Asher Berlin, Surjeet Rajendran, Harikrishnan Ramani, Erwin H. Tanin
{"title":"Direct deflection of Millicharged radiation","authors":"Asher Berlin, Surjeet Rajendran, Harikrishnan Ramani, Erwin H. Tanin","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)198","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)198","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Millicharged particles are generic in theories of dark sectors. A cosmic or local abundance of them may be produced by the early universe, stellar environments, or the decay or annihilation of dark matter/dark energy. Furthermore, if such particles are light, these production channels result in a background of millicharged radiation. We show that light-shining-through-wall experiments employing superconducting RF cavities can also be used as “direct deflection” experiments to search for this relativistic background. The millicharged plasma is first subjected to an oscillating electromagnetic field of a driven cavity, which causes charge separation in the form of charge and current perturbations. In turn, these perturbations can propagate outwards and resonantly excite electromagnetic fields in a well-shielded cavity placed nearby, enabling detection. We estimate that future versions of the existing Dark SRF experiment can probe orders of magnitude of currently unexplored parameter space, including millicharges produced from the Sun, the cosmic neutrino background, or other mechanisms that generate a thermal abundance with energy density as small as ~ 10<sup>−4</sup> that of the cosmic microwave background.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2025)198.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143875351","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":"Scalars with non-decoupling phenomenology at future colliders","authors":"Graeme Crawford, Dave Sutherland","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)197","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)197","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We consider a class of BSM models where a generic scalar electroweak multiplet obtains a significant fraction of its mass from a coupling to the Higgs. Such models are non-decoupling: their new states are necessarily at the TeV scale or below, they can significantly alter the electroweak phase transition, and they have a pattern of low energy effects that are distinct from those predicted by SMEFT. Using their minimal gauge and Higgs couplings, we show that a future precision lepton collider (such as FCC-ee, CEPC, ILC, or CLIC) can probe all the non-decoupling parameter space of scalar electroweak multiplets, providing fundamental information on the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2025)197.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143871166","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":"Index and localization for type B superconformal mechanics on singular spaces","authors":"Joris Raeymaekers, Paolo Rossi, Canberk Şanlı","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)199","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)199","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Type B superconformal quantum mechanical sigma models are of physical interest as they arise in the description of D-brane bound states forming an AdS<sub>2</sub> throat. In this work we discuss the applicability of localization methods to compute the superconformal index in these theories, despite the fact that their target spaces are generically singular. Similar in spirit to recent works on type A models, we propose to work on a suitably resolved target space to compute a regularized index. While this regularized index correctly captures the actual index unambiguously in models of physical interest, we do uncover a subtlety in more pathological examples. This occurs in situations where the supercharge is not essentially-selfadjoint, in which case the index becomes ambiguous and depends on the chosen selfadjoint extension. We also discuss the special class of models with Kähler target spaces, which can accommodate both type A and type B models, and show that the type B index is a particular limit of the type A index. For Calabi-Yau cones, the type B index coincides with the Hilbert series of the unresolved space.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2025)199.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143871168","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}
Joshua Davies, Kay Schönwald, Matthias Steinhauser, Hantian Zhang
{"title":"Analytic next-to-leading order Yukawa and Higgs boson self-coupling corrections to gg → HH at high energies","authors":"Joshua Davies, Kay Schönwald, Matthias Steinhauser, Hantian Zhang","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)193","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)193","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We consider electroweak corrections to Higgs boson pair production, taking into account the top quark Yukawa and Higgs boson self couplings. Using differential equations we compute a deep expansion of all master integrals in the high-energy limit and present analytic results for the two-loop box-type form factors. We show that precise numerical results can be obtained even for relatively small values of the Higgs boson transverse momentum. We compare against recent numerical results and find good agreement.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2025)193.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143871164","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":"Unmixing sub-leading Regge trajectories of ( mathcal{N} ) = 4 Super-Yang-Mills","authors":"Julius Julius, Nika Sergeevna Sokolova","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)200","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)200","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study the conformal field theory data (CFT-data) of planar 4D <span>( mathcal{N} )</span> = 4 Super-Yang-Mills theory in the strong ’t Hooft coupling limit. This regime explores the physics of massive short strings in the flat-space limit of the dual AdS. We focus on the CFT-data of the massive short strings exchanged in the operator product expansion (OPE) of the four-point function dual to the Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude. This CFT-data arranges itself into Regge trajectories in the flat-space limit. Using inputs from recent advances in the computation of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude, integrability, and a stipulation based on analyticity of the CFT-data in spin, we are able to fix all the CFT-data on the four unique sub-leading Regge trajectories, at leading non-trivial order, as a function of the string-mass level. One of our predictions is that one of the four unique sub-leading Regge trajectories decouples from the OPE in the flat-space limit. This hints at an emergent selection rule in the flat-space limit, similar to our previous results in arXiv:2310.06041. Our procedure should be applicable in a variety of similar setups like for the AdS Veneziano amplitude or in ABJM.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2025)200.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143871167","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":"Quantum aspects of non-invertible flavor symmetries in intersecting/magnetized D-brane models","authors":"Shuta Funakoshi, Tatsuo Kobayashi, Hajime Otsuka","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)183","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)183","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We discuss selection rules of chiral matters in type IIA intersecting and IIB magnetized D-brane models on toroidal orbifolds. Since the chiral matters on toroidal orbifolds are labeled by a certain conjugacy class of the gauged orbifold group, the selection rules involve non-trivial fusion rules. We find that the representation of the chiral matters is described by a <i>D</i><sub>4</sub> flavor symmetry for an even number of magnetic fluxes or winding numbers at tree level. Furthermore, the <i>D</i><sub>4</sub> symmetry still remains even when we take into account loop effects. We also study non-perturbative effects such as D-brane instantons.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2025)183.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143865407","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":"Clarifying Kasner dynamics inside anisotropic black hole with vector hair","authors":"Rong-Gen Cai, Mei-Ning Duan, Li Li, Fu-Guo Yang","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)179","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)179","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate the internal dynamics of hairy black holes in the Einstein-Maxwell-vector theory. The development of the charged vector hair necessarily removes the inner Cauchy horizon and results in an anisotropic black hole ending at a spacelike singularity. The far interior evolution is characterized by the chaotic alternations among different Kasner epochs. We show that those late interior time dynamics of bounces and epochs can be captured analytically. In particular, we obtain three distinct types of transformation laws for the alternation of Kasner epochs analytically, including the Kasner inversion, Kasner transition, and Kasner reflection. Our analytical approach is corroborated by numerical solutions to the full equations of motion. Moreover, we provide a clear explanation of the alternation of Kasner epochs found numerically in the literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2025)179.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143871147","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 closer look at dark matter production in exponential growth scenarios","authors":"Disha Bhatia","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)185","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)185","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate a recently proposed non-thermal mechanism for dark matter production, in which a small initial dark matter (<i>χ</i>) number density undergoes exponential growth through scatterings with bath particles (<i>ϕ</i>) in the early universe (<i>χϕ</i> → <i>χχ</i>). The process ends when the scattering rate becomes Boltzmann suppressed. The analysis, in literature, is performed on the simplifying assumption of the dark matter phase space tracing the equilibrium distribution of either standard model or a hidden sector bath. Owing to the non-thermal nature of the production mechanism, this assumption may not necessarily hold. In this work, we test the validity of this assumption by numerically solving the unintegrated Boltzmann equation for the dark matter distribution. Our results, independent of the initial conditions, show that after exponential growth ceases, the dark matter distribution exhibits equilibrium-like behaviour at low comoving momentum, especially for higher couplings. While full kinetic equilibrium-like behaviour is not reached across all momentum modes, the scaled equilibrium approximation provides reasonable estimates for the dark matter abundance. However, for more accurate results in scenarios where dark matter is not in kinetic equilibrium with the thermal bath or does not have sufficiently strong self-interactions with itself that can lead to thermalization, the full unintegrated Boltzmann equation must be solved.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2025)185.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143865406","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}
Arpan Bhattacharyya, Debodirna Ghosh, Saptaswa Ghosh, Sounak Pal
{"title":"Bootstrapping the spinning two body problem in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity using worldline QFT","authors":"Arpan Bhattacharyya, Debodirna Ghosh, Saptaswa Ghosh, Sounak Pal","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)175","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)175","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we compute the WQFT partition function, specifically the eikonal phase in a black hole scattering event in the dynamical Chern-Simons theory, using the techniques of spinning worldline quantum field theory. We consider the scattering of spinning black holes and highlight the necessary details for the calculation of the partition function. We present the <i>ϵ</i>-expansion of the essential two-loop integrals using Integration-by-Parts (IBP) reduction and differential equation techniques, which we then utilize to compute the linear-in-order spin eikonal phase up to 3PM. Additionally, we discuss the dependence of the phase on the spin orientations of the black holes.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2025)175.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143875254","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":"Neutrinoless double β decay with light sterile neutrinos: the contact terms","authors":"Vincenzo Cirigliano, Wouter Dekens, Sebastián Urrutia Quiroga","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)181","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2025)181","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study neutrinoless double-beta decay in extensions of the Standard Model that include <i>n</i> right-handed neutrino singlets, with masses <i>m</i><sub><i>s</i></sub> below the GeV scale. Generalizing recently developed matching methods, we determine the <i>m</i><sub><i>s</i></sub> dependence of the short-range <i>nn</i> → <i>pp</i> couplings that appear to leading order in the chiral effective field theory description of neutrinoless double beta decay. We focus on two scenarios, corresponding to the minimal <i>ν</i>SM and left-right symmetric models. We illustrate the impact of our new results in the case of the <i>ν</i>SM, showing a significant impact on the neutrinoless double-beta decay half-life when <i>m</i><sub><i>s</i></sub> is in the 200–800 MeV range.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2025)181.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143871150","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}