Clay weekly context brief for the High Energy Physics category (ISO week 2026-W28).

Clay tracks publications from the High Energy Physics feed list. Below are recent items from this category, each with its source and a short description of what the publication covers when one is available in the source feed.

Recent publications:
1. A Matrix Theory Construction of the IIA/IIB Wall
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02199
   In this note, we give a non-perturbative construction of a lightlike domain wall separating IIA and IIB string theories in 10D in the framework of discrete light-cone quantization (DLCQ).
2. A symmetry-based resolution of pseudo-gauge ambiguities in local equilibrium
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08569
   The total angular momentum current can be decomposed into orbital and spin contributions in different ways, known as pseudo-gauges.
3. An inquiry on the Absence of Fermion Doubling and why the Nielsen-Ninomiya Theorem Does Not Apply to Nonlocal Quantum Field Theory
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05485
   In this paper we will examine if nonlocal quantum field theory will suffer from the fermion doubling pathology.
4. A New Robust Constraint on the Self-interaction Cross-section of Dark Matter with Double Radio Relic Clusters
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00093
   Merging galaxy clusters are a promising laboratory for measuring the self-interaction cross-section (SICS) of dark matter.
5. Horizon-redshift transfer in black-hole direct-wave damping
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08570
   Direct waves from black-hole mergers may probe horizon dynamics, but their observed envelopes need not decay at the Kerr surface-gravity rate.
6. Correlators are simpler than wavefunctions
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23795
   Recent works reveal a simplicity in equal-time correlators absent from wavefunctions.
7. Alleviating the Hubble Tension with Smooth Sign-Switching Dark Energy: Full CMB Constraints with DESI and PantheonPlus
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05044
   Sign-switching dark energy has recently been proposed as a minimal modification of the late-time expansion history aimed at alleviating tensions within the standard cosmological model.
8. Taste-splitting mass and edge modes in $3+1$ D staggered fermions
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02078
   We investigate the symmetry structure of the $3+1$ D staggered fermion Hamiltonian and its implications for anomalies.
9. How to understand the $\rho$ resonance from the quark model and $\pi\pi$ $P$-wave phase shift
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24270
   As the lightest isovector vector meson, the $\rho$ meson is an important object for investigating the structure of resonant states in strong interactions.
10. Search for strong lensing of gravitational waves in the binary black hole events from O1-O4a
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08466
   A small fraction of the gravitational waves (GWs) currently observable by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) may be strongly lensed by intervening galaxies and galaxy clusters, potentially producing multiple copies of the same signal.
11. Pole-skipping without master variable and holographic superfluids
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14883
   The pole-skipping is a universal property of Green's functions at strong coupling found by the AdS/CFT duality.
12. First Search for Kaluza-Klein Gravitons and Radion Using Planck Data
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02651
   Heavy moduli and Kaluza-Klein (KK) gravitons from extra dimensions may evade terrestrial probes but can be produced during inflation, generating primordial non-Gaussianity (NG) through unavoidable couplings to density perturbations.
13. Proton isovector helicity PDF at NNLO and the twist-3 moment $\tilde{d}_2$ from lattice QCD at physical quark masses
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00143
   We present a lattice quantum chromodynamics calculation of the $x$-dependent isovector quark helicity parton distribution function (PDF) of the proton in the large momentum effective theory (LaMET) framework.
14. Probing Rotational Dynamics of Quark Gluon Plasma via Global Vorticity
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13618
   The findings on the spin polarization of $\Lambda$, $\Xi$, and $\Omega$ hyperons and spin alignment of $K^{*0}$, $\phi$, and $D^{*+}$ mesons in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments at the RHIC and LHC facilities propose the emergence of a strong vorticity field produced in these collisions.
15. Signal-to-Noise Ratio Contours for LISA
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08445
   The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will search for a stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background at millihertz frequencies, from both astrophysical and cosmological sources, and thereby open a new chapter in GW astronomy.
16. Chaos in the Order of Finite Bernoulli Convolutions
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08676
   In this note we explore numerically the finite Bernoulli convolutions.
17. Internal pseudospin, lepton-number superselection, and neutrino--antineutrino coherence in massive neutral-fermion one-particle states
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08739
   At fixed three-momentum, massive Dirac neutrino one-particle states span a 4D space of particle--antiparticle identity and helicity.
18. Dilaton Effective Field Theory across the Conformal Edge
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16863
   Dilaton effective field theory (dEFT) can be employed to analyze lattice data in gauge theories that lie in close proximity of the lower edge of the conformal window.
19. Complete NLO corrections to off-shell $\boldsymbol{t\bar{t}}$ production in the $\boldsymbol{\ell+j}$ decay channel
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18391
   We present the calculation of the complete NLO corrections to the off-shell top-quark pair production in the $\ell+j$ decay channel, denoted as $pp \to \ell^- \bar{\nu}_l\, j_b j_b \,jj + X$, where $\ell^- = e^-,\, \mu^-$.
20. Gravito-Electromagnetic perturbation of higher derivative corrected Kerr-Newman black hole
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08333
   We study linear gravito-electromagnetic perturbations of a slowly rotating 4-derivative corrected Kerr-Newman (KN) black hole (BH), using a perturbative approach beyond the KN geometry up to first order in angular momentum, first order in the higher-derivative parameters ci, i = 1,2...8, and 14th order in the BH electric charge.
21. Shadows and lensing signatures of a rotating black hole in a Hernquist dark matter halo
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08650
   We investigate the optical properties of a rotating black hole immersed in a Hernquist dark matter halo.

Sources in this brief: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology); hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment); hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice); hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology); hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory).
Selected 21 of 84 available items for this weekly brief.