Particles, Volume 8, Issue 1

One of the main interests of high-energy physics is the study of the phase diagram and the localization of phase transitions from hadronic to quark–gluonic matter. There are different techniques to study the hot matter. One of them is femtoscop...

The civil engineering industry faces a critical need for innovative non-destructive evaluation methods, particularly for ageing critical infrastructure, such as bridges, where current techniques fall short. Muography, a non-invasive imaging technique...

The shape of a nucleus is one of its fundamental properties. We conduct a systematic investigation of shape coexistence in odd-Z nuclei from fluorine to potassium using the deformed relativistic Hartree–Bogoliubov theory in continuum. First, we...

Investigating the production of Higgs boson pairs (HH) at the LHC provides critical insights into the self-interaction properties of the Higgs boson, representing an essential verification of the Standard Model and contributing to our understanding o...

We investigate the phenomenological effects of the nonholomorphic (NH) higgsino mass term, ${\mu }^{\prime }$, within the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) extended by a non-abelian flavor symmetry, referred to as the sNHSSM. This flavor symmetry...

In this work, we present an overview of the recent results, obtained in the framework of the fractional analytic QCD in the space-like (Euclidean) and time-like regions. The Higgs boson decays into a bottom–antibottom pair, and the polarized Bj...

A multi-TeV muon collider produces a significant amount of Higgs bosons allowing for precise measurements of its couplings to Standard Model fundamental particles. Moreover, Higgs boson pairs are produced with a relevant cross-section, allowing for t...

We perform the numerical study of the response of the media with golden nanoantennas upon irradiation by intense ~10¹⁷–10¹⁸ W/cm² short 0.1 ps laser pulses. We study the influence of resonant nanoantennas on the ionization process and on the io...

An automatic optimization procedure is proposed for some operational parameters of a Parallel-Plate Avalanche Counter with Optical Readout, a detector designed for heavy-ion tracking and imaging. Exploiting differentiable programming and automatic di...

Muon collisions are considered a promising means for exploring the energy frontier, leading to a detailed study of the possible feasibility challenges. Beam intensities of the order of ${10}^{12}$ muons per bunch are needed to achieve the necessary luminosi...

We consider a particular model of a Source of independent particles and a macroscopic Detector that are both tuned to the same resonance frequency ${\nu }_0\equiv 1/P$. Particles are emitted by the Source at exact multiples of the resonance period P, and...

The extraction of the Generalized Parton Distributions of the nucleons from phenomenological analyses of experimental data presents a challenging problem which is being actively studied in the literature. Due to theoretical limitations of some of the...

The ICARUS-T600 liquid argon time projection chamber detector takes data at a shallow depth as the far detector of the Short Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab, searching for sterile neutrinos with the Booster and Main Injector neutrino beams. The...

One of the primary challenges for future nuclear fusion power plants is understanding how neutron irradiation affects reactor materials. To tackle this issue, the IFMIF-DONES project aims to build a facility capable of generating a neutron source in...

Although the gravitational interaction between matter and antimatter has been the subject of theoretical speculation since the discovery of the latter in 1928, only recently was the ALPHA experiment at CERN able to observe, for the first time, the ef...

By adopting the deformed relativistic Hartree–Bogoliubov theory in continuum (DRHBc) with the point-coupling density functional PC-PK1, we investigate the shell structure evolution of even–even U, Pu, and Cm isotopic chains from the proto...

The ICARUS collaboration employed the 760-ton T600 detector in a successful three-year physics run at the underground LNGS laboratory. In 2021, ICARUS started its new operation at Fermilab, collecting a substantial amount of neutrino events from the...

In June 2024, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (FGST) celebrated its 16th year of operations. The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) is the main instrument onboard the FGST satellite and is designed to be sensitive to $\gamma$-rays in the energ...

ATLAS is currently preparing for the HL-LHC upgrade, with an all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk) that will replace the current Inner Detector. The ITk will feature a pixel detector surrounded by a strip detector, with the strip system consisting of four...

In high-energy physics, resistive plate chamber (RPC) detectors operating in avalanche mode make use of a high-performance gas mixture. Its main component, Tetrafluoroethane (C₂H₂F₄), is classified as a fluorinated greenhouse gas. The RPC EcoGas@GIF+...

Situated at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the PHENIX experiment has for almost two decades been at the forefront of investigations into spin structure and dynamics in high-energy nuclear physics. Althou...

I propose a data-driven surrogate model for the In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group (IMSRG) method using Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD). First, the Magnus formulation of the IMSRG is leveraged to represent the unitary transformation of many-...

The density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy $E_{\mathrm{sym}}\left(\rho \right)$ remains the most uncertain aspect of the equation of state (EOS) of supradense neutron-rich nucleonic matter. Utilizing an isospin-dependent parameterization of the nuclear EOS, we investi...

Two extensions of the variational method with explicit energy functionals (EEFs) with respect to the spin-orbit force were performed. In this method, the energy per nucleon of nuclear matter is explicitly expressed as a functional of various two-body...

The broken phase of the next-to-two-Higgs-doublet model (N2HDM) constitutes an archetype of extended Higgs sectors. In the presence of a softly broken ${\mathrm{Z}}_2$ symmetry throughout the scalar and Yukawa sectors, as the additional gauge singlet field does no...

The present study focused on the mesonic potential contributions to the Lagrangian of the extended linear sigma model (eLSM) for scalar and pseudoscalar meson fields across various quark flavors. The present study focused on the low-energy phenomenol...

The NUCLEUS experiment, currently being commissioned at the Technical University of Munich, is designed to observe coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering ($\mathrm{CE}\nu \mathrm{NS}$) from reactor neutrinos and measure its cross-section with a percent-level preci...

The CMS experiment at the LHC has advanced precision measurements of rare B-meson and charm decays, offering insights into phenomena beyond the Standard Model (SM). This paper highlights key results from Run 2 and Run 3 data, including the branching...

The violation of baryon number is an essential ingredient for baryogenesis—the preferential creation of matter over antimatter—needed to account for the observed baryon asymmetry in the universe. However, such a process has yet to be expe...

This review highlights advancements in testing Lepton Flavour Universality (LFU) through semileptonic b-hadron decays at the LHCb detector. Measurements of the LFU $R\left(D\right)$ and $R\left(D^{*}\right)$ provide evidence of deviations from Standard Model (SM) predictions, su...

Calorimetry at the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) faces many challenges, particularly in the forward direction, such as radiation tolerance and large in-time event pileup. To meet these challenges, the CMS Collaboration is preparing to replace its curr...

Transmission muography is an imaging technique that allows us to obtain two-dimensional and three-dimensional average-target density images by measuring the transmission of atmospheric muons. Through this technique, it is possible to observe density...

Whether $Z=126$ is a proton magic number has been controversial in nuclear physics. The even-even ${}_{126}\mathrm{Ubh}$ isotopes are calculated based on the DRHBc calculations with PC-PK1. The evolutions of quadrupole deformation and pairing energies for neutron and...

We provide a concise review of the problem of calculating the electromagnetic field and radiation of a charged particle in the vicinity of a black hole. The interest in this problem has been revived due to recent progress in multimessenger observatio...