Several possible excesses around $ 95 $ GeV hint at an additional light scalar beyond the Standard Model. We examine the capability of the Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC) to test this hypothesis in the Higgs-strahlung channel $ e^{+}e^{-} \to ZS $ with $ Z \to\mu^{+}\mu^{-} $ and $ S \to\tau^{+}\tau^{-} $ . A full detector simulation shows that the optimal center-of-mass energy for studying the 95 GeV light scalar is 210 GeV. A deep neural network classifier reduces the luminosity required for discovery by half. At $ L = 20\; \mathrm{ab}^{-1} $ , the $ 5\sigma $ sensitivity of the CEPC to the signal strength $ \mu_{\tau\tau}^{ZS} $ reaches 0.016 and 0.020 for $ \sqrt{s} = 210 $ GeV and 240 GeV, respectively. The corresponding thresholds for a 5% precision measurement are $ \mu_{\tau\tau}^{ZS} \gt 0.10 $ and $ \gt 0.12 $ . At $ \sqrt{s}=210 $ GeV (240 GeV), the $ 5\sigma $ coverage of all N2HDM-Flipped samples with $ \chi^2_{h_{95}} \lt 7.82 $ requires $ L=800\ \mathrm{fb}^{-1} $ (1.22 $ \mathrm{ab}^{-1} $ ). These results establish a 210 GeV run, augmented by machine-learning selection, as the most efficient strategy to confirm or refute the 95 GeV excess at future lepton colliders.

China

Yabo Dong

Manqi Ruan

Kun Wang

Haijun Yang

Jingya Zhu

Testing a 95 GeV Scalar at the CEPC with Machine Learning * This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 12275066 and by the startup research funds of Henan University. The work of K. Wang was also supported by the Open Project of the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Particle Physics and Cosmology under Grant No. 22DZ2229013-3. The work of M. Ruan was also supported by the National Key Program for S&T Research and Development under Contract No. 2024YFA1610603. The work of H. Yang was also supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. W2441004.

Inspired by the observation of the ${\eta}_{t}$ meson at the LHC and the promising prospect of the ${\eta}_{t}$ meson available at the approaching HL-LHC, branching ratios for the ${\eta}_{t}$ ${\to}$ $f\bar{f}$ , $gg$ , ${\gamma}{\gamma}$ , $W^{+}W^{-}$ , $Z^{0}Z^{0}$ , $Z^{0}{\gamma}$ , and $Z^{0}H$ decays are roughly estimated. It is found that tens of opposite-charge dilepton events from the ${\eta}_{t}$ ${\to}$ $W^{+}W^{-}$ decay and hundreds of events from the ${\eta}_{t}$ ${\to}$ $Z^{0}H$ ${\to}$ ${\ell}^{+}{\ell}^{-}H$ decay using the single $Z^{0}$ boson tagging method are expected to be accessible. This estimation provides a reference for future experimental study on the ${\eta}_{t}$ meson.

Yueling Yang

Bingbing Yang

Jiazhi Li

Zhaojie Lü

Junfeng Sun

Searching for the toponium ${{\boldsymbol\eta}_{\boldsymbol t}}$ with the ${{\boldsymbol\eta}_{\boldsymbol t}}$ ${\boldsymbol\to}$ ${{\boldsymbol W}^{\bf +}{\boldsymbol W}^{\bf -}}$ decay * Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12275068, 12275067), the National Key R&D Program of China (2023YFA1606000), the Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province (252300421491, 242300420250), and the Science and Technology R&D Program Joint Fund Project of Henan Province (225200810030), as well as the Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talent Support Program of Henan Province (254200510039)

We construct, for the first time, new static non-extremal five-dimensional black hole solutions (without or with squashed horizons) endowing with four different electric charge parameters in the $\textit{D}$ = 5, $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2 supergravity coupled to $\textit{three}$ vector multiplets with a specific pre-potential $$ \mathcal{V} $$ = $\textit{STU}$ – $\textit{W}$ $\textit{U}$ ≡ 1. When the fourth charge parameter disappears, the solution simplify reduces to the three-charge static black hole solution previously presented in ref. [1], which belongs to the solution to the $\textit{D}$ = 5, $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2 supergravity coupled to $\textit{two}$ vector multiplets (also notably known as the $\textit{STU}$ model). We parameterize the model in such a simple fashion that not only can one easily recover the static three-charge solution but also it is very convenient to study their thermodynamical properties of the obtained black hole solutions in the case without a squashing horizon. We then show that the thermodynamical quantities perfectly obey both the differential first law and integral Smarr formula of thermodynamics. Finally, we also extend to present its generalizations with squashed horizons or including a nonzero cosmological constant.

Di Wu

Shuang-Qing Wu

Four-charge static non-extremal black holes in the five-dimensional $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2, $\textit{STU}$ − $\textit{W}$

In this paper, we investigate thermodynamical aspects of a novel static non-extremal black hole solution in the five-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) space carrying four independent electric charge parameters and with a negative cosmological constant, within the framework of $$D=5$$ , $$\mathcal {N}= 2$$ gauged supergravity coupled to three vector multiplets specified by the pre-potential $$\mathcal {V}= STU -W^2U \equiv 1$$ . A central outcome of our work is the demonstration that the thermodynamics of this solution consistently satisfies both the differential and integral forms of the mass formulae of black hole thermodynamics. When the fourth charge is set to zero, our configuration reduces to the known three-charge static non-extremal AdS $$_5$$ black hole within the gauged $\textit{STU}$ model, and its thermodynamic behavior connects smoothly to that limit. Finally, we also provide a brief discussion about topological classifications of its thermodynamics.

Thermodynamics and topological classifications of static non-extremal four-charge AdS black hole in the five-dimensional $$\mathcal {N}= 2$$ , $$STU-W^2U$$ gauged supergravity

Obtaining hadronic two-point functions is a central step in spectroscopy calculations in lattice QCD. This requires solving the Dirac equation repeatedly, which is computationally demanding. The distillation method addresses this difficulty by using the lowest eigenvectors of the spatial Laplacian to construct a subspace in which the Dirac operator can be fully inverted. This approach is efficient for nonlocal operators such as meson-meson and baryon-baryon operators. However, local multiquark operators with four or more (anti)quarks are computationally expensive in this framework: the cost of contractions scales with a high power of the number of Laplacian eigenvectors. We present a position-space sampling method within distillation that reduces this cost scaling by performing the momentum projection only over sparse grids rather than the full spatial lattice. We demonstrate the efficiency of this unbiased estimator for single-meson, single-baryon and local tetraquark operators. Using Wilson-clover fermions at the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>S</mi><mi>U</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>3</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math>-flavor-symmetric point, we apply this method to study the importance of local tetraquark operators for extracting the finite-volume <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi></mrow></msub><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>3875</mn><msup><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>+</mo></msup></math> spectrum. To this end, we extend a large basis of bilocal <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>D</mi><msup><mi>D</mi><mo>*</mo></msup></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msup><mi>D</mi><mo>*</mo></msup><msup><mi>D</mi><mo>*</mo></msup></math> scattering operators by including local tetraquark operators. The inclusion of local operators leads to significant shifts in the estimates of several energy levels. Finally, we show the effect of these shifts on the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>D</mi><msup><mi>D</mi><mo>*</mo></msup></math> scattering phase shift from a single-channel <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>s</mi></math>-wave Lüscher analysis.

Germany

Andres Stump

Jeremy R. Green

Position-space sampling for local multiquark operators in lattice QCD using distillation and the importance of tetraquark operators for <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi></mrow></msub><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>3875</mn><msup><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>+</mo></msup></math>

We propose an <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mi>AdS</mi><mo>×</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">S</mi></mrow></math> factorization formula at the level of the generating function for correlators with arbitrary Kaluza-Klein configurations and implement it in the supergravity limit of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mi mathvariant="script">N</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>4</mn></mrow></math> supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. By incorporating this mechanism into Mellin space bootstrap, together with an observed <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>Z</mi><mn>2</mn></msub></math> symmetry under <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mi>AdS</mi><mo stretchy="false">↔</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">S</mi></mrow></math>, we manage to simultaneously work out unified formulas both for all five-point half-BPS correlators and for all four-point correlators with one superdescendant. This <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mi>AdS</mi><mo>×</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">S</mi></mrow></math> bootstrap method is directly applicable to generic multipoint computation at tree level.

Portugal

Bruno Fernandes

Vasco Gonçalves

Zhongjie Huang

Yichao Tang

United Kingdom

Joao Vilas Boas

Ellis Ye Yuan

<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mi>AdS</mi><mo stretchy="false">×</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">S</mi></mrow></math> Mellin Bootstrap, Hidden 10d Symmetry and Five-Point Kaluza-Klein Functions in <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mi mathvariant="script">N</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>4</mn></mrow></math> Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

In this article, we investigate the proposed duality between the island and the defect extremal surface (DES) prescriptions using the fine-grained entanglement entropy in Karch-Randall (KR) brane-world models with gravitating radiation baths. We consider the AdS black string geometry and compute the entanglement entropy for radiation subsystems on an AdS eternal black hole background using both the island and the DES prescriptions. We find an agreement between the two proposals for the island and the no-island phases, thus verifying the validity of the proposed duality. We further extend to a $$ T\overline{T} $$ deformed AdS black string geometry with a cut-off and find consistent results for both phases. We finally plot and compare the Page curves for the undeformed and deformed scenarios, and discuss the modifications due to $$ T\overline{T} $$ deformation.

India

Ankur Dey

Entanglement, defects, and $$ T\overline{T} $$ on a black hole background

The first observation of single top quark production in association with a <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>W</mi></math> and a <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>Z</mi></math> boson in proton-proton collisions is reported. The analysis uses data at center-of-mass energies of 13 and 13.6 TeV recorded with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mn>200</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><msup><mi>fb</mi><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></math>. Events with three or four charged leptons, which can be electrons or muons, are selected. Advanced machine-learning algorithms and improved reconstruction methods, compared to an earlier analysis, result in an unprecedented sensitivity to <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>t</mi><mi>W</mi><mi>Z</mi></math> production. The measured cross sections for <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>t</mi><mi>W</mi><mi>Z</mi></math> production are <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mn>248</mn><mo>±</mo><mn>52</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><mi>fb</mi></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mn>242</mn><mo>±</mo><mn>77</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><mi>fb</mi></math> for <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msqrt><mi>s</mi></msqrt><mo>=</mo><mn>13</mn></math> and 13.6 TeV, respectively. The signal is established with a statistical significance of 5.8 standard deviations, with 3.5 expected, compared to the background-only hypothesis.

Armenia

A. Hayrapetyan

V. Makarenko

A. Tumasyan

Austria

W. Adam

J.W. Andrejkovic

L. Benato

T. Bergauer

M. Dragicevic

C. Giordano

P.S. Hussain

M. Jeitler

N. Krammer

A. Li

D. Liko

M. Matthewman

I. Mikulec

J. Schieck

R. Schöfbeck

D. Schwarz

M. Shooshtari

M. Sonawane

W. Waltenberger

C.E. Wulz

Belgium

T. Janssen

H. Kwon

D. Ocampo Henao

T. Van Laer

P. Van Mechelen

J. Bierkens

N. Breugelmans

J. D’Hondt

S. Dansana

A. De Moor

M. Delcourt

F. Heyen

Y. Hong

P. Kashko

S. Lowette

I. Makarenko

D. Müller

J. Song

S. Tavernier

M. Tytgat

G.P. Van Onsem

S. Van Putte

D. Vannerom

B. Bilin

B. Clerbaux

A.K. Das

I. De Bruyn

G. De Lentdecker

H. Evard

L. Favart

P. Gianneios

A. Khalilzadeh

F.A. Khan

A. Malara

M.A. Shahzad

L. Thomas

M. Vanden Bemden

C. Vander Velde

P. Vanlaer

F. Zhang

M. De Coen

D. Dobur

G. Gokbulut

J. Knolle

D. Marckx

K. Skovpen

N. Van Den Bossche

J. van der Linden

J. Vandenbroeck

L. Wezenbeek

S. Bein

A. Benecke

A. Bethani

G. Bruno

A. Cappati

J. De Favereau De Jeneret

C. Delaere

A. Giammanco

A.O. Guzel

V. Lemaitre

J. Lidrych

P. Malek

P. Mastrapasqua

S. Turkcapar

Brazil

G.A. Alves

M. Barroso Ferreira Filho

E. Coelho

C. Hensel

T. Menezes De Oliveira

C. Mora Herrera

P. Rebello Teles

M. Soeiro

E.J. Tonelli Manganote

A. Vilela Pereira

W.L. Aldá Júnior

H. Brandao Malbouisson

W. Carvalho

Observation of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mi>t</mi><mi>W</mi><mi>Z</mi></mrow></math> Production at the CMS Experiment

We investigate the potential of single-spin components of the spin-density matrix in the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo></msup><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><mi>t</mi><mover accent="true"><mi>t</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover></math> process at a future FCC-ee for probing heavy new physics parametrized using the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) framework. We consider the full spectrum of spin observables and the complete angular decomposition of the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>t</mi><mover accent="true"><mi>t</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover></math> production process in our study. We find that single-spin measurements generically provide stronger probes of SMEFT Wilson coefficients than measurements where the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>t</mi><mover accent="true"><mi>t</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover></math> spins are correlated, and that single-spin observables are important for resolving flat directions that can appear in the Wilson-coefficient parameter space.

United States

Haotian Cao

Frank Petriello

Single-spin measurements and heavy new physics in the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo></msup><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><mi>t</mi><mover accent="true"><mi>t</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover></math> process at an FCC-ee

Inspired by the observation of the doubly charmed tetraquark state <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi></mrow></msub></math> at <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>p</mi><mi>p</mi></math> collisions in the inclusive processes, we systematically investigate the production of doubly charmed tetraquark states in exclusive <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>B</mi><mi>c</mi></msub></math> decays. In this work, we assume the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi></mrow></msub></math> as a <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>D</mi><msup><mi>D</mi><mo>*</mo></msup></math> bound state, and then predict the masses of its heavy quark spin symmetry partner <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msup><mi>D</mi><mo>*</mo></msup><msup><mi>D</mi><mo>*</mo></msup></math> (denoted by <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msubsup><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi></mrow><mo>*</mo></msubsup></math>) as well as their SU(3)-flavor symmetry partners, i.e., <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>D</mi><mi>s</mi></msub><msup><mi>D</mi><mo>*</mo></msup><mo>/</mo><msubsup><mi>D</mi><mi>s</mi><mo>*</mo></msubsup><mi>D</mi></math> (denoted by <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msubsup><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi><mi>s</mi></mrow><mo>+</mo></msubsup></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msubsup><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi><mi>s</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>+</mo><mo>+</mo></mrow></msubsup></math>) and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msup><mi>D</mi><mo>*</mo></msup><msubsup><mi>D</mi><mi>s</mi><mo>*</mo></msubsup></math> (denoted by <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msubsup><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi><mi>s</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>*</mo><mo>+</mo></mrow></msubsup></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msubsup><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi><mi>s</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>*</mo><mo>+</mo><mo>+</mo></mrow></msubsup></math>), using the contact range effective field theory. Within the molecular picture, we compute their partial decay widths and production rates in <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>B</mi><mi>c</mi></msub></math> meson decays. We identify the decays <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>B</mi><mi>c</mi></msub><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><msup><mi>D</mi><mn>0</mn></msup><msup><mi>D</mi><mn>0</mn></msup><msup><mi>π</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mover accent="true"><mi>D</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover><mn>0</mn></msup></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>B</mi><mi>c</mi></msub><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><msubsup><mi>D</mi><mi>s</mi><mo>+</mo></msubsup><msup><mi>D</mi><mn>0</mn></msup><msup><mi>π</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>D</mi><mo>−</mo></msup></math> as promising channels to observe the tetraquark states <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msubsup><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi></mrow><mrow><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mo>*</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></msubsup></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msubsup><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi><mi>s</mi></mrow><mrow><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mo>*</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>+</mo><mo>+</mo></mrow></msubsup></math>, respectively. Finally, by combining these results with <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>B</mi><mi>c</mi></msub></math> production cross sections, we estimate the expected event yields for these states in the upcoming LHC Runs 3 and 4. Our results indicate that the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msubsup><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi><mi>s</mi></mrow><mo>+</mo></msubsup></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msubsup><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi><mi>s</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>*</mo><mo>+</mo><mo>+</mo></mrow></msubsup></math> states are likely to be observed in <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>B</mi><mi>c</mi></msub></math> decays, while it is quite difficult for the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi></mrow></msub></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msubsup><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi></mrow><mo>*</mo></msubsup></math> states.

Yi Zhang

Ming-Zhu Liu

Li-Sheng Geng

Productions of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>c</mi></mrow></msub></math> and its SU(3)-flavor symmetry and heavy quark spin symmetry partners in <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>B</mi><mi>c</mi></msub></math> decays