{"title":"The muon magnetic moment and physics beyond the standard model","authors":"Peter Athron , Kilian Möhling , Dominik Stöckinger , Hyejung Stöckinger-Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2025.104225","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2025.104225","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We review the role of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>a</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>μ</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> as a powerful probe of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM), taking advantage of the final result of the Fermilab <span><math><mrow><mi>g</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></math></span> experiment and the recently updated Standard Model value. This review provides both a comprehensive summary of the current status, as well as an accessible entry point for phenomenologists with interests in dark matter, Higgs and electroweak or neutrino and flavour physics in the context of a wide range of BSM scenarios. It begins with a qualitative overview of the field and a collection of key properties and typical results. It then focuses on model-independent, generic formulas and classifies types of BSM scenarios with or without chiral enhancements. A strong emphasis of the review are the connections to a large number of other observables — ranging from the muon mass and the muon–Higgs coupling and related dipole observables to dark matter, neutrino masses and high-energy collider observables. Finally, we survey a number of well-motivated BSM scenarios such as dark photons, axion-like particles, the two-Higgs doublet model, supersymmetric models and models with leptoquarks, vector-like leptons or neutrino mass models. We discuss the impact of the updated Standard Model value for <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>a</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>μ</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> and of complementary constraints, exploring the phenomenology and identifying excluded and viable parameter regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":412,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics","volume":"148 ","pages":"Article 104225"},"PeriodicalIF":17.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145962509","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}
Munshi G. Mustafa , Aritra Bandyopadhyay , Chowdhury Aminul Islam
{"title":"Thermal field theory in the presence of a background magnetic field and its application to QCD","authors":"Munshi G. Mustafa , Aritra Bandyopadhyay , Chowdhury Aminul Islam","doi":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2026.104234","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2026.104234","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This review has explored the fundamental principles of thermal field theory in the context of a background magnetic field, highlighting its theoretical framework and some of its applications to the thermo-magnetic QCD plasma generated in heavy-ion collisions. Our discussion has been limited to equilibrium systems for clarity and conciseness. We analysed bulk thermodynamic characteristics including the phase diagram as well as real-time observables, shedding light on the behaviour and dynamics of the thermo-magnetic QCD medium relevant to heavy-ion physics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":412,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics","volume":"148 ","pages":"Article 104234"},"PeriodicalIF":17.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147278573","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":"Extended soft-core baryon–baryon interactions","authors":"Th.A. Rijken , Y. Yamamoto , M.M. Nagels","doi":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2026.104243","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2026.104243","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background:</h3><div>The Nijmegen extended-soft-core (ESC) models treat in a unified way, using broken flavor SU(3) symmetry, the low- and intermediate-energy interactions of nucleon–nucleon (NN), hyperon–nucleon (YN), and hyperon–hyperon/nucleon (YY/<span><math><mi>Ξ</mi></math></span>N) systems with strangeness S=0,-1,-2,-3,-4 respectively. The potentials consist of local and non-local potentials due to (i) One-boson exchanges (OBE), which are the members of nonets of pseudoscalar-, vector-, scalar-, and axial-vector mesons, (ii) Two pseudoscalar exchange (TPS), (iii) Meson-Pair-exchange (MPE) and (iv) Diffractive exchanges. Both the OBE- and Pair-vertices are regulated by Gaussian form factors producing potentials with a soft behavior near the origin. Broken SU(3) symmetry serves to connect the NN, YN and YY channels. In particular, the meson–baryon coupling constants are calculated via SU(3) using the coupling constants of the NN-analysis as input. The assignment of the cut-off masses for the BBM-vertices is dependent on the SU(3)-classification of the exchanged mesons for OBE, and a similar scheme for MPE.</div></div><div><h3>Purpose:</h3><div>The NN,YN,YY results presented are those from ESC16, which is the latest version of the ESC-potential model for Baryon–Baryon (BB) scattering. The two body BB-potentials are also applied to the hyperonic many-body systems. Next to the standard ingredients of the ESC-models, in the ESC16 version a contribution of the short range repulsion due to the quark Pauli-principle in the BB-channels has been included systematically for the first time.</div></div><div><h3>Methods:</h3><div>In this review the (new) derivation of the potentials is based on the formulation of relativistic quantum field theory (RQFT) as developed by Kadyshevsky. Here, in contrast to the usual Feynman formulation, the particles in the Kadyshevsky graphs remain on-mass-shell also in the intermediate states. This implies that Gaussian form factors, a characteristic of the soft-core models, are well-defined and can be handled easily in the Kadyshevsky formalism. Furthermore, pair-suppression can be handled phenomenological by introducing factors at the vertices without conflict with relativistic invariance.</div><div>Major novel ingredients with respect to the former versions ESC04–ESC08 is the inclusion of (i) short-range Odderon-potentials corresponding to the odd numbers of gluon-exchanges next to the Pomeron-potentials representing the even number of gluon-exchanges, (ii) short range repulsion in all NN, YN and YY channels due to Pauli-forbidden six-quark cluster <span><math><msup><mrow><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>0</mn><mi>s</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>6</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>-configurations. Further new elements are (a) the extension of the <span><math><mrow><msup><mrow><mi>J</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>P</mi><mi>C</mi></mrow></msup><mo>=</mo><msup><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><mrow><mo>+</mo><mo>+</mo></mrow></msup></mrow><","PeriodicalId":412,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics","volume":"149 ","pages":"Article 104243"},"PeriodicalIF":17.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147850615","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}
Johann Haidenbauer , Ulf-G. Meißner , Andreas Nogga
{"title":"Ab initio description of hypernuclei","authors":"Johann Haidenbauer , Ulf-G. Meißner , Andreas Nogga","doi":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2026.104242","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2026.104242","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Hypernuclei are bound states of neutrons, protons and one or two hyperons, thus extending the nuclear landscape to a third dimension. They also encode information about the baryon–baryon and three-baryon interactions. Here, we review recent work on chiral effective field theory for two- and three-baryon interactions and their application in nuclei based on <em>ab initio</em> methods. These include the Faddeev–Yakubovsky equations, the no-core–shell-model (NCSM) and nuclear lattice effective field theory (NLEFT). Besides of providing an overview of the formalisms explicit results for the separation energies of light <span><math><mi>Λ</mi></math></span> hypernuclei are provided. Two-body and three-body forces are included consistently, in line with the underlying power counting. Calculations of <span><math><mi>Λ</mi></math></span> hypernuclei within the NCSM, performed up to A=7 so far, suggest that agreement with the experimental binding energies can be achieved once appropriate three-body forces are taken into account. Similar conclusions are drawn from the study based on NLEFT, where even hypernuclei up to A=16 can be computed. Additionally, applications of <em>ab initio</em> approaches in calculations of <span><math><mrow><mi>Λ</mi><mi>Λ</mi></mrow></math></span> and <span><math><mi>Ξ</mi></math></span> hypernuclei are discussed and possible candidates for the lightest systems that could be bound are identified, namely <span><math><msubsup><mrow></mrow><mrow><mi>Λ</mi><mi>Λ</mi></mrow><mrow><mspace></mspace><mspace></mspace><mn>5</mn></mrow></msubsup></math></span>He and <span><math><msubsup><mrow></mrow><mrow><mi>Ξ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>4</mn></mrow></msubsup></math></span>H.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":412,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics","volume":"149 ","pages":"Article 104242"},"PeriodicalIF":17.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147495534","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}
Kristina D. Launey , Grigor H. Sargsyan , Alexis Mercenne , Jutta E. Escher , Darin C. Mumma
{"title":"Ab initio symmetry-adapted approaches to nuclear reactions","authors":"Kristina D. Launey , Grigor H. Sargsyan , Alexis Mercenne , Jutta E. Escher , Darin C. Mumma","doi":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2026.104233","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2026.104233","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this review, we discuss recent applications of the <em>ab initio</em> symmetry-adapted no-core shell-model (SA-NCSM) theory for study and prediction of structure and reactions of stable and unstable nuclei from light to medium mass range. We explore structure properties of neutron-rich He, Li, and Mg isotopes, with a focus on nuclear collectivity, clustering, and spectroscopic factors, as well as multi-particle excitations of utmost significance in the proximity of the drip lines. In addition, we present extensions of the SA-NCSM with continuum for determining the microscopic structure of reaction fragments, which enables calculations of reaction cross sections for targets from the lightest <span><math><msup><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>4</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>6</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>He to <sup>40</sup>Ca, rooted in first principles. We illustrate this for neutron and proton elastic scattering, deuteron and alpha capture reactions, and alpha knock-out reactions. Furthermore, we discuss microscopic optical potentials with uncertainty quantification, a critical ingredient in many reaction models. We also discuss the impact of alpha clustering on reactions of significance to nuclear astrophysics, as well as on beta decays and beyond-the-standard-model physics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":412,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics","volume":"148 ","pages":"Article 104233"},"PeriodicalIF":17.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146089311","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":"Light kaonic atoms as probes of fundamental interactions in strange systems","authors":"Catalina Curceanu , Francesco Sgaramella , Massimiliano Bazzi , Tadashi Hashimoto , Mihail Iliescu , Alessandro Scordo , Diana Sirghi , Florin Sirghi","doi":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2026.104226","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2026.104226","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The strong interaction, described within the Standard Model of particle physics by quantum chromodynamics (QCD), plays a fundamental role in understanding the structure and the stability of matter. Despite significant advances, the low-energy QCD regime remains poorly understood due to its non-perturbative nature. Kaonic atoms, in which a negatively charged kaon is bound to a nucleus via electromagnetic interaction, offer a unique experimental tool to investigate the strong interactions in the strangeness sector. Their study provides key information on the antikaon–nucleon interaction at threshold energy, essential for refining the relative theoretical models. This work reviews the current status of kaonic atom research, highlighting recent experimental findings and their impact on our understanding of the strong interaction. We discuss the formation processes, the role of X-ray spectroscopy in probing strong-interaction effects, and the latest results from DA<span><math><mi>Φ</mi></math></span>NE and J-PARC experimental facilities. Future perspectives, including planned experiments aimed at further improving the precision of the measurements and the potentiality of also measuring the high-n transitions as precision probes for quantum electrodynamics (QED) with strangeness, are also reviewed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":412,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics","volume":"147 ","pages":"Article 104226"},"PeriodicalIF":17.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145957102","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":"Decay spectroscopy of heavy and superheavy nuclei","authors":"Dieter Ackermann","doi":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2025.104215","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2025.104215","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>After more than half a century since the first predictions of the so-called <em>“island of stability of superheavy nuclei”</em>, exploring the limits of nuclear stability at highest atomic numbers is still one of the most prominent challenges in low-energy nuclear physics. These exotic nuclear species reveal their character and details of some of their properties through their induced or spontaneous disintegration.</div><div>The achievements in the field of superheavy nuclei (SHN) research, which involves studying the production and decay of the heaviest nuclear species, have been reported in a number of review papers. In the introduction of this paper, references are provided to review papers, summarizing the many aspects of SHN research in other disciplines, like chemistry, atomic physics, and earlier work on nuclear structure, including in-beam spectroscopy, and superheavy element (SHE) synthesis.</div><div>This review is an attempt to summarize the experimental progress that has been made in recent years by employing the versatile tool park of Decay Spectroscopy After Separation (DSAS) for the heaviest isotopes from <span><math><mrow><mi>Z</mi><mo>=</mo></mrow></math></span> 99 (einsteinium) to <span><math><mrow><mi>Z</mi><mo>=</mo></mrow></math></span> 118 (oganesson). DSAS, with its major instrumentation components heavy-ion accelerator, separator and decay detection, is the only way to access the heaviest nuclei up to oganesson. While in-beam <span><math><mi>γ</mi></math></span>-spectroscopy has reached <sup>256</sup>Rf in terms of the highest atomic number <span><math><mi>Z</mi></math></span> and mass number <span><math><mi>A</mi></math></span>, SHE chemistry succeeded to sort flerovium (<span><math><mrow><mi>Z</mi><mo>=</mo></mrow></math></span> <!--> <!-->114) as the heaviest element into the periodic table. Laser spectroscopy and precise mass measurements are limited basically to the nobelium/fermium region, with high-precision Penning-trap mass-measurements being performed for <sup>256</sup>Lr and <sup>257</sup>Rf, and with the <sup>257</sup>Db mass obtained, using a multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer (MRToF MS).</div><div>Apart from a brief introduction of the method (DSAS) and some nuclear structure features of SHN, the experimental findings reported in literature are summarized in this review, including a table listing the major decay properties, providing a comprehensive collection of references to experimental publications for each known isotope and isomeric state.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":412,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics","volume":"147 ","pages":"Article 104215"},"PeriodicalIF":17.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145575477","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":"Studies of unconventional baryon structure in the light quark sector with the BGOOD photoproduction experiment","authors":"T.C. Jude","doi":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2025.104224","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2025.104224","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The discoveries of the pentaquark states and <span><math><mrow><mi>X</mi><mi>Y</mi><mi>Z</mi></mrow></math></span> mesons in the charm quark sector initiated a new epoch in hadron physics, where the existence of exotic multi-quark states beyond conventional valence three quark and quark–antiquark systems has been unambiguously confirmed. Such states could manifest as single colour bound objects, or evolve from meson–baryon and meson–meson interactions, creating molecular like systems and re-scattering effects near production thresholds. Molecular-like structures may be apparent over the full quark flavour and mass range, with equivalent states evidenced in the light, <span><math><mrow><mi>u</mi><mi>d</mi><mi>s</mi></mrow></math></span> quark sector. This is the focus of the BGOOD photoproduction experiment at the ELSA electron accelerator at the University of Bonn. The combination of a central electromagnetic calorimeter and forward charged particle spectrometer permits access to low momentum exchange kinematics and corresponding forward meson production angles, which is crucial to study spatially extended, molecular-like structure which may manifest in reaction mechanisms.</div><div>The reviewed publications span two areas of research connected via the kinematics associated with molecular-like hadron structure. The first is in the strangeness sector where meson–baryon dynamics may play prominent roles. Forward angle differential cross section measurements from threshold for <span><math><mrow><msup><mrow><mi>K</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>+</mo></mrow></msup><mi>Λ</mi></mrow></math></span>, <span><math><mrow><msup><mrow><mi>K</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>+</mo></mrow></msup><msup><mrow><mi>Σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msup></mrow></math></span>, <span><math><mrow><msup><mrow><mi>K</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>+</mo></mrow></msup><mi>Σ</mi><msup><mrow><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>1385</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msup></mrow></math></span>, <span><math><mrow><msup><mrow><mi>K</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>+</mo></mrow></msup><mi>Λ</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>1405</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> and <span><math><mrow><msup><mrow><mi>K</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>+</mo></mrow></msup><mi>Λ</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>1520</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> indicate an equivalence to the <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>P</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> states observed at the <span><math><mrow><mi>D</mi><msub><mrow><mi>Σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></math></span>, <span><math><mrow><mi>D</mi><msubsup><mrow><mi>Σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>∗</mo></mrow></msubsup></mrow></math></span> and <span><math><mrow><msup><mrow><mi>D</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>∗</mo></mrow></msup><msub><mrow><mi>Σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></math></span> thresholds. The second area of research is in the non-strange baryon–baryon sector, where coherent meson photoproduction off the deuteron enables access","PeriodicalId":412,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics","volume":"147 ","pages":"Article 104224"},"PeriodicalIF":17.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145894294","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}
Michael Döring , Johann Haidenbauer , Maxim Mai , Toru Sato
{"title":"Dynamical coupled-channel models for hadron dynamics","authors":"Michael Döring , Johann Haidenbauer , Maxim Mai , Toru Sato","doi":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2025.104213","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2025.104213","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Dynamical coupled-channel (DCC) approaches parametrize the interactions and dynamics of two and more hadrons and their response to different electroweak probes. The inclusion of unitarity, three-body channels, and other properties from scattering theory allows for a reliable extraction of resonance spectra and their properties from data. We review the formalism and application of the ANL–Osaka, the Juelich–Bonn–Washington, and other DCC approaches in the context of light baryon resonances from meson, (virtual) photon, and neutrino-induced reactions, as well as production reactions, strange baryons, light mesons, heavy meson systems, exotics, and baryon–baryon interactions. Finally, we also provide a connection of the formalism to study finite-volume spectra obtained in Lattice QCD, and review applications involving modern statistical and machine learning tools.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":412,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 104213"},"PeriodicalIF":17.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145423984","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}
Prabal Adhikari , Martin Ammon , Sidney S. Avancini , Alejandro Ayala , Aritra Bandyopadhyay , David Blaschke , Fabio L. Braghin , Pavel Buividovich , Rafael P. Cardoso , Casey Cartwright , Jorge David Castaño-Yepes , Maxim N. Chernodub , Máximo Coppola , Mayusree Das , Mariana Dutra , Gergely Endrődi , Jianjun Fang , Ricardo L.S. Farias , Eduardo S. Fraga , Arthur Frazon , Zenia Zuraiq
{"title":"Strongly interacting matter in extreme magnetic fields","authors":"Prabal Adhikari , Martin Ammon , Sidney S. Avancini , Alejandro Ayala , Aritra Bandyopadhyay , David Blaschke , Fabio L. Braghin , Pavel Buividovich , Rafael P. Cardoso , Casey Cartwright , Jorge David Castaño-Yepes , Maxim N. Chernodub , Máximo Coppola , Mayusree Das , Mariana Dutra , Gergely Endrődi , Jianjun Fang , Ricardo L.S. Farias , Eduardo S. Fraga , Arthur Frazon , Zenia Zuraiq","doi":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2025.104199","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ppnp.2025.104199","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Magnetic fields are ubiquitous across different physical systems of current interest; from the early Universe, compact astrophysical objects, and heavy-ion collisions to condensed matter systems. A proper treatment of the effects produced by magnetic fields during the dynamical evolution of these systems can help to understand observables that otherwise show puzzling behavior. Furthermore, when these fields are comparable to or stronger than <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>Λ</mi></mrow><mrow><mtext>QCD</mtext></mrow></msub></math></span>, they serve as excellent probes to help elucidate the physics of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions of temperature and density. This work provides a detailed report that contains in-depth analysis and expert insights into the specific topic of the effects of strong magnetic fields on QED and QCD systems. In this sense, the report is intended as a white paper contribution to the field. The subjects developed include the modification of meson static properties such as masses and form factors, the chiral magnetic effect, the description of anomalous transport coefficients, superconductivity in extreme magnetic fields, the properties of neutron stars, the evolution of heavy-ion collisions, as well as effects on the QCD phase diagram. We describe recent theory and phenomenological developments using effective models as well as LQCD methods. The work was motivated by presentations and discussions during the “Workshop on Strongly Interacting Matter in Strong Electromagnetic Fields” that took place in the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*) in the city of Trento, Italy, September 25–29, 2023.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":412,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics","volume":"146 ","pages":"Article 104199"},"PeriodicalIF":17.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145182896","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}