Clay weekly context brief for the High Energy Physics category (ISO week 2026-W37).

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. Comment on arXiv:2608.29450: "First Measurement of Solar Neutrinos through Elastic Neutrino-Electron Scattering at the keV Scale"
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02950
   The XENONnT Collaboration recently reported a new measurement of the solar \(pp\) neutrino flux via neutrino-electron elastic scattering using a multi-ton-scale liquid xenon detector. We comment here on an important omission in their summary plot.
2. Resolving Local Structure of Distribution Functions in Collider Measurements
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02972
   Collider measurements may blur narrow features in underlying distributions before fitting, since a data point samples a finite region.
3. From $Z$ to $a$: High-temperature relations, subleading semi-universality, and conformal anomalies
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03013
   The free energy of any CFT, $ \ln Z(\beta; \omega_i)$, admits two expansions: high temperature ($\beta \rightarrow 0$) and fast rotation ($\omega_i \rightarrow 1$).
4. Non-Abelian string melting and thermalization in an open lattice gauge theory
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04117
   Open-system lattice gauge theory (LGT) has so far been developed predominantly in Abelian settings, leaving open how genuinely non-Abelian gauge structure reshapes dissipative real-time dynamics.
5. Parameter Space, Realistic Matter, and Universal Relations in Bose--Einstein Condensate Dark Stars
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01646
   We study slowly rotating Bose--Einstein condensate (BEC) dark stars by solving the Tolman--Oppenheimer--Volkoff, Hartle dipole, and Postnikov--Hinderer equations together for a polytropic equation of state with a Lee--Huang--Yang correction of strength $\zeta$~\citep{Panotopoulos2026}.
6. Branching fraction measurements of $\eta$ and $\eta^\prime(958)$ anomalous decays
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02973
   Branching fractions of $\eta$ and $\eta'(958)$ anomalous decays are measured using $pp$ collision data at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13\,\text{TeV}$ collected by the LHCb experiment and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $5.4\,\text{fb}^{-1}$.
7. Probing Quantum Foundations in Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillations: Wave Packet Approach from MINOS Data to DUNE Predictions
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02975
   We investigate neutrino flavor oscillations in the wave packet formalism, extending the standard planewave treatment to incorporate the finite spatial coherence of neutrino mass eigenstates.
8. Monstrous parafermionic defects and other non-invertible symmetries in chiral CFTs
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03043
   The structure of non-invertible symmetries in 2D CFT is closely tied to the algebra of preserved holomorphic fields, its representation theory, and its embedding in the full chiral algebra of the CFT.
9. Electromagnetic form factors of the $\mathbf{\Omega}$ baryon: space-like structure and time-like extrapolation
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09324
   We calculate the elastic electromagnetic multipole form factors of the $\Omega^-$ baryon using a symmetry-preserving vector$\,\otimes\,$vector contact interaction in rainbow--ladder truncation and a Poincar\'e-covariant quark--diquark Faddeev equation.
10. Late-time dark energy dynamics in $f(Q)$ gravity: A data-driven analysis
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01650
   The increasing precision and complementarity of late-time cosmological observations provide new opportunities to test modified gravity against the observed expansion history of the universe.
11. Measurement of Differential Cross Sections and Integrated Luminosity using Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering with HADES at T = 4.53 GeV and T = 1.60 GeV
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02989
   This work presents an investigation of elastic proton-proton scattering based on data collected with the recently upgraded HADES detector using beams of protons with kinetic energies of $T = 4.53$ GeV and $T = 1.60$ GeV impinging on a liquid hydrogen target.
12. Yukawa coupling deviations from four-quark interactions
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03000
   New physics generating four-quark interactions can be difficult to detect at the LHC, especially if it does not couple to first generation quarks.
13. The trans-Planckian problem and gravitational interactions
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03071
   The strong gravitational interaction of counter-propagating quantum field modes is of foundational importance to the trans-Planckian problem of black hole horizons.
14. Resonance $X(6600)$
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10626
   The resonance $X(6600)$ is explored as the all-charm tetraquark structure with spin-parities $J^{\mathrm{PC}}=2^{++}$.
15. Dark-Sector Effects on the Phase Structure of Nonlinear Magnetic AdS Black Holes
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01695
   We investigate the effects of perfect fluid dark matter (PFDM) and a dark-energy field on the phase structure of a nonlinear magnetically charged Anti--de Sitter (AdS) black hole.
16. Study of $K_{S}^{0}$-$K_{L}^{0}$ asymmetry in the decays $D^0 \to K_{S}^{0}\omega $ and $D^0 \to K_{L}^{0} \omega $
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03462
   Based on $e^+ e^-$ annihilation data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 7. 93~$fb^{-1}$ collected at a center-of-mass energy of 3.
17. Quark Mixing Model with Three Higgs Doublets and $S_3$ Modular Symmetry at $\tau=i$
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03204
   We study the quark sector of a model with three Higgs electroweak doublets, complemented with a modular $S_3$ symmetry.
18. Boundary-Value Problem in Type IIB Supergravity and Holography
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03126
   In precision holography, the Euclidean on-shell action of type IIB supergravity often fails to reproduce the leading large-$N$ free energy of the dual field theory: the type IIB pseudo action, for instance, vanishes identically on the $\mathrm{EAdS}_5\times S^5$ background.
19. Physics-informed quantum algorithms for glueball-like excitations in a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ lattice gauge theory
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25696
   Glueball spectroscopy and real-time production with quantum computing require three distinct ingredients: a correlated gauge vacuum, a controlled construction of pure-gauge excitations, and a dynamical detector.
20. Geodesics and thermodynamics of a $\kappa$-deformed anti-de Sitter black hole surrounded by a quintessence field
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01704
   We investigate the geodesic structure and thermodynamics of a $\kappa$-deformed Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter black hole in a Kiselev quintessence field, where dynamics are governed by a mass-dependent lapse deformation.
21. Multi-tesla operation of high-temperature superconducting cavities for accelerated axion dark matter searches
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03879
   Axion haloscopes use radio-frequency cavities immersed in a magnetic field to search for dark-matter axions, which could resolve two central puzzles in fundamental physics: the strong charge-parity problem in quantum chromodynamics and the nature of dark matter.
22. Statistical Symmetry Breaking and Emergent Colored Noise in a Stochastic Scalar-Doublet Field Theory
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03312
   We investigate a relativistic stochastic field theory in which a complex scalar doublet is coupled to a complex white-noise source.
23. Conical Defects in JT Gravity from BF Theory: Quantization, Fusion, and Weighted Moduli Spaces
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03347
   We construct a gauge-invariant BF representative of a conical defect in Jackiw--Teitelboim gravity, with its elliptic direction fixed by the reconstruction of the gravitational variables.
24. Higher-order hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon $g-2$ from lattice QCD
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06806
   We present the first lattice QCD calculation of the next-to-leading order hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment with sub-percent precision.
25. One-cycle radiation-reaction Magnusian for eccentric binaries through relative 1PN order
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01713
   We derive the one-cycle first Magnusian for nonspinning compact binaries on planar, bound eccentric orbits through relative first post-Newtonian (1PN) order and linear order in radiation reaction, and construct the associated first-order periastron return map.
26. LHAASO Galactic Plane $\gamma$-rays Strongly Constrain Heavy Dark Matter
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07982
   LHAASO, a ground-based observatory, is unveiling new frontiers in our understanding of high-energy $\gamma-$rays and cosmic rays.
27. Meson mass spectrum in isospin QCD medium from the $N_f=2+1$ quark-meson model
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03385
   We study phase structures, meson mass spectra, and sound velocities at finite temperature and density in QCD with isospin chemical potential ($\mu_I$).
28. Center-twisted Gribov spectra and the finite-volume Gaussian response in the refined Gribov--Zwanziger framework
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03525
   We develop a continuum framework for comparing the Gribov--Zwanziger and center-vortex descriptions of confinement through the gauge-invariant twisted partition function of the electric $\mathbb{Z}_N^{[1]}$ 1-form symmetry.
29. Probing Criticality Using GMM-Based Potentials
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02522
   Spin models with a given symmetry are easier to sample than scalar theories with the same symmetry on a lattice, as the constrained nature of spin variables enables cheap heat-bath updates.
30. How Much Geometry Does Horizon Entropy Determine? A Discourse on Entropy, Gravity, and Observable Quantities
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01720
   Building on Jacobson's thermodynamics derivation of Einstein field equations, the "generalized entropy and varying-G" (GEVAG) framework was proposed to consistently incorporate generalized horizon entropy $S=f(A)/4G$ into both the thermodynamics and the geometry of spacetime.
31. A Task Force on Strong Coupling Determinations from Event Shapes
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03002
   The strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$ is a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model.
32. Exploring millicharged particles in laboratory and astrophysical strong-field regimes
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03399
   The probe of light dark particles beyond the Standard Model (SM) under a strong-field environment has drawn significant attention.

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 32 of 404 available items for this weekly brief.