Kåre Fridell, Lukáš Gráf, Julia Harz, Chandan Hati
{"title":"Radiative neutrino masses from dim-7 SMEFT: a simplified multi-scale approach","authors":"Kåre Fridell, Lukáš Gráf, Julia Harz, Chandan Hati","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)050","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)050","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Lepton-number-violating interactions occur in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) at odd dimensions starting from the dimension-5 Weinberg operator. Although the operators at dimension-7 and higher are more suppressed by the heavy new scale, they can be crucial when traditional seesaw mechanisms leading to tree-level dimension-5 contributions are absent. We identify all minimal tree-level UV-completions for dimension-7 ∆<i>L</i> = 2 SMEFT operators without covariant derivatives and propose a new simplified approach for estimating the radiative neutrino masses arising from such operators. This dimensional-regularisation-based approach provides a more accurate estimate for the loop neutrino masses when the new physics fields are hierarchical in mass, as compared to the cut-off-regularisation-based approach often employed in the literature. This allows us to identify viable regions of parameter space in the full list of relevant simplified models close to the current limits set by neutrinoless double beta decay and the LHC that would previously have been thought to be excluded by neutrino-mass constraints.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)050.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144998515","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":"Small instantons and the post-inflationary QCD axion in a special product GUT","authors":"Shihwen Hor, Yuichiro Nakai, Motoo Suzuki, Junxuan Xu","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)047","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)047","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present a new framework of grand unification that is equipped with an axion solution to the strong CP problem without a domain wall problem when the Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry is spontaneously broken after inflation. Our grand unified theory (GUT) is based on a symmetry breaking pattern, SU(10) × SU(5)<sub>1</sub> → SU(5)<sub><i>V</i></sub> ⊃ SU(3)<sub><i>C</i></sub> × SU(2)<sub><i>L</i></sub> × U(1)<sub><i>Y</i></sub>, where SU(5)<sub>1</sub> and a special embedding of SU(5)<sub>2</sub> ⊂ SU(10) are broken to a diagonal subgroup SU(5)<sub><i>V</i></sub>. The model contains a vector-like pair of PQ-charged fermions that transform as (anti-)fundamental representations under SU(10), so that the domain wall number is one. However, after the GUT symmetry breaking, the number of vector-like pairs of PQ-charged colored fermions is larger than one, which seems to encounter the domain wall problem. This apparent inconsistency is resolved by small instanton effects on the axion potential which operate as a PQ-violating bias term and allow the decay of domain walls. We propose a domain-wall-free UV completion for an IR model where the domain wall number appears larger than one. The model gives a prediction for a dark matter axion window, which is different from that of the ordinary post-inflationary QCD axion with domain wall number one.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)047.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144990374","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":"The influence of Wilson lines on heavy quark anti-quark potential and mass","authors":"Bing Chen, Xun Chen, Mitsutoshi Fujita, Jun Zhang","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)046","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The holographic heavy quark potential is investigated via holographic Wilson loops in the AdS soliton with gauge potential. We analyze two types of holographic Wilson loops. In the first type, holographic heavy quark potential shows the area law behavior. In the second type, the potential becomes zero at a critical length and physics analogous to the dissociation occurs. The mass of heavy quarkonia and the binding energy are examined. Lastly, the mass of 0<sup>++</sup> glueball-like operators dual to massless dilaton is calculated. The mass of 0<sup>++</sup> glueball-like operator decreases with increase of the gauge potential as expected in arXiv:2309.03491 [hep-th]. The results are comparable with lattice QCD.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)046.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144990375","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":"Topological observables and θ dependence in high temperature QCD from lattice simulations","authors":"A. Yu. Kotov, M. P. Lombardo, A. Trunin","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)045","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)045","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study topology in Quantum Chromodynamics at high temperatures by means of lattice calculations. Simulations are performed with <i>N</i><sub><i>f</i></sub> = 2 + 1 + 1 Wilson twisted mass fermions at maximal twist with physical quark masses, and temperatures <i>T</i> ≳ 180 MeV. The results obtained with three lattice spacings ranging between 0<i>.</i>057 and 0<i>.</i>080 fm are extrapolated to the continuum limit. We compare the results for the topological susceptibility obtained with the field-theoretic definition with those obtained from an observable constructed with the disconnected part of the chiral susceptibility, and we confirm their agreement — within the largish errors — on our range of temperatures. We also study the topological charge distribution, the next order cumulant <i>b</i><sub>2</sub> and, for the first time, the Free Energy as a function of the <i>θ</i> angle. We find a rapid crossover to the Dilute Instanton Gas behaviour above <i>T</i> ≃ 300 MeV for all the observables we have considered.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)045.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144990376","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":"CP violation at finite temperature","authors":"Károly Seller, Zsolt Szép, Zoltán Trócsányi","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)034","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present a comprehensive study of the finite temperature CP-asymmetry factor needed in the semi-classical treatment of leptogenesis originating from Majorana fermion decays into a lepton and a scalar particle. The imaginary part of the relevant one-loop integrals are evaluated using both the real time and the imaginary time formalisms of thermal quantum field theory. In the former we consider the retarded-advanced approach as well as the original thermal cutting method developed by Kobes and Semenoff. Specific care is directed towards showing the consistency between the various approaches. We show that the final physical result of the calculation is linear in the statistical factors and is consistent with what is obtained in the Kadanoff-Baym approach. We also present analytic expressions for the full CP-asymmetry factor in the form of well-behaved triple-integrals, and provide numerical benchmark predictions in a specific particle physics model.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)034.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144929188","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}
Sergio E. Aguilar-Gutierrez, Yichao Fu, Kuntal Pal, Klaas Parmentier
{"title":"Quasinormal modes and complexity in saddle-dominated SU(N) spin systems","authors":"Sergio E. Aguilar-Gutierrez, Yichao Fu, Kuntal Pal, Klaas Parmentier","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)039","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)039","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study SU(<i>N</i>) spin systems that mimic the behavior of particles in <i>N</i>-dimensional de Sitter space for <i>N</i> = 2, 3. Their Hamiltonians describe a dynamical system with hyperbolic fixed points, leading to emergent quasinormal modes at the quantum level. These manifest as quasiparticle peaks in the density of states. For a particle in 2-dimensional de Sitter, we find both principal and complementary series densities of states from a PT-symmetric version of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model, having two hyperbolic fixed points in the classical phase space. We then study different spectral and dynamical properties of this class of models, including level spacing statistics, two-point functions, squared commutators, spectral form factor, Krylov operator and state complexity. We find that, even though the early-time properties of these quantities are governed by the saddle points — thereby in some cases mimicking corresponding properties of chaotic systems, a close look at the late-time behavior reveals the integrable nature of the system.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)039.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144934592","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":"Differential equations for tree-level cosmological correlators with massive states","authors":"Federico Gasparotto, Pouria Mazloumi, Xiaofeng Xu","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)043","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)043","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study mathematical aspects concerning two site tree-level cosmological correlators with massive internal and external states in a de Sitter universe. We employ integration by parts identities, (relative) twisted cohomology and the method of differential equations. We explicitly express the internally massive, externally conformally coupled correlator as a power series with respect to a small mass parameter, where the various terms in the series are given by multiple polylogarithms.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)043.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144934595","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}
Nathan Benjamin, Cyuan-Han Chang, A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Tobi Ramella
{"title":"Properties of scalar partition functions of 2d CFTs","authors":"Nathan Benjamin, Cyuan-Han Chang, A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Tobi Ramella","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)042","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)042","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study the spectrum of scalar primary operators in any two-dimensional conformal field theory. We show that the scalars alone obey a nontrivial crossing equation. This extends previous work that derived a similar equation for Narain conformal field theories. Additionally, we show that at high temperature, the difference between the true scalar partition function and the one predicted from a semiclassical gravity calculation is controlled by: the modular integral of the partition function, the light states of the theory, and an infinite series terms directly related to the nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function. We give several numerical examples and compute their modular integrals.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)042.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144934596","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":"The central emission vertex of two gravitons","authors":"Damiano Barcaro, Vittorio Del Duca","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)041","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It has recently been shown that there exists an <i>s</i>-channel sequence of classical corrections [1] to the <i>H</i> diagram computed long ago by Amati, Ciafaloni and Veneziano [2]. At leading logarithmic accuracy, those corrections feature the gravity BFKL kernel as a crucial element, and may be computed through either rapidity renormalisation group equations or amplitudes built through <i>s</i>-channel unitarity cuts. In this paper, we evaluate six-graviton amplitudes in next-to-multi-Regge kinematics, and compute for the first time the Central Emission Vertex for the emission of two gravitons, which is relevant to evaluate the corrections to the gravity BFKL kernel, and thus to go beyond the leading logarithmic accuracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)041.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144934635","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":"Production of dark photons through higher electromagnetic moments at LDMX: simulations and model discrimination","authors":"Riccardo Catena, Taylor R. Gray, Thomas Jerkvall","doi":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)040","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP09(2025)040","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We extend the projected sensitivity of LDMX for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) to the case of dark photons produced through higher order electromagnetic moments. These moments arise from loop diagrams involving portal matter fields, along with the gauge fields of new symmetry groups. Due to the Lorentz structures, in particular the momentum dependence, of these additional interactions, the kinematic distributions expected at missing momentum/energy experiments vary with model in addition to dark photon mass. By considering four additional types of interactions — magnetic and electric dipole, charge radius, and anapole moment — we show that LDMX Phase-II is expected to probe the relic target of these additional dark photon models. We compare the analytic with the numerical methods for calculating the dark bremsstrahlung cross section, and compute the kinematic distributions for each model. The potential for model discrimination in the scenario of non-zero signal events at LDMX is discussed. We find that there is a degeneracy between the dark photon mass and model, which can be partially broken by considering both the energy and the transverse momentum of the recoil electron.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP09(2025)040.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144934594","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}