Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139260
Pablo Bueno, Pablo A. Cano, Robie A. Hennigar
{"title":"Regular black holes from pure gravity","authors":"Pablo Bueno, Pablo A. Cano, Robie A. Hennigar","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139260","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139260","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We show via an explicit construction how an infinite tower of higher-curvature corrections generically leads to a resolution of the Schwarzschild singularity in any spacetime dimension <span><math><mi>D</mi><mo>≥</mo><mn>5</mn></math></span>. The theories we consider have two key properties that ensure the results are general and robust: (1) they provide a basis for (vacuum) gravitational effective field theory in five and higher-dimensions, (2) for each value of the mass, they have a unique static spherically symmetric solution. We present several exact solutions of the theories that include the Hayward black hole and metrics similar to the Bardeen and Dymnikova ones. Unlike previous constructions, these regular black holes arise as vacuum solutions, as we include no matter fields whatsoever in our analysis. We show how the black hole thermodynamics can be studied in a completely universal and unambiguous way for all solutions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"861 ","pages":"Article 139260"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143035239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139254
James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Tao Xu
{"title":"Multi-messenger probes of asteroid mass primordial black holes: Superradiance spectroscopy, Hawking radiation, and microlensing","authors":"James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Tao Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139254","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139254","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Superradiance provides a unique opportunity for investigating dark sectors as well as primordial black holes, which themselves are candidates for dark matter over a wide mass range. Using axion-like particles as an example, we show that line signals emerging from a superradiated axion cloud combined with black hole Hawking radiation in extragalactic and galactic halos, along with microlensing observations lead to complementary constraints on parameter space combinations including the axion-photon coupling, axion mass, black hole mass, and its dark matter fraction, <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>f</mi></mrow><mrow><mtext>PBH</mtext></mrow></msub></math></span>. For the asteroid mass range <span><math><mo>∼</mo><msup><mrow><mn>10</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>16</mn></mrow></msup><mo>−</mo><msup><mrow><mn>10</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>22</mn></mrow></msup><mspace></mspace><mtext>g</mtext></math></span>, where primordial black holes can provide the totality of dark matter, we demonstrate that ongoing and upcoming observations such as SXI, JWST, and AMEGO-X will be sensitive to possible line and continuum signals, respectively, providing probes of previously inaccessible regions of <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>f</mi></mrow><mrow><mtext>PBH</mtext></mrow></msub></math></span> parameter space. Further complementarity from a stochastic gravitational-wave background emerging from the black hole formation mechanism is also considered.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"861 ","pages":"Article 139254"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143035241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139290
Yu Cheng , Shao-Feng Ge , Jie Sheng , Tsutomu T. Yanagida
{"title":"Dark matter annihilation via Breit-Wigner enhancement with heavier mediator","authors":"Yu Cheng , Shao-Feng Ge , Jie Sheng , Tsutomu T. Yanagida","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139290","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139290","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We propose a new scenario that both the dark matter freeze-out in the early Universe and its possible annihilation for indirect detection around a supermassive black hole are enhanced by a Breit-Wigner resonance. With the mediator mass larger than the total initial dark matter mass, this annihilation is almost forbidden at late times. Thus, the stringent cosmic microwave background and indirect detection constraints do not apply. However, a supermassive black hole can accelerate the dark matter particles to reactivate this resonant annihilation whose subsequent decay to photons leaves a unique signal. The running Fermi-LAT and the future COSI satellites can test this scenario.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"861 ","pages":"Article 139290"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143072385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2024.139210
{"title":"Constraints on the Higgs boson self-coupling from the combination of single and double Higgs boson production in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2024.139210","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2024.139210","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Higgs boson (H) trilinear self-coupling, <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>λ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn></mrow></msub></math></span>, is constrained via its measured properties and limits on the HH pair production using the proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at <span><math><msqrt><mrow><mi>s</mi></mrow></msqrt><mo>=</mo><mn>13</mn><mspace></mspace><mtext>TeV</mtext></math></span>. The combination of event categories enriched in single-H and HH events is used to measure <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>κ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>λ</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>, defined as the value of <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>λ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> normalized to its standard model prediction, while simultaneously constraining the Higgs boson couplings to fermions and vector bosons. Values of <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>κ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>λ</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> outside the interval <span><math><mo>−</mo><mn>1.2</mn><mo><</mo><msub><mrow><mi>κ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>λ</mi></mrow></msub><mo><</mo><mn>7.5</mn></math></span> are excluded at 2<em>σ</em> confidence level, which is compatible with the expected range of <span><math><mo>−</mo><mn>2.0</mn><mo><</mo><msub><mrow><mi>κ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>λ</mi></mrow></msub><mo><</mo><mn>7.7</mn></math></span> under the assumption that all other Higgs boson couplings are equal to their standard model predicted values. Relaxing the assumption on the Higgs couplings to fermions and vector bosons the observed (expected) <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>κ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>λ</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> interval is constrained to be within <span><math><mo>−</mo><mn>1.4</mn><mo><</mo><msub><mrow><mi>κ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>λ</mi></mrow></msub><mo><</mo><mn>7.8</mn></math></span> (<span><math><mo>−</mo><mn>2.3</mn><mo><</mo><msub><mrow><mi>κ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>λ</mi></mrow></msub><mo><</mo><mn>7.8</mn></math></span>) at 2<em>σ</em> confidence level.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"861 ","pages":"Article 139210"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139270
Lipei Du
{"title":"Multimessenger study of baryon-charged QCD matter in heavy-ion collisions","authors":"Lipei Du","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139270","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139270","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Multimessenger studies of heavy-ion collisions, using hadrons and electromagnetic probes, can reveal the properties of the created QCD matter from different perspectives. This study calculates the thermal dilepton invariant mass spectra and thermal photon transverse momentum spectra in Au+Au collisions at low beam energies from the Beam Energy Scan program, using a (3+1)-dimensional multistage hydrodynamic model calibrated by rapidity-dependent hadronic distributions. The effects of thermodynamic rapidity variation, baryon chemical potential, and fluid expansion on the spectra are explored. Methods for extracting temperature from photon and dilepton spectra are examined by comparison with the underlying hydrodynamic temperature. The possibility of combining photon and dilepton spectra to extract radial flow is also investigated. This study provides insights into measuring the thermodynamic properties of the created systems in heavy-ion collisions using multiple messengers through two fundamental interactions within the same framework.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"861 ","pages":"Article 139270"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139253
E. Cravo , R. Crespo , A. Deltuva , D. Jurčiukonis
{"title":"Disentangling single-particle and collective signatures in 12C(p,2p)11B reaction","authors":"E. Cravo , R. Crespo , A. Deltuva , D. Jurčiukonis","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139253","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139253","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We calculate kinematically fully exclusive cross sections for the <sup>12</sup>C(p,2p)<sup>11</sup>B reaction at <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>E</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>p</mi></mrow></msub><mo>=</mo><mn>98.7</mn></math></span> MeV proton beam energy, leading to the low-lying states of <sup>11</sup>B. We use rigorous three-particle scattering framework extended to include simultaneously and consistently both core excitation and single-particle-like excitations. This predicts significant cross sections for the transitions to the final <span><math><msup><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mn>5</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></mfrac></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo></mrow></msup></math></span> (4.45 MeV) and <span><math><msup><mrow><mfrac><mrow><mn>7</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></mfrac></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo></mrow></msup></math></span> (6.74 MeV) excited states that cannot be populated through the direct single-particle excitation mechanism. We show that these two types of excitations manifest themselves with distinct and characteristic features in the scattering observables.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"861 ","pages":"Article 139253"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143035245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139244
Zbigniew Drogosz , Wojciech Florkowski , Mykhailo Hontarenko , Radoslaw Ryblewski
{"title":"Dynamical constraints on pseudo-gauge transformations","authors":"Zbigniew Drogosz , Wojciech Florkowski , Mykhailo Hontarenko , Radoslaw Ryblewski","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139244","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139244","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Classical pseudo-gauge transformations are discussed in the context of hydrodynamic models of heavy-ion collisions. A decomposition of the pseudo-gauge transformation into Lorentz-invariant tensors is made, which allows for better interpretation of its physical consequences. For pseudo-gauge transformations connecting two symmetric energy-momentum tensors, we find that the super-potential <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>Φ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>λ</mi><mi>μ</mi><mi>ν</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> must obey a conservation law of the form <span><math><msub><mrow><mo>∂</mo></mrow><mrow><mi>λ</mi></mrow></msub><msup><mrow><mi>Φ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>λ</mi><mi>μ</mi><mi>ν</mi></mrow></msup><mo>=</mo><mn>0</mn></math></span>. This equation, referred to below as the STS condition, represents a constraint that is hardly possible to be satisfied for tensors constructed out of the basic hydrodynamic variables such as temperature, baryon chemical potential, and the hydrodynamic flow. However, in a special case of the boost-invariant flow, the STS condition is automatically fulfilled and a non-trivial residual pseudo-gauge transformation defined by a single scalar field is allowed. In this case the bulk and shear viscosity coefficients become pseudo-gauge dependent; however, their specific linear combination appearing in the equations of motion remains pseudo-gauge invariant. This finding provides new insights into the role of pseudo-gauge transformations and pseudo-gauge invariance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"861 ","pages":"Article 139244"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139241
Thede de Boer, Manfred Lindner, Andreas Trautner
{"title":"Electroweak hierarchy from conformal and custodial symmetry","authors":"Thede de Boer, Manfred Lindner, Andreas Trautner","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139241","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139241","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We present “Custodial Naturalness” as a new mechanism to explain the separation between the electroweak (EW) scale and the scale of potential ultraviolet completions of the Standard Model (SM). We assume classical scale invariance as well as an extension of the SM scalar sector custodial symmetry to <span><math><mrow><mi>SO</mi></mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>6</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span>. This requires a single new complex scalar field charged under a new <span><math><mi>U</mi><msub><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow><mrow><mi>X</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> gauge symmetry which partially overlaps with <span><math><mi>B</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>L</mi></math></span>. Classical scale invariance and the high-scale scalar sector <span><math><mrow><mi>SO</mi></mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>6</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span> custodial symmetry are radiatively broken by quantum effects that generate a new intermediate scale by dimensional transmutation. The little hierarchy problem is solved because the Higgs boson arises as an elementary (i.e. non-composite) pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) of the spontaneously broken <span><math><mrow><mi>SO</mi></mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>6</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span> custodial symmetry. The minimal setting has the same number of parameters as the SM and predicts new physics in the form of a heavy <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>Z</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>′</mo></mrow></msup></math></span> with fixed couplings to the SM and a mass of <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>m</mi></mrow><mrow><msup><mrow><mi>Z</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>′</mo></mrow></msup></mrow></msub><mo>≈</mo><mn>4</mn><mo>−</mo><mn>100</mn><mspace></mspace><mrow><mi>TeV</mi></mrow></math></span>, as well as a light but close-to invisible dilaton with a mass <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>m</mi></mrow><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>h</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>Φ</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></msub><mo>≈</mo><mn>75</mn><mspace></mspace><mrow><mi>GeV</mi></mrow></math></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"861 ","pages":"Article 139241"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139258
Néstor Armesto , Miguel Ángel Escobedo , Elena G. Ferreiro , Víctor López-Pardo
{"title":"Corrigendum to “A potential approach to the X(3872) thermal behavior” [Phys. Lett. B 854 (2024) 138760]","authors":"Néstor Armesto , Miguel Ángel Escobedo , Elena G. Ferreiro , Víctor López-Pardo","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139258","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139258","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"861 ","pages":"Article 139258"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics Letters BPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139250
Ruo-Tong Wei , Ya-Bo Wu , Te Huang , Jun-Ping Wang , Cheng-Yuan Zhang
{"title":"Holographic ferromagnetic phase transitions with three typical nonlinear electrodynamics in Gauss-Bonnet gravity","authors":"Ruo-Tong Wei , Ya-Bo Wu , Te Huang , Jun-Ping Wang , Cheng-Yuan Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139250","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139250","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>At the probe limit, the effects of three typical nonlinear corrections of Born-Infeld electrodynamics (BINE), logarithmic Lagrangian (LNE) and exponential Lagrangian (ENE) on the holographic ferromagnetic model under the four-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity background are studied by numerical calculation. For comparison, the Gauss-Bonnet parameter <em>α</em> is fixed in the article. In the absence of an external magnetic field, three different nonlinear electrodynamic corrections reduce the critical temperature respectively and make the spontaneous magnetic moment more difficult to form. In the case of opening the external magnetic field, the magnetic susceptibility density always satisfies the Curie-Weiss law, and the increase of the nonlinear parameters under the three corrections will prolong the period of the external magnetic field. Comparing the three corrections horizontally, the exponential form of nonlinear electrodynamics correction has a more significant effect on the parameters.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"861 ","pages":"Article 139250"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}