Riccardo Comi, Sebastiano Garavaglia, Simone Giacomelli, Sara Pasquetti, Palash Singh
{"title":"Breaking bad theories of class ( mathcal{S} )","authors":"Riccardo Comi, Sebastiano Garavaglia, Simone Giacomelli, Sara Pasquetti, Palash Singh","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)075","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)075","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study weakly-coupled descriptions/channel decompositions of the 4d <span>( mathcal{N} )</span> = 2 theories of class <span>( mathcal{S} )</span> of type <span>( mathfrak{su}(N) )</span>, from the perspective of the 3d <span>( mathcal{N} )</span> = 4 mirror duals of their circle compactifications. This is a delicate problem when the channel decomposition produces pathological, or bad, 4d configurations that correspond to spheres with non-maximal punctures. The star-shaped quivers, describing the 3d mirrors associated with such bad 4d configurations, are bad 3d <span>( mathcal{N} )</span> = 4 theories. Leveraging recent results regarding 3d bad theories, we identify a new and interesting family of bad theories, which we coin <i>broken</i> theories, that naturally arise in this context. Using these broken theories, we develop a systematic and analytic method that determines the generically non-Lagrangian matter sectors and the weakly-coupled gauge groups in such channel decompositions. We understand these weakly-coupled descriptions as emerging dynamically via Higgs mechanisms triggered by operators acquiring vacuum expectation values.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2026)075.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147830106","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}
Jesús Miguel Celestino-Ramírez, F. J. Escrihuela, L. J. Flores, O. G. Miranda, R. Sánchez-Vélez
{"title":"Searching for generalized neutrino interactions in direct detection experiments with EνES","authors":"Jesús Miguel Celestino-Ramírez, F. J. Escrihuela, L. J. Flores, O. G. Miranda, R. Sánchez-Vélez","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)071","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)071","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate the sensitivity of present and future direct detection experiments to generalized neutrino interactions (GNI) with electrons through elastic neutrino-electron scattering. Using data from LUX-ZEPLIN, PandaX-4T, and XENONnT, we derive constraints on vector, axial-vector, scalar, and tensor effective couplings, and compare them with existing limits. Our results show that current xenon-based detectors already provide competitive bounds, with XENONnT offering the most stringent constraints due to its larger exposure and reduced backgrounds. Among the GNI couplings, the scalar contributions remain more weakly constrained, while tensor interactions yield the strongest limits. We also present projected sensitivities for the DARWIN experiment, showing potential improvements. These results demonstrate the capability of direct detection experiments, originally designed for dark matter searches, to provide complementary and competitive constraints on generalized neutrino interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2026)071.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829345","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":"Holographic correlators from thermal bootstrap","authors":"Ilija Burić, Ivan Gusev, Andrei Parnachev","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)059","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)059","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Holographic thermal two-point functions can be analyzed using the operator product expansion which contains contributions from both multi-stress-tensor and double-trace operators. The former can be computed by analyzing the bulk equation of motion in a near-boundary expansion, but the latter has remained elusive — in practice, one resorts to solving a partial differential equation with limited accuracy. We show that imposing the Euclidean periodicity condition on the holographic correlator (also known as the KMS condition or thermal bootstrap), followed by Padé-Borel resummation, provides an efficient method for computing double-trace thermal coefficients. The resulting series converges rapidly and yields numerical values in excellent agreement with those obtained from solving the partial differential equation.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2026)059.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829346","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}
Evan Deddo, Sabarenath Jayaprakash, James T. Liu, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas
{"title":"Quantized giant gravitons as the periodic table of supersymmetric states: D3, M2 and M5","authors":"Evan Deddo, Sabarenath Jayaprakash, James T. Liu, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)065","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)065","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We consider giant gravitons in the probe approximation when they are described by classical brane configurations in AdS<sub><i>p</i>+2</sub> × <i>S</i><sup><i>q</i>+2</sup> wrapping a particular <i>q</i>-cycle and spinning in <i>S</i><sup><i>q</i>+2</sup>. We quantize the full set of fluctuations of these configurations and show that they are sufficient to capture all the supersymmetric single-letter indices of the corresponding dual field theories. We explicitly discuss the cases of D3, M2 and M5 branes and reproduce the single-letter indices for all fractions of supersymmetry. We also provide a new derivation of the full finite-<i>N</i> half-BPS index by promoting certain fluctuations to matrix-valued fields. We elaborate on the obstructions for the general finite-<i>N</i> computations. Given that the single-letter partition functions are the building blocks of all supersymmetric enumerations, including for the black hole entropy, our work provides a direct gravitational counting of those degrees of freedom modulo finite-<i>N</i> obstacles due to non-Abelian effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2026)065.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147830041","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":"Local vertices, quadratic propagators and double-copy structure of one-loop integrands from forward limits","authors":"Chongsi Xie, Yi-Jian Du","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)061","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)061","url":null,"abstract":"<p>By worldsheet approach, <i>n</i>-point one-loop integrand can be expressed as a combination of (<i>n</i> + 2)-point tree-level bi-adjoint scalar (BS) amplitudes under forward limit. The integrands constructed by this approach have two closely related features which differ from conventional Feynman diagrams. First, the denominators of loop propagators are linear functions of the loop momentum. Second, the local vertex expression is not manifest. In our previous work, a systematic approach was proposed to handle the nonlocal terms in the one-loop integrand of Yang-Mills-scalar (YMS) theory. Upon canceling the nonlocalities, quadratic propagator forms of both YMS and Yang-Mills (YM) integrands are naturally obtained. In this paper, we generalize the calculation to theories involving gravitons by introducing the one-loop double Yang-Mills-scalar (dYMS) integrands. The cancellation of the nonlocalities of the dYMS integrand in the forward limit coincides with the emergence of local multi-point vertices. We provide two equivalent methods for extracting the vertices and give the final expression of the dYMS integrand with quadratic propagators. In this formula, tree-level effective subcurrents are attached to the loop propagator line via local vertices. Each of the effective subcurrents exhibits double-copy structure, in the sense that it is expressed as a combination of tree-level BS subcurrents associated with two copies of kinematic coefficients. The quadratic propagator formulas for Einstein-Yang-Mills (EYM) and gravity (GR) integrands are further derived, by the help of the formula for dYMS. The extraction of local vertices in one-loop dYMS integrand also applies at tree-level, thus we have the corresponding expressions of tree-level dYMS, EYM, and GR amplitudes.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2026)061.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829347","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}
Johanna Erdmenger, Jonathan Karl, Jani Kastikainen, René Meyer, Henri Scheppach
{"title":"Topological Einstein gravity as Kodaira-Spencer gravity","authors":"Johanna Erdmenger, Jonathan Karl, Jani Kastikainen, René Meyer, Henri Scheppach","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)060","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)060","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As a contribution towards quantizing three-dimensional gravity, we show at the classical level that Euclidean three-dimensional Einstein gravity with a negative cosmological constant is uplifted to the SU(2)-invariant sector of Kodaira-Spencer gravity on a Calabi-Yau three-fold. Kodaira-Spencer gravity appears in the target space description of the B-model topological string theory and describes deformations of a complex structure. We prove that given a reference solution of Einstein gravity in the first-order formulation, a second off-shell configuration uplifts to a unique complex structure deformation in six dimensions. If the configuration satisfies Einstein’s equations, the complex structure deformation is integrable, i.e. a solution of Kodaira-Spencer gravity. We demonstrate the uplift explicitly for Bañados solutions. Our construction embeds three-dimensional gravity into topological string theory and AdS<sub>3</sub>/CFT<sub>2</sub> duality into twisted holography.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2026)060.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829601","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":"Superluminal Liouville walls in 2d String Theory and space-like singularities","authors":"Sumit R. Das, Shaun D. Hampton, Sinong Liu","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)070","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)070","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An interesting class of time dependent backgrounds in 1 + 1 dimensional string theory involves worldsheet Liouville walls which move in (target space) time. When a parameter in such a background exceeds a certain critical value, the speed of the Liouville wall exceeds the speed of light, and there is no usual S-Matrix. We examine such backgrounds in the dual <i>c</i> = 1 matrix model from the point of view of fluctuations of the collective field, and determine the nature of the emergent space-time perceived by these fluctuations. We show that so long as the corresponding Liouville wall remains time-like, the emergent space time is conformal to full Minkowski space with a time-like wall. However, for the cases where the Liouville wall is superluminal, the emergent space-time has a <i>space-like boundary</i> where the collective field couplings diverge. This appears as a space-like singularity in perturbative collective field theory. We comment on the necessity of incorporating finite <i>N</i>, as well as finite (double-scaled) coupling, effects to understand the behavior of the exact theory near this boundary.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2026)070.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147830029","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":"Generalized Carter & Rüdiger constants of ( sqrt{textrm{Kerr}} )","authors":"Chris de Firmian, Justin Vines","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)055","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)055","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We consider the motion of a charged spinning test/probe particle — governed by the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon equations with generic, adiabatic, and conservative spin-and field-induced multipole moments — in a background <span>( sqrt{textrm{Kerr}} )</span> field on flat spacetime: the electromagnetic field of a charged spinning ring-disk singularity obtained from the <i>G</i> → 0 limit of the Kerr-Newman solution for a charged spinning black hole. We investigate the existence of two extra <i>hidden</i> constants of motion, analogous to the Carter constant (for geodesic motion in a Kerr spacetime, or for its spinning-probe generalization) and Rüdiger’s linear-in-spin constant for a spinning probe in a Kerr background. We find that these two constants exist only when the Wilson coefficients parameterizing the probe’s multipole structure take the particular values corresponding to “spin-exponentiation” of the effective Compton amplitudes through second order in spin.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2026)055.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147830030","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}
Patrick Copinger, Minoru Eto, Muneto Nitta, Zebin Qiu
{"title":"Fermionic domain-wall Skyrmions of QCD in a magnetic field","authors":"Patrick Copinger, Minoru Eto, Muneto Nitta, Zebin Qiu","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)063","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)063","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The ground state of low-energy QCD matter in strong magnetic fields is either a chiral soliton lattice (CSL), a periodic array of neutral pion domain walls (chiral solitons) perpendicular to the magnetic field, or domain-wall Skyrmion phase, in which Skyrmions are induced on top of the CSL. Previously found domain-wall Skyrmions are bosons with the baryon number two. In this paper, we show that the minimum domain-wall Skyrmions are fermions with baryon number one; a bosonic domain-wall Skyrmion can be separated without energy cost into two fermionic domain-wall Skyrmions attached on the opposite sides of a chiral soliton. The phase boundary between the CSL and domain-wall Skyrmion phases is unchanged. In the chiral limit, the CSL reduces to a linearly dependent neutral pion on the direction of the magnetic field, while fermionic domain-wall Skyrmions sit in an equal distance of half a period.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2026)063.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147830042","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":"Underground production of electromagnetic dark states by MeV-scale electron beams and detection with CCDs","authors":"Helmut Eberl, Maximilian Fahrecker, Josef Pradler","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)066","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2026)066","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this work we explore the possibility of new light fermionic particles with millicharge or electromagnetic form factor interactions and their underground production via an electron beam in the 100 MeV range and their subsequent detection using a CCD-sensor. We evaluate the S-matrix elements and the phase spaces for production analytically, and then calculate the corresponding cross sections numerically. For millicharged fermions this set-up could be able to probe a window in parameter space, yet unconstrained by direct detection experiments. The electric or magnetic dipole moment of a light fermion could feasibly be probed with enough beam time or an increased beam energy.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2026)066.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147830036","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}