Clay weekly context brief for the High Energy Physics category (ISO week 2026-W43).

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. Towards ultrarelativistic scattering near the light ring: asymptotic divergence of gravitational-wave fluxes
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20708
   Near the threshold between scattering and capture by a Schwarzschild black hole, a particle spends a long time close to an unstable circular orbit, which in the ultrarelativistic limit approaches the light ring.
2. First Observation of the Radiative Decay $D^0 \to \gamma\omega$
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21982
   We report the first observation of the radiative charm decay $D^0 \to \gamma \omega$ with a significance of $6.0\sigma$.
3. Auditing anapole dark matter: the limits of model independence in dark matter effective field theory
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20751
   Effective field theory is a powerful tool for studying the low-energy behavior of dark sector models without explicit dependence on the high-energy physics.
4. An SYK wormhole under the microscope
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20699
   We derive a large-N wormhole saddle in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model for the variance of the thermal one-point function of a heavy operator across realizations of the microscopic couplings.
5. $\mathbf{\gamma Z}$ Box at Low Energy
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13819
   We calculate the 1-loop $\gamma Z$ box-graph correction to electron-quark scattering at low energy and low momentum transfer.
6. Optimal Strategies for Gravitational-Wave Memory Detection with Noise Marginalization in Pulsar Timing Arrays
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20772
   Current pulsar timing arrays could detect gravitational wave memory, which would provide a unique test of general relativity.
7. Machine-learning-based neutrino-event generation constrained by experimental measurements
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20870
   We present a generative surrogate for charged-current \(\nu_\mu\)-nucleus scattering that can be calibrated to measured differential cross sections without event-level experimental samples.
8. Signatures of Leptophilic Baryogenesis at Muon Colliders
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20774
   The baryon asymmetry of the Universe may be produced in a model with 3 Higgs fields, a Higgs Troika, without the need for a strong first order electroweak phase transition.
9. Gluon Scattering in Expanding de Sitter Universe
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20707
   We construct an observer-centric S-matrix in the expanding Poincar\'e patch of four-dimensional de Sitter space.
10. Renormalization-guided cascade upscaling for lattice field generation
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28581
   We introduce a renormalization-group (RG) guided machine-learning algorithm for lattice field generation based on approximate inversion of an RG transformation.
11. Quantum-Corrected and Hairy Black Holes via Analogue Gravity
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20996
   This thesis maps two exotic black-hole geometries onto the transonic flow of a de Laval nozzle and reads their perturbative response in aerodynamic variables.
12. The Sill distribution for all partial waves
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20975
   In high-energy physics, short-lived resonances appearing in scattering processes are described by energy-dependent spectral functions.
13. Collective Organization of String Fragmentation
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20793
   How coherent confining strings reorganize into hadronic matter is a central open problem in nonequilibrium gauge dynamics.
14. 6d SCFTs and terminal singularities
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20721
   The classification of 6d $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ SCFTs has been carried out with great success, enumerating consistent elliptically fibered threefolds in F-theory.
15. Renormalization-guided inverse blocking for lattice field generation: construction and validation
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28580
   We propose an algorithm for generating lattice field configurations based on the approximate inversion of a renormalization-group blocking transformation.
16. Displacement-noise-free gravitational-wave detector using quantum tomography of photon orbital angular momentum states
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21112
   Gravitational waves (GWs) induce quantum transitions between photon orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) states with amplitudes $\alpha_{\pm}$.
17. Revisiting $B_c^{(*)}$ production in $Z$-boson decays at NLO in QCD
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21485
   We study $B_c^{(*)}$ production in $Z$-boson decays at next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD within the color-singlet nonrelativistic QCD framework.
18. All three-loop four-point massless integrals with one off-shell leg
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20820
   We present the complete set of massless three-loop four-point master integrals with one off-shell external leg.
19. Orientation-Dependent Casimir Energy and Generalized Torque in Lorentz-Violating Rectangular Compactifications
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20745
   We derive the renormalized Casimir energy of a free massive real scalar field on the rectangular compactification \(\mathbb{R}^{1,r}\times T^p\) in the presence of a constant CPT-even aether-like Lorentz-violating background.
20. Extraction of spectral densities from lattice correlators: decoupling signal from noise
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14652
   We expand the treatment of the problem of the extraction of smeared spectral densities from Euclidean correlators introduced in [Phys.
21. Axial gravitational quasinormal modes of magnetically charged black holes
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21354
   In this paper, we consider axial perturbations on the magnetically charged string-inspired Euler-Heisenberg black hole.
22. Radiative transitions of hybrid mesons
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22088
   Radiative transitions of hybrid mesons probe nonperturbative gluodynamics, particularly the interplay between quark spin and gluonic excitations, and are of direct relevance to the search for exotic hadrons at Jefferson Lab.
23. CT25: the new generation of CTEQ-TEA PDFs
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20940
   This contribution reviews CT25, a new generation of CTEQ--TEA parton distribution functions (PDFs) for precision QCD.
24. Beyond the polynomial ansatz: regular $AdS_3\times M_8$ solutions of M-theory
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20853
   We study regular compact solutions of the cohomogeneity-one $AdS_3\times M_8$ system of Gauntlett, Mac Conamhna, Mateos and Waldram, where $M_8$ is an $S^2$ bundle over three constant-curvature Riemann surfaces.
25. Isotensor $\pi\pi \pi$ scattering with a $\rho$ resonant subsystem from QCD
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24894
   This work presents a lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) determination of $\pi\pi\pi$ scattering amplitudes for the isospin-2 channel with angular momentum and parity $J^{P} = 1^+$.
26. Bound States Inside the Horizon and Black Hole Entropy
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21426
   We study the bound states perturbations in the interior of the Schwarzschild black hole and examine whether or not their microstates spectrum can furnish a statistical description of the black hole entropy.
27. From Axion Detection to Dark Matter Astronomy
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22105
   A global haloscope network could turn an axion discovery into astronomy of dark matter substructure and transients.
28. Bounds on hadronic contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the $\tau$ lepton from QCD Sum Rules
   Source: hep-ph (High Energy Physics - Phenomenology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20945
   A QCD sum-rule study is performed to place bounds on the leading-order (LO) hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the $\tau$ lepton ($a_\tau^\mathrm{HVP,\,LO},\, a_\tau = (g-2)_\tau/2$).
29. Local supersymmetry implies momentum map/Gauntlett-Pakis equations and vanishing generalized Komar forms
   Source: hep-th (High Energy Physics - Theory)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20931
   The first-order differential equations satisfied by Killing spinor bilinears (momentum map equations or Gauntlett--Pakis equations, Killing vector equations and the vanishing of the generalized Komar charge of the supersymmetric Killing vector) can be derived directly from the action of the local supersymmetry algebra on bosonic fields.
30. Constraining three-nucleon forces in nuclear lattice effective field theory
   Source: hep-lat (High Energy Physics - Lattice)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20072
   We study short-range three-nucleon forces (3NFs) in nuclear lattice effective field theory with a chiral two-nucleon interaction at N${}^3$LO.
31. Quantum Cosmology in Page-Wootters' Framework: Singularity Resolution and Clock Coherence
   Source: gr-qc (General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21528
   We investigate the fate of big-bang singularity and coherence between distinct clock states in a quantum cosmological setting within the Page-Wootters framework.
32. Gallium Anomaly and Solar Neutrinos
   Source: hep-ex (High Energy Physics - Experiment)
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22219
   The Gallium Anomaly is the disagreement between the measured capture rate of neutrinos by $^{71}$Ga and the rate theoretically expected from the electron capture decay of $^{71}$Ge.

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 422 available items for this weekly brief.