It is believed that there are more fundamental gauge symmetries beyond those described by the Standard Model of particle physics. The scales of these new gauge symmetries are usually too high to be reachable by particle colliders. Considering that the phase transition (PT) relating to the spontaneous breaking of new gauge symmetries to the electroweak symmetry might be strongly first order, we propose considering the stochastic gravitational waves (GW) arising from this phase transition as an indirect way of detecting these new fundamental gauge symmetries. As an illustration, we explore the possibility of detecting the stochastic GW generated from the PT of 
					 in the space-based interferometer detectors. Our study demonstrates that the GW energy spectrum is reachable by the LISA, Tianqin, Taiji, BBO, and DECIGO experiments only for the case where the spontaneous breaking of 
					 is triggered by at least two electroweak singlet scalars.
				

China

Wei Chao

Wen-Feng Cui

Huai-Ke Guo

Jing Shu

Gravitational wave imprint of new symmetry breaking JS is Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11647601, 11690022, 11675243) and also Supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB23030100). Wei Chao is Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11775025)

We show that the 
					 spectra of 
					 and 
					 at midrapidity in the inelastic events in 
					 collisions at 
					 13 TeV exhibit a constituent quark number scaling property, which is a clear signal of quark combination mechanism at hadronization. We use a quark combination model with equal velocity combination approximation to systematically study the production of identified hadrons in 
					 collisions at 
					= 13 TeV. The midrapidity 
					 spectra for protons, 
					, 
					, 
					, 
					 and 
					 in the inelastic events are simultaneously fitted by the model. The multiplicity dependence of the yields of these hadrons are also well understood. The strong 
					 dependence of the 
					 ratio is well explained by the model, which further suggests that the production of two hadrons with similar masses is determined by their quark content at hadronization. The 
					 spectra of strange hadrons at midrapidity in different multiplicity classes in 
					 collisions at 
					 13 TeV are predicted for further tests of the model. The midrapidity 
					 spectra of soft (
					 GeV/c) strange quarks and up/down quarks at hadronization in 
					 collisions at 
					 13 TeV are extracted.
				

Jian-Wei Zhang

Hai-Hong Li

Feng-Lan Shao

Jun Song

Constituent quark number scaling from strange hadron spectra in pp collisions at 
					 TeV Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (11575100), and by Shandong Province Natural Science Foundation(ZR2019YQ06, ZR2019MA053), and by A Project of Shandong Province Higher Educational Science and Technology Program (J18KA228)

We present a systematic short time expansion for the generating function of the one point height probability distribution for the KPZ equation with droplet initial condition, which goes much beyond previous studies. The expansion is checked against a numerical evaluation of the known exact Fredholm determinant expression. We also obtain the next order term for the Brownian initial condition. Although initially devised for short time, a resummation of the series allows to obtain also the long time large deviation function, found to agree with previous works using completely different techniques. Unexpected similarities with stationary large deviations of TASEP with periodic and open boundaries are discussed. Two additional applications are given. (i) Our method is generalized to study the linear statistics of the Airy point process, i.e. of the GUE edge eigenvalues. We obtain the generating function of the cumulants of the empirical measure to a high order. The second cumulant is found to match the result in the bulk obtained from the Gaussian free field by Borodin and Ferrari [1,2], but we obtain systematic corrections to the Gaussian free field (higher cumulants, expansion towards the edge). This also extends a result of Basor and Widom [3] to a much higher order. We obtain large deviation functions for the Airy point process for a variety of linear statistics test functions. (ii) We obtain results for the counting statistics of trapped fermions at the edge of the Fermi gas in both the high and the low temperature limits.

France

Alexandre Krajenbrink

Pierre Le Doussal

Sylvain Prolhac

Systematic time expansion for the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation, linear statistics of the GUE at the edge and trapped fermions

We improve the Monte-Carlo based QCD sum rules by introducing the rigorous Hölder-inequality-determined sum rule window and a Breit-Wigner type parametrization for the phenomenological spectral function. In this improved sum rule analysis methodology, the sum rule analysis window can be determined without any assumptions on OPE convergence or the QCD continuum. Therefore, an unbiased prediction can be obtained for the phenomenological parameters (the hadronic mass and width etc.). We test the new approach in the ρ meson channel with re-examination and inclusion of αs corrections to dimension-4 condensates in the OPE. We obtain results highly consistent with experimental values. We also discuss the possible extension of this method to some other channels.

Qi-Nan Wang

Canada

Zhu-Feng Zhang

T.G. Steele

Hong-Ying Jin

Zhuo-Ran Huang

A comprehensive revisit of the ρ meson with improved Monte-Carlo based QCD sum rulesSupported by NSFC (11175153, 11205093, 11347020), Open Foundation of the Most Important Subjects of Zhejiang Province, and K. C. Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University, TGS is Supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Z. F. Zhang and Z. R. Huang are Grateful to the University of Saskatchewan for its Warm Hospitality

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Editorial note on “Lepton-flavor violation and (g−2)μ in the μν SSM” by Hai-Bin Zhang, Tai-Fu Feng, Shu-Min Zhao and Tie-Jun Gao [Nucl. Phys. B 873 (2) (2013) 300–324]