The Kerr/CFT correspondence establishes a correspondence between extremal black holes in higher dimensions and a chiral conformal field theory (CFT) in their near-horizon limit. A generalization of this framework, known as the EVH/CFT correspondence, has been developed for four- and five-dimensional AdS black holes. It was further proposed in [ ${\rm{AdS}}_{D=6,7}$ black holes, a generalized duality between $(D-2)$ -dimensional geometry and $(D-3)$ -dimensional field theory may emerge in a suitably defined extremal vanishing horizon (EVH) limit. In this work, we show that, in the EVH limit, the near-EVH geometries of these ${\rm{AdS}}_{D=6,7}$ black holes reduce to lower-dimensional black holes whose metrics are conformally related to solutions of Einstein-Maxwell-Maxwell-dilaton (EMMD) gravity. This structural resemblance suggests a potential route toward the microscopic counting of non-AdS black hole entropy via higher-dimensional AdS/CFT techniques.

China

Weichao Bu

Yang Lei

Probing decoupled throats of AdS $\textit{D}$ black holes in $\textit{D}$ = 6, 7 * Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (2305081), the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD), and the NSFC-Royal Society International Collaboration (W2421035)

This paper investigates the production of nonprompt photons originating from rotating synchrotron radiation (RoSyRa), specifically the emission of photons by a rigidly rotating quark-gluon plasma in thermal equilibrium, in the presence of an external magnetic field. We compute the nonprompt photon spectrum and its elliptic flow (<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>v</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></mrow></math>) at midrapidity. In particular, we investigate the finite-volume effects. We find that at low transverse momentum, the magnetic field induces a significant <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>v</mi><mn>2</mn></msub></math>, while the plasma rotation boosts the synchrotron radiation of negatively charged quarks. These findings make RoSyRa a viable candidate mechanism to resolve the “direct photon puzzle.”

Romania

Matteo Buzzegoli

Sergiu Busuioc

United States

Jonathan D. Kroth

Nandagopal Vijayakumar

Kirill Tuchin

Rotating synchrotron radiation: Photon emission from magnetized and rotating quark-gluon plasma

A representation of the <math altimg='si1.svg'><mrow><mi mathvariant='fraktur'>so</mi><mo>(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>5</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></math> algebra corresponding to the continuous spin field in <bold>AdS<inf>6</inf></bold> is considered. The algebra is realized using the Lie-Lorentz derivative, which naturally incorporates <bold>AdS<inf>6</inf></bold> geometry and spin degrees of freedom. Within this framework, we derive explicit expressions for the Casimir operators in terms of both the covariant derivative and spin invariants. The continuous spin representation under consideration is defined by a system of operator constraints that generalize those known for six-dimensional Minkowski space. We demonstrate that these constraints completely fix all Casimir operators of the <math altimg='si1.svg'><mrow><mi mathvariant='fraktur'>so</mi><mo>(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>5</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></math> algebra with eigenvalues determined by the dimensional real parameter <bold><italic>&#956;</italic></bold> and the positive (half-)integer <italic>s</italic>.

Russia

Anastasia A. Golubtsova

Mikhail A. Podoinitsyn

Continuous spin field in the <bold>AdS<inf>6</inf></bold> space

We report an experimental investigation of an unexplored breakup pathway of 6Li proceeding via one-proton stripping to the unbound 5He nucleus, followed by its decay into <math altimg='si22.svg'><mrow><mi>&#945;</mi><mo linebreak='goodbreak'>+</mo><mi>n</mi></mrow></math>, in the 6Li + 112Sn reaction at <math altimg='si3.svg'><mrow><msub><mi>E</mi><mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant='normal'>b</mi></mrow><mi>e</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>m</mi></mrow></msub><mo linebreak='goodbreak'>=</mo><mn>30</mn></mrow></math> MeV. Coincident <italic>&#945;</italic>- <italic>n</italic> events were measured using an array of silicon strip telescopes in conjunction with liquid scintillator neutron detectors. Successive kinematical cuts on the reconstructed projectile-like, fragment energies and Q-values enabled a clear separation of contributions arising purely through 5He <math altimg='si6.svg'><mrow><mo>&#8594;</mo><mi>&#945;</mi><mo linebreak='goodbreak'>+</mo><mi>n</mi></mrow></math> from competing processes such as evaporation following complete and incomplete fusion. The resultant relative energy distributions exhibit a pronounced peak at 0.84 MeV, indicating sequential breakup through the first unbound resonance 5He(3/2 <math altimg='si23.svg'><msup><mrow /><mo>&#8722;</mo></msup></math>) and show good agreement with Monte-Carlo simulations. Absolute breakup cross-sections for the ( 6Li, 5He&#8239;&#8594;&#8239; <italic>&#945;n</italic>) channel are determined using the efficiency-corrected yields. In addition, angular distributions for elastic scattering and breakup cross sections are interpreted within coupled-channels (CDCC+CRC) framework. The present results provide valuable insight into transfer-induced breakup dynamics of weakly bound nuclei near the Coulomb barrier.

India

Tanya Singh

S. Santra

P.C. Rout

A. Pal

A. Baishya

H. Kumawat

T. Santhosh

M. Meher

Jyotisankar Das

Ramandeep Gandhi

Sequential breakup of 6Li via ( 6Li, 5He <math altimg='si6.svg'><mrow><mo>&#8594;</mo><mi>&#945;</mi><mo linebreak='goodbreak'>+</mo><mi>n</mi></mrow></math>) reaction

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) started physics data taking on 26 August 2025. JUNO consists of a 20-kton liquid scintillator central detector, surrounded by a 35 kton water pool serving as a Cherenkov veto, and almost 1000 m$^{2}$ of plastic scintillator veto on top. The detector is located in a shallow underground laboratory with an overburden of 1800 m.w.e. This paper presents the performance results of the detector, extensively studied during the commissioning of the water phase, the subsequent liquid scintillator filling phase, and the first physics runs. The liquid scintillator achieved an attenuation length of 20.6 m at 430 nm, while the high coverage PMT system and scintillator together yielded about 1785 photoelectrons per MeV of energy deposit at the detector centre, measured using the 2.223 MeV $\textit{γ}$ from neutron captures on hydrogen with an Am-C calibration source. The reconstructed energy resolution is 3.4% for two 0.511 MeV $\textit{γ}$ at the detector centre and 2.9% for the 0.93 MeV quenched $^{214}$Po alpha decays from natural radioactive sources. The energy non-linearity is calibrated to better than 1%. Intrinsic contaminations of $^{238}$U and $^{232}$Th in the liquid scintillator are below 10$^{-16}$ g/g, assuming secular equilibrium. The water Cherenkov detector achieves a muon detection efficiency better than 99.9% for muons traversing the liquid scintillator volume. During the initial science runs, the data acquisition duty cycle exceeded 97.8%, demonstrating the excellent stability and readiness of JUNO for high-precision neutrino physics.

Chile

Angel Abusleme

France

Thomas Adam

Germany

Kai Adamowicz

David Adey

Pakistan

Shakeel Ahmad

Rizwan Ahmed

Finland

Timo Ahola

Italy

Sebastiano Aiello

Fengpeng An

Guangpeng An

United Kingdom

Costas Andreopoulos

Giuseppe Andronico

João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André

Nikolay Anfimov

Vito Antonelli

Tatiana Antoshkina

Thailand

Burin Asavapibhop

Didier Auguste

Margherita Buizza Avanzini

Slovakia

Andrej Babic

Jingzhi Bai

Weidong Bai

Nikita Balashov

Roberto Barbera

Andrea Barresi

Davide Basilico

Eric Baussan

Beatrice Bellantonio

Marco Bellato

JeanLuc Beney

Marco Beretta

Antonio Bergnoli

Enrico Bernieri

Nikita Bessonov

David Biaré

Daniel Bick

Lukas Bieger

Svetlana Biktemerova

Thilo Birkenfeld

David Blum

Simon Blyth

Sara Boarin

Manuel Boehles

Anastasia Bolshakova

Mathieu Bongrand

Aurélie Bonhomme

Clément Bordereau

Matteo Borghesi

Augusto Brigatti

Timothee Brugiere

Riccardo Brugnera

Riccardo Bruno

Jonas Buchholz

Antonio Budano

Max Buesken

Mario Buscemi

Severino Bussino

Jose Busto

Ilya Butorov

Marcel Büchner

Anatael Cabrera

Barbara Caccianiga

Boshuai Cai

Hao Cai

Xiao Cai

Yanke Cai

Yi-zhou Cai

Zhiyan Cai

Stéphane Callier

Steven Calvez

Antonio Cammi

Agustin Campeny

Dechang Cai

Chuanya Cao

Dewen Cao

Guofu Cao

Jun Cao

Yaoqi Cao

Rossella Caruso

Aurelio Caslini

Cédric Cerna

Vanessa Cerrone

Daniele Cesini

Chi Chan

Jinfan Chang

Yun Chang

Milo Charavet

Tim Charissé

Auttakit Chatrabhuti

Chao Chen

Guoming Chen

Haitao Chen

Haotian Chen

Jiahui Chen

Jian Chen

Jing Chen

Junyou Chen

Lihao Chen

Mali Chen

Mingming Chen

Initial performance results of the JUNO detector * We acknowledge financial and institutional supportfrom the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National KeyR&D Program of China, the People's Government of Guangdong Province, and the Tsung–Dao Lee Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.We appreciate the contributions from the Institut Na-tional de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Partic-ules (IN2P3) in France, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in Italy, the Fonds de la Recherche Sci-entifique (F.R.S.–FNRS) and the Institut Interuni-versitaire des Sciences Nucléaires (IISN) in Belgium, and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico eTecnológico (CNPq) in Brazil.We also acknowledge the support of the AgenciaNacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID) and the ANID–Millennium Science Initiative Program (ICN2019044) in Chile; the European Structural and In-vestment Funds, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, and the Charles University Research Center inthe Czech Republic; the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinsch-aft (DFG), the Helmholtz Association, and the Cluster ofExcellence PRISMA+ in Germany; and the Joint Insti-tute for Nuclear Research (JINR) and Lomonosov Mo-scow State University in Russia.We further thank the Slovak Research and Develop-ment Agency in the Slovak Republic, the National Science and Technology Council (NSCT) and MOE, China, the Program Management Unit for Hu-man Resources & Institutional Development, Research and Innovation (PMU–B), Chulalongkorn University, and Suranaree University of Technology in Thailand, the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) in the United Kingdom, and the University of California atIrvine and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States

An analysis of the flavour structure of dimension-6 effective field theory (EFT) operators in multilepton final states is presented, focusing on the interactions of quarks with Z bosons. For the first time, the flavour structure of these operators is disentangled by simultaneously probing the interactions with different quark generations. The analysis targets the associated production of a top quark pair and a Z boson, as well as diboson processes in final states with at least three leptons, which can be electrons or muons. The data were recorded by the CMS experiment in the years 2016–2018 in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb . Consistency with the standard model of particle physics is observed and limits are set on the selected Wilson coefficients, split into couplings to light- and heavy-quark generations.

Armenia

A. Hayrapetyan

V. Makarenko

A. Tumasyan

Austria

W. Adam

J. Andrejkovic

L. Benato

T. Bergauer

M. Dragicevic

C. Giordano

P. Hussain

M. Jeitler

N. Krammer

A. Li

D. Liko

M. Matthewman

I. Mikulec

J. Schieck

D. Schwarz

R. Schöfbeck

M. Shooshtari

M. Sonawane

W. Waltenberger

C.E. Wulz

Belgium

T. Janssen

H. Kwon

D. Ocampo Henao

T. Laer

P. Mechelen

J. Bierkens

N. Breugelmans

J. D’Hondt

S. Dansana

A. Moor

M. Delcourt

F. Heyen

Y. Hong

P. Kashko

S. Lowette

I. Makarenko

D. Müller

J. Song

S. Tavernier

M. Tytgat

G. Onsem

S. Putte

D. Vannerom

B. Bilin

B. Clerbaux

A. Das

I. Bruyn

G. Lentdecker

H. Evard

L. Favart

P. Gianneios

Probing the flavour structure of dimension-6 EFT operators in multilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV