{"title":"Event generation with exponential scaling in multiplicity using AmpliCol","authors":"Rikkert Frederix, Timea Vitos","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)192","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)192","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Efficient generation of LHC events is hindered by the rapidly rising cost of evaluating QCD matrix elements with increasing multiplicity. We build on a recently proposed two-step strategy in which unweighted events are first generated using the leading-colour (LC) approximation and then reweighted to full-colour (FC) accuracy, utilising the LC integration efficiency while recovering the exact FC prediction. In this work we extend the method to general Standard Model processes and present A<span>mpli</span>C<span>ol</span>, a standalone implementation designed for LHC collisions. We benchmark multi-jet, <span>( toverline{t}+textrm{jets} )</span>, <i>ZZ</i>+jets, and Drell-Yan+jets production, measuring the time required to obtain a fixed number of unweighted events at FC accuracy. Across all processes, the runtime exhibits a stable exponential scaling with multiplicity, far milder than the factorial growth of conventional matrix-element generators. This demonstrates that the A<span>mpli</span>C<span>ol</span> code enables efficient event generation at multiplicities that are otherwise computationally prohibitive.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2026)192.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147738641","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}
Rafael Boto, T. P. Rebelo, Jorge C. Romão, João P. Silva
{"title":"Machine Learning in the 2HDM2S model for Dark Matter","authors":"Rafael Boto, T. P. Rebelo, Jorge C. Romão, João P. Silva","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)195","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)195","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We introduce a two real scalar singlet extension of the two Higgs doublet model. We study the vacuum structure, the bounded from below conditions, the restrictions from the oblique parameters S,T and U, as well as the unitarity constraints. We submit the model to collider and Dark Matter experimental constraints and explore its allowed parameter space. We compare randomly populated simulations, simulations starting near the alignment limit, and a Machine Learning based exploration. Using Evolutionary Strategies, we efficiently search for regions with a viable Dark Matter candidate.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2026)195.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147738707","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":"Committing to bubbles: finding the critical configuration on the lattice","authors":"Tomasz P. Dutka","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)191","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)191","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The nucleation of bubbles in first-order phase transitions is traditionally characterised by the critical bubble: defined as the saddle-point solution of the Euclidean action that separates collapsing from expanding field configurations. While this picture is exact in the noiseless, zero-temperature limit, thermal fluctuations introduces stochasticity which can influence the behaviour of the field configuration. In this work, we develop a purely statistical criterion for identifying the critical bubble by leveraging the concept of the “committor” probability: the likelihood that a given local field configuration evolves to the true vacuum before returning to the false vacuum. Using ensembles of lattice simulations with controlled thermal noise, we extract the committor probability during the evolution of a bubble from sub- to super-criticality. We find this approach to be robust, accounts for finite-temperature effects, and allows independent verification of bounce-based predictions. To demonstrate this, we compare the average profile obtained via the committor probability method to standard theory for a given model and find strong agreement, particularly at the core of the bubble. Importantly, we also observe that the behaviour of the committor probability with time is smooth and well defined. This method establishes a robust, simulation-driven framework for studying nucleation dynamics in thermal field theories and may be especially applicable in cases where analytical control might be limited.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2026)191.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147738576","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 compact formula for conserved three-point tensor structures in 4D CFT","authors":"Paul Heslop, Hector Puerta-Ramisa","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)194","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)194","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We derive a compact analytic formula for a complete basis of conformally invariant tensor structures for three-point functions of conserved operators in arbitrary 4D Lorentz representations. The construction follows directly from a novel constraint equivalent to applying conservation conditions at each point: the leading terms in all OPE limits appear as symmetric traceless tensors. We derive this by lifting to a unified SU(<i>m</i>, <i>m</i>|2<i>n</i>) analytic superspace framework, where the conservation conditions are automatically solved and then reducing back to 4D CFT. The same method is also used for cases involving one non-conserved operator. This formalism further reveals a map of the counting of CFT tensor structures to that of finite-dimensional SU(2<i>n</i>) representations, solved by Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. All results can be directly re-interpreted as three-point <span>( mathcal{N} )</span> = 2 and <span>( mathcal{N} )</span> = 4 superconformal tensor structures via the unified analytic superspace.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2026)194.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147738639","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":"Classical spin transitions and absorptive scattering","authors":"Juan Pablo Gatica, Callum R. T. Jones","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)186","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)186","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We describe an on-shell, amplitudes-based approach to incorporating radiation absorption effects in the post-Minkowskian scattering of generic, compact, spinning bodies. Classical spinning observables are recovered by extrapolating to large spin, results calculated with finite quantum spin-<i>s</i> particles using the properties of spin universality and Casimir interpolation. At leading-order our results give a completely general and non-redundant parametrization of absorptive observables in terms of a finite number of Wilson coefficients associated with 3-particle mass and spin-magnitude changing on-shell amplitudes. We denote these semi-fictitious microscopic processes: <i>classical spin transitions</i>. Explicit results for the leading-order impulse due to the absorption of scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational radiation, for spin transitions ∆<i>s</i> = 0, ±1, ±2 are given in a fully interpolated form up to <span>( mathcal{O}left({S}^2right) )</span>, and Casimir independent contributions given up to <span>( mathcal{O}left({S}^4right) )</span>. Our explicit results reveal some surprising universal patterns. We find that, up to identification of Wilson coefficients, the Casimir independent contributions to the impulse for spinning-up and spinning-down by the same magnitude |∆<i>s</i>| are identical. For processes where the quantum ∆<i>s</i> < 0 transition is forbidden, the corresponding classical observable is suppressed in powers of <i>S</i> by a predictable amount. Additionally we find that, while for generic non-aligned spin configurations there is a non-zero scattering angle at leading-order, for aligned spin, similar to non-spinning absorption, the scattering angle vanishes and the impulse is purely longitudinal. The formalism and results presented provide a significant extension of the amplitudes-based calculational pipeline for gravitational waveforms from binary black hole and neutron star systems beyond the point-particle approximation.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2026)186.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147738781","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}
Dimitrios Chatzis, Madison Hammond, Georgios Itsios, Carlos Nunez, Dimitrios Zoakos
{"title":"Supersymmetric AdS solitons, Coulomb branch flows and twisted compactifications","authors":"Dimitrios Chatzis, Madison Hammond, Georgios Itsios, Carlos Nunez, Dimitrios Zoakos","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)184","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)184","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This work, which accompanies [1], is about constructing smooth solutions in type II and eleven dimensional supergravity which describe supersymmetry preserving RG flows from four-dimensional SCFTs in the UV to three-dimensional SQFTs in the IR, through holography. We show that all the different UV fixed points flow to theories which confine external quarks and have a mass gap. We proceed by presenting extended calculations of a plethora of observables and analyse the dual field theories in great detail. This includes a boundary analysis and application of holographic renormalization methods in the simplest case of the type IIB solution. Many of the observables computed here have a universal behaviour: they factorize into two parts, one of which includes information about the UV SCFTs, and the other describing the dynamics of the RG flow, which is the same regardless of the UV fixed point.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2026)184.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147738780","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":"Thermal bootstrap of large-N matrix models via conic optimization","authors":"Sophia M. Adams","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)193","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)193","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper is aimed at improving thermal bootstrapping methods for matrix quantum mechanics. The thermal energies of the large-<i>N</i> one-matrix anharmonic oscillator and large-<i>N</i> two-matrix anharmonic oscillator are bounded without logarithmic relaxation using the Quantum Information Conic Solver. For the one-matrix model, which can be interpreted using an effective theory of “long strings” in the low temperature limit, stricter bootstrap bounds yield a value of the first long string excited energy within 0<i>.</i>001% of the physical value and the first estimation from symmetry and self-consistency equations alone of the first long string coupling coefficient.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2026)193.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147738575","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}
Yamil Cahuana Medrano, Hervé Dutrieux, Joseph Karpie, Kostas Orginos, Savvas Zafeiropoulos, on behalf of the HadStruc Collaboration
{"title":"Gaussian processes for inferring parton distributions","authors":"Yamil Cahuana Medrano, Hervé Dutrieux, Joseph Karpie, Kostas Orginos, Savvas Zafeiropoulos, on behalf of the HadStruc Collaboration","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)182","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)182","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The extraction of parton distribution functions (PDFs) from experimental or lattice QCD data is an ill-posed inverse problem, where regularization strongly impacts both systematic uncertainties and the reliability of the results. We study a framework based on Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) to reconstruct PDFs from lattice QCD matrix elements. Within a Bayesian framework, Gaussian processes serve as flexible priors that encode uncertainties, correlations, and constraints without imposing rigid functional forms. We investigate a wide range of kernel choices, mean functions, and hyperparameter treatments. We quantify information gained from the data using the Kullback-Leibler divergence. Synthetic data tests demonstrate the consistency and robustness of the method. Our study establishes GPR as a systematic and non-parametric approach to PDF reconstruction, offering controlled uncertainty estimates and reduced model bias in lattice QCD analyses.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2026)182.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147738577","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}
Jan Gavranovič, Lara Čalić, Jernej Debevc, Else Lytken, Borut Paul Kerševan
{"title":"Neural fake factor estimation using data-based inference","authors":"Jan Gavranovič, Lara Čalić, Jernej Debevc, Else Lytken, Borut Paul Kerševan","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)188","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)188","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In a high-energy physics data analysis, the term “<i>fake</i>” backgrounds refers to events that would formally not satisfy the (signal) process selection criteria, but are accepted nonetheless due to mis-reconstructed particles. This can occur, e.g., when leptons from secondary decays are incorrectly identified as originating from the hard-scatter interaction point (known as <i>non-prompt leptons</i>), or when other physics objects, such as hadronic jets, are mistakenly reconstructed as leptons (resulting in <i>mis-identified leptons</i>). These <i>fake leptons</i> are usually estimated using data-driven techniques, one of the most common being the Fake Factor method. This method relies on predicting the fake lepton contribution by reweighting data events, using a scale factor (i.e. fake factor) function. Traditionally, fake factors have been estimated by histogramming and computing the ratio of two data distributions, typically as functions of a few relevant physics variables such as the transverse momentum <i>p</i><sub>T</sub> and pseudorapidity <i>η</i>. In this work, we introduce a novel approach of fake factor calculation, based on density ratio estimation using neural networks trained directly on data in a higher-dimensional feature space. We show that our method enables the computation of a continuous, unbinned fake factor on a per-event basis, offering a more flexible, precise, and higher-dimensional alternative to the conventional method, making it applicable to a wide range of analyses. A simple LHC open data analysis we implemented confirms the feasibility of the method and demonstrates that the ML-based fake factor provides smoother, more stable estimates across the phase space than traditional methods, reducing binning artifacts and improving extrapolation to signal regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2026)188.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147738704","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}
Anton Andronic, Nicolas Borghini, Xiaojian Du, Christian Klein-Bösing, Renata Krupczak, Hendrik Roch, Sören Schlichting
{"title":"Constraining hot and cold nuclear matter properties from heavy-ion collisions and deep-inelastic scattering","authors":"Anton Andronic, Nicolas Borghini, Xiaojian Du, Christian Klein-Bösing, Renata Krupczak, Hendrik Roch, Sören Schlichting","doi":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)185","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP04(2026)185","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We perform a global analysis of deep-inelastic <i>e</i> + <i>p</i> scattering data from HERA and transverse energy distributions in <i>p</i> + <i>p</i> and <i>p</i> + Pb collisions, alongside charged hadron multiplicities in Pb+Pb collisions at <span>( sqrt{s_{textrm{NN}}}=5.02 )</span> TeV from ALICE. Using a saturation-based initial state model grounded in high-energy QCD, we determine the early-time non-equilibrium shear viscosity to entropy density ratio <i>η/s</i> of the quark-gluon plasma. Our results provide new insights into the early-time transport properties of nuclear matter under extreme conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2026 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP04(2026)185.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147738640","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}