Paweł Horodecki, Kazuki Sakurai, Abhyoudai S. Shaleena, Michael Spannowsky
{"title":"Three-body non-locality in particle decays","authors":"Paweł Horodecki, Kazuki Sakurai, Abhyoudai S. Shaleena, Michael Spannowsky","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)160","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)160","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The exploration of entanglement and Bell non-locality among multi-particle quantum systems offers a profound avenue for testing and understanding the limits of quantum mechanics and local real hidden variable theories. In this work, we examine non-local correlations among three massless spin-1/2 particles generated from the three-body decay of a massive particle, utilizing a framework based on general four-fermion interactions. By analyzing several inequalities, we address the detection of deviations from quantum mechanics as well as violations of two key hidden variable theories: fully local-real and bipartite local-real theories. Our approach encompasses the standard Mermin inequality and the tight 4 × 4 × 2 inequality, providing a comprehensive framework for probing three-partite non-local correlations. Our findings provide deeper insights into the boundaries of classical and quantum theories in three-particle systems, advancing the understanding of non-locality in particle decays and its relevance to particle physics and quantum foundations.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)160.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145316516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
João Vitor C. Lovato, Edgar Huayra, Emmanuel G. de Oliveira
{"title":"Momentum fraction and hard scale dependence of double parton scattering","authors":"João Vitor C. Lovato, Edgar Huayra, Emmanuel G. de Oliveira","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)163","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)163","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The effective cross section of double parton scattering in high-energy hadron collisions has been measured in proton-proton collisions, with significant variation among final-state observables, contrary to the idea of a universal value. Building upon our previous work, we incorporate the dependence on both the parton longitudinal momentum fraction <i>x</i> and the process energy hard scale <i>μ</i> into the transverse part of the double parton distributions, using a Gaussian profile. Employing the experimental data from the LHC and Tevatron experiments (covering different processes, kinematic configurations, and center-of-mass energies), we perform a global fit of the model, extracting the parameters that describe the proton structure. With this result, it becomes possible to calculate the effective cross section for other observables, and we provide predictions for future measurements at the LHC.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)163.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145316266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
The RC⋆ collaboration, A. Altherr, I. Campos, A. Cotellucci, R. Gruber, T. Harris, J. Komijani, F. Margari, M. K. Marinkovic, L. Parato, A. Patella, S. Rosso, N. Tantalo, P. Tavella
{"title":"Comparing QCD+QED via full simulation versus the RM123 method: U-spin window contribution to ({a}_{mu }^{text{HVP}})","authors":"The RC⋆ collaboration, A. Altherr, I. Campos, A. Cotellucci, R. Gruber, T. Harris, J. Komijani, F. Margari, M. K. Marinkovic, L. Parato, A. Patella, S. Rosso, N. Tantalo, P. Tavella","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)158","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)158","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Electromagnetic corrections to hadronic vacuum polarization contribute significantly to the uncertainty of the Standard Model prediction of the muon anomaly, which poses conceptual and numerical challenges for ab initio lattice determinations. In this study, we compute the non-singlet contribution from intermediate Euclidean current separations in quantum chromo- and electrodynamics (QCD+QED) using <i>C</i><sup>⋆</sup> boundary conditions in two ways: either non-perturbatively by sampling the joint probability distribution directly or by perturbatively expanding from an isospin-symmetric theory. This allows us to compare the predictions and their uncertainties at a fixed lattice spacing and volume, including fully the sea quarks effects in both cases. Treating carefully the uncertainty due to tuning to the same renormalized theory with <i>N</i><sub>f</sub> = 1 + 2 + 1 quarks, albeit with unphysical masses, we find it advantageous to simulate the full QCD+QED distribution given a fixed number of samples. This study lays the ground-work for further applications of <i>C</i><sup>⋆</sup> boundary conditions to study QCD+QED at the physical point, essential for the next generation of precision tests of the Standard Model.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)158.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145316323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
{"title":"Non-conformal line defect (shell operator) in AdS3/CFT2: spinning and higher point correlators","authors":"Yuefeng Liu, Boyang Yu","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)161","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)161","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recently, a special type of non-conformal line defect, known as thin-shell operator, has played a key role in demonstrating the chaotic nature of the high energy sector in AdS<sub>3</sub>/CFT<sub>2</sub>. The chaotic nature was revealed concretely through a matching among the vacuum Virasoro block in holographic CFT<sub>2</sub>, ETH analysis, and gravitational on-shell partition function in AdS<sub>3</sub> with nontrivial backreaction. In this work, we generalize this matching in two ways. First, we compute two-point correlator of the spinning defects, in contrast to previous scalar defect correlator, in both the microcanonical ensemble and the canonical ensemble. Holographically, these spinning defects correspond to bulk domain walls composed of dust particles with angular momentum. Using the first order formalism of gravity, it is shown that the junction condition deviates from Israel’s junction condition, resulting in a discontinuous metric across the domain wall. Second, we calculate general higher point correlators involving multiple scalar defects and provide a detailed example with four defects. We see explicitly that, because line operators in CFT<sub>2</sub> are codimension one objects, the correlators depend on the order in which these nonlocal defects are inserted, unlike the Euclidean correlators of local operators. In both generalizations, we achieve a precise matching between field theory solutions, ETH analysis and gravitational on-shell actions.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)161.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145316322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
{"title":"Current-current operator contribution to the decay matrix in B-meson mixing at next-to-next-to-leading order of QCD","authors":"Marvin Gerlach, Ulrich Nierste, Pascal Reeck, Vladyslav Shtabovenko, Matthias Steinhauser","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)162","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)162","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We compute next-to-next-to-leading order perturbative corrections to the decay width difference of mass eigenstates and the charge-parity asymmetry <i>a</i><sub>fs</sub> in flavour-specific decays of neutral <i>B</i> mesons. In our calculation we take into account the full dependence on the charm and bottom quark masses for the current-current operator contributions up to three-loop order. Special emphasis is put on the proper construction of the so-called |∆<i>B</i>| = 2 theory such that Fierz symmetry is preserved. We provide updated phenomenological predictions, for ∆Γ, ∆Γ/∆<i>M</i> and <i>a</i><sub>fs</sub> for the <i>B</i><sub><i>d</i></sub> and <i>B</i><sub><i>s</i></sub> system, including a detailed analysis of the uncertainties of our predictions. The calculated NNLO correction reduce the perturbative uncertainty of the leading term of the 1/<i>m</i><sub><i>b</i></sub> expansion of the width difference ∆Γ<sub><i>s</i></sub> in the <i>B</i><sub><i>s</i></sub> system to the level of the current experimental error. The uncertainty of our prediction ∆Γ<sub><i>s</i></sub> = (0.077 ± 0.016) ps<sup><i>−</i>1</sup> is dominated by the sub-leading term of this expansion. We further illustrate how better future measurements of ∆Γ<sub><i>d</i></sub> and <span>({a}_{text{fs}}^{d})</span> will help to gain a better understanding of <span>({B}_{d}{text -}{overline{B} }_{d})</span> mixing.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)162.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145316513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
{"title":"Flat space holography via AdS/BCFT","authors":"Peng-Xiang Hao, Naoki Ogawa, Tadashi Takayanagi, Takahiro Waki","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)159","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)159","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we study a new class of AdS/BCFT setups, where the world-volumes of end-of-the-world branes (EOW branes) are given by flat spaces, to explore flat space holography from an AdS bulk. We show that they provide gravity duals of CFTs in the presence of null boundaries. Our holographic calculations lead to many new predictions on entanglement entropy, correlation functions and partition functions for CFTs with null boundaries. By considering a bulk region between two EOW branes, we present an AdS/BCFT explanation that the flat space gravity is dual to a Carrollian CFT (CCFT), including the swing surface calculation of entanglement entropy.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)159.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145316535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
Dominik Erb, Antoine Gérardin, Harvey B. Meyer, Julian Parrino, Volodymyr Biloshytskyi, Vladimir Pascalutsa
{"title":"Isospin-violating vacuum polarization in the muon (g − 2) with SU(3) flavour symmetry from lattice QCD","authors":"Dominik Erb, Antoine Gérardin, Harvey B. Meyer, Julian Parrino, Volodymyr Biloshytskyi, Vladimir Pascalutsa","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)157","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)157","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We compute the isospin-violating part <span>( {a}_{mu}^{textrm{HVP},38} )</span> of the hadronic-vacuum-polarization (HVP) contribution to the muon (<i>g</i> − 2) in lattice QCD at the SU(3)<sub>f</sub>-symmetric point where <i>M</i><sub><i>π</i></sub> = <i>M</i><sub><i>K</i></sub> ≃ 416 MeV. All diagrams involving internal photons are evaluated in coordinate space, employing a Pauli-Villars-regulated photon propagator with a cutoff scale Λ well below the lattice cutoff. The counterterm (<i>m</i><sub><i>u</i></sub> – <i>m</i><sub><i>d</i></sub>), whose Λ dependence is consistent with the expected logarithmic behaviour, is calibrated using the experimental kaon mass splitting as input. The bare electromagnetic contribution at fixed Λ is compared to a phenomenological estimate based on the kaon-loop and pseudoscalar-pole contributions to the forward light-by-light amplitude. An extension of these calculations to physical pion and kaon masses appears promising.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)157.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145316536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
{"title":"Spin correlations in ( toverline{t} ) production and decay at the LHC in QCD perturbation theory","authors":"Paolo Nason, Emanuele Re, Luca Rottoli","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)149","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)149","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this work we consider the QCD predictions for spin correlations in <span>( toverline{t} )</span> production in hadronic collisions. In view of recent tensions between experimental data and theoretical calculations, it has been argued that one should include in the predictions also the effects of the production of the <i>η</i><sub><i>t</i></sub>, i.e. the pseudoscalar <span>( toverline{t} )</span> bound state, or alternatively the full effects of the non-relativistic dynamics of the <span>( toverline{t} )</span> pair near threshold. This implies the resummation of all corrections that scale like powers of <i>α</i><sub><i>s</i></sub>/<i>v</i> (where <i>v</i> is the velocity of the top quark in the <span>( toverline{t} )</span> rest frame) which are dominated by values of <i>v</i> of order <i>α</i><sub><i>s</i></sub>. In this work, we show that, since the observables that are usually considered for these studies are integrated cross sections up to a <span>( toverline{t} )</span> mass cut that is not small, it is possible to perform the calculation using perturbation theory, considering only the contributions that scale as the first few powers of <i>α</i><sub><i>s</i></sub>/<i>v</i>. We examine the implications of our approach by computing corrections to nominal Monte Carlo results for correlation-sensitive observables, and compare them with available data, showing that the tension with data is no longer present.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)149.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145315713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
Hong-Yi Zhang, Paola Arias, Andrew Cheek, Enrico D. Schiappacasse, Luca Visinelli, Leszek Roszkowski
{"title":"Dark photon dark matter from flattened axion potentials","authors":"Hong-Yi Zhang, Paola Arias, Andrew Cheek, Enrico D. Schiappacasse, Luca Visinelli, Leszek Roszkowski","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)142","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)142","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Dark photons can be resonantly produced in the early universe via their coupling to an oscillating axion field. However, this mechanism typically requires large axion-dark photon couplings or some degree of fine-tuning. In this work, we present a new scenario in which efficient dark photon production arises from axion potentials that are shallower than quadratic at large field values. For moderately large initial misalignment angles, the oscillation of the axion field can trigger either efficient dark photon production or strong axion self-resonance via parametric resonance. When self-resonance dominates and disrupts the field’s homogeneity, we show that oscillons — localized, oscillating axion field configurations — naturally form and can sustain continued dark photon production, provided the coupling is ≳ <span>( mathcal{O}(1) )</span>. For dark photon mass up to three orders of magnitude below the axion mass, the produced dark photons can account for a significant fraction of the present-day dark matter. We support this scenario with numerical lattice simulations of a benchmark model. Our results further motivate experimental searches for ultralight dark photon dark matter. The simulation code is publicly available at https://github.com/hongyi18/AxionDarkPhotonSimulator.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)142.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145316219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
Simone Giacomelli, William Harding, Noppadol Mekareeya, Alessandro Mininno
{"title":"From regular to irregular: a unified origin for Argyres-Douglas theories","authors":"Simone Giacomelli, William Harding, Noppadol Mekareeya, Alessandro Mininno","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)155","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)155","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We propose that Argyres-Douglas theories of type <i>D</i><sub><i>p</i></sub>(SU(<i>N</i>)) and (<i>A</i><sub><i>p−</i>1</sub><i>, A</i><sub><i>N−</i>1</sub>) — both realizable as Type A class <span>(mathcal{S})</span> theories with irregular punctures — can be obtained via a sequence of mass deformations from a common ancestor: a class <span>(mathcal{S})</span> theory with only regular punctures. Building on our previous work, this result establishes that these theories ultimately originate from 6d <span>(mathcal{N}=(1, 0))</span> orbi-instanton theories compactified on a torus. The requisite 4d mass deformations are realized as tractable Fayet-Iliopoulos deformations on the 3d mirror quiver. The core of our method is a constructive procedure that utilizes the Euclidean algorithm to define a chain of deformations connecting different <i>D</i><sub><i>p</i></sub>(SU(<i>N</i>)) theories. By reversing this chain, we recursively build a “parent” star-shaped quiver for any given (<i>N, p</i>). This quiver is the 3d mirror theory of the required class <span>(mathcal{S})</span> ancestor. We substantiate our general claims with several detailed examples that explicitly illustrate the deformation procedure.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)155.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145315711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}