Physics Letters BPub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-02-07DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140264
X.F. Jiang , Z.Z. Li , X.W. Sun , J. Meng
{"title":"Dipole response in deformed halo nuclei 42Mg and 44Mg","authors":"X.F. Jiang , Z.Z. Li , X.W. Sun , J. Meng","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140264","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140264","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The quasiparticle finite amplitude method based on the deformed relativistic Hartree–Bogoliubov theory in continuum has been developed for the noncharge-exchange multipole response. Taking neutron-rich magnesium isotopes as examples, the isovector electric dipole response, especially in the low-lying region, is studied. It is found that the low-energy dipole strength increases with neutron number and becomes notably enhanced in the predicted deformed halo nuclei <sup>42</sup>Mg and <sup>44</sup>Mg. In these isotopes, the <span><math><mrow><msup><mi>K</mi><mi>π</mi></msup><mo>=</mo><msup><mn>1</mn><mo>−</mo></msup></mrow></math></span> states below 3 MeV are dominated by transitions from the “halo” part of the single-neutron orbitals. Their transition densities reveal a low-frequency, out-of-phase oscillation between the neutron halo and the core. These results provide a microscopic picture for the soft dipole resonance in <sup>42</sup>Mg and <sup>44</sup>Mg.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"874 ","pages":"Article 140264"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146138534","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 : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-02-10DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140258
Sergei M. Kuzenko, Jonah Ruhl
{"title":"Generalisations of the Russo-Townsend formulation","authors":"Sergei M. Kuzenko, Jonah Ruhl","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140258","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140258","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As a generalisation of the recent construction by Russo and Townsend, we propose a new approach to generate <span><math><mrow><mi>U</mi><mo>(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></math></span> duality-invariant models for nonlinear electrodynamics. It is based on the use of two building blocks: (i) a fixed (but otherwise arbitrary) model for self-dual nonlinear electrodynamics with Lagrangian <em>L</em>(<em>F<sub>μν</sub></em>; <em>g</em>) depending on a duality-invariant parameter <em>g</em>; and (ii) an arbitrary potential <em>W</em>(<em>ψ</em>), with <em>ψ</em> an auxiliary scalar field. It turns out that the model <span><math><mrow><mi>L</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><msub><mi>F</mi><mrow><mi>μ</mi><mi>ν</mi></mrow></msub><mo>;</mo><mi>ψ</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>=</mo><mi>L</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><msub><mi>F</mi><mrow><mi>μ</mi><mi>ν</mi></mrow></msub><mo>;</mo><mi>ψ</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>+</mo><mi>W</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>ψ</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> leads to a self-dual theory for nonlinear electrodynamics upon elimination of <em>ψ</em>. As an illustration, we work out two examples in which the seed Lagrangian <em>L</em>(<em>F<sub>μν</sub></em>; <em>g</em>) corresponds to the Born-Infeld model and two particular potentials <em>W</em>(<em>ψ</em>) are chosen such that integrating out <em>ψ</em> gives: (i) the ModMaxBorn theory; and (ii) the ModMax theory. We also briefly discuss supersymmetric generalisations of the proposed formulation.</div><div><em>To the memory of Kelly Stelle</em></div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"874 ","pages":"Article 140258"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146152807","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 : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-18DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140176
Pankaj Agrawal , Biswajit Das
{"title":"Effect of anomalous HHH coupling on the decay H → Z Z* → 4 charged leptons","authors":"Pankaj Agrawal , Biswajit Das","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140176","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140176","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We have studied the effect of anomalous <em>HHH</em> coupling in the <em>κ</em>-framework for the process <em>H</em> → <em>Z</em> <em>Z</em>* → 4 charged leptons by computing the electroweak corrections to it. The results for the <em>HHH</em> coupling scaling are gauge invariant. We have computed the results for <span><math><mrow><mi>H</mi><mo>→</mo><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo></msup><msup><mi>μ</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>μ</mi><mo>−</mo></msup></mrow></math></span> and <span><math><mrow><mi>H</mi><mo>→</mo><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo></msup><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo></msup></mrow></math></span> processes. The corrections for both processes depend on the input parameter scheme. In the <em>G<sub>F</sub></em> scheme, the electroweak corrections are about 1.26% for the <span><math><mrow><mi>H</mi><mo>→</mo><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo></msup><msup><mi>μ</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>μ</mi><mo>−</mo></msup></mrow></math></span> and about 0.25% for the <span><math><mrow><mi>H</mi><mo>→</mo><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo></msup><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo></msup></mrow></math></span> process. However changing the <em>κ<sub>HHH</sub></em> from 4 to <span><math><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>6</mn></mrow></math></span>, the corrections vary from less than 1% to about <span><math><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>12</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></math></span>. We have plotted a number of kinematic distributions. The corrections over most of the phase space regions are similar. These large corrections can be used to put a bound on the <em>HHH</em> coupling. This can help in determining the structure of the Higgs potential.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"874 ","pages":"Article 140176"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145995379","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 : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-02-02DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140227
{"title":"Study of the interaction between Ξ baryons and light mesons via femtoscopy at the LHC","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140227","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140227","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Meson-baryon systems with strangeness content provide a unique laboratory for investigating the strong interaction and testing theoretical models of hadron structure and dynamics. In this work, the measured correlation functions for oppositely charged Ξ-K and <span><math><mrow><mstyle><mi>Ξ</mi></mstyle><mo>−</mo><mi>π</mi></mrow></math></span> pairs obtained in high-multiplicity pp collisions at <span><math><mrow><msqrt><mi>s</mi></msqrt><mspace></mspace><mo>=</mo><mspace></mspace><mn>13</mn></mrow></math></span> TeV at the LHC are presented. For the first time, high-precision data on the Ξ-K interaction are delivered at small relative momenta. The scattering lengths, extracted via the Lednický–Lyuboshits expression of the pair wavefunction, indicate a repulsive and a shallow attractive strong interaction for the Ξ-K and <span><math><mrow><mstyle><mi>Ξ</mi></mstyle><mo>−</mo><mi>π</mi></mrow></math></span> systems, respectively. The Ξ(1620) and Ξ(1690) states are observed in the <span><math><mrow><mstyle><mi>Ξ</mi></mstyle><mo>−</mo><mi>π</mi></mrow></math></span> correlation function and their properties, mass and width, are determined. These measurements are in agreement with other available results. Such high-precision data can help refine the understanding of these resonant states, provide stronger constraints for chirally motivated potentials, and address the key challenge of describing the coupled-channel dynamics that may give rise to molecular configurations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"874 ","pages":"Article 140227"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146109743","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 : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-02-23DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140296
Itzhak Bars
{"title":"Higgs field as architect of a geodesically complete universe and agent for new physics in interiors of black holes","authors":"Itzhak Bars","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140296","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140296","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Higgs boson is often compared to a small ripple on a vast, calm ocean. This “ocean” is the universal Higgs vacuum expectation value, ≈ 246 GeV, permeating all space and generating particle masses. Its remarkable uniformity reflects the large-scale nature of the universe. Here I argue that the Higgs field plays a far deeper role. In regions of extreme gravity near singularities, it becomes a non-perturbative, space-time–dependent field that creates new space-time domains beyond gravitational singularities—new regions governed by antigravity. This mechanism produces dramatic dynamics inside black holes and in the earliest universe, including restoration of the electroweak symmetry SU(2) × U(1) at singularities. The adjoining gravity and antigravity regions form a geodesically complete space-time bridged by traversable singularities—absent in the Standard Model coupled to general relativity or its extensions such as string theory. In such a framework, the black hole information paradox admits a new, manifestly unitary resolution. Details of computations are developed in the companion paper [1]; here, only a brief outline is given.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"874 ","pages":"Article 140296"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146777456","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 : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140225
Lipei Du
{"title":"Kinematic and dynamical origins of mean-pT fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions","authors":"Lipei Du","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140225","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140225","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Event-by-event fluctuations of the mean transverse momentum (mean-<em>p<sub>T</sub></em>) provide a sensitive probe of collective dynamics beyond single-particle spectra and anisotropic flow. We present a systematic study of mean-<em>p<sub>T</sub></em> fluctuation observables using a Bayesian-calibrated multistage hydrodynamic framework, including quantitative comparisons to RHIC measurements and model-based investigations of beam-energy and kinematic-acceptance effects. The experimental definitions employed by the STAR and ALICE Collaborations are implemented explicitly and found to yield consistent results within controlled limits. We study the centrality and beam-energy dependence of the observable, its sensitivity to key soft-sector ingredients, and the impact of the kinematic <em>p<sub>T</sub></em> acceptance. By introducing scaled-<em>p<sub>T</sub></em> cuts, we demonstrate that a part of the apparent energy dependence arises from kinematic projection effects, while the remaining trends reflect genuine collective dynamics. Our results establish mean-<em>p<sub>T</sub></em> fluctuations as a nontrivial and independent validation of calibrated hydrodynamic descriptions of the quark–gluon plasma.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"874 ","pages":"Article 140225"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146089292","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 : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-08DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.140091
Shingo Takeuchi
{"title":"Anomaly equation of the large U(1) chiral symmetry","authors":"Shingo Takeuchi","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.140091","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2025.140091","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, we first heuristically construct the charges corresponding to the chiral transformation associated with the large U(1) gauge symmetry. We refer to these as <em>the large chiral charges</em>, and to the chiral transformation they generate as <em>the large chiral transformations</em>. Then, showing that these large chiral charges can be obtained based on Noether’s theorem, we obtain the anomaly equation associated with these large chiral transformations.</div><div>Subsequently, considering the one-loop diagrams of the fermionic field coupled to multiple classical gauge fields (which constitute the effective action of the model in this study with regard to the gauge field), we perform an axialization. Then, defining the BRS transformations for the large U(1) gauge symmetry (we refer to these as <em>the large BRS transformations</em>), we perform these transformations to these axialized one-loop diagrams, and demonstrate that the anomaly equations mentioned above can be derived by evaluating these diagrams. We further confirm that these anomaly equations can be derived using the Fujikawa method.</div><div>Finally, we discuss the breaking of unitarity and the low-energy effective model associated with the large chiral anomaly in this study, and comment on potential future developments arising from them.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"874 ","pages":"Article 140091"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145704901","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":"Chaotic dynamics in extremal black holes: A challenge to the chaos bound","authors":"Surojit Dalui , Chiranjeeb Singha , Krishnakanta Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140256","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140256","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate chaotic dynamics in extremal black holes by analyzing the motion of massless particles in both Reissner–Nordström and Kerr geometries. Two complementary approaches (i) taking the extremal limit of non-extremal solutions and (ii) working directly in the extremal background, yield consistent results. We find that, contrary to naive extrapolation of the Maldacena–Shenker–Stanford (MSS) chaos bound, the Lyapunov exponent remains positive even at zero temperature. For Reissner–Nordström black holes, chaos diminishes but persists at extremality, while for Kerr black holes it strengthens with increasing spin. These results demonstrate that extremal black holes exhibit residual chaotic dynamics that violate the MSS bound, establishing them as qualitatively distinct dynamical phases of gravity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"874 ","pages":"Article 140256"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146146653","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 : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-02-10DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140269
A.H. Mueller
{"title":"Limits on the diffractive mass in strong coherent γ*-nucleus scattering","authors":"A.H. Mueller","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140269","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140269","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>An evolution equation for diffractive production with a definite rapidity gap is given. Coherent <em>γ</em>*<em>A</em> collisions in the unitarity (saturation) region are studied with the conclusion that the diffractive mass is always on the order of the <em>γ</em>* virtuality, <em>Q</em>, when the scattering is strong. Deep in the saturation region diffractive masses significantly greater than <em>Q</em> are strongly suppressed by a Levin-Tuchin mechanism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"874 ","pages":"Article 140269"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146152808","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 : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-02-10DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140241
De-Ye Tao(陶德晔) , Bo Zhou(周波) , Yu-Gang Ma(马余刚)
{"title":"Visualization of rotational bands of 12C via two-cluster overlap amplitudes","authors":"De-Ye Tao(陶德晔) , Bo Zhou(周波) , Yu-Gang Ma(马余刚)","doi":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140241","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140241","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The formation of rotational bands is one of the most intriguing characteristics of nuclear systems. Using the microscopic cluster model, the rotational bands of <sup>12</sup>C are analyzed in light of 3<em>α</em> correlations. The configurations of various rotational bands, including the ground band and the Hoyle band, are distinctly visualized through the calculated two-cluster overlap amplitudes. Furthermore, the breathing band, built on the <span><math><msubsup><mn>0</mn><mn>3</mn><mo>+</mo></msubsup></math></span> state with breathing-mode features compared to the Hoyle state, and the gas-like <span><math><mrow><msup><mi>K</mi><mi>π</mi></msup><mo>=</mo><msup><mn>1</mn><mo>−</mo></msup></mrow></math></span> band are also recognized. It is demonstrated that the two-cluster overlap amplitude can serve as a new probe for identifying rotational bands in light nuclei.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20162,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters B","volume":"874 ","pages":"Article 140241"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146153324","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}