{"title":"Measurement of the W-boson angular coefficients and transverse momentum in (p!p) collisions at (sqrt{s}=13) TeV with the ATLAS detector","authors":"ATLAS Collaboration","doi":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-15264-w","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-15264-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The angular distributions of Drell–Yan lepton pairs provide sensitive probes of the underlying dynamics of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) effects in vector-boson production. This paper presents for the first time the measurement of the full set of angular coefficients together with the differential cross-section as a function of the transverse momentum of the <i>W</i> boson, in the full phase space of the decay leptons. The measurements are performed separately for the <span>(W^-)</span> and <span>(W^+)</span> channels. The analysis uses proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in 2017 and 2018, during special low-luminosity runs with a reduced number of interactions per bunch crossings (pile-up). The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 338 pb<span>(^{-1})</span> at a centre-of-mass energy of <span>(sqrt{s} = 13)</span> TeV. The low pile-up environment provides excellent experimental conditions for high-precision measurements of <i>W</i>-boson production. All results agree with theoretical predictions incorporating finite-order QCD corrections up to order <span>(alpha _S^2)</span>. \u0000\u0000\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":788,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal C","volume":"86 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-15264-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Dirac sources for nonmetricity and torsion in metric-affine gravity","authors":"James T. Wheeler","doi":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15696-y","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15696-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Metric-affine gravity (GL(4) gauge theory) in 4-dimensions is coupled to a spacetime Dirac source field using the isomorphisms of the Lie algebra gl(4) to the Clifford algebras Cl(3,1) and Cl(2,2). A simple transformation relates the generators of Cl(3,1) to a real representation of Cl(2,2), while the real representation of Cl(2,2) serves directly as a basis for the Lie algebra gl(4). Therefore, although GL(4) does not contain a spinor representation of the Lorentz group, expanding its Lie algebra in the Cl(2,2) basis gives a Clifford valued connection with well-defined coupling to Dirac spinors. Variation of the expansion coefficients gives new Dirac sources for both torsion and nonmetricity, separated by identifying the so<span>(left( 3,1right) )</span> basis within the gl(4) basis.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":788,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal C","volume":"86 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15696-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Half-BPS impurity backgrounds and supersymmetry","authors":"D. Bazeia, A. C. Lehum","doi":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15714-z","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15714-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We develop a rigid <span>(mathcal {N}=(1,1))</span> superspace framework for spatially inhomogeneous impurity deformations in <span>(D=1+1)</span> dimensions by embedding the impurity profile into a real background superfield (spurion). This spurionic completion provides a manifestly supersymmetric description at the level of the action and offers a systematic route to identify which inhomogeneous backgrounds preserve a nontrivial subset of supercharges. Focusing on static interface-type configurations, we determine the half-BPS condition on the spurion background and the corresponding supersymmetry projector. In the resulting half-BPS sector we derive the associated first-order BPS equation for static bosonic matter configurations and establish an exact Bogomol’nyi completion of the static energy, yielding a sharp bound saturated by BPS solutions. We further comment on how explicit coordinate dependence and derivative-dependent impurity couplings can obstruct the Bogomol’nyi structure, thereby motivating spurionic extensions that retain supersymmetric control over inhomogeneous deformations.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":788,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal C","volume":"86 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15714-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Precise measurement of the (tbar{t}) production cross-section and lepton differential distributions in ( emu ) dilepton events from (sqrt{s}=13,text {TeV}) pp collisions with the ATLAS detector","authors":"ATLAS Collaboration","doi":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15311-0","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15311-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The inclusive top quark pair (<span>(tbar{t})</span>) cross-section <span>(sigma _{tbar{t}})</span> has been measured in proton–proton collisions at <span>(sqrt{s}=13,text {TeV})</span>, using <span>(140,{text {fb}^{-1}} )</span> of data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Using events with an opposite-charge <span>(emu )</span> pair and <i>b</i>-tagged jets, the cross-section is measured to be: </p><div><div><span>$$begin{aligned} sigma _{tbar{t}} & = 829.3pm 1.3,mathrm {(stat)} pm 8.0,mathrm {(syst)} pm 7.3,mathrm {(lumi)} & quad pm 1.9,mathrm {(beam)},textrm{pb}, end{aligned}$$</span></div></div><p>where the uncertainties reflect the limited size of the data sample, experimental and theoretical systematic effects, the integrated luminosity, and the proton beam energy, giving a total uncertainty of 1.3%. The result is used to determine the top quark pole mass via the dependence of the predicted cross-section on <span>({m_{t}^textrm{pole}})</span>, giving <span>({m_{t}^textrm{pole}}=172.8^{+1.5}_{-1.7})</span> <span>(text {GeV})</span>. The same event sample is used to measure absolute and normalised differential cross-sections for the <span>(tbar{t} rightarrow emu nu bar{nu }bbar{b} )</span> process as a function of single-lepton and dilepton kinematic variables. Complementary measurements of <span>(emu bbar{b} )</span> production, treating both <span>(tbar{t})</span> and <i>Wt</i> events as signal, are also provided. Both sets of differential cross-sections are compared to the predictions of various Monte Carlo event generators, demonstrating that the state-of-the-art generators <span>Powheg MiNNLO</span> and <span>Powheg</span> <i>bb</i>4<i>l</i> describe the data better than <span>Powheg</span> <span>hvq</span>. \u0000\u0000\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":788,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal C","volume":"86 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15311-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Analysis of the hidden-charm pentaquark candidates in the (J/psi Lambda ) mass spectrum via the QCD sum rules","authors":"Zhi-Gang Wang, Qi Xin","doi":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15680-6","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15680-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this work, we distinguish the isospin for the first time and study the diquark–diquark–antiquark type <span>(udscbar{c})</span> pentaquark states with zero isospin via the QCD sum rules systematically. We distinguish contributions of the pentaquark states with negative parity from positive parity unambiguously and obtain clean QCD sum rules for the pentaquark states with negative parity. Then we adopt the modified energy scale formula to choose the optimal energy scales of the QCD spectral densities, and obtain the mass spectrum of the <span>(udscbar{c})</span> pentaquark states with the quantum numbers <span>(I=0)</span> and <span>(J^{P}={frac{1}{2}}^-)</span>, <span>({frac{3}{2}}^-)</span>, <span>({frac{5}{2}}^-)</span>, which could interpret the <span>(P_{cs}(4338))</span> and <span>(P_{cs}(4459))</span> in the <span>(J/psi Lambda )</span> mass spectrum naturally.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":788,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal C","volume":"86 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15680-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Charged Higgs signatures at future electron–proton colliders","authors":"Baradhwaj Coleppa, Gokul B. Krishna","doi":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15677-1","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15677-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this work, we present a detailed collider phenomenology study of the charged Higgs boson within a Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) framework featuring an extended gauge and scalar sector. The charged Higgs can decay via conventional modes, such as <span>( H^- rightarrow bar{t}b )</span> and <span>( H^- rightarrow W^-h )</span>, as well as through exotic channels like <span>( H^- rightarrow W'Z )</span> (or <span>( WZ' )</span>). These decays lead to distinct final-state topologies determined by the nature of the intermediate particles. We perform a comprehensive phenomenological analysis at future electron–proton colliders, namely the LHeC and FCC-eh, considering the luminosity projections provided in their design reports. Our results indicate that the conventional decay modes of the charged Higgs boson can achieve observable sensitivity and even discovery prospects at sufficiently high luminosities. In contrast, the exotic decay channel <span>( H^- rightarrow W'Z )</span> does not exhibit any viable discovery potential. These findings highlight the complementarity of future electron-proton colliders in probing extended Higgs sectors, particularly through conventional charged Higgs signatures.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":788,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal C","volume":"86 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15677-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Kalyanbrata Pal, Souvik Ghose, Shilpa Sarkar, Tapas K. Das
{"title":"Effect of spin on the dynamics of multi-component transonic accretion flows around the spinning black holes","authors":"Kalyanbrata Pal, Souvik Ghose, Shilpa Sarkar, Tapas K. Das","doi":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15564-9","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15564-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate axially symmetric accretion of low-angular-momentum hydrodynamic matter onto a rotating black hole. The gravitational field under consideration is assumed to be described by the pseudo-Newtonian Kerr potential proposed by Artemova et al. (ApJ 461:565, https://doi.org/10.1086/177084, 1996). A relativistic equation of state that incorporates information about different species is used in this work. Our aim is to construct and solve the hydrodynamical conservation equations governing such a flow and to obtain the corresponding stationary integral solutions. We find that, depending on the values of the initial boundary conditions, the accretion flow may exhibit multitransonic behaviour and a standing shock may form. It is observed that the spin of the black hole influences the transonic properties of the accretion flow. In addition, the composition of the infalling matter determines the thermodynamic characteristics of the flow. In this work, we investigate in detail the interplay between spin and composition in shaping the dynamics of accretion flows and the astrophysics of shock formation.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":788,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal C","volume":"86 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15564-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Gravitational waveforms from periodic orbits around a novel regular black hole","authors":"Huajie Gong, Sheng Long, Xi-Jing Wang, Zhongwu Xia, Jian-Pin Wu, Qiyuan Pan","doi":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15667-3","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15667-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We explore potential quantum gravity signatures by studying periodic orbits and their GW emissions around a novel regular black hole (BH) featuring a Minkowski core. Using a rational number <i>q</i>, periodic orbits are classified, revealing that the deviation parameter <span>(alpha _0)</span> reshapes the bound-orbit region while preserving characteristic “zoom-whirl” structures. Numerical kludge waveforms reveal detectable phase shifts and amplitude modulations induced by quantum gravity effects with radiation reaction breaking orbital periodicity. Faithfulness analysis demonstrates that larger <span>(alpha _{0})</span> and <i>q</i> enhance distinguishability from the Schwarzschild case, and a comparison with Hayward and quantum Oppenheimer–Snyder BHs shows their similar large-scale behaviors yield macroscopically indistinguishable orbits and waveforms.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":788,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal C","volume":"86 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15667-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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 effective field theory of the gravitational functional measure","authors":"Henrique Knopki, Iberê Kuntz","doi":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15733-w","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15733-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The gravitational path integral measure has been the subject of an increasing interest lately, and no conclusive answer yet exists for its correct form. In this paper, we adopt effective field theory techniques to shed light on this issue. We build the configuration-space metric as an energy expansion, including all possible terms that satisfy the underlying symmetries, and use it to define a Riemannian measure. We study the running of the free parameters that show up in this expansion at leading order, which corresponds to the DeWitt metric with parameter <span>(lambda .)</span> We show that a flat configuration space is excluded on unitarity grounds. Within the vacuum-sector normalization convention adopted here, the renormalization group flow in the DeWitt truncation exhibits a UV-attractive fixed point at <span>(lambda =-1.)</span> This fixed point matches the value obtained by identifying DeWitt’s metric from the kinetic term of general relativity, but in our approach it arises without assuming that identification a priori, providing a renormalization group rationale for the standard choice.\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":788,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal C","volume":"86 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15733-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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":"Electrical conductivity of QGP with quasiparticle quarks and Gribov gluon","authors":"Sadaf Madni, Sumit, Lata Thakur, Najmul Haque","doi":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15706-z","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15706-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate the electrical conductivity of the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) using a non-perturbative resummation scheme incorporating the Gribov-modified gluon propagator. The electrical conductivity is evaluated by solving the relativistic Boltzmann transport equation within the relaxation-time approximation, where the relaxation times are obtained from microscopic two-body scattering amplitudes. A quasiparticle description is employed for quarks, providing a unified framework for studying transport properties across both weakly and strongly coupled regimes. Above the deconfinement transition temperature, we estimate the electrical conductivity of the QGP and compare our results with available lattice QCD data and various phenomenological models, finding good agreement with the lattice results.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":788,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal C","volume":"86 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15706-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}