{"title":"Finite temperature Casimir effect for a spinor field in cosmic dispiration spacetime","authors":"Joás Venâncio, Herondy Mota, Azadeh Mohammadi","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)007","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)007","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explores the finite temperature Casimir effect for a massive spinor field in cosmic dispiration spacetime, formed by the combination of a cosmic string and a screw dislocation, using the generalized zeta function regularization method. First, we examine the cosmic string spacetime with a quasi-antiperiodic boundary condition, where the Casimir energy and its corrections depend on two nonzero heat kernel coefficients, one associated with the Euclidean divergence and the other with the nontrivial topology, both vanishing when renormalized. Interestingly, for specific choice of parameters the quasi-antiperiodicity effect can entirely cancel out the topological contribution, leaving only the Euclidean divergence. We then extend this analysis to cosmic dispiration spacetime. This configuration alters the spacetime topology, modifying the structure of the heat kernel coefficient related to the new nontrivial topology. In this case, the renormalized Casimir energy density can take positive or negative values and decreases exponentially as the field mass increases. Additionally, we examine the asymptotic behavior of the renormalized temperature correction term in the massless regime, showing that the spinor vacuum free energy vanishes at very high temperatures. At very low temperatures, it is dominated by the zero-temperature Casimir energy density.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)007.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927113","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}
Elijah Sheridan, Federico Carta, Naomi Gendler, Mudit Jain, David J. E. Marsh, Liam McAllister, Nicole Righi, Keir K. Rogers, Andreas Schachner
{"title":"Fuzzy axions and associated relics","authors":"Elijah Sheridan, Federico Carta, Naomi Gendler, Mudit Jain, David J. E. Marsh, Liam McAllister, Nicole Righi, Keir K. Rogers, Andreas Schachner","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)016","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study fuzzy axion dark matter in type IIB string theory, for axions descending from the Ramond-Ramond four-form in compactifications on orientifolds of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces. Such models can be tested by cosmological measurements if a significant relic abundance of fuzzy dark matter arises, which we argue is most common in models with small numbers of axions. We construct a topologically exhaustive ensemble of more than 350,000 Calabi-Yau compactifications yielding up to seven axions, and in this setting we perform a systematic analysis of misalignment production of fuzzy dark matter. In typical regions of moduli space, the fuzzy axion, the QCD axion, and other axions have comparable decay constants of <i>f</i><sub><i>a</i></sub> ≈ 10<sup>16</sup> GeV. We find that overproduction of heavier axions is problematic, except at special loci in moduli space where decay constant hierarchies can occur: without a contrived reheating epoch, it is necessary to fine-tune initial displacements. The resulting dark matter is typically a mix of fuzzy axions and heavier axions, including the QCD axion. Dark photons are typically present as a consequence of the orientifold projection. We examine the signatures of these models by simulating halos with multiple fuzzy axions, and by computing new cosmological constraints on ultralight axions and dark radiation. We also give evidence that cosmic birefringence is possible in this setting. Our findings determine the phenomenological correlates of fuzzy axion dark matter in a corner of the landscape.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)016.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144934593","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":"Warming up the fibres","authors":"Dibya Chakraborty, Rudnei O. Ramos","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)020","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Fibre inflationary models are constructed in type-IIB string flux compactification. These models have been shown to be in agreement with the cosmological observations under appropriate choices of parameters, which originate from their string theory construction. In the present work, we embed such models, originally studied in the cold inflation picture, in the context of warm inflation. We study the viability of different fibre inflation potentials in both strong and weak dissipative regime of warm inflation. In fibre inflation, the inflaton is a four-dimensional complex manifold — a fibre of a <i>K</i>3 fibered Calabi-Yau. The potential in this case is generated by an interplay of various perturbative and non-perturbative corrections. The former type of corrections consists of leading-order <i>α</i><sup>′3</sup>-term, higher derivative <i>F</i><sup>4</sup>-correction, and various string loop corrections of KK, log-loop and winding type. Depending on the balance between several corrections, we present four different fibre inflationary potentials and show that the warm inflationary pictures for all of them can successfully fall in the viable window from both Planck and recent Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) data. We show that warm inflation makes it possible to extend the range of parameters of applicability of these models. Our results also indicate that with the help of a large dissipation ratio, one can achieve a sub-Planckian field excursion, although, this runs on the possibility of moving away from the perturbative control of low-energy four-dimensional supergravity theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)020.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927119","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":"Monopoles, Dirac strings and generalised symmetries","authors":"C. M. Hull","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)019","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Dirac’s formulation of magnetic monopoles is shown to be equivalent to Maxwell theory coupled to 2-form gauge fields so that it has a local 1-form symmetry, with the 2-form gauge fields given in terms of the 2-form current densities associated with the Dirac strings. The field equations of Dirac’s theory do not depend on the positions of the Dirac strings provided that they do not intersect the worldlines of any electrically charged particles; this constraint is called the Dirac veto. It is shown that Dirac’s action is independent of the positions of the Dirac strings and that this corresponds to a local 1-form symmetry. The electric and magnetic 1-form symmetries have a mixed anomaly, and the Dirac veto is shown to correspond to a restriction to gauge transformations for which the anomaly vanishes. The extension to <i>p</i>-form gauge fields in <i>d</i>-dimensions coupled to charged branes is discussed, together with the possibility of cancelling the anomaly by embedding in a higher-dimensional theory and so avoiding the veto.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)019.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927159","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":"Thermodynamics of integrable ( mathcal{N} ) = 2 theories, squared","authors":"Xavier Kervyn, Davide Polvara, Alessandro Sfondrini","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)018","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)018","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In arXiv:2306.17553 a new supersymmetric integrable QFT was constructed from the relativistic limit of the worldsheet theory of AdS<sub>3</sub>× S<sup>3</sup>×T<sup>4</sup> superstrings with mixed Ramond-Ramond and Neveu-Schwarz-Neveu-Schwarz flux. The model is closely reminiscent of one previously considered by Fendley and Intriligator, though it enjoys twice as many supersymmetries. In this paper we study its finite-volume and finite-temperature properties. We formulate the string hypothesis for the Bethe-Yang equations, write down the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz equations, and simplify them in the form of a Y-system. We obtain three decoupled sectors associated with massive, massless-chiral and massless-antichiral particles, for which we compute the UV central charge. We illustrate the similarities and differences between this model and the one of Fendley and Intriligator.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)018.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927160","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}
Morgan Del Gratta, Federica Fabbri, Priyanka Lamba, Fabio Maltoni, Davide Pagani
{"title":"Quantum properties of H → VV*: precise predictions in the SM and sensitivity to new physics","authors":"Morgan Del Gratta, Federica Fabbri, Priyanka Lamba, Fabio Maltoni, Davide Pagani","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)013","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study the quantum properties of the Higgs-boson decays into four fermions via two vector bosons (<i>H</i> → <i>VV</i><sup>*</sup> → 4<i>f</i>). In particular, we focus on the case of two different-flavour lepton pairs (<i>H</i> → <i>ZZ</i><sup>*</sup> → <i>μ</i><sup>+</sup><i>μ</i><sup><i>−</i></sup><i>e</i><sup>+</sup><i>e</i><sup><i>−</i></sup>). We compute the quantum-information observables for the corresponding two-qutrit system (<i>ZZ</i>) at next-to-leading order electroweak (NLO EW) accuracy in the SM. We find that NLO EW corrections lead to giant (order 1) effects in some specific cases, significantly altering the extraction of observables quantifying the quantum correlations. We identify observables that are robust and can be used to extract reliable information. Finally, we discuss possible new physics (NP) effects, parametrised via an effective-field-theory approach. We show how quantum observables can increase the sensitivity to NP also for the process considered in this study.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)013.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927162","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}
Martin Gorbahn, Sebastian Jäger, Sandra Kvedaraitė
{"title":"RI-(S)MOM to ( overline{textrm{MS}} ) conversion for BK at two-loop order","authors":"Martin Gorbahn, Sebastian Jäger, Sandra Kvedaraitė","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)011","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)011","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Kaon bag parameter <span>( {hat{B}}_K )</span> plays a critical role in constraining the parameters of the CKM matrix and in probing physics beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we improve the precision of <span>( {hat{B}}_K )</span> to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) and provide world averages for both 3- and 4-flavour theories. In the course of this, as our main technical development, we carry out the two-loop matching between the RI-(S)MOM and <span>( overline{textrm{MS}} )</span> schemes. Our world averages combine all available lattice data, including conversion between the 3- and 4-flavour theories as appropriate. We obtain the result <span>( {hat{B}}_K^{left(f=3right)}=0.7627(60) )</span>, which comprises the complete set of 3- and 4-flavour lattice results and can be used directly in phenomenological applications. The error is dominated by lattice uncertainties and missing higher-order corrections (residual scale dependence). Our averages include a PDG rescaling factor of 1.28 reflecting a mild tension among the lattice inputs after inclusion of NNLO corrections in the scheme conversion and matching across flavour thresholds. Our averages imply an updated value |<i>ϵ</i><sub><i>K</i></sub>| = 2<i>.</i>171(65)<sub>pert.</sub>(71)<sub>non-pert.</sub>(153)<sub>param.</sub> × 10<sup><i>−</i>3</sup>. We briefly discuss applications of our results to <i>D</i>-meson mixing.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)011.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927111","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}
Eric A. Bergshoeff, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Luca Romano, Ziqi Yan
{"title":"Heterotic string sigma models: discrete light cone quantization and its current-current deformation","authors":"Eric A. Bergshoeff, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Luca Romano, Ziqi Yan","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)021","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We propose a two-dimensional superstring sigma model that defines a self-contained corner of heterotic string theory, whose second quantization is heterotic matrix string theory. This worldsheet theory arises from a BPS decoupling limit that zooms in on the heterotic string, under which the target space geometry becomes non-Lorentzian. This construction generalizes the Gomis-Ooguri formulation of non-relativistic string theory to the heterotic case. We show how such a worldsheet theory provides a first-principles definition of the heterotic string in the discrete light cone quantization via T-duality. By turning on a current-current deformation akin to a <span>( Toverline{T} )</span> deformation, the conventional heterotic string theory with a Lorentzian target space is recovered. We analyze the gauge and gravitational anomalies with respect to the lowest-order quantum corrections in the sigma model and show how the worldsheet theory is consistent with non-Lorentzian supergravity in the target space.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)021.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927115","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":"Symmetry transmutation and anomaly matching","authors":"Nathan Seiberg, Sahand Seifnashri","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)014","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We explore a situation where a global symmetry of the ultraviolet (UV) theory does not act faithfully on the local infrared (IR) degrees of freedom, but instead acts effectively as a higher-form symmetry. We refer to this phenomenon as <i>symmetry transmutation</i>, where the UV symmetry is “transmuted” into a higher-form symmetry in the IR. Notably, unlike emergent (accidental) symmetries, which are approximate, these symmetries are exact. We illustrate the ubiquity of this phenomenon in various continuum and lattice systems and provide examples where the ’t Hooft anomalies of the UV symmetry are matched by those of the new higher-form symmetry in the IR. We also show that in certain phases and for certain energies, the UV baryon-number symmetry of one-flavor QCD is transmuted into a discrete one-form global symmetry. Finally, we compare our symmetry transmutation to the well-known phenomenon of symmetry fractionalization.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)014.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927161","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":"Interacting massive/massless continuous-spin fields and integer-spin fields","authors":"R. R. Metsaev","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)002","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the framework of light-cone gauge approach, interacting continuous-spin fields and integer-spin fields propagating in flat space are studied. The continuous-spin fields are considered by using a light-cone gauge vector superspace formulation. Description of massive continuous-spin fields associated with the principal, complementary and discrete series is presented. For the massive continuous-spin fields of the principal and complementary series and massless continuous-spin fields, all parity-even cubic vertices realized as functions on the light-cone gauge vector superspace are obtained. Cubic vertices for a cross-interaction of massive/massless continuous spin fields and massive/massless integer-spin fields are also derived. These results for cubic vertices are complete for the dimensions of space-time greater than four. The use of the light-cone gauge vector superspace formulation considerably simplifies the cubic vertices as compared to the ones of oscillator formulation. Some cubic vertices realized as distributions are also found. Map between the oscillator formulation and the vector superspace formulation of the continuous-spin fields is explicitly described. An equivalence of the light-cone gauge and Lorentz covariant formulations of the free continuous-spin fields is also demonstrated.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)002.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927163","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}