Physical Review Letters (APS)

 2018-04-1813:09 Beyond Positivity Bounds and the Fate of Massive Gravity / Bellazzini, Brando ; Riva, Francesco ; Serra, Javi ; Sgarlata, Francesco We constrain effective field theories by going beyond the familiar positivity bounds that follow from unitarity, analyticity, and crossing symmetry of the scattering amplitudes. [...] Published in Physical Review Letters 120 (2018) 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.161101 arXiv:1710.02539 Fulltext: XML PDF; 2018-04-1813:09 Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Corrections to Higgs Boson Plus Jet Production with Full Top-Quark Mass Dependence / Jones, S. P. ; Kerner, M. ; Luisoni, G. We present the next-to-leading-order QCD corrections to the production of a Higgs boson in association with one jet at the LHC including the full top-quark mass dependence. [...] Published in Physical Review Letters 120 (2018) 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.162001 arXiv:1802.00349 Fulltext: PDF XML; 2018-04-1813:09 Scalar, Axial, and Tensor Interactions of Light Nuclei from Lattice QCD / Chang, Emmanuel ; Davoudi, Zohreh ; Detmold, William ; Gambhir, Arjun S. ; et al Complete flavor decompositions of the matrix elements of the scalar, axial, and tensor currents in the proton, deuteron, diproton, and ${}^{3}\mathrm{He}$ at SU(3)-symmetric values of the quark masses corresponding to a pion mass ${m}_{\pi }\sim 806\text{}\text{}\mathrm{MeV}$ are determined using lattice quantum chromodynamics. [...] Published in Physical Review Letters 120 (2018) 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.152002 arXiv:1712.03221 Fulltext: XML PDF; 2018-04-1813:09 Strong-Isospin-Breaking Correction to the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment from Lattice QCD at the Physical Point / Chakraborty, B. ; Davies, C. T. H. ; DeTar, C. ; El-Khadra, A. X. ; et al All lattice-QCD calculations of the hadronic-vacuum-polarization contribution to the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment to date have been performed with degenerate up- and down-quark masses. [...] Published in Physical Review Letters 120 (2018) 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.152001 arXiv:1710.11212 Fulltext: XML PDF; 2018-04-1813:09 Electric Conductivity of Hot and Dense Quark Matter in a Magnetic Field with Landau Level Resummation via Kinetic Equations / Fukushima, Kenji ; Hidaka, Yoshimasa We compute the electric conductivity of quark matter at finite temperature $T$ and a quark chemical potential $\mu$ under a magnetic field $B$ beyond the lowest Landau level approximation. [...] Published in Physical Review Letters 120 (2018) 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.162301 arXiv:1711.01472 Fulltext: XML PDF; 2018-04-1813:09 Improved Limits on Spin-Mass Interactions / Lee, Junyi ; Almasi, Attaallah ; Romalis, Michael Very light particles with $CP$-violating couplings to ordinary matter, such as axions or axionlike particles, can mediate long-range forces between polarized and unpolarized fermions. [...] Published in Physical Review Letters 120 (2018) 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.161801 arXiv:1801.02757 Fulltext: PDF XML; 2018-04-1813:09 Cluster Adjacency Properties of Scattering Amplitudes in $N=4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory / Drummond, James ; Foster, Jack ; Gürdoğan, Ömer We conjecture a new set of analytic relations for scattering amplitudes in planar $N=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. [...] Published in Physical Review Letters 120 (2018) 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.161601 arXiv:1710.10953 Fulltext: PDF XML; 2018-04-1813:09 First Monte Carlo Global Analysis of Nucleon Transversity with Lattice QCD Constraints / Lin, H.W. ; Melnitchouk, W. ; Prokudin, A. ; Sato, N. ; et al We report on the first global QCD analysis of the quark transversity distributions in the nucleon from semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS), using a new Monte Carlo method based on nested sampling and constraints on the isovector tensor charge ${g}_{T}$ from lattice QCD. [...] Published in Physical Review Letters 120 (2018) 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.152502 arXiv:1710.09858 Fulltext: XML PDF; 2018-04-0618:16 First Measurement of Monoenergetic Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions / Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A. ; Brown, B. C. ; Bugel, L. ; Cheng, G. ; et al We report the first measurement of monoenergetic muon neutrino charged current interactions. [...] Published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 (2018) 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.141802 arXiv:1801.03848 Fulltext: PDF XML; 2018-04-0618:16 Scattering Amplitudes from Intersection Theory / Mizera, Sebastian We use Picard-Lefschetz theory to prove a new formula for intersection numbers of twisted cocycles associated with a given arrangement of hyperplanes. [...] Published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 (2018) 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.141602 arXiv:1711.00469 Fulltext: XML PDF;