{"title":"Entanglement features in scattering mediated by heavy particles","authors":"Chon Man Sou, Yi Wang, Xingkai Zhang","doi":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)003","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP10(2025)003","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The amount of information propagated by an intermediate heavy particle exhibits characteristic features in inelastic scatterings with <i>n</i> ≥ 3 final particles. As the total energy increases, the entanglement entropy, between its decay products and other final particles, exhibits a universal sharp dip, suppressed by its small decay rate. This indicates an entanglement suppression from a low-energy effective theory to a channel dominated by an on-shell heavy particle. As demonstrations of these entanglement features, we study concrete models of 2 → 3 and 2 → 4 scatterings, which shed light on the entanglement structure beyond the area law derived for 2 → 2 scattering. In practice, these features may be probed by suitably marginalizing the phase-space distribution of final particles.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP10(2025)003.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145196231","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":"New rare meson decay constraints on a light vector in U(1)B−L, U(1)R and the dark photon","authors":"Osamu Seto, Takashi Shimomura, Shinsuke Yoshida","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)211","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)211","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We evaluate constraints from flavor changing rare meson decays to a light vector boson <i>X</i>, followed by the decay of the on-shell <i>X</i> into the SM fermions. The flavor changing meson decay emitting the light <i>X</i> is induced by loop processes where the up-type quarks, the <i>W</i> boson, or charged scalar bosons are running inside loops. We calculate all one-loop diagrams with neglecting all masses of light quarks except for the top quark in a general anomaly free extra U(1) model. Our theoretical evaluation of the branching ratio of charged <i>B</i> meson decay and charged kaon decay is compared to experimental results, and we derive new constraints for dark photon, U(1)<sub><i>B−L</i></sub> and U(1)<sub><i>R</i></sub> models.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)211.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145144812","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":"Fast evaluation of Feynman integrals for Monte Carlo generators","authors":"Pau Petit Rosàs, William J. Torres Bobadilla","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)210","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)210","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Building on the idea of numerically integrating differential equations satisfied by Feynman integrals, we propose a novel strategy for handling branch cuts within a numerical framework. We develop an integrator capable of evaluating a basis of integrals in both double and quadruple precision, achieving significantly reduced computational times compared to existing tools. We demonstrate the performance of our integrator by evaluating one- and two-loop five-point Feynman integrals with up to nine complex kinematic scales. In particular, we apply our method to the radiative return process of massive electron-positron annihilation into pions plus an energetic photon within scalar QED, for which we also build the differential equation, and extend it to the case where virtual photons acquire an auxiliary complex mass under the Generalised Vector-Meson Dominance model. Furthermore, we validate our approach on two integral families relevant for the two-loop production of <span>( toverline{t} )</span> + jet. The integrator achieves, in double precision, execution times of the order of milliseconds for one-loop topologies and hundreds of milliseconds for the two-loop families, enabling for on-the-fly computation of Feynman integrals in Monte Carlo generators and a more efficient generation of grids for the topologies with prohibitive computational costs.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)210.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145144810","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":"NNLO+PS double Higgs boson production with top-quark mass corrections in GENEVA","authors":"Simone Alioli, Giulia Marinelli, Davide Napoletano","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)206","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)206","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present the implementation of the NNLO QCD corrections to double Higgs boson production at hadron colliders in G<span>eneva</span>, matched to the parton shower. We include top-quark mass effects and the resummation of large logarithms of the zero-jettiness <span>( {mathcal{T}}_0 )</span>, up to NNLL<sup>′</sup> accuracy. This work extends our previous study, which was performed in the <i>m</i><sub><i>t</i></sub> → ∞ infinite top-quark mass approximation, providing a more realistic simulation framework for Higgs boson pair production. We validate our approach against NNLO predictions by M<span>atrix</span> and assess the importance of mass effects comparing with our <i>m</i><sub><i>t</i></sub> → ∞ previous implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)206.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145145353","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}
William Harding, Noppadol Mekareeya, Zhenghao Zhong
{"title":"Orthosymplectic quivers: indices, Hilbert series, and generalised symmetries","authors":"William Harding, Noppadol Mekareeya, Zhenghao Zhong","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)212","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)212","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate generalised global symmetries in 3d <span>( mathcal{N}=4 )</span> orthosymplectic quiver gauge theories. Using the superconformal index, we identify a <i>D</i><sub>8</sub> categorical symmetry web in a class of theories featuring <span>( mathfrak{so}(2N)times mathfrak{usp}(2N) )</span> gauge algebra (at zero Chern-Simons levels) and <i>n</i> bifundamental half-hypermultiplets, analogous to ABJ-type models. As a distinct contribution, we improve the prescription, previously studied in the literature, for computing Coulomb branch Hilbert series of SO(<i>N</i>) gauge theories with <i>N</i><sub><i>f</i></sub> vector hypermultiplets. Our improved prescription extends these methods by incorporating fugacities for discrete zero-form symmetries — specifically charge conjugation and magnetic symmetries — and properly treating background magnetic fluxes for the flavour symmetry. This refinement enables calculations for various global forms (O(<i>N</i>)<sup>±</sup><i>,</i> Spin(<i>N</i>)<i>,</i> Pin(<i>N</i>)) and ensures consistency with the Coulomb branch limit of the superconformal index and known dualities. The proper treatment of fluxes is particularly essential for analysing orthosymplectic quivers where such a flavour symmetry is gauged. We verify our methods through several examples, including an analysis of the mapping of discrete symmetries under mirror symmetry for <i>T</i>[SO(<i>N</i>)] and <i>T</i>[USp(2<i>N</i>)] theories. The analysis also readily generalises to the <i>T</i><sub><i>ρ</i></sub>[SO(<i>N</i>)] and <i>T</i><sub><i>ρ</i></sub>[USp(2<i>N</i>)] theories associated with partition <i>ρ</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)212.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145144808","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":"A note on kinematic flow and differential equations for two-site one-loop graph in FRW spacetime","authors":"Yanfeng Hang, Cong Shen","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)209","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)209","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this work, we systematically study the differential systems governing loop-level wavefunction coefficients of conformally-coupled scalar field theory within a general power-law FRW cosmology. By utilizing the twisted cohomology, hyperplane arrangements, and IBP techniques, we derive the canonical differential equations for two-site one-loop bubble and tadpole systems, revealing distinct structural differences. We present new insights into the one-loop tadpole system, uncovering that its integral family can include multiple parent functions due to distinct pairs of relative hyperplane associated with each function, unlike the single parent function appearing in the one-loop bubble case. Moreover, we demonstrate that the tadpole correlator selectively probes only a subset of the cohomology space, despite the hyperplane arrangement suggesting a higher-dimensional structure. Another novel contribution of this work is the extension of kinematic flow framework to the loop-level scenarios for the first time. Using a graphical approach based on family trees generated by marked tubing graphs, which encode singularity structures, we efficiently construct the differential equations and uncover the hierarchical relationships among the associated master integrals. Additionally, we provide a preliminary discussion on generalization to two-site higher-loop configurations. We propose a general decomposition formula for the canonical form of a two-site diagram with arbitrary loops, breaking it into unshifted and shifted components associated with the fundamental tree-level and bubble-like structures, and establish a block-wise decomposition rule for the matrix <span>( overset{sim }{A} )</span> in the corresponding differential system. These advancements provide a unified framework for two-site loop-level correlators and lay the groundwork for future study of more complex multi-site loop systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)209.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145144817","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":"Nf-contribution to the virtual correction for electroweak vector boson production at NNLO","authors":"Dario Kermanschah, Matilde Vicini","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)213","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)213","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Multi-loop scattering amplitudes are difficult to evaluate due to singularities of the integrals involved, especially with increasing number of loops, external legs, and mass scales. For the first time for hadronic collisions at two loops, we enable the combined numerical integration over loop momentum and phase space by tackling infrared, ultraviolet and threshold singularities simultaneously using local subtractions. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach by calculating previously unknown perturbative corrections for processes of interest to the Large Hadron Collider, namely the <i>N</i><sub><i>f</i></sub> -part of the finite remainder of the phase-space integrated virtual corrections at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD for the production of up to three massive electroweak vector bosons in proton-proton collisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)213.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145144816","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":"Regular black holes and complete monotonicity","authors":"A. Almasi, A. Moradpouri, M. Shahbazi","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)208","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)208","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine the conjecture for the complete monotonicity of certain curvature invariants for regular black holes. In this note, we study a class of regular black holes that are static, spherically symmetric, and characterized only by their mass. We introduce a large class of space times of this type, which is compatible with the complete monotonicity conjecture. Additionally, this class of black holes reduces to the Schwarzschild solution in the classical limit ℏ → 0. We demonstrate that these regular black holes cannot be generated by perturbative quantum corrections to the Einstein equations. We then investigate the thermodynamics of these black holes and derive a bound on their entropy, showing that the entropy is always greater than the horizon area divided by 4<i>G</i>. The complete monotonicity conjecture also implied that the core of the regular black hole analogue of the Schwarzschild black hole must be a de-Sitter space time.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)208.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145144811","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}
Parisa Mashayekhi, Ahmad Ghodsi, Elias Kiritsis, Francesco Nitti
{"title":"On the spectra of holographic QFTs on constant curvature manifolds","authors":"Parisa Mashayekhi, Ahmad Ghodsi, Elias Kiritsis, Francesco Nitti","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)205","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)205","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We analyze linear fluctuations of five-dimensional Einstein-Dilaton theories dual to holographic quantum field theories defined on four-dimensional de Sitter and Anti-de Sitter space-times. We identify the physical propagating scalar and tensor degrees of freedom. For these, we write the linearized bulk field equations as eigenvalue equations. In the dual QFT, the eigenstates correspond to towers of spin-0 and spin-2 particles propagating on (<i>A</i>)<i>dS</i><sub>4</sub> associated to gauge-invariant composite states. Using particular care in treating special “zero-modes,” we show in general that, for negative curvature, the particle spectra are always discrete, whereas for positive curvature they always have a continuous component starting at <i>m</i><sup>2</sup> = (9/4)<i>α</i><sup>−2</sup>, where <i>α</i> is the (<i>A</i>)<i>dS</i><sub>4</sub> radius. We numerically compute the spectra in a concrete model characterized by a polynomial dilaton bulk potential admitting holographic RG-flow solutions with a UV and IR fixed points. In this case, we find no discrete spectrum and no perturbative instabilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)205.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145144805","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":"String stars in d ≥ 7","authors":"Alek Bedroya, David H. Wu","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)204","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)204","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We raise a thermodynamic puzzle for Horowitz-Polchinski (HP) solutions in the presence of extra compact dimensions and show that it can be resolved by the existence of higher-dimensional string stars. We provide non-trivial evidence for the existence of such string stars in spacetime dimensions <i>d</i> ≥ 7 as higher-dimensional counterparts of HP solutions. In particular, we explicitly construct string star solutions in <i>d</i> = 7 that are under perturbative control. In <i>d</i> > 7, at the Hagedorn temperature, we identify these string stars as a specific normalizable representative of a new one-parameter bounded family of Euclidean solutions which can be under perturbative control. The higher-order <i>α</i><sup>′</sup> corrections play a crucial role in our arguments and, as pointed by other works, nullify the previous arguments against the existence of string stars in <i>d</i> ≥ 7. The higher-dimensional string stars have non-zero free energy at Hagedorn temperature and their mass and free energy are of the same order as those of a string-sized black hole. In <i>d</i> > 7, these solutions are string sized, but in <i>d</i> = 7, the size of these solutions diverges as ∼ (<i>T</i><sub>H</sub> − <i>T</i>)<sup>−1/4</sup> near the Hagedorn temperature.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)204.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145144809","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}