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Integrated Correlators in N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory beyond Localization (2024)
Journal Article
Brown, A., Heslop, P., Wen, C., & Xie, H. (2024). Integrated Correlators in N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory beyond Localization. Physical Review Letters, 132(10), Article 101602. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.101602

We study integrated correlators of four superconformal primaries O_{p} with arbitrary charges p in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. The ⟨O_{2}O_{2}O_{p}O_{p}⟩ integrated correlators can be computed by supersymmetric localization, whereas correlators with... Read More about Integrated Correlators in N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory beyond Localization.

Nearly critical superfluids in Keldysh-Schwinger formalism (2024)
Journal Article
Donos, A., & Kailidis, P. (2024). Nearly critical superfluids in Keldysh-Schwinger formalism. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024(1), Article 110. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep01%282024%29110

We examine the effective theory of critical dynamics near superfluid phase transitions in the framework of the Keldysh-Schwinger formalism. We focus on the sector capturing the dynamics of the complex order parameter and the conserved current corresp... Read More about Nearly critical superfluids in Keldysh-Schwinger formalism.

2-group global symmetries, hydrodynamics and holography (2023)
Journal Article
Iqbal, N., & Poovuttikul, N. (2023). 2-group global symmetries, hydrodynamics and holography. SciPost Physics, 15(2), Article 063. https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.15.2.063

2-group global symmetries are a particular example of how higher-form and conventional global symmetries can fuse together into a larger structure. We construct a theory of hydrodynamics describing the finite-temperature realization of a 2-group glob... Read More about 2-group global symmetries, hydrodynamics and holography.

Boundary confining dualities and Askey-Wilson type q -beta integrals (2023)
Journal Article
Okazaki, T., & Smith, D. J. (2023). Boundary confining dualities and Askey-Wilson type q -beta integrals. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(8), Article 048. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08%282023%29048

We propose confining dualities of N = (0, 2) half-BPS boundary conditions in 3d N = 2 supersymmetric SU(N), USp(2n) and SO(N) gauge theories. Some of these dualities have the novel feature that one (anti)fundamental chiral has Dirichlet boundary... Read More about Boundary confining dualities and Askey-Wilson type q -beta integrals.

Q-lump scattering (2023)
Journal Article
Sutcliffe, P. (2023). Q-lump scattering. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(6), Article 162. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06%282023%29162

Q-lumps are spinning planar topological solitons with stationary solutions that satisfy first-order Bogomolny equations. Q-lump scattering has previously been studied only in the charge two sector, by approximating time evolution by motion in the mod... Read More about Q-lump scattering.

Higher-form symmetries, anomalous magnetohydrodynamics, and holography (2023)
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Das, A., Gregory, R., & Iqbal, N. (2023). Higher-form symmetries, anomalous magnetohydrodynamics, and holography. SciPost Physics, 14(6), Article 163. https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.14.6.163

In U ( 1 ) Abelian gauge theory coupled to fermions, the non-conservation of the axial current due to the chiral anomaly is given by a dynamical operator F μ ν ~ F μ ν constructed from the field-strength tensor. We attempt to describe this physics in... Read More about Higher-form symmetries, anomalous magnetohydrodynamics, and holography.

A general algorithm to build real-radiation antenna functions for higher-order calculations (2023)
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Braun-White, O., Glover, N., & Preuss, C. T. (2023). A general algorithm to build real-radiation antenna functions for higher-order calculations. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(6), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06%282023%29065

The antenna subtraction method has been successfully applied to a wide range of processes relevant for the Large Hadron Collider at next-to-next-to-leading order in αs (NNLO). We propose an algorithm for building antenna functions for any number of r... Read More about A general algorithm to build real-radiation antenna functions for higher-order calculations.

Precision phenomenology with fiducial cross sections in the triple-differential Drell-Yan process (2023)
Journal Article
Gehrmann-De Ridder, A., Gehrmann, T., Glover, E., Huss, A., Preuss, C., & Walker, D. (2023). Precision phenomenology with fiducial cross sections in the triple-differential Drell-Yan process. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(5), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05%282023%29002

The production of lepton pairs (Drell-Yan process) at the LHC is being measured to high precision, enabling the extraction of distributions that are triply differential in the di-lepton mass and rapidity as well as in the scattering angle described b... Read More about Precision phenomenology with fiducial cross sections in the triple-differential Drell-Yan process.

NNLO QCD predictions for Z-boson production in association with a charm jet within the LHCb fiducial region (2023)
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Gauld, R., Gehrmann–De Ridder, A., Glover, E., Huss, A., Rodriguez Garcia, A., & Stagnitto, G. (2023). NNLO QCD predictions for Z-boson production in association with a charm jet within the LHCb fiducial region. The European Physical Journal C, 83(4), Article 336. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11530-x

We compute next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to neutral vector boson production in association with a charm jet at the LHC. This process is studied in the forward kinematics at s√=13 TeV, which may provide valuable constraints on t... Read More about NNLO QCD predictions for Z-boson production in association with a charm jet within the LHCb fiducial region.

Supersphere non-linear sigma model on the lattice (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Costa, I., Forini, V., Hoare, B., Meier, T., Patella, A., & Weber, J. H. (2023). Supersphere non-linear sigma model on the lattice. . https://doi.org/10.22323/1.430.0367

Two-dimensional O(N) non-linear sigma models are exactly solvable theories and have many applications, from statistical mechanics to their use as QCD toy models. We consider a supersymmetric extension, the non-linear sigma model on the supersphere~SN... Read More about Supersphere non-linear sigma model on the lattice.

Bi-η and bi-λ deformations of ℤ4 permutation supercosets (2023)
Journal Article
Hoare, B., Levine, N., & Seibold, F. K. (2023). Bi-η and bi-λ deformations of ℤ4 permutation supercosets. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(4), Article 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04%282023%29024

Integrable string sigma models on AdS3 backgrounds with 16 supersymmetries have the distinguishing feature that their superisometry group is a direct product. As a result the deformation theory of these models is particularly rich since the two super... Read More about Bi-η and bi-λ deformations of ℤ4 permutation supercosets.

The death of the short-form physics essay in the coming AI revolution (2023)
Journal Article
Yeadon, W., Inyang, O., Mizouri, A., Peach, A., & Testrow, C. P. (2023). The death of the short-form physics essay in the coming AI revolution. Physics Education, 58(3), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/acc5cf

The latest AI language modules can produce original, high quality full short-form (300-word) Physics essays within seconds. These technologies such as ChatGPT and davinci-003 are freely available to anyone with an internet connection. In this work, w... Read More about The death of the short-form physics essay in the coming AI revolution.

Transverse mass distribution and charge asymmetry in W boson production to third order in QCD (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, X., Gehrmann, T., Glover, N., Huss, A., Yang, T., & Zhu, H. X. (2023). Transverse mass distribution and charge asymmetry in W boson production to third order in QCD. Physics Letters B, 840, Article 137876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137876

Charged gauge boson production at hadron colliders is a fundamental benchmark for the extraction of electroweak parameters and the understanding of the proton structure. To enable precision phenomenology for this process, we compute the third-order (... Read More about Transverse mass distribution and charge asymmetry in W boson production to third order in QCD.

Multi-variable integration with a neural network (2023)
Journal Article
Maître, D., & Santos-Mateos, R. (2023). Multi-variable integration with a neural network. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03%282023%29221

In this article we present a method for automatic integration of parametric integrals over the unit hypercube using a neural network. The method fits a neural network to the primitive of the integrand using a loss function designed to minimize the di... Read More about Multi-variable integration with a neural network.

Effective limits on single scalar extensions in the light of recent LHC data (2023)
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Anisha, Das Bakshi, S., Banerjee, S., Biekötter, A., Chakrabortty, J., Patra, S. K., & Spannowsky, M. (2023). Effective limits on single scalar extensions in the light of recent LHC data. Physical Review D, 107(5), Article 055028. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.107.055028

In this paper, we work with 16 different single scalar particle extensions of the Standard Model. We present the sets of dimension-six effective operators and the associated Wilson coefficients as functions of model parameters after integrating out t... Read More about Effective limits on single scalar extensions in the light of recent LHC data.

Transverse momentum resummation at N3LL+NNLO for diboson processes (2023)
Journal Article
Campbell, J. M., Ellis, R. K., Neumann, T., & Seth, S. (2023). Transverse momentum resummation at N3LL+NNLO for diboson processes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(3), Article 80. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03%282023%29080

Diboson processes are one of the most accessible and stringent probes of the electroweak gauge structure of the Standard Model at the LHC. They will be probed at the percent level at the high-luminosity LHC, challenging current theory predictions. We... Read More about Transverse momentum resummation at N3LL+NNLO for diboson processes.

Integrating out heavy scalars with modified equations of motion: Matching computation of dimension-eight SMEFT coefficients (2023)
Journal Article
Banerjee, U., Chakrabortty, J., Englert, C., Rahaman, S. U., & Spannowsky, M. (2023). Integrating out heavy scalars with modified equations of motion: Matching computation of dimension-eight SMEFT coefficients. Physical Review D, 107(5), Article 055007. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.107.055007

The shift in focus towards searches for physics beyond the Standard Model employing model-independent effective field theory methods necessitates a rigorous approach to matching to guarantee the validity of the obtained results and constraints. The l... Read More about Integrating out heavy scalars with modified equations of motion: Matching computation of dimension-eight SMEFT coefficients.

High energy resummed predictions for the production of a Higgs boson with at least one jet (2023)
Journal Article
Andersen, J. R., Hassan, H., Maier, A., Paltrinieri, J., Papaefstathiou, A., & Smillie, J. M. (2023). High energy resummed predictions for the production of a Higgs boson with at least one jet. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(3), Article 1 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03%282023%29001

We present all-order predictions for Higgs boson production plus at least one jet which are accurate to leading logarithm in s^/|p⊥|2. Our calculation includes full top and bottom quark mass dependence at all orders in the logarithmic part, and to hi... Read More about High energy resummed predictions for the production of a Higgs boson with at least one jet.

Radiative phase space extensions at all orders in r for self-dual Yang-Mills and gravity (2023)
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Nagy, S., & Peraza, J. (2023). Radiative phase space extensions at all orders in r for self-dual Yang-Mills and gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(2), Article 202. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02%282023%29202

Working in the self-dual sector for Yang-Mills and gravity, we show how to construct an extended phase space at null infinity, to all orders in the radial expansion. This formalises the symmetry origin of the infrared behaviour of these theories to a... Read More about Radiative phase space extensions at all orders in r for self-dual Yang-Mills and gravity.

A standard convention for particle-level Monte Carlo event-variation weights (2023)
Journal Article
Bothmann, E., Buckley, A., Gütschow, C., Prestel, S., Schönherr, M., Skands, P., …Siódmok, A. (2023). A standard convention for particle-level Monte Carlo event-variation weights. SciPost Physics Core, 6, Article 007. https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphyscore.6.1.007

Streams of event weights in particle-level Monte Carlo event generators are a convenient and immensely CPU-efficient approach to express systematic uncertainties in phenomenology calculations, providing systematic variations on the nominal prediction... Read More about A standard convention for particle-level Monte Carlo event-variation weights.