Jang MC, Lee SH, Moon DH, Park RG, Yang BS, Bodur B, Scholberg K, Walter CW, Beauchêne A, Le Blévec E, Drapier O, Ershova A, Ferey M, Mueller TA, Santos AD, Paganini P, Quach C, Rogly R, Nakamura T, Jang JS, Litchfield RP, Machado LN, Soler FJP, Learned JG, Choi K, Cao S, Anthony LHV, Prouse NW, Scott M, Uchida Y, Berardi V, Calabria NF, Catanesi MG, Ospina N, Radicioni E, Langella A, De Rosa G, Collazuol G, Feltre M, Mattiazzi M, Ludovici L, Gonin M, Périssé L, Quilain Bet al., 2026,

Search for Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background with 956.2 Days of Super-Kamiokande Gadolinium Dataset

, Astrophysical Journal, Vol: 1005, ISSN: 0004-637X

We report the search result for the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB) in neutrino energies beyond 9.3 MeV in the gadolinium-loaded Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector with a 22,500 × 956.2 m3 day exposure. Starting in the summer of 2020, SK introduced 0.01% gadolinium (Gd) by mass into its ultrapure water to enhance the neutron capture signal, termed the SK-VI phase. This was followed by a 0.03% Gd-loading in 2022, a phase referred to as SK-VII. We then conducted a DSNB search using 552.2 days of SK-VI data and 404.0 days of SK-VII data through 2023 September. This analysis includes several new features, such as two new machine learning neutron detection algorithms with Gd, an improved atmospheric background-reduction technique, and two parallel statistical approaches. No significant excess over background predictions was found in a DSNB spectrum-independent analysis, and 90% confidence level (C.L.) upper limits on the astrophysical electron antineutrino flux were set. Additionally, a spectral fitting result exhibited a ∼1.2σ disagreement with a null DSNB hypothesis, comparable to a previous result from 5823 days of all SK pure-water phases.

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Hayrapetyan A, Makarenko V, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Benato L, Bergauer T, Dragicevic M, Giordano C, Hussain PS, Jeitler M, Krammer N, Li A, Liko D, Matthewman M, Schieck J, Schöfbeck R, Shooshtari M, Sonawane M, Waltenberger W, Wulz C-E, Janssen T, Kwon H, Ocampo Henao D, Van Laer T, Van Mechelen P, Bierkens J, Breugelmans N, DHondt J, Dansana S, De Moor A, Delcourt M, Heyen F, Hong Y, Kashko P, Lowette S, Makarenko I, Müller D, Tavernier S, Tytgat M, Van Onsem GP, Van Putte S, Vannerom D, Bilin B, Clerbaux B, Das AK, De Bruyn I, De Lentdecker G, Evard H, Favart L, Gianneios P, Khalilzadeh A, Khan FA, Malara A, Shahzad MA, Sharma A, Thomas L, Vanden Bemden M, Vander Velde C, Vanlaer P, Zhang F, De Coen M, Dobur D, Gokbulut G, Marckx D, Skovpen K, Tomaru AM, Van Den Bossche N, van der Linden J, Vandenbroeck J, Aarup Petersen H, Bein S, Benecke A, Bethani A, Bruno G, Cappati A, De Favereau De Jeneret J, Delaere C, Gameiro Casalinho F, Giammanco A, Guzel AO, Lemaitre V, Lidrych J, Malek P, Mastrapasqua P, Turkcapar S, Alves GA, Barroso Ferreira Filho M, Coelho E, Hensel C, Matos Figueiredo D, Menezes De Oliveira T, Mora Herrera C, Rebello Teles P, Soeiro M, Tonelli Manganote EJ, Vilela Pereira A, Aldá Júnior WL, Brandao Malbouisson H, Carvalho W, Chinellato J, Costa Reis M, Da Costa EM, Da Silveira GG, De Jesus Damiao D, Fonseca De Souza S, Gomes De Souza R, Jesus SS, Laux Kuhn T, Macedo M, Mota Amarilo K, Mundim L, Nogima H, Pinheiro JP, Santoro A, Sznajder A, Thiel M, Torres Da Silva De Araujo F, Bernardes CA, Calligaris L, Damas F, Fernandez Perez Tomei TR, Gregores EM, Lopes Da Costa B, Maietto Silverio I, Mercadante PG, Novaes SF, Padula SS, Scheurer V, Aleksandrov A, Antchev G, Danev P, Hadjiiska R, Iaydjiev P, Shopova M, Sultanov G, Dimitrov A, Litov L, Pavlov B, Petkov P, Petrov A, Keshri S, Laroze D, Thakur S, Brooks W, Cheng T, Javaid T, Wang L, Yuan L, Hu Z, Liang Z, Liu J, Wang X, Yang H, Chen GM, Chen HS, Chen M, Chen Y, Hou Q, Hou X, Iemmi F, Jiang CH, Liaoet al., 2026,

Combination of searches for heavy vector boson resonances in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV

, Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol: 2026

<jats:title> A <jats:sc>bstract</jats:sc> </jats:title> <jats:p> A combined statistical analysis of searches for heavy vector boson resonances decaying into pairs of W, Z, or Higgs bosons, as well as into quark pairs <jats:inline-formula> <jats:alternatives> <jats:tex-math>$$ \left(\mathrm{q}\overline{\mathrm{q}},\mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}},\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}},\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{b}}\right) $$</jats:tex-math> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mfenced> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>q</mml:mi> <mml:mover> <mml:mi>q</mml:mi> <mml:mo>¯</mml:mo> </mml:mover> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>b</mml:mi> <mml:mover> <mml:mi>b</mml:mi> <mml:mo>¯</mml:mo> </mml:mover> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>t</mml:mi> <mml:mover> <mml:mi>t</mml:mi> <mml:mo>¯</mml:mo> </mml:mover> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>t</m

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Hayrapetyan A, Makarenko V, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, Benato L, Bergauer T, Dragicevic M, Giordano C, Hussain PS, Jeitler M, Krammer N, Li A, Liko D, Matthewman M, Mikulec I, Schieck J, Schöfbeck R, Schwarz D, Shooshtari M, Sonawane M, Waltenberger W, Wulz CE, Janssen T, Kwon H, Ocampo Henao D, Van Laer T, Van Mechelen P, Bierkens J, Breugelmans N, DHondt J, Dansana S, De Moor A, Delcourt M, Heyen F, Hong Y, Kashko P, Lowette S, Makarenko I, Müller D, Song J, Tavernier S, Tytgat M, Van Onsem GP, Van Putte S, Vannerom D, Bilin B, Clerbaux B, Das AK, De Bruyn I, De Lentdecker G, Evard H, Favart L, Gianneios P, Khalilzadeh A, Khan FA, Malara A, Shahzad MA, Thomas L, Vanden Bemden M, Vander Velde C, Vanlaer P, Zhang F, De Coen M, Dobur D, Gokbulut G, Knolle J, Marckx D, Skovpen K, Tomaru AM, Van Den Bossche N, van der Linden J, Vandenbroeck J, Wezenbeek L, Bein S, Benecke A, Bethani A, Bruno G, Cappati A, De Favereau De Jeneret J, Delaere C, Giammanco A, Guzel AO, Lemaitre V, Lidrych J, Malek P, Mastrapasqua P, Turkcapar S, Alves GA, Barroso Ferreira Filho M, Coelho E, Hensel C, Menezes De Oliveira T, Mora Herrera C, Rebello Teles P, Soeiro M, Tonelli Manganote EJ, Vilela Pereira A, Aldá Júnior WL, Brandao Malbouisson Het al., 2026,

Search for single production of a vector-like T quark decaying to a top quark and a neutral scalar boson in the lepton+jets final state in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV

, Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol: 2026

A search for single production of a vector-like T quark with charge 2e/3, decaying to a top quark and a neutral scalar boson is presented. The boson can be a standard model Higgs boson (H) or a new scalar boson (ϕ). In the first case, a branching fraction of 25% is assumed for the decay T → tH, while in the second case the T quark is assumed to decay exclusively to tϕ. The top quark is identified via its lepton+jets decay, and the neutral boson via its decay into a bottom quark-antiquark pair. Final states with Lorentz-boosted topologies are considered and machine-learning techniques are exploited for optimal event classification. The analysis uses data collected by the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1 recorded at the CERN LHC in 2016–2018. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the product of cross section and branching fraction for a T quark in a narrow-width approximation. They vary between 14.7 and 0.1 fb, for T quark masses in the range 1.3–3.0 TeV and ϕ boson masses in the range 25–250 GeV. These are the first exclusion limits set on the production of a single T quark decaying into a top quark and a new neutral scalar boson. For the decay channel into a top quark and a standard model Higgs boson, the results provide the best limits on production cross sections to date, for T quark masses above 2 TeV.

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Aad G, Aakvaag E, Abbott B, Abdelhameed S, Abeling K, Abicht NJ, Abidi SH, Aboelela M, Aboulhorma A, Abramowicz H, Abulaiti Y, Acharya BS, Ackermann A, Adam Bourdarios C, Adamczyk L, Addepalli SV, Addison MJ, Adelman J, Adiguzel A, Adye T, Affolder AA, Afik Y, Agaras MN, Aggarwal A, Agheorghiesei C, Ahmadov F, Ahuja S, Ai X, Aielli G, Aikot A, Ait Tamlihat M, Aitbenchikh B, Akbiyik M, Åkesson TPA, Akimov AV, Akiyama D, Akolkar NN, Aktas S, Alberghi GL, Albert J, Albicocco P, Albouy GL, Alderweireldt S, Alegria ZL, Aleksa M, Aleksandrov IN, Alexa C, Alexopoulos T, Alfonsi F, Algren M, Alhroob M, Ali B, Ali HMJ, Ali S, Alibocus SW, Aliev M, Alimonti G, Alkakhi W, Allaire C, Allbrooke BMM, Allen JS, Allen JF, Allport PP, Aloisio A, Alonso F, Alpigiani C, Alsolami ZMK, Alvarez Fernandez A, Alves Cardoso M, Alviggi MG, Aly M, Amaral Coutinho Y, Ambler A, Amelung C, Amerl M, Ames CG, Amidei D, Amini B, Amirie K, Amirkhanov A, Amor Dos Santos SP, Amos KR, Amperiadou D, An S, Ananiev V, Anastopoulos C, Andeen T, Anders JK, Anderson AC, Andreazza A, Angelidakis S, Angerami A, Anisenkov AV, Annovi A, Antel C, Antipov E, Antonelli M, Anulli F, Aoki M, Aoki Tet al., 2026,

Search for long-lived particles using displaced vertices of oppositely charged leptons in 140fb−1 of pp collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

, Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics, Vol: 878, ISSN: 0370-2693

A search is presented for long-lived particles decaying into an oppositely charged lepton pair, μ+μ−, e+e−, or e ± μ ∓, that form a vertex within the inner tracking system of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, displaced from the primary proton–proton interaction region. The analysis uses the 140 fb−1 of Run-2 data collected at s=13 TeV by the ATLAS experiment in 2015–2018. The results of the analysis are interpreted in the context of three benchmark models covering masses from 0.1 to 2.2 TeV and a range of mean proper lifetimes times the speed of light from 1 to 10 000 mm. The first model is a generic Z ′ boson pair-produced by a new heavy scalar, with the Z ′ decaying into lepton pairs. The remaining two models are R -parity violating supersymmetric models in which the lightest neutralino χ˜<inf>1</inf>0 decays into ℓ+ℓ′−ν (ℓ,ℓ′=e, μ). The models differ by the mode of production of the χ˜<inf>1</inf>0, which can be produced via the decay of pairs of gluinos or of pairs of charginos and neutralinos (χ˜<inf>1</inf>±χ˜<inf>1</inf>0, χ˜<inf>1</inf>±χ˜<inf>2</inf>0, or χ˜<inf>2</inf>0χ˜<inf>1</inf>0). Although each benchmark sample includes pair-produced LLPs, only a single vertex is required to be reconstructed. No dilepton displaced v

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Chekhovsky V, Hayrapetyan A, Makarenko V, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, Benato L, Bergauer T, Chatterjee S, Damanakis K, Dragicevic M, Hussain PS, Jeitler M, Krammer N, Li A, Liko D, Mikulec I, Schieck J, Schöfbeck R, Schwarz D, Sonawane M, Waltenberger W, Wulz CE, Janssen T, Kwon H, Van Laer T, Van Mechelen P, Breugelmans N, DHondt J, Dansana S, De Moor A, Delcourt M, Heyen F, Hong Y, Lowette S, Makarenko I, Müller D, Tavernier S, Tytgat M, Van Onsem GP, Van Putte S, Vannerom D, Bilin B, Clerbaux B, Das AK, De Bruyn I, De Lentdecker G, Evard H, Favart L, Gianneios P, Khalilzadeh A, Khan FA, Lee K, Malara A, Shahzad MA, Thomas L, Vanden Bemden M, Vander Velde C, Vanlaer P, De Coen M, Dobur D, Gokbulut G, Knolle J, Lambrecht L, Marckx D, Skovpen K, Van Den Bossche N, van der Linden J, Wezenbeek L, Bein S, Benecke A, Bethani A, Bruno G, Caputo C, De Favereau De Jeneret J, Delaere C, Donertas IS, Giammanco A, Guzel AO, Jain S, Lemaitre V, Lidrych J, Mastrapasqua P, Tran TT, Turkcapar S, Alves GA, Coelho E, Correia Silva G, Hensel C, Menezes De Oliveira T, Mora Herrera C, Rebello Teles P, Soeiro M, Tonelli Manganote EJ, Vilela Pereira A, Aldá Júnior WL, Barroso Ferreira Filho M, Brandao Malbouisson H, Carvalho W, Chinellato Jet al., 2026,

Search for a new neutral gauge boson produced in association with one or two b jets and decaying into a pair of muons in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV

, Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol: 2026

A search for a new neutral gauge boson, Z′, produced in association with one or two jets, including at least one b jet, and decaying into a pair of muons is presented. The analysis uses proton-proton collision data collected with the CMS detector at s=13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. No significant deviation from background expectations is observed. Upper limits at 95% confidence level on the product of cross section, branching fraction to dimuons, acceptance, and efficiency, from 0.2 to 2 fb, are set for Z′ boson masses between 125 and 350 GeV. Process-dependent products of acceptance and efficiency, and model-independent limits on the signal yield are provided. These are the only results to date in the 125–200 GeV mass range and the most stringent for b quark fusion production modes in the 200–350 GeV range, complementing inclusive Z′ boson searches.

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Hayrapetyan A, Makarenko V, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Benato L, Bergauer T, Dragicevic M, Hussain PS, Jeitler M, Krammer N, Li A, Liko D, Matthewman M, Schieck J, Schöfbeck R, Shooshtari M, Sonawane M, Waltenberger W, Wulz CE, Janssen T, Kwon H, Ocampo Henao D, Van Laer T, Van Mechelen P, Bierkens J, Breugelmans N, DHondt J, Dansana S, De Moor A, Delcourt M, Heyen F, Hong Y, Kashko P, Lowette S, Makarenko I, Müller D, Tavernier S, Tytgat M, Van Onsem GP, Van Putte S, Vannerom D, Bilin B, Clerbaux B, Das AK, De Bruyn I, De Lentdecker G, Evard H, Favart L, Gianneios P, Khalilzadeh A, Khan FA, Malara A, Shahzad MA, Sharma A, Thomas L, Vanden Bemden M, Vander Velde C, Vanlaer P, Zhang F, De Coen M, Dobur D, Giordano C, Gokbulut G, Kaspar K, Kavtaradze D, Marckx D, Skovpen K, Tomaru AM, Van Den Bossche N, van der Linden J, Vandenbroeck J, Aarup Petersen H, Bein S, Benecke A, Bethani A, Bruno G, Cappati A, De Favereau De Jeneret J, Delaere C, Gameiro Casalinho F, Giammanco A, Guzel AO, Lemaitre V, Lidrych J, Malek P, Mastrapasqua P, Turkcapar S, Alves GA, Barroso Ferreira Filho M, Coelho E, Hensel C, Matos Figueiredo D, Menezes De Oliveira T, Mora Herrera C, Rebello Teles P, Soeiro M, Tonelli Manganote EJ, Vilela Pereira A, Aldá Júnior WL, Brandao Malbouisson Het al., 2026,

Search for heavy long-lived charged particles with level-1 trigger scouting data from proton-proton collisions at s=13.6TeV

, Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics, Vol: 878, ISSN: 0370-2693

A search for heavy long-lived charged particles at the LHC is presented. Particles traversing the CMS muon detector across several bunch crossings are searched for using a data sample of proton-proton collisions at s=13.6TeV collected with the CMS detector in 2024, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.7 fb−1. This is the first search using the novel level-1 trigger scouting data set collected without any trigger selection, allowing correlations between bunch crossings to be analyzed. The results are interpreted as upper limits on the cross sections of several benchmark processes with pair production of heavy long-lived charged particles. Upper limits on the fiducial cross section of a heavy long-lived charged particle with p<inf>T</inf>>500GeV and | η | < 0.83 are also set in different ranges of β=v/c. This analysis is a proof of concept for the level-1 trigger data scouting system and complements existing searches for heavy long-lived charged particles by extending the sensitivity to lower β values.

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Aprile E, Aalbers J, Abe K, Ahmed Maouloud S, Althueser L, Andrieu B, Angelino E, Antón Martin D, Arneodo F, Baudis L, Bazyk M, Bellagamba L, Biondi R, Bismark A, Boese K, Brown A, Bruno G, Budnik R, Cai C, Capelli C, Cardoso JMR, Cimental Chávez AP, Colijn AP, Conrad J, Cuenca-García JJ, DAndrea V, Daniel Garcia LC, Decowski MP, Deisting A, Di Donato C, Di Gangi P, Diglio S, Eitel K, el Morabit S, Elykov A, Ferella AD, Ferrari C, Fischer H, Flehmke T, Flierman M, Fulgione W, Fuselli C, Gaemers P, Gaior R, Galloway M, Gao F, Ghosh S, Giacomobono R, Glade-Beucke R, Grandi L, Grigat J, Guan H, Guida M, Gyorgy P, Hammann R, Higuera A, Hils C, Hoetzsch L, Hood NF, Iacovacci M, Itow Y, Jakob J, Joerg F, Kaminaga Y, Kara M, Kavrigin P, Kazama S, Kharbanda P, Kobayashi M, Koke D, Kopec A, Landsman H, Lang RF, Levinson L, Li I, Li S, Liang S, Liang Z, Lin Y-T, Lindemann S, Lindner M, Liu K, Liu M, Loizeau J, Lombardi F, Long J, Lopes JAM, Luce T, Ma Y, Macolino C, Mahlstedt J, Mancuso A, Manenti L, Marignetti F, Marrodán Undagoitia T, Martens K, Masbou J, Masson E, Mastroianni S, Melchiorre A, Merz J, Messina M, Michael A, Miuchi K, Molinario A, Moriyama S, Morå K, Mosbacher Y, Murra M, Müller J, Ni K, Oberlack U, Paetsch B, Pan Y, Pellegrini Q, Peres R, Peters C, Pienaar J, Pierre M, Plante G, Pollmann TR, Principe L, Qi J, Qin J, Ramírez García D, Rajado M, Singh R, Sanchez L, dos Santos JMF, Sarnoff I, Sartorelli G, Schreiner J, Schulte P, Schulze Eißing H, Schumann M, Scotto Lavina L, Selvi M, Semeria F, Shagin P, Shi S, Shi J, Silva M, Simgen H, Szyszka C, Takeda A, Takeuchi Y, Tan P-L, Thers D, Toschi F, Trinchero G, Tunnell CD, Tönnies F, Valerius K, Vecchi S, Vetter S, Villazon Solar FI, Volta G, Weinheimer C, Weiss M, Wenz D, Wittweg C, Wu VHS, Xing Y, Xu D, Xu Z, Yamashita M, Yang L, Ye J, Yuan L, Zavattini G, Zhong Met al., 2026,

Low-energy nuclear recoil calibration of XENONnT with a <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mmultiscripts> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi mathvariant="normal">Y</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:mprescripts/> <mml:none/> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>88</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:mmultiscripts> </mml:mrow> <mml:mi>Be</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> photoneutron source

, Physical Review D, Vol: 113, ISSN: 2470-0010

<jats:p> Characterizing low-energy, keV-range nuclear recoils near the detector threshold is one of the major challenges for large direct dark matter detectors. To that end, we have successfully used an Yttrium-Beryllium photoneutron source that emits 152 keV neutrons for the calibration of the light and charge yields of the XENONnT experiment for the first time. After data selection, we accumulated 474 events from 183 hours of exposure with this source. The expected background was <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <a:mn>55</a:mn> <a:mo>±</a:mo> <a:mn>12</a:mn> </a:math> accidental coincidence events, estimated using a dedicated 152 hour background calibration run with a Yttrium-PVC gamma-only source and data-driven modeling. From these calibrations, we extracted the light (charge) yield for liquid xenon at our field strength of <c:math xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <c:mrow> <c:mn>23</c:mn> <c:mtext> </c:mtext> <c:mtext> </c:mtext> <c:mi mathvariant="normal">V</c:mi> <c:mo>/</c:mo> <c:mi>cm</c:mi> </c:mrow> </c:math> between 0.3 (0.7) <f:math xmlns:f="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <f:msub> <f:mi>keV</f:mi> <f:mi>NR</f:mi>

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Waiton J, Bateman J, Evans J, Finnerud OG, Gramellini E, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hergenhan A, Kedziora A, McCann M, Soldner-Rembold Set al., 2026,

A sterile-neutrino search using data from the MicroBooNE liquid-argon time projection chamber performed in an undergraduate teaching laboratory

, European Journal of Physics, ISSN: 0143-0807

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Fundamental particle physics is a key part of an undergraduate physics curriculum, but can be challenging to incorporate into teaching laboratories. We present an undergraduate laboratory experiment that enables students to work with real data from the MicroBooNE liquid-argon time projection chamber to search for the existence of a sterile neutrino: a new, fourth, neutrino state. This search has galvanized physicists for decades, as the existence of sterile neutrinos could play a critical role in understanding fundamental processes in the early universe, provide viable dark matter candidates, and offer a natural explanation for the origin of neutrino masses. From an experimental point of view, anomalies observed in several neutrino experiments provide tantalizing hints of their existence. The analysis presented here, whilst based on real data, has been adapted as a pedagogical tool for an undergraduate teaching laboratory, in which students are asked to develop an understanding of neutrino oscillation theory, analyse a MicroBooNE data sample, and apply statistical methods to search for a potential sterile neutrino. The analysis incorporates machine learning techniques to improve event classification. Students are encouraged to explore these and other methods to optimize their results.</jats:p>

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Measurements of the electron neutrino-argon differential cross section without pions in the final state in MicroBooNE

, Physical Review D, ISSN: 2470-0010

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Aaij R, Abdelmotteleb ASW, Abellan Beteta C, Abudinén F, Ackernley T, Adefisoye AA, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Adlarson P, Agapopoulou C, Aidala CA, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Akiba K, Albicocco P, Albrecht J, Aleksiejunas R, Alessio F, Alvarez Cartelle P, Amalric R, Amato S, Amey JL, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andersson M, Andreola P, Andreotti M, Andres Estrada S, Anelli A, Ao D, Arata C, Archilli F, Areg Z, Argenton M, Arguedas Cuendis S, Arnone L, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Ataíde Da Silva R, Atzeni M, Audurier B, Authier JA, Bacher D, Bachiller Perea I, Bachmann S, Bachmayer M, Back JJ, Bai ZB, Baladron Rodriguez P, Balagura V, Balboni A, Baldini W, Baldwin Z, Balzani L, Bao H, Baptista de Souza Leite J, Barbero Pretel C, Barbetti M, Barbosa IR, Barlow RJ, Barnyakov M, Barsuk S, Barter W, Bartz J, Bashir S, Batsukh B, Battista PB, Bavarchee A, Bay A, Beck A, Becker M, Bedeschi F, Bediaga IB, Behling NA, Belin S, Bellavista A, Belous K, Belov I, Belyaev I, Benane G, Bencivenni G, Ben-Haim E, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Bertolin A, Betti F, Bex J, Bezshyyko O, Bhattacharya S, Bieker MS, Biesuz NV, Biolchini A, Birch M, Bishop FCR, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Blake T, Blanc F, Blank JE, Blusk S, Bocharnikov V, Boelhauve JA, Boente Garcia O, Boettcher T, Bohare A, Boldyrev A, Bolognani C, Bolzonella R, Bonacci RB, Bondar N, Bordelius A, Borgato F, Borghi S, Borsato M, Borsuk JT, Bottalico E, Bouchiba SA, Bovill M, Bowcock TJV, Boyer A, Bozzi C, Brandenburg JD, Brea Rodriguez A, Breer N, Brodzicka J, Brown J, Brundu D, Buchanan E, Burgos Marcos M, Burr C, Buti C, Butter JS, Buytaert J, Byczynski W, Cadeddu S, Cai H, Cai Y, Caillet A, Calabrese R, Calefice L, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camargo Magalhaes P, Cambon Bouzas JI, Campana P, Campos AC, Campoverde Quezada AF, Cao Y, Capelli S, Caporale M, Capriotti L, Caravaca-Mora R, Carbone A, Carcedo Salgado L, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carus L, Casais Vidal A, Caspary R, Casse G, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cavallini V, Celani Set al., 2026,

First Measurement of Time-Dependent CP Violation in the Flavor-Changing Neutral-Current Decay B^{0}→K_{S}^{0}μ^{+}μ^{-}.

, Phys Rev Lett, Vol: 136

A flavor-tagged time-dependent analysis of B^{0}→K_{S}^{0}μ^{+}μ^{-} decays is performed across the full dimuon mass range excluding the J/ψ and ψ(2S) resonance regions. The analysis uses proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment in 2011-2018 at center-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb^{-1}. The CP violation parameters are determined to be C=-0.13±0.32±0.04, S=+0.82±0.29±0.05, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. The results are consistent with the standard model prediction. This is the first experimental study of time-dependent CP violation in b→sℓ^{+}ℓ^{-} processes.

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Hayrapetyan A, Makarenko V, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, Benato L, Bergauer T, Dragicevic M, Giordano C, Hussain PS, Jeitler M, Krammer N, Li A, Liko D, Matthewman M, Mikulec I, Schieck J, Schöfbeck R, Schwarz D, Shooshtari M, Sonawane M, Waltenberger W, Wulz C-E, Janssen T, Kwon H, Ocampo Henao D, Van Laer T, Van Mechelen P, Bierkens J, Breugelmans N, DHondt J, Dansana S, De Moor A, Delcourt M, Heyen F, Hong Y, Kashko P, Lowette S, Makarenko I, Müller D, Song J, Tavernier S, Tytgat M, Van Onsem GP, Van Putte S, Vannerom D, Bilin B, Clerbaux B, Das AK, De Bruyn I, De Lentdecker G, Evard H, Favart L, Gianneios P, Khalilzadeh A, Khan FA, Malara A, Shahzad MA, Thomas L, Vanden Bemden M, Vander Velde C, Vanlaer P, Zhang F, De Coen M, Dobur D, Gokbulut G, Knolle J, Lambrecht L, Marckx D, Skovpen K, Van Den Bossche N, van der Linden J, Vandenbroeck J, Wezenbeek L, Bein S, Benecke A, Bethani A, Bruno G, Cappati A, De Favereau De Jeneret J, Delaere C, Giammanco A, Guzel AO, Lemaitre V, Lidrych J, Malek P, Mastrapasqua P, Turkcapar S, Alves GA, Barroso Ferreira Filho M, Coelho E, Hensel C, Menezes De Oliveira T, Mora Herrera C, Rebello Teles P, Soeiro M, Tonelli Manganote EJ, Vilela Pereira A, Aldá Júnior WL, Brandao Malbouisson H, Carvalho W, Chinellato J, Costa Reis M, Da Costa EM, Da Silveira GG, De Jesus Damiao D, Fonseca De Souza S, Gomes De Souza R, Jesus SS, Laux Kuhn T, Macedo M, Mota Amarilo K, Mundim L, Nogima H, Pinheiro JP, Santoro A, Sznajder A, Thiel M, Torres Da Silva De Araujo F, Bernardes CA, Tomei TRFP, Gregores EM, Lopes Da Costa B, Maietto Silverio I, Mercadante PG, Novaes SF, Orzari B, Padula SS, Scheurer V, Aleksandrov A, Antchev G, Danev P, Hadjiiska R, Iaydjiev P, Misheva M, Shopova M, Sultanov G, Dimitrov A, Litov L, Pavlov B, Petkov P, Petrov A, Keshri S, Laroze D, Thakur S, Brooks W, Cheng T, Javaid T, Wang L, Yuan L, Hu Z, Liang Z, Liu J, Wang X, Chen GM, Chen HS, Chen M, Chen Y, Hou Q, Hou X, Iemmi F, Jiang CH, Kapoor A, Liao H, Liu G, Liet al., 2026,

Search for pair production of heavy resonances in final states with a photon and large-radius jets in proton-proton collisions at <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msqrt> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>s</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:msqrt> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mn>13</mml:mn> <mml:mtext> </mml:mtext> <mml:mtext> </mml:mtext> <mml:mi>TeV</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:math>

, Physical Review D, Vol: 113, ISSN: 2470-0010

<jats:p> A search for the pair production of heavy spin- <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <a:mn>1</a:mn> <a:mo>/</a:mo> <a:mn>2</a:mn> </a:math> or spin- <c:math xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <c:mn>3</c:mn> <c:mo>/</c:mo> <c:mn>2</c:mn> </c:math> resonances ( <e:math xmlns:e="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <e:msup> <e:mi>t</e:mi> <e:mo>*</e:mo> </e:msup> </e:math> ) in proton-proton collisions at <g:math xmlns:g="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <g:msqrt> <g:mi>s</g:mi> </g:msqrt> <g:mo>=</g:mo> <g:mn>13</g:mn> <g:mtext> </g:mtext> <g:mtext> </g:mtext> <g:mi>TeV</g:mi> </g:math> is presented. Data collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC from 2016 to 2018 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of <i:math xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <i:mn>138</i:mn> <i:mtext

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Aaij R, Abdelmotteleb ASW, Abellan Beteta C, Abudinén F, Ackernley T, Adefisoye AA, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Adlarson P, Agapopoulou C, Aidala CA, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Akiba K, Akthar M, Albicocco P, Albrecht J, Aleksiejunas R, Alessio F, Alvarez Cartelle P, Amalric R, Amato S, Amey JL, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andersson M, Andreola P, Andreotti M, Andres Estrada S, Anelli A, Ao D, Arata C, Archilli F, Areg Z, Argenton M, Arguedas Cuendis S, Arnone L, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Ataíde Da Silva R, Atzeni M, Audurier B, Authier JA, Bacher D, Bachiller Perea I, Bachmann S, Bachmayer M, Back JJ, Baladron Rodriguez P, Balagura V, Balboni A, Baldini W, Baldwin Z, Balzani L, Bao H, Baptista de Souza Leite J, Barbero Pretel C, Barbetti M, Barbosa IR, Barlow RJ, Barnyakov M, Barsuk S, Barter W, Bartz J, Bashir S, Batsukh B, Battista PB, Bavarchee A, Bay A, Beck A, Becker M, Bedeschi F, Bediaga IB, Behling NA, Belin S, Bellavista A, Belous K, Belov I, Belyaev I, Benane G, Bencivenni G, Ben-Haim E, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Bernet Andres S, Bertolin A, Betti F, Bex J, Bezshyyko O, Bhattacharya S, Bieker MS, Biesuz NV, Biolchini A, Birch M, Bishop FCR, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Blake T, Blanc F, Blank JE, Blusk S, Bocharnikov V, Boelhauve JA, Boente Garcia O, Boettcher T, Bohare A, Boldyrev A, Bolognani C, Bolzonella R, Bonacci RB, Bondar N, Bordelius A, Borgato F, Borghi S, Borsato M, Borsuk JT, Bottalico E, Bouchiba SA, Bovill M, Bowcock TJV, Boyer A, Bozzi C, Brandenburg JD, Brea Rodriguez A, Breer N, Brodzicka J, Brown J, Brundu D, Buchanan E, Burgos Marcos M, Burr C, Buti C, Butter JS, Buytaert J, Byczynski W, Cadeddu S, Cai H, Cai Y, Caillet A, Calabrese R, Calefice L, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camargo Magalhaes P, Cambon Bouzas JI, Campana P, Campos AC, Campoverde Quezada AF, Cao Y, Capelli S, Caporale M, Capriotti L, Caravaca-Mora R, Carbone A, Carcedo Salgado L, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carus L, Casais Vidal A, Caspary R, Casse G, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cavaet al., 2026,

Measurement of the Top-Quark Production Cross Section and Charge Asymmetry at LHCb.

, Phys Rev Lett, Vol: 136

The first measurements of the top- and antitop-quark differential production cross sections and the top-quark charge asymmetry in the forward region are presented, using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb^{-1}. The total production cross sections of top and antitop quarks are also determined. Measurements are performed using the μ+b-jet final state within a fiducial region defined by b-jet p_{T,jet}>50 GeV and pseudorapidity 2.2<η_{jet}<4.0, with the muon from the W-boson decay required to have p_{T,μ}>25 GeV and 2.0<η_{μ}<4.5. The muon and b-jet system must satisfy p_{T}(μ+jet)>20 GeV. The measured integrated production cross sections for the top and antitop quarks are σ_{t}=0.95±0.04±0.08±0.02 pb, σ_{t[over ¯]}=0.81±0.03±0.07±0.02 pb, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic, and the third accounts for the luminosity uncertainty. The top-quark charge asymmetry is measured to be A_{C}^{t}=0.08±0.03±0.01, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. These results are consistent with next-to-leading order Standard Model predictions.

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Chekhovsky V, Hayrapetyan A, Makarenko V, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, Benato L, Bergauer T, Damanakis K, Dragicevic M, Giordano C, Hussain PS, Jeitler M, Krammer N, Li A, Liko D, Mikulec I, Schieck J, Schöfbeck R, Schwarz D, Shooshtari M, Sonawane M, Waltenberger W, Wulz C-E, Janssen T, Kwon H, Van Laer T, Van Mechelen P, Bierkens J, Breugelmans N, DHondt J, Dansana S, De Moor A, Delcourt M, Heyen F, Hong Y, Lowette S, Makarenko I, Müller D, Song J, Tavernier S, Tytgat M, Van Onsem GP, Van Putte S, Vannerom D, Bilin B, Clerbaux B, Das AK, De Bruyn I, De Lentdecker G, Evard H, Favart L, Gianneios P, Khalilzadeh A, Khan FA, Malara A, Shahzad MA, Thomas L, Vanden Bemden M, Vander Velde C, Vanlaer P, Zhang F, De Coen M, Dobur D, Gokbulut G, Knolle J, Lambrecht L, Marckx D, Skovpen K, Van Den Bossche N, van der Linden J, Vandenbroeck J, Wezenbeek L, Bein S, Benecke A, Bethani A, Bruno G, Cappati A, De Favereau De Jeneret J, Delaere C, Giammanco A, Guzel AO, Jain S, Lemaitre V, Lidrych J, Mastrapasqua P, Turkcapar S, Alves GA, Coelho E, Correia Silva G, Hensel C, Menezes De Oliveira T, Mora Herrera C, Rebello Teles P, Soeiro M, Tonelli Manganote EJ, Vilela Pereira A, Aldá Júnior WL, Barroso Ferreira Filho M, Brandao Malbouisson H, Carvalho W, Chinellato J, Costa Reis M, Da Costa EM, Da Silveira GG, De Jesus Damiao D, Fonseca De Souza S, Gomes De Souza R, Jesus SS, Laux Kuhn T, Macedo M, Mota Amarilo K, Mundim L, Nogima H, Pinheiro JP, Santoro A, Sznajder A, Thiel M, Bernardes CA, Calligaris L, Tomei TRFP, Gregores EM, Lopes Da Costa B, Maietto Silverio I, Mercadante PG, Novaes SF, Orzari B, Padula SS, Scheurer V, Aleksandrov A, Antchev G, Hadjiiska R, Iaydjiev P, Misheva M, Shopova M, Sultanov G, Dimitrov A, Litov L, Pavlov B, Petkov P, Petrov A, Shumka E, Keshri S, Laroze D, Thakur S, Cheng T, Javaid T, Yuan L, Hu Z, Liang Z, Liu J, Chen GM, Chen HS, Chen M, Hou Q, Iemmi F, Jiang CH, Kapoor A, Liao H, Liu Z-A, Sharma R, Song JN, Tao J, Wang C, Wang J, Zhang H Zet al., 2026,

Measurement of the ratio of the <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mi>B</mml:mi> <mml:mi>c</mml:mi> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> </mml:msubsup> <mml:mo stretchy="false">→</mml:mo> <mml:mi>J</mml:mi> <mml:mo>/</mml:mo> <mml:mi>ψ</mml:mi> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>τ</mml:mi> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> </mml:msup> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>ν</mml:mi> <mml:mi>τ</mml:mi> </mml:msub> </mml:math> and <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:msubsup> <mml:mi>B</mml:mi> <mml:mi>c</mml:mi> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> </mml:msubsup> <mml:mo stretchy="false">→</mml:mo> <mml:mi>J</mml:mi> <mml:mo>/</mml:mo> <mml:mi>ψ</mml:mi> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>μ</mml:mi> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> </mml:msup> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>ν</mml:mi> <mml:mi>μ</mml:mi> </mml:msub> </mml:math> branching fractions using three-prong <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mi>τ</mml:mi> </mml:math> lepton decays

, Physical Review D, Vol: 113, ISSN: 2470-0010

<jats:p> The ratio between the <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <a:mrow> <a:msubsup> <a:mi>B</a:mi> <a:mi>c</a:mi> <a:mo>+</a:mo> </a:msubsup> <a:mo stretchy="false">→</a:mo> <a:mrow> <a:mi>J</a:mi> <a:mo>/</a:mo> <a:mi>ψ</a:mi> </a:mrow> </a:mrow> <a:msup> <a:mi>τ</a:mi> <a:mo>+</a:mo> </a:msup> <a:msub> <a:mi>ν</a:mi> <a:mi>τ</a:mi> </a:msub> </a:math> and <d:math xmlns:d="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <d:mrow> <d:msubsup> <d:mi>B</d:mi> <d:mi>c</d:mi> <d:mo>+</d:mo> </d:msubsup> <d:mo stretchy="false">→</d:mo> <d:mrow> <d:mi>J</d:mi> <d:mo>/</d:mo> <d:mi>ψ</d:mi> </d:mrow> </d:mrow> <d:msup>

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Abbaslu S, Abed Abud A, Acciarri R, Accorsi LP, Acero MA, Adames MR, Adamov G, Adamowski M, Adriano C, Akbar F, Alemanno F, Alex NS, Allison K, Alrashed M, Alton A, Alvarez R, Alves T, Aman A, Amar H, Amedo P, Anderson J, Andrade DA, Andreopoulos C, Andreotti M, Andrews MP, Andrianala F, Andringa S, Anjarazafy F, Ansarifard S, Antic D, Antoniassi M, Aranda-Fernandez A, Arellano L, Arrieta Diaz E, Arroyave MA, Asaadi J, Ascencio M, Ashkenazi A, Asner D, Asquith L, Atkin E, Auguste D, Aurisano A, Aushev V, Autiero D, Ávila Gómez D, Azam MB, Azfar F, Back A, Back JJ, Bae Y, Bagaturia I, Bagby L, Baigarashev D, Balasubramanian S, Balboni A, Baldi P, Baldini W, Baldonedo J, Baller B, Bambah B, Barao F, Barbu D, Barenboim G, Barham Alzás P, Barker GJ, Barkhouse W, Barr G, Barros A, Barros N, Barrow D, Barrow JL, Basharina-Freshville A, Bashyal A, Basque V, Bassani M, Basu D, Batchelor C, Bathe-Peters L, Battat JBR, Battisti F, Bautista J, Bay F, Bazo Alba JLL, Beacom JF, Bechetoille E, Behera B, Belchior E, Bell B, Bell G, Bellantoni L, Bellettini G, Bellini V, Beltramello O, Belyaev A, Benitez Montiel C, Benjamin D, Bento Neves F, Berger J, Berkman S, Bermudez J, Bernal J, Bernardini P, Bersani A, Bertholet E, Bertolini E, Bertolucci S, Betancourt M, Betancur Rodríguez A, Bezawada Y, Bezerra AT, Bhat A, Bhatnagar V, Bhattacharjee M, Bhattacharjee S, Bhattacharya M, Bhuller S, Bhuyan B, Biagi S, Bian J, Biery K, Bilki B, Bishai M, Blake A, Blaszczyk FD, Blazey GC, Blucher E, Bogart B, Boissevain J, Bolognesi S, Bolton T, Bomben L, Bonesini M, Bonilla-Diaz C, Booth A, Boran F, Borges Merlo R, Bostan N, Botogoske G, Bottino B, Bouet R, Boza J, Bracinik J, Brahma B, Brailsford D, Bramati F, Branca A, Brandt A, Bremer J, Brice SJ, Brio V, Brizzolari C, Bromberg C, Brooke J, Bross A, Brunetti G, Brunetti MB, Buchanan N, Budd H, Buergi J, Bundock A, Burgardt D, Butchart S, Caceres V G, Calabrese R, Calabrese R, Calcutt J, Calivers L, Calvo E, Caminata A, Camino AF, Campanelliet al., 2026,

Measurement of exclusive <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msup> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>π</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:msup> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> -argon interactions using ProtoDUNE-SP

, Physical Review D, Vol: 113, ISSN: 2470-0010

<jats:p> We present the measurement of <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <a:msup> <a:mi>π</a:mi> <a:mo>+</a:mo> </a:msup> </a:math> -argon inelastic cross sections using the ProtoDUNE single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber in the incident <c:math xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <c:msup> <c:mi>π</c:mi> <c:mo>+</c:mo> </c:msup> </c:math> kinetic energy range of 500–800 MeV in multiple exclusive channels (absorption, charge exchange, and the remaining inelastic interactions). The results of this analysis are important inputs to simulations of liquid argon neutrino experiments such as the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and the Short Baseline Neutrino program at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. They will be employed to improve the modeling of final state interactions within neutrino event generators used by these experiments, as well as the modeling of <e:math xmlns:e="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <e:msup> <e:mi>π</e:mi> <e:mo>+</e:mo> </e:msup> </e:math> -argon secondary interactions within the liquid argon. This is the first measurement of <g:math xmlns:g="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <g:msup

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Aaij R, Abdelmotteleb ASW, Abellan Beteta C, Abudinén F, Ackernley T, Adefisoye AA, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Adlarson P, Agapopoulou C, Aidala CA, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Akiba K, Akthar M, Albicocco P, Albrecht J, Aleksiejunas R, Alessio F, Alvarez Cartelle P, Amalric R, Amato S, Amey JL, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andersson M, Andreola P, Andreotti M, Andres Estrada S, Anelli A, Ao D, Arata C, Archilli F, Areg Z, Argenton M, Arguedas Cuendis S, Arnone L, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Ataíde Da Silva R, Atzeni M, Audurier B, Authier JA, Bacher D, Bachiller Perea I, Bachmann S, Bachmayer M, Back JJ, Baladron Rodriguez P, Balagura V, Balboni A, Baldini W, Baldwin Z, Balzani L, Bao H, Baptista de Souza Leite J, Barbero Pretel C, Barbetti M, Barbosa IR, Barlow RJ, Barnyakov M, Barsuk S, Barter W, Bartz J, Bashir S, Batsukh B, Battista PB, Bay A, Beck A, Becker M, Bedeschi F, Bediaga IB, Behling NA, Belin S, Bellavista A, Belous K, Belov I, Belyaev I, Benane G, Bencivenni G, Ben-Haim E, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Bernet Andres S, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bex J, Bezshyiko I, Bezshyyko O, Bhom J, Bieker MS, Biesuz NV, Biolchini A, Birch M, Bishop FCR, Bitadze A, Bizzeti Aet al., 2026,

Erratum to: Measurement of CP asymmetry in D0 → K0SK0S decays with Run 3 data (Journal of High Energy Physics, (2026), 2026, 2, (253), 10.1007/JHEP02(2026)253)

, Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol: 2026

Due to a typesetting error, the title of the published version was wrong. The correct title is “Measurement of CP asymmetry in D0 → K0 <inf>S</inf>K0 <inf>S</inf> decays with the LHCb Run 3 detector” The originally published wrong file has been replaced online.

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Chekhovsky V, Hayrapetyan A, Makarenko V, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Andrejkovic JW, Benato L, Bergauer T, Damanakis K, Dragicevic M, Giordano C, Hussain PS, Jeitler M, Krammer N, Li A, Liko D, Mikulec I, Schieck J, Schwarz D, Schöfbeck R, Sonawane M, Waltenberger W, Wulz CE, Janssen T, Kwon H, Van Laer T, Van Mechelen P, Bierkens J, Breugelmans N, DHondt J, Dansana S, De Moor A, Delcourt M, Heyen F, Hong Y, Lowette S, Makarenko I, Müller D, Tavernier S, Tytgat M, Van Onsem GP, Van Putte S, Vannerom D, Bilin B, Clerbaux B, Das AK, De Bruyn I, De Lentdecker G, Evard H, Favart L, Gianneios P, Khalilzadeh A, Khan FA, Malara A, Shahzad MA, Thomas L, Vanden Bemden M, Vander Velde C, Vanlaer P, Zhang F, De Coen M, Dobur D, Gokbulut G, Knolle J, Lambrecht L, Marckx D, Skovpen K, Van Den Bossche N, van der Linden J, Vandenbroeck J, Wezenbeek L, Bein S, Benecke A, Bethani A, Bruno G, Cappati A, De Favereau De Jeneret J, Delaere C, Giammanco A, Guzel AO, Jain S, Lemaitre V, Lidrych J, Mastrapasqua P, Turkcapar S, Alves GA, Coelho E, Correia Silva G, Hensel C, Menezes De Oliveira T, Mora Herrera C, Rebello Teles P, Soeiro M, Tonelli Manganote EJ, Vilela Pereira A, Aldá Júnior WL, Barroso Ferreira Filho M, Brandao Malbouisson H, Carvalho W, Chinellato Jet al., 2026,

Search for dark matter production in association with bottom quarks and a lepton pair in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV

, Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol: 2026

A search is performed for dark matter produced in association with bottom quarks and a pair of electrons or muons in data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to 138 fb−1 of integrated luminosity of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. For the first time at the LHC, the associated production of a bottom quark-antiquark pair and a new heavy neutral Higgs boson (H) that subsequently decays into a leptonically decaying Z boson and a pseudoscalar (a) is explored. The latter acts as a dark matter mediator in the context of the two Higgs doublet model plus a pseudoscalar (2HDM+a). Multivariate techniques that target a wide range of mass configurations for the H and a particles are used. The observations are consistent with the expectations from standard model processes. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the product of cross section and branching fraction of the new particles, ranging from 10−2 pb for an H mass of 400 GeV to 10−3 pb for an H mass of 2000 GeV. Constraints on the parameter space of a benchmark 2HDM+a model are derived and compared with expectations in the context of cosmological predictions.

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Schulte JF, Ramhorst B, Sun C, Mitrevski J, Ghielmetti N, Lupi E, Danopoulos D, Lončar V, Duarte J, Burnette D, Laatu L, Tzelepis S, Axiotis K, Berthet Q, Wang H, White P, Demirsoy S, Colombo M, Aarrestad TK, Summers S, Pierini M, Di Guglielmo G, Ngadiuba J, Campos J, Hawks B, Gandrakota A, Fahim F, Tran N, Constantinides GA, Que Z, Luk W, Tapper A, Hoang D, Paladino N, Harris PC, Lai BC, Valentin M, Forelli R, Ogrenci S, Gerlach L, Brooks Flynn R, Liu M, Diaz D, Koda EE, Quinnan M, Solares RM, Parajuli S, Neubauer MS, Herwig C, Tsoi HF, Rankin D, Hsu SC, Hauck Set al., 2026,

hls4ml: A Flexible, Open Source Platform for Deep Learning Acceleration on Reconfigurable Hardware

, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, Vol: 19, ISSN: 1936-7406

We present hls4ml, a free and open source platform that translates machine learning (ML) models from modern deep learning frameworks into high-level synthesis (HLS) code that can be integrated into full designs for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) or application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). With its flexible and modular design, hls4ml supports a large number of deep learning frameworks and can target HLS compilers from several vendors, including Vitis HLS, Intel oneAPI and Catapult HLS. Together with a wider eco-system for software-hardware co-design, hls4ml has enabled the acceleration of ML inference in a wide range of commercial and scientific applications where low latency, resource usage, and power consumption are critical. In this article, we describe the structure and functionality of the hls4ml platform. The overarching design considerations for the generated HLS code are discussed, together with selected performance results.

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Yankelevich A, Abe K, Asaoka Y, Harada M, Hayato Y, Hiraide K, Hung TH, Hosokawa K, Ieki K, Ikeda M, Kameda J, Kanemura Y, Kataoka Y, Miki S, Mine S, Miura M, Moriyama S, Nakagiri K, Nakahata M, Nakayama S, Noguchi Y, Pronost G, Sato K, Sekiya H, Shinoda R, Shiozawa M, Suzuki Y, Takeda A, Takemoto Y, Tanaka H, Yano T, Chen S, Itow Y, Kajita T, Nishijima R, Okumura K, Tashiro T, Tomiya T, Wang X, de Garay Arcones FJ, Fernandez P, Labarga L, Samudio D, Zaldivar B, Yanagisawa C, Jargowsky B, Kearns E, Mirabito J, Wan L, Wester T, Pointon BW, Bian J, Cortez B, Griskevich NJ, Jiang Y, Smy MB, Sobel HW, Takhistov V, Hill J, Jang MC, Lee SH, Moon DH, Park RG, Yang BS, Bodur B, Scholberg K, Walter CW, Beauchêne A, Drapier O, Ershova A, Ferey M, Le Blévec E, Mueller TA, Paganini P, Quach C, Rogly R, Nakamura T, Jang JS, Litchfield RP, Machado LN, Soler FJP, Learned JG, Choi K, Cao S, Anthony LHV, Prouse NW, Scott M, Uchida Y, Berardi V, Calabria NF, Catanesi MG, Ospina N, Radicioni E, Langella A, De Rosa G, Collazuol G, Feltre M, Mattiazzi M, Ludovici L, Gonin M, Périssé L, Quilain B, Horiuchi S, Kawabata A, Kobayashi M, Liu YM, Maekawa Y, Nishimura Y, Akutsu R, Friend M, Hasegawa T, Hino Y, Ishida T, Kobayashi T, Jakkapu M, Matsubara T, Nakadaira T, Oyama Y, Portocarrero Yrey A, Sakashita K, Sekiguchi T, Tsukamoto T, Bhuiyan N, Burton GT, Di Lodovico F, Gao J, Katori T, Kralik R, Latham N, Ramsden RM, Siccardi V, Ito H, Sone T, Suzuki AT, Takeuchi Y, Wada S, Zhong H, Feng J, Feng L, Han S, Hikida J, Hu JR, Hu Z, Kawaue M, Kikawa T, Ngoc TV, Nakaya T, Wendell RA, Jenkins SJ, McCauley N, Tarrant A, Fanì M, Wilking MJ, Xie Z, Fukuda Y, Menjo H, Yoshioka Y, Lagoda J, Mandal M, Prabhu YS, Zalipska J, Mori M, Jiang J, Hamaguchi K, Ishino H, Koshio Y, Nakanishi F, Tada T, Ishizuka T, Barr G, Barrow D, Cook L, Samani S, Wark D, Holin A, Nova F, Jung S, Yoo J, Fannon JEP, Kneale L, Malek M, McElwee JM, Peacock T, Stowell P, Thiesse MD, Thompson LF, Okazawa H, Lakshmi SM, Kwon E, Leeet al., 2026,

Measurement of the solar neutrino interaction rate below 3.49 MeV in Super-Kamiokande-IV

, Physical Review D, Vol: 113, ISSN: 2470-0010

<jats:p> Super-Kamiokande (SK) has observed <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <a:mrow> <a:mmultiscripts> <a:mrow> <a:mi mathvariant="normal">B</a:mi> </a:mrow> <a:mprescripts/> <a:none/> <a:mrow> <a:mn>8</a:mn> </a:mrow> </a:mmultiscripts> </a:mrow> </a:math> solar neutrino elastic scattering at recoil electron kinetic energies ( <d:math xmlns:d="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <d:msub> <d:mi>E</d:mi> <d:mi>kin</d:mi> </d:msub> </d:math> ) as low as 3.49 MeV to study neutrino flavor conversion within the Sun. At SK-observable energies, these conversions are dominated by the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect. An upturn in the electron neutrino survival probability in which vacuum neutrino oscillations become dominant is predicted to occur at lower energies, but radioactive background increases exponentially with decreasing energy. New machine learning approaches provide substantial background reduction below 3.49 MeV such that statistical extraction of solar neutrino interactions becomes feasible. This article presents an analysis of the solar neutrino interaction rate at <f:math xmlns:f="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline">

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Hayrapetyan A, Makarenko V, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Benato L, Bergauer T, Dragicevic M, Giordano C, Hussain PS, Jeitler M, Krammer N, Li A, Liko D, Matthewman M, Schieck J, Schöfbeck R, Shooshtari M, Sonawane M, Waltenberger W, Wulz CE, Janssen T, Kwon H, Ocampo Henao D, Van Laer T, Van Mechelen P, Bierkens J, Breugelmans N, DHondt J, Dansana S, De Moor A, Delcourt M, Heyen F, Hong Y, Kashko P, Lowette S, Makarenko I, Müller D, Song J, Tavernier S, Tytgat M, Van Onsem GP, Van Putte S, Vannerom D, Bilin B, Clerbaux B, Das AK, De Bruyn I, De Lentdecker G, Evard H, Favart L, Gianneios P, Khalilzadeh A, Khan FA, Malara A, Shahzad MA, Sharma A, Thomas L, Vanden Bemden M, Vander Velde C, Vanlaer P, Zhang F, De Coen M, Dobur D, Gokbulut G, Marckx D, Skovpen K, Tomaru AM, Van Den Bossche N, van der Linden J, Vandenbroeck J, Wezenbeek L, Aarup Petersen H, Bein S, Benecke A, Bethani A, Bruno G, Cappati A, De Favereau De Jeneret J, Delaere C, Gameiro Casalinho F, Giammanco A, Guzel AO, Lemaitre V, Lidrych J, Malek P, Mastrapasqua P, Turkcapar S, Alves GA, Barroso Ferreira Filho M, Coelho E, Hensel C, Matos Figueiredo D, Menezes De Oliveira T, Mora Herrera C, Rebello Teles P, Soeiro M, Tonelli Manganote EJ, Vilela Pereira A, Aldá Júnior WL, Brandao Malbouisson Het al., 2026,

Measurement and effective field theory interpretation of the photon-fusion production cross section of a pair of W bosons in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV

, Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol: 2026

This analysis presents an observation of the photon-fusion production of W boson pairs using the CMS detector at the LHC. The total cross section of the W+W− production in photon fusion is measured using proton-proton collision data with an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1 collected with the CMS detector in 2016–2018 at a center-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV. Events are selected in the final state with one isolated electron and one isolated muon, and no additional tracks associated with the electron-muon production vertex. The total and fiducial production cross sections are 643−78+82 fb and 3.96−0.51+0.53 fb, respectively, in agreement with the standard model predictions of 631 ± 126 fb and 3.87 ± 0.77 fb. This agreement enables stringent constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings within a dimension-8 effective field theory framework.

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Wasserstein normalized autoencoder for anomaly detection

, Machine Learning: Science and Technology, Vol: 7, Pages: 035030-035030

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>A novel anomaly detection algorithm is presented. The Wasserstein normalized autoencoder (WNAE) is a normalized probabilistic model that minimizes the Wasserstein distance between the learned probability distribution—a Boltzmann distribution where the energy is the reconstruction error of the autoencoder (AE)—and the distribution of the training data. This algorithm has been developed and applied to the identification of semivisible jets—conical sprays of visible standard model (SM) particles and invisible dark matter states—with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. Trained on jets of particles from simulated SM processes, the WNAE is shown to learn the probability distribution of the input data in a fully unsupervised fashion, such that it effectively identifies new physics jets as anomalies. The model exhibits stable, convergent training and recovers strong classification performance for a wide range of signals against the selected background process, for which a standard AE fails because of outlier reconstruction. In addition, the model improves upon standard normalized autoencoders while remaining fully agnostic to the signal. The WNAE directly tackles the problem of outlier reconstruction, a common failure mode of autoencoders in anomaly detection tasks.</jats:p>

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Zamora Saá J, Zaffaroni E, Yoon CS, Yoo SM, Yazici C, Yang Z, Yamamoto S, Wanke R, Vilela C, Viegas Guerreiro Leonardo N, Verguilov V, Vasquez G, Vankova-Kirilova G, Ursov E, Trippl C, Tioukov V, Timiryasov I, Tesarek J, Tarek A, Steggemann J, Starkov N, Spurio M, Sandoval OJS, Sohn JY, Soares G, Smith TE, Sirri G, Siroli GP, Silano C, Shibuya H, Shchutska L, Shchedrina T, Shevchenko V, Shaposhnikov M, Serra N, Serban AG, Sekhniaidze G, Schneider O, Schmidt-Parzefall W, Scalera V, Samoilov M, Sadykov Z, Ruf T, Ruchayskiy O, Rovelli T, Rossolino N, Ronchetti F, Roganova T, Reghunath A, Ramos S, Quercia A, Prota A, Primavera F, Polukhina N, Podgrudkov D, Perrotta A, Paggi G, Ovchynnikov M, Okateva N, Ogawa S, Obayashi K, Nuntiyakul W, Navarria FL, Mozzina L, Morozova D, Montesi MC, Mikulenko A, Miano A, Mei F, Majstorovic M, Mascellani A, Loschiavo VP, Lerner G, Lee WC, Lee KS, Lee KY, Lauria A, Manghi FL, Lantwin O, Landi I, Lacker HM, Kuleshov S, Konovalova N, Komatsu M, Klioutchnikov G, Kim YG, Kim SH, Khalikov E, Kauniskangas AM, Iuliano A, Infantino A, Infante Cabanas SA, Ilieva S, van Herwijnen E, Helo Herrera JC, Hagner C, Haefeli GJ, Guliaeva V, Guler AM, Guiducci Let al., 2026,

Study of the Run-3 muon flux at the SND@LHC experiment

, European Physical Journal C, Vol: 86, ISSN: 1434-6044

Long-range muons produced in proton–proton collisions at the ATLAS interaction point constitute the primary background for neutrino interaction searches at the SND@LHC experiment. This work presents a comprehensive characterization of the muon flux throughout LHC Run-3, benchmarking Monte Carlo simulations against experimental measurements. Measured and simulated muon rates agree within 10–15% across all Run-3 configurations. Following the substantial background increase in 2024 as a result of a beam optics change, the reversion to nominal optics in 2025 did not restore the 2022–2023 levels due to the unprecedented adoption of horizontal crossing in ATLAS. As indicated by simulation results, horizontal crossing enhanced the contribution of high-angle muons originating from diffractive proton losses in the LHC Dispersion Suppressor region. Their identification enabled the design of mitigation strategies that were experimentally validated. The simulation framework was also applied to the future high-luminosity LHC configuration, resulting in a considerable muon rate rise, driven by both the planned luminosity increase and the enlarged magnet aperture. Nevertheless, the upgrade from emulsion films to silicon vertex detectors will preserve the efficiency of the experiment even in such a high-rate environment.

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Aad G, Aakvaag E, Abbott B, Abdelhameed S, Abeling K, Abicht NJ, Abidi SH, Aboelela M, Aboulhorma A, Abramowicz H, Abulaiti Y, Acharya BS, Ackermann A, Adam Bourdarios C, Adamczyk L, Addepalli SV, Addison MJ, Adelman J, Adiguzel A, Adye T, Affolder AA, Afik Y, Agaras MN, Aggarwal A, Agheorghiesei C, Ahmadov F, Ahuja S, Ai X, Aielli G, Aikot A, Ait Tamlihat M, Aitbenchikh B, Akbiyik M, Åkesson TPA, Akimov AV, Akiyama D, Akolkar NN, Aktas S, Alberghi GL, Albert J, Albicocco P, Albouy GL, Alderweireldt S, Alegria ZL, Aleksa M, Aleksandrov IN, Alexa C, Alexopoulos T, Alfonsi F, Algren M, Alhroob M, Ali B, Ali HMJ, Ali S, Alibocus SW, Aliev M, Alimonti G, Alkakhi W, Allaire C, Allbrooke BMM, Allen JS, Allen JF, Allport PP, Aloisio A, Alonso F, Alpigiani C, Alsolami ZMK, Alvarez Fernandez A, Alves Cardoso M, Alviggi MG, Aly M, Amaral Coutinho Y, Ambler A, Amelung C, Amerl M, Ames CG, Amidei D, Amini B, Amirie K, Amirkhanov A, Amor Dos Santos SP, Amos KR, Amperiadou D, An S, Ananiev V, Anastopoulos C, Andeen T, Anders JK, Anderson AC, Andreazza A, Angelidakis S, Angerami A, Anisenkov AV, Annovi A, Antel C, Antipov E, Antonelli M, Anulli F, Aoki M, Aoki Tet al., 2026,

Search for Higgs bosons produced in association with a high-energy photon via vector-boson fusion and decaying to a pair of b-quarks in the ATLAS detector

, Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics, Vol: 877, ISSN: 0370-2693

A search for Standard Model Higgs bosons produced in association with a high-energy photon and decaying to bb¯ is performed using 133 fb−1 of s=13 TeV pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The photon requirement reduces the multijet background, and the H→bb¯ decay is the dominant decay mode. Event selection requirements target events produced by vector-boson fusion, the dominant production mode in this channel. Several improvements enhance the search sensitivity compared to previous measurements. These improvements include better background modelling and characterization, the use of a neural-network classifier, and an updated signal extraction strategy adopting a direct binned-likelihood fit to the classifier output. With these improvements, the Higgs boson signal strength is measured to be 0.2 ± 0.7 relative to the Standard Model prediction. This corresponds to an observed significance of 0.3 standard deviations, compared to an expectation of 1.5 standard deviations assuming the Standard Model.

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Baynham CFA, Hobson R, Buchmüller O, Evans D, Hawkins L, Iannizzotto Venezze L, Josset A, Lee D, Pasatembou E, Sauer BE, Tarbutt MR, Walker T, Ennis O, Chauhan U, Brzakalik A, Dey S, Hedges S, Stray B, Langlois M, Bongs K, Hird T, Lellouch S, Holynski M, Bostwick B, Chen J, Eyler Z, Gibson V, Harte TL, Hsu CC, Karzazi M, Lu C, Millward B, Mitchell J, Mouelle N, Panchumarthi B, Scheper J, Schneider U, Su X, Tang Y, Tkalčec K, Zeuner M, Zhang S, Zhi Y, Badurina L, Beniwal A, Blas D, Carlton J, Ellis J, McCabe C, Parish G, Govardhan DP, Vaskonen V, Bowcock T, Bridges K, Carroll A, Coleman J, Elertas G, Hindley S, Metelko C, Throssell H, Tinsley JN, Bentine E, Booth M, Bortoletto D, Callaghan N, Foot C, Gómez-Monedero C, Hughes K, James A, Leese T, Lowe A, March-Russell J, Sander J, Schelfhout J, Shipsey I, Weatherill D, Wood D, Balashov SN, Bason MG, Hussain K, Labiad H, Majewski P, Marchant AL, Newbold D, Pan Z, Tam Z, Thornton TC, Valenzuela T, van der Grinten MGD, Wilmut I, Clarke K, Vick A, AION Collaborationet al., 2026,

A prototype differential atom interferometer for fundamental physics.

, Nature, Vol: 654, Pages: 622-628

Gravitational waves and ultralight dark matter are among the most compelling frontiers in fundamental physics, motivating proposals for very-long-baseline atom interferometerssuch as AION1, MAGIS2, AICE3 and AEDGE4 that aim to detect at frequencies at which ground-based5 and space-borne6 laser interferometers lose sensitivity. Very-long-baseline atom interferometers look for signals by comparing the quantum phase evolution of widely separated atomic ensembles interrogated by a common laser. However, their performance depends critically on suppressing noise sources, particularly laser phase noise. The experimental validation of such noise rejection remains an important challenge. Here we demonstrate a prototype differential atom interferometer based on the single-photon clock transition of fermionic 87Sr. Thus, we obtain a gradiometer configuration with a species intrinsically suited to kilometre-scale and space-baseline operation. The instrument operates at the standard quantum limit7 with no excess noise beyond atom shot noise. The differential configuration maintains quantum-limited sensitivity in the presence of several radians of artificially injected laser phase noise per shot, which emulates the conditions expected in a very-long-baseline atom interferometer. We also demonstrate the recovery of coherent oscillatory signals across a broad frequency range under fully phase-randomized conditions, a capability that is inaccessible to a single interferometer operating in the same regime. These results provide an experimental validation of the noise-immune measurement principle underlying very-long-baseline atom interferometers and mark an important step towards next-generation quantum sensors for gravitational-wave detection and searches for ultralight dark matter8,9.

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