arXiv preprints from January 1, 2026 through September 19, 2026 — 04:41:52 EST
The Probe for LUminosity MEasurement (PLUME) detector is a dedicated luminosity monitor at the LHCb interaction point. It is a hodoscope comprising 48 Hamamatsu R760 photomultiplier tubes that detect Cherenkov light produced by particles travelling in the direction opposite to the LHCb spectrometer acceptance. PLUME provides...
Binary black holes (BBHs) have been theorised to form through various different channels, but current LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) sky locations make the direct study of formation channels a challenge. Association of strongly lensed BBHs to their hosts has been shown to be possible with current detector networks at upgraded sensitivity and...
Direction-dependent instrumental polarisation is a major systematic limitation in high-fidelity single-dish radio polarimetry, yet a unified characterisation of beam leakage and the conditioning of polarisation recovery is lacking for the Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory (GRAO) 32-m telescope. We aim to establish a quantitative,...
Molecular diffusion in fluctuating amorphous and macromolecular media governs key transport processes across soft-matter physics, energy storage, and biological membranes. Extracting localized trapping states from single-particle tracking trajectories remains a fundamental challenge; because thermal structural breathing continuously...
Non-Gaussian gates remain a key bottleneck for universal continuous-variable (CV) quantum computation because the nonlinearities they require are difficult to engineer. To address this challenge, we develop an efficient qubit-oscillator Rabi synthesis scheme for polynomial phase gates, with a total interaction time that scales...
Weak gravitational lensing is a premier cosmological probe, but its small-scale statistical power is compromised by baryonic feedback. Higher-order statistics capture non-Gaussian information that the power spectrum misses, yet their sensitivity to feedback remains a concern for Stage IV surveys. We quantify how unmodeled feedback...
The Anderson orthogonality catastrophe (AOC) is a paradigmatic many-body phenomenon in which a local perturbation induces a macroscopic response of a Fermi sea. We probe signatures of the AOC by coherently driving heavy Fermi polarons in an ultracold $^6$Li-$^{133}$Cs mixture. We observe a power-law dependence of the measured Rabi...
Quantum statistics in low-dimensional systems predicts anyonic particles with fractional exchange statistics which are neither that of bosons nor fermions. While anyons are typically found in two dimensions as excitations of topologically-ordered states of matter, anyon-like exchange statistics has also been discussed in one...
Galactic open clusters provide a record of both hierarchical star formation and the subsequent dynamical evolution of the Milky Way disk. We use the two-point correlation function to characterize the spatial and kinematic clustering of open clusters in the solar neighborhood, considering their three-dimensional (3D) distributions and...
We investigate a minimal extension of the SM consisting of a $\mathbb{Z}_3$-stabilized complex scalar dark matter (CSDM) candidate, a down-type vector-like quark (VLQ), and a charged vector-like lepton (VLL). The additional vector-like fermions not only enable the CSDM to reproduce the observed relic abundance beyond the...
The effects of disorder on topological phases of matter are typically either preservation of topology or its destruction. For example, the quantum Hall effect's quantization and chiral edge mode remain robust until a strong-disorder percolation transition exits the topological phase. Disorder can also enlarge a preexisting topological...
Attractors are effective low-dimensional structures, defined in a chosen set of observables, that trajectories from different initial states approach; hydrodynamic attractors are those on which the late-time evolution is governed by hydrodynamic constitutive relations. Motivated by nuclear collisions and ultracold atomic gases, this...
We study one-dimensional spinless bosons with semirelativistic spinless-Salpeter dispersion and attractive pairwise contact interactions. Because the dispersion becomes linear at large momentum, the contact interaction is marginal by power counting and produces a logarithmic ultraviolet divergence. We construct the renormalized...
Weak gravitational lensing provides a powerful way to map cosmic structure, but most current measurements rely on galaxy shape distortions from deep imaging surveys and are affected by systematics such as intrinsic alignments, photometric-redshift uncertainties and shape-measurement biases. Here we present a spectroscopic...
The cosmic microwave background birefringence angle $β$ is exactly degenerate with a common instrumental polarization-angle offset. The Minami--Komatsu(MK) likelihood separates these quantities using Galactic foreground polarization, so its inferred detector angles merit a diagnostic that does not reuse the foreground-$EB$ model. We...
We generalize the sample-based Krylov quantum diagonalization (SKQD) method from ground-state calculations to the evaluation of single-particle Green's functions. By constructing and sampling unitary Krylov subspaces in the N +/- 1 particle-number sectors and evaluating all sector-connecting overlaps classically, the approach...
Baryonic feedback redistributes gas around dark matter halos, suppressing the matter power spectrum at scales now probed by weak lensing surveys. X-ray observations directly trace this hot gas, and are one of the main probes of its distribution and properties. We present a forward-modelling framework, built on the baryonification...
The Ballistic Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory (BMFT) is a path-integral based approach to treat large-scale correlations in interacting integrable systems which, so far, has only been applied to quasi-equilibrium settings. In this paper we extend this approach to integrable quench problems and, to illustrate it, we compute the time...
We construct a minimal Majorana singlet-vector-like-doublet model for the single nuclear-recoil-like event reported by LZ near 248 keV. At the splitting inferred from the recoil energy, an electroweak-strength $Z$ transition predicts thousands of events; singlet-doublet mixing suppresses the rate without moving the recoil spectrum....
The recent result by the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment of a single nuclear-recoil event at $248\,\mathrm{keV}$ suggests an interpretation in terms of inelastic scattering between dark matter (DM) and the xenon target. The widely considered thermal Higgsino DM with $m_χ\sim$~TeV and mass splitting $δ\sim 350$~keV is essentially excluded...
In molecular discovery, molecule size is coupled to composition, structure, and other target properties. Yet most 3D generators require molecule size to be specified before generation. Here, we introduce Equivariant-Free Transformer-Autoencoded Latent Flow Matching, a two-stage generative framework that relies entirely on a single...
We develop a theory of a dark baryon dark matter candidate that interacts with nuclei dominantly through inelastic scattering mediated by a transition magnetic dipole operator. Models are presented that can elegantly explain both the scattering rate and the size of the inelastic splitting to be consistent with the one event observed...
Searches for parity violation (PV) in the Universe's large-scale structure have recently been carried out using parity-odd modes of the galaxy 4-Point Correlation Function (4PCF). Here, we introduce a new estimator for a 3-Point Correlation Function (3PCF) that is sensitive to PV. The construction exploits the handedness of triangles...
We derive the two-loop anomalous dimension relevant for the resummation of subleading non-global and, for the first time, also clustering logarithms within the framework of effective field theory. Special emphasis is put on the choice of the renormalization scheme. We show that the modified minimal subtraction scheme is problematic...
Reconstructing the initial conditions (ICs) of the matter field for an observed volume gives a complete picture of that region's temporal evolution. IC reconstruction is common at low redshifts but largely unexplored during the epoch of reionization (EoR; $z\gtrsim 5$), partly due to difficulties modeling inhomogeneous cosmic...