Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-07-29DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139762
A. Bermudez Martinez , F. Hautmann , L. Keersmaekers , A. Lelek , M. Mendizabal Morentin , S. Taheri Monfared , A.M. van Kampen
{"title":"Soft-gluon coupling and the TMD parton branching Sudakov form factor","authors":"A. Bermudez Martinez , F. Hautmann , L. Keersmaekers , A. Lelek , M. Mendizabal Morentin , S. Taheri Monfared , A.M. van Kampen","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139762","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139762","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The evolution of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distributions in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) can be formulated in a parton branching (PB) framework. We show that next-to-next-to-leading-logarithm (NNLL) accuracy can be achieved in this framework by using the concept of soft-gluon physical coupling. We present results for the TMD distributions and for the Collins-Soper kernel controlling rapidity evolution. The results pave the way for PB predictions at NNLL level for physical observables at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and future colliders.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"868 ","pages":"Article 139762"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144722858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-07-28DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139767
Ovidiu Racorean
{"title":"The non-orientable spacetime of the eternal black hole","authors":"Ovidiu Racorean","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139767","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139767","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We derive the metric of the BTZ black hole for the special case of interchanging the characteristics of space and time coordinates. We maximally extend the geometry of this interior solution and show that the line element is similar to its exterior solution counterpart. Thus, we assign the thermofield double state dual to this interior geometric construction. As a result, we have two independent thermofield double states corresponding to the BTZ metric: one dual to the exterior solution and one dual to the interior solution. In this scenario, considering both thermofield double states as dual to the full BTZ black hole, we evaluate the partition function of the bulk. The partition function represents a non-orientable spacetime. Additionally, we derive a thermofield double-like state that connects in the gravity dual the regions of spacetime with opposite orientations of space and time. We conclude by discussing the connections between the partition function of the full BTZ black hole and topological invariants that characterize many-body topological phases of matter protected by orientation-reversing symmetries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"868 ","pages":"Article 139767"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144722372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-07-24DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139763
Takaaki Nomura , Hiroshi Okada
{"title":"Type-II seesaw of a non-holomorphic modular A4 symmetry","authors":"Takaaki Nomura , Hiroshi Okada","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139763","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139763","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We search for predictability of lepton masses and mixing patterns of type-II seesaw scenario in a non-holomorphic modular <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>4</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> symmetry recently proposed by Qu and Ding. We propose three types of minimum predictive models with different assignments of modular weight, satisfying the neutrino oscillation data in Nufit 5.2. The cosmological bound on the sum of neutrino mass is stringent to our models and CMB bound <span><math><mo>∑</mo><msub><mrow><mi>D</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>ν</mi></mrow></msub><mo>≤</mo><mn>0.12</mn></math></span> eV can be satisfied by one of three models playing an important role in discriminating them.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"868 ","pages":"Article 139763"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144722857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-07-24DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139755
V. Alan Kostelecký , W.P. McNulty , E. Passemar , N. Sherrill
{"title":"Flavor-changing Lorentz and CPT violation in muonic atoms","authors":"V. Alan Kostelecký , W.P. McNulty , E. Passemar , N. Sherrill","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139755","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139755","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Flavor-changing signatures of Lorentz and CPT violation involving muon-electron conversions in muonic atoms are studied using effective field theory. Constraints on coefficients for Lorentz violation at parts in <span><math><msup><mrow><mn>10</mn></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>12</mn></mrow></msup></math></span> GeV<sup>−1</sup> for flavor-changing electromagnetic muon decays and parts in <span><math><msup><mrow><mn>10</mn></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>13</mn></mrow></msup></math></span> GeV<sup>−2</sup> for flavor-changing 4-point quark-lepton interactions are extracted using existing data from the SINDRUM II experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute. Estimates are provided for sensitivities attainable in the forthcoming experiments Mu2e at Fermilab and COMET at the Japan Proton Accelerator Complex.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"868 ","pages":"Article 139755"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144703177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-07-24DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139748
Hongkai Liu , Daiki Ueda
{"title":"Searching for neutrino self-interactions at future muon colliders","authors":"Hongkai Liu , Daiki Ueda","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139748","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139748","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Multi-TeV muon colliders offer a powerful means of accessing new physics coupled to muons while generating clean and intense high-energy neutrino beams via muon decays. We study a fixed-target experiment leveraging the neutrino beams and a forward detector pointing at the interaction point of the muon collider. The sensitivity to neutrino self-interactions is analyzed as a feasibility study, focusing on the leptonic scalar <em>ϕ</em> exclusively coupled to the Standard Model neutrinos. Our work shows that projections from both the main and forward detectors can enhance the existing limits by two orders of magnitude, surpassing other future experiments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"868 ","pages":"Article 139748"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144723999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139752
Xun Zhu , Gao-Chan Yong
{"title":"Violation of NCQ scaling in hadron elliptic flow in Au+Au collisions at sNN=3.0−7.7GeV","authors":"Xun Zhu , Gao-Chan Yong","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139752","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139752","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate the number-of-constituent-quark (NCQ) scaling of elliptic flow for various hadrons in non-central Au+Au collisions at <span><math><msqrt><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>s</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>N</mi><mi>N</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></msqrt><mo>=</mo><mn>3.0</mn><mtext>–</mtext><mn>7.7</mn><mspace></mspace><mrow><mi>GeV</mi></mrow></math></span> using the AMPT model with string melting (SM) and pure hadron cascade (HC) modes. For the SM case, NCQ scaling is absent at <span><math><msqrt><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>s</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>N</mi><mi>N</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></msqrt><mo>=</mo><mn>3.0</mn><mspace></mspace><mrow><mi>GeV</mi></mrow></math></span> but is largely restored by <span><math><msqrt><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>s</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>N</mi><mi>N</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></msqrt><mo>=</mo><mn>3.9</mn><mspace></mspace><mrow><mi>GeV</mi></mrow></math></span>. Although quark coalescence occurs at <span><math><msqrt><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>s</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>N</mi><mi>N</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></msqrt><mo>=</mo><mn>3.0</mn><mspace></mspace><mrow><mi>GeV</mi></mrow></math></span>, the lack of NCQ scaling is attributed to the insufficient development of quark elliptic flow and the limited production of strange quarks and antiquarks. This finding suggests that NCQ scaling could not be considered a definitive signature of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation in the RHIC fixed-target energy region. For the HC case, as expected, no NCQ scaling is observed. However, a mass ordering in the elliptic flow emerges at <span><math><msqrt><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>s</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>N</mi><mi>N</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></msqrt><mo>=</mo><mn>4.5</mn><mspace></mspace><mrow><mi>GeV</mi></mrow></math></span>, indicating that full thermalization may not be a prerequisite for mass ordering.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"868 ","pages":"Article 139752"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144694495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Higher order flow coefficients – a messenger of QCD medium formed in heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider","authors":"Suraj Prasad , Aswathy Menon Kavumpadikkal Radhakrishnan , Raghunath Sahoo , Neelkamal Mallick","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139753","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139753","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Anisotropic flow and fluctuations are sensitive observables of the initial state effects in heavy ion collisions and are characterized by the medium properties and final state interactions. Using event-shape observables, one can constrain the probability distributions of anisotropic flow coefficients, thus reducing the linear and nonlinear contributions in the measured higher-order harmonics. In this paper, we use transverse spherocity as an event shape observable to study the flow coefficients and elliptic flow fluctuations. Transverse spherocity is found to have a strong correlation with elliptic flow and its fluctuations. We exploit this feature of transverse spherocity to remove the contribution to elliptic flow from higher-order harmonics. The study is performed in Pb–Pb collisions at <span><math><msqrt><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>s</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>NN</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></msqrt><mo>=</mo><mn>5.02</mn></math></span> TeV using a multi-phase transport model. The multi-particle Q-cumulant method estimates the anisotropic flow coefficients, which reduces the non-flow contributions. We observe a stronger system response to the flow coefficients for the events with smaller values of elliptic flow.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"868 ","pages":"Article 139753"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144714341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139754
{"title":"Measurement of the W boson decay branching fraction ratio B(W→cq)/B(W→qq¯′) in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139754","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139754","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The most precise measurement to date of the <figure><img></figure> boson hadronic decay branching fraction ratio <figure><img></figure> is presented. The measurement is based on a sample of proton-proton collision data from the CERN LHC collected by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 2016–2018 with an integrated luminosity of <span><math><mn>138</mn><mrow><mspace></mspace><msup><mrow><mtext>fb</mtext></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></mrow></math></span>. The large cross section of top quark-antiquark production at the LHC offers a sizable high-purity sample of <figure><img></figure> bosons suitable for this measurement. Events with one charged lepton (electron or muon) and at least four jets, two tagged as bottom quark jets, are analyzed. Charm jets are tagged using the presence of a muon inside the jet. The result, <figure><img></figure>, is consistent with the standard model prediction and is twice as precise as the current world-average value.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"868 ","pages":"Article 139754"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144714340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139747
X.P. Geng , B. Zhong , Z.H. Zhang
{"title":"Search for absorption of light fermionic dark matter by electron target in xenon dark matter detector","authors":"X.P. Geng , B. Zhong , Z.H. Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139747","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139747","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A search for the absorption of light fermionic dark matter (DM) by electron target in xenon induced by vector (V) and axial-vector (A) operators is performed using the 1.16 tonne⋅year XENONnT electronic recoil data. With no significant signal observed, the one-sided 90% confidence level constraints on the effective coupling between fermionic DM and the electron (<span><math><msub><mrow><mi>σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>e</mi></mrow></msub><msub><mrow><mi>v</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>χ</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>) for DM mass <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>m</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>χ</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> ranging from 2 to 180 keV with both V and A operators are derived as results. We present the most stringent constraint for <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>m</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>χ</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> ranging from 14 to 93 keV (9 to 60 keV) with V (A) operator, establishing them as the strongest DM direct detection experiment constraints for <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>m</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>χ</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> ranging from 2 to 180 keV, with the XENON1T hint excluded.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"868 ","pages":"Article 139747"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144714339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139756
R.F.L. Holanda , Marcelo Ferreira , Javier E. Gonzalez
{"title":"An investigation of a varying G through Strong Lensing and SNe Ia observations","authors":"R.F.L. Holanda , Marcelo Ferreira , Javier E. Gonzalez","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139756","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139756","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we analyze the potential variation of the gravitational constant <em>G</em> using data from strong gravitational lensing systems and Type Ia supernovae. Testing <span><math><mi>G</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>z</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> parameterizations where <span><math><mi>G</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>z</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>=</mo><msub><mrow><mi>G</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msub><mo>(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>+</mo><msub><mrow><mi>G</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mi>z</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> and <span><math><mi>G</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>z</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>=</mo><msub><mrow><mi>G</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msub><msup><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>+</mo><mi>z</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>G</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub></mrow></msup></math></span>, we also account for the influence of <em>G</em> on the luminosity of SNe Ia through the Chandrasekhar mass-luminosity relation. Only the flat universe hypothesis is considered. Constraints from 158 lensing systems and the Pantheon+ sample show no significant evidence of <em>G</em> variation. However, although the results are compatible with no variation, the errors are not yet sufficiently restrictive to rule out any variation of <em>G</em> with high statistical confidence. This study highlights the viability of using combined astrophysical data to probe variations in fundamental constants, suggesting that future surveys could refine these constraints.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"868 ","pages":"Article 139756"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144722371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}