Cosmic Inflation and Genetic Algorithms (2022)
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Abel, S. A., Constantin, A., Harvey, T. R., & Lukas, A. (2023). Cosmic Inflation and Genetic Algorithms. Fortschritte der Physik, 71(1), https://doi.org/10.1002/prop.202200161

Large classes of standard single-field slow-roll inflationary models consistentwith the required number of e-folds, the current bounds on the spectral indexof scalar perturbations, the tensor-to-scalar ratio, and the scale of inflation canbe efficien... Read More about Cosmic Inflation and Genetic Algorithms.

Exclusive J/ψ and ϒ production in high-energy pp and p-Pb collisions (2022)
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Flett, C., Jones, S., Martin, A., Ryskin, M., & Teubner, T. (2022). Exclusive J/ψ and ϒ production in high-energy pp and p-Pb collisions. Physical Review D, 106(7), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.106.074021

We present a formalism for determining the cross section for exclusive heavy vector meson production (J/ψ,Υ) as a function of rapidity, in both high-energy proton-proton and proton-heavy ion collisions, at next-to-leading order in QCD. We compare and... Read More about Exclusive J/ψ and ϒ production in high-energy pp and p-Pb collisions.

NNLO interpolation grids for jet production at the LHC (2022)
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Britzger, D., Gehrmann-De Ridder, A., Gehrmann, T., Glover, E., Gwenlan, C., Huss, A., …Stark, J. (2022). NNLO interpolation grids for jet production at the LHC. The European Physical Journal C, 82(10), Article 930. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10880-2

Fast interpolation-grid frameworks facilitate an efficient and flexible evaluation of higher-order predictions for any choice of parton distribution functions or value of the strong coupling αs. They constitute an essential tool for the extraction of... Read More about NNLO interpolation grids for jet production at the LHC.

Semiclassics of three-dimensional SCFTs from holography (2022)
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Cremonesi, S., Lanza, S., & Martucci, L. (2022). Semiclassics of three-dimensional SCFTs from holography. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10%282022%29111

We use holography to compute the large-N eective eld theory along the moduli space of vacua of an innite class of three-dimensional N = 2 SCFTs admitting a dual M-theory description. We focus in particular on toric models and show how the spectrum of... Read More about Semiclassics of three-dimensional SCFTs from holography.

Automation of antenna subtraction in colour space: gluonic processes (2022)
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Chen, X., Gehrmann, T., Glover, E., Huss, A., & Marcoli, M. (2022). Automation of antenna subtraction in colour space: gluonic processes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(10), Article 99. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10%282022%29099

We present the colourful antenna subtraction method, a reformulation of the antenna subtraction scheme for next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) calculations in QCD. The aim of this new approach is to achieve a general and process-independent construc... Read More about Automation of antenna subtraction in colour space: gluonic processes.

Comments on QCD3 and anomalies with fundamental and adjoint matter (2022)
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Lohitsiri, N., & Sulejmanpasic, T. (2022). Comments on QCD3 and anomalies with fundamental and adjoint matter. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(10), Article 81. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10%282022%29081

’t Hooft anomaly matching is powerful for constraining the low energy phases of gauge theories. In 3d one common anomaly is the parity anomaly in a T-symmetric theory where one cannot gauge the global symmetry group without breaking the time-reversal... Read More about Comments on QCD3 and anomalies with fundamental and adjoint matter.

Exact results for duality-covariant integrated correlators in N=4 SYM with general classical gauge groups (2022)
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Dorigoni, D., Green, M. B., & Wen, C. (2022). Exact results for duality-covariant integrated correlators in N=4 SYM with general classical gauge groups. SciPost Physics, 13, Article 092(2022). https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.13.4.092

We present exact expressions for certain integrated correlators of four superconformal primary operators in the stress tensor multiplet of N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills (SYM) theory with classical gauge group, GN = SO(2N), SO(2N + 1), USp(2N). Thes... Read More about Exact results for duality-covariant integrated correlators in N=4 SYM with general classical gauge groups.

Quantum optimization of complex systems with a quantum annealer (2022)
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Abel, S., Blance, A., & Spannowsky, M. (2022). Quantum optimization of complex systems with a quantum annealer. Physical Review A, 106(4), https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.106.042607

We perform an in-depth comparison of quantum annealing with several classical optimization techniques, namely, thermal annealing, Nelder-Mead, and gradient descent. The focus of our study is large quasicontinuous potentials that must be encoded using... Read More about Quantum optimization of complex systems with a quantum annealer.

Holographic dissipation from the symplectic current (2022)
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Donos, A., Kailidis, P., & Pantelidou, C. (2022). Holographic dissipation from the symplectic current. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(10), Article 58. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10%282022%29058

We develop analytic techniques to construct the leading dissipative terms in a derivative expansion of holographic fluids. Our basic ingredient is the Crnkovic-Witten symplectic current of classical gravity which we use to extract the dissipative tra... Read More about Holographic dissipation from the symplectic current.

Branes and Non‐Invertible Symmetries (2022)
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García Etxebarria, I. (2022). Branes and Non‐Invertible Symmetries. Fortschritte der Physik, 70(11), https://doi.org/10.1002/prop.202200154

=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories with algebra𝔰𝔬(4N) and appropriate choices of global structure can have non-invertible symmetries. We identify the branes holographically dual to the non-invertible symmetries, and derive the fusion rules for th... Read More about Branes and Non‐Invertible Symmetries.

Antenna subtraction for jet production observables in full colour at NNLO (2022)
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Chen, X., Gehrmann, T., Glover, E., & Mo, J. (2022). Antenna subtraction for jet production observables in full colour at NNLO. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(10), Article 40. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10%282022%29040

We describe the details of the calculation of the full colour NNLO QCD corrections to jet production observables at the LHC with antenna subtraction. All relevant matrix elements for the process pp → jj at NNLO in full colour are colour-decomposed an... Read More about Antenna subtraction for jet production observables in full colour at NNLO.

New Higgs decays to axion-like particles (2022)
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Biekötter, A., Chala, M., & Spannowsky, M. (2022). New Higgs decays to axion-like particles. Physics Letters B, 834, Article 137465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137465

We investigate the interactions of a light scalar with the Higgs boson and second-generation fermions, which trigger new rare decays of the Higgs boson into 4μ, 2μ2γ , 6μ and 4μ2 j. We recast current LHC searches to constrain these decays and develop... Read More about New Higgs decays to axion-like particles.

From tree- to loop-simplicity in affine Toda theories I: Landau singularities and their subleading coefficients (2022)
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Dorey, P., & Polvara, D. (2022). From tree- to loop-simplicity in affine Toda theories I: Landau singularities and their subleading coefficients. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(9), Article 220. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep09%282022%29220

Various features of the even order poles appearing in the S-matrices of simply-laced affine Toda field theories are analysed in some detail. In particular, the coefficients of first- and second-order singularities appearing in the Laurent expansion o... Read More about From tree- to loop-simplicity in affine Toda theories I: Landau singularities and their subleading coefficients.

Higher order initial conditions with massive neutrinos (2022)
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Elbers, W., Frenk, C. S., Jenkins, A., Li, B., & Pascoli, S. (2022). Higher order initial conditions with massive neutrinos. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 516(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2365

The discovery that neutrinos have mass has important consequences for cosmology. The main effect of massive neutrinos is to suppress the growth of cosmic structure on small scales. Such growth can be accurately modelled using cosmological N-body simu... Read More about Higher order initial conditions with massive neutrinos.

Ising Machines for Diophantine Problems in Physics (2022)
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Abel, S. A., & Nutricati, L. A. (2022). Ising Machines for Diophantine Problems in Physics. Fortschritte der Physik, 70(11), Article 2200114. https://doi.org/10.1002/prop.202200114

Diophantine problems arise frequently in physics, in for example anomaly cancellation conditions, string consistency conditions and so forth. We present methods to solve such problems to high order on annealers that are based on the quadratic Ising M... Read More about Ising Machines for Diophantine Problems in Physics.

Decomposition of triple collinear splitting functions (2022)
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Braun-White, O., & Glover, N. (2022). Decomposition of triple collinear splitting functions. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(9), Article 59. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep09%282022%29059

In the kinematic region where three particles i, j, k are collinear, the multi-parton scattering amplitudes factorise into a product of a triple collinear splitting function and a multi-parton scattering amplitude with two fewer particles. These trip... Read More about Decomposition of triple collinear splitting functions.

NNLO QCD corrections in full colour for jet production observables at the LHC (2022)
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Chen, X., Gehrmann, T., Glover, E., Huss, A., & Mo, J. (2022). NNLO QCD corrections in full colour for jet production observables at the LHC. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(9), Article 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep09%282022%29025

Calculations for processes involving a high multiplicity of coloured particles often employ a leading colour approximation, where only the leading terms in the expansion of the number of colours Nc and the number of flavours nf are retained. This app... Read More about NNLO QCD corrections in full colour for jet production observables at the LHC.

Integrable supersymmetric deformations of AdS3 × S3 × T4 (2022)
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Hoare, B., Seibold, F. K., & Tseytlin, A. A. (2022). Integrable supersymmetric deformations of AdS3 × S3 × T4. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(9), Article 18. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep09%282022%29018

We construct a family of type IIB string backgrounds that are deformations of AdS3 × S 3 × T 4 with a “squashed” AdS3 × S 3 metric supported by a combination of NSNS and RR fluxes. They have global SU(1, 1) × SU(2) symmetry, regular curvature, consta... Read More about Integrable supersymmetric deformations of AdS3 × S3 × T4.

Quantum walk approach to simulating parton showers (2022)
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Bepari, K., Malik, S., Spannowsky, M., & Williams, S. (2022). Quantum walk approach to simulating parton showers. Physical Review D, 106(5), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.106.056002

This paper presents a novel quantum walk approach to simulating parton showers on a quantum computer. We demonstrate that the quantum walk paradigm offers a natural and more efficient approach to simulating parton showers on quantum devices, with the... Read More about Quantum walk approach to simulating parton showers.

A duality connecting neural network and cosmological dynamics (2022)
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Krippendorf, S., & Spannowsky, M. (2022). A duality connecting neural network and cosmological dynamics. Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 3(3), https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/ac87e9

We demonstrate that the dynamics of neural networks (NNs) trained with gradient descent and the dynamics of scalar fields in a flat, vacuum energy dominated Universe are structurally profoundly related. This duality provides the framework for synergi... Read More about A duality connecting neural network and cosmological dynamics.