Clay weekly context brief for the High Energy Physics category (ISO week 2026-W41).

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. One loop aspects of Coleman de Luccia instantons at small backreaction
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18651
   We discuss the Euclidean path integral around Coleman de Luccia instantons.
2. Transverse-spin dependent energy-energy correlators in proton-proton collisions within the dihadron fragmentation framework
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02441
   We calculate energy-energy correlations for two hadrons produced inside a jet in transversely polarized proton-proton collisions.
3. A unified framework for photon and massive particle hypersurfaces in stationary spacetimes
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11883
   Massive particle surfaces (MPS), introduced by Kobialko, Bogush and Gal'tsov, are timelike hypersurfaces confining the trajectories of charged massive particles with fixed Killing energy and charge-to-mass ratio, in analogy with the photon surfaces of Claudel, Virbhadra and Ellis.
4. A Pati-Salam realization of the Nelson-Barr mechanism
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00166
   We present a UV completion of the Standard Model in which quarks and leptons are unified under color SU(4).
5. The sigma meson ($f_0$) at finite temperature with truncated overlap fermions
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07126
   We study the temperature dependence of meson screening masses in two-flavour lattice QCD using dynamical truncated overlap fermions, a type of lattice chiral fermions.
6. Towards local and compositional measurements in quantum field theory
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10968
   A universal framework for the joint measurement of multiple localized observables in quantum field theory satisfying spacetime locality and compositionality is still lacking.
7. The method of kinematic limits in high-energy physics
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04541
   This paper proposes a general approach for calculating kinematic limits attained when Lorentz invariants, which are analogous to Cayley-Menger determinants for Minkowski space, vanish.
8. Physical properties of compact star-like systems harboring traversable wormholes: Effects of chaotic magnetic fields and anisotropic matter
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18795
   In this paper, we formulate exotic compact objects in form of compact star-like systems harboring traversable wormhole (CSSTW) supported by two scalar fields, allowing for both chaotic magnetic field and pressure anisotropy of the neutron fluid.
9. Enhanced Dark Matter Quantum Sensing via Phase-Space Geometric Interferometry
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23599
   We propose a quantum sensing protocol for coupled qubit-oscillator systems that enhances the sensitivity by exploiting a geometric phase for dark matter searches.
10. Blackened BPS: the end of the thermal BMN branch
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02305
   We study the thermodynamics of the BMN matrix model at large $N$ and strong coupling, using its dual black holes in eleven-dimensional supergravity.
11. Identifying sea and valence quarks in a magnetically driven catalysis
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07531
   In the present work, we study the magnetic response of a holographic plasma in a D3/D7 setup through the quasinormal spectrum of D7-brane embedding fluctuations.
12. A global analysis of Energy-Energy Correlation data: determination of $\alpha_S$ and non-perturbative QCD parameters
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19162
   We present a comprehensive global analysis of Energy-Energy Correlation (EEC) data in electron-positron annihilation into hadrons, spanning a wide range of center-of-mass energies ($7.7\,\,\text{GeV}\!\leq\!\sqrt{s}\!\leq\!
13. Parametrized model for gravitational waves from eccentric, precessing binary black holes: theory-agnostic tests of General Relativity with pTEOBResumS
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19593
   Gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers allow us to test General Relativity in the strong-field, high-curvature regime.
14. Probing baryon number with missing energy
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15936
   Quark portal interactions $qqqN$ with a light singlet fermion $N$ make baryon number testable through missing transverse energy (MET).
15. Looking at radiative corrections to the $\Sigma^\pm\to\Lambda e^\pm \bar{\nu}$ semileptonic decay-rate ratio
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03183
   We investigate the impact of radiative corrections on the ratio of the semileptonic decay rates $\Sigma^\pm\to\Lambda e^\pm \bar{\nu}$.
16. A Concise Course in String Theory
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05179
   These lecture notes offer a concise introduction to string theory, based on a one-semester graduate course taught at Fudan University, and develop the subject from the string sigma model action to the AdS/CFT correspondence.
17. Geometrical Constraints On Leptonic Unitarity Triangles
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18601
   The precision of the neutrino oscillation parameters measurements has improved and will continue to improve as the next-generation experiments become online.
18. Quantum Love and ringdown near extremality
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03708
   In this paper we discuss the quasinormal modes and the tidal responses of a four-dimensional asymptotically flat Reissner-N\"{o}rdstrom black hole near extremality and investigate the nontrivial near-horizon quantum corrections of these observables.
19. Probing New Physics and CP Violation in $\nu_\tau n \to \Lambda_c \tau^- (\pi^- \nu_\tau)$ and $\bar\nu_\tau p \to \Lambda \tau^+ (\pi^+ \bar\nu_\tau)$
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19397
   We study the processes $\nu_\tau n \to \Lambda_c \tau^- (\pi^- \nu_\tau)$ and $\bar\nu_\tau p \to \Lambda \tau^+ (\pi^+ \bar\nu_\tau)$, with particular emphasis on the pion energy and angular distributions, as a possible signal for lepton flavor universality violation, and in general of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM), as well as a sensitive probe of the $\tau$ polarization vector.
20. Towards Precision-Controlled Partonic Structures from First Principles
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02430
   The internal structure of hadrons is governed by nonperturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD).

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 20 of 79 available items for this weekly brief.