{"id":"c9edd2d0-68f7-4137-82e7-420d9f54f05c","arxiv_id":"hep-ph/0506296","paper_version":3,"verdict":"CONDITIONAL","confidence":"MODERATE","novelty_score":6.0,"correctness_risk":"medium","formal_verification":"none","parameter_count":4,"one_line_summary":"In supersymmetric SO(10) with broken D-parity, an induced left-handed triplet vacuum expectation value cancels the B-L scale out of the neutrino mass formula, so the B-L scale can be TeV while neutrino masses stay small.","lead":"A new way to give neutrinos mass inside a unified supersymmetric SO(10) model lets the symmetry-breaking scale that controls neutrino masses sit as low as a few TeV. If correct, a new neutral gauge boson and heavy neutral leptons could be produced at the LHC and drive observable lepton-flavour violation.","discovery_kind":"unclear","skeptic_critique":{"model":"selfhosted/deepseek-v4.1-flash","headline":"The vR cancellation in Eq. (7) is algebraically sound and, within Eq. (9), robust: every F-term contribution to vL scales as vR. The sharper residual gap is the asserted μ = 0, whose contribution to Mν scales as μ(v/vR)² and grows as vR falls.","rationale":"The central algebraic claim is sound: substituting vL = ρ vR v / M16 into Eq. (6) and integrating out the heavy νc-S block gives Mν ∝ (v²/M16) ρ [Y F̃^{-T} F^T + F F̃^{-T} Y^T], linear in Y and independent of vR (up to transposition, as the figure caption notes). The reader's weakest_assumption is in the right neighborhood but is too strong: corrections to vL that scale as vR preserve the cancellation, and all terms in Eq. (9) do scale as vR. The sharper residual gap is the μ = 0 assertion, which the reader mentions but mischaracterizes as spoiling vL ∝ vR; it is a separate contribution to the mass matrix whose size grows as vR falls. The paper's U(1)_X argument for μ suppression is plausible but not quantitative, so the 'neutrino mass magnitude' prong at low vR is not fully established. The gauge-unification prong is checkable (b-coefficients and the anomalous-dimension matrix are given) but is shown only at one loop and only in figures without quoted numbers; that is a reproducibility gap, not a correctness error. The fine-tuning of the light (1,1,3,0) admixture is a naturalness concern, not a correctness concern. None of these overturns the mechanism, so the verdict should remain CONDITIONAL rather than move to ACCEPT or REJECT. The falsifiable handles (TeV Z', heavy leptons, LFV rates) are a genuine strength and are what make the proposal worth pursuing.","tokens_in":9422,"tokens_out":21968,"duration_ms":394641,"concrete_test":"Identify the leading U(1)_X-violating operator in the E6 setup that generates the 1_F 1_F bilinear, estimate μ for vR = 1 TeV and MX = MG, and check whether μ(v/vR)² < 0.05 eV. If the leading operator gives μ > eV, the low-vR scenario requires a new fine-tuning and the central claim weakens.","verdict_should_be":"CONDITIONAL","load_bearing_attack":"The reader's weakest_assumption targets the vL ∝ vR relation of Eq. (5). That concern is real but overstated. Every term in the superpotential of Eq. (9) that can contribute to the F-term of the (1,2,1,∓1) component of 16_H — the M16 16 16, ρ 16 16 10, σ 16 16 45, and ω 16 16 210 terms — carries a factor of a 16_H VEV, hence scales as vR. A vR-independent piece would require a term like 16 10 10, which is absent from Eq. (9). So the cancellation is more robust than the reader states, and the schematic '+ . . .' in the F-term is unlikely to hide a spoiler. The sharper gap is the μ = 0 assertion. The paper writes 'From now on we will neglect μ' and justifies it qualitatively via U(1)_X charge arguments, but does not identify the leading operator generating the 1_F 1_F bilinear or estimate its coefficient. In the 3x3 mass matrix of Eq. (6) with a nonzero (3,3) entry μ, the light mass acquires an additional term -μ(v/vR)² Y F̃^{-2} Y^T. For vR = 1 TeV this is ~0.03 μ, so consistency with the observed ~0.05 eV requires μ below roughly an eV. The paper's U(1)_X argument plausibly gives strong suppression, but without the operator analysis the bound is not established. This is load-bearing because it directly threatens the 'neutrino mass magnitude' prong at low vR, the regime the paper claims to open up.","agreement_with_reader":"partial"},"referee_report":{"model":"selfhosted/deepseek-v4.1-flash","summary":"The manuscript proposes a variant of the inverse seesaw within a supersymmetric SO(10) model with broken D-parity. The central observation is that the induced VEV of the left-handed triplet contained in 16_H, vL ≃ ρ vR v / M16 (Eq. 5), is proportional to the B-L breaking scale vR, so that when substituted into the three-generation mass matrix of Eq. (6) the vR dependence cancels and the light neutrino mass is suppressed by the unification scale rather than by vR (Eq. 7). The authors argue that this permits vR to be as low as a few TeV without conflict with gauge coupling unification or with the observed neutrino mass scale, and they sketch a symmetry-breaking chain SU(2)_R ⊗ U(1)_{B-L} → U(1)_R ⊗ U(1)_{B-L} → U(1)_Y with an intermediate scale VR ≳ 10^14 GeV, giving explicit one-loop b-coefficients and a 2×2 matrix of anomalous dimensions (Eq. 10). The phenomenological payoff advertised is a TeV-scale Z', quasi-Dirac heavy leptons at vR, and potentially observable lepton-flavour and CP violation.","tokens_in":9868,"tokens_out":9632,"duration_ms":185362,"significance":"If correct, the mechanism is a genuine addition to the model-building literature: it decouples the B-L breaking scale from the neutrino mass scale in a unified SO(10) setting, in contrast to both the canonical and the standard inverse seesaw. The algebraic step from Eqs. (5) and (6) to Eq. (7) is short, explicit, and checkable, and the resulting formula is linear in the Dirac Yukawa coupling, which is a distinctive signature. The paper also earns credit for supplying the one-loop ingredients needed to check the unification claim (the b-coefficients b3 = -3, bL = 1, bR = 4, bB-L = 20 and the anomalous-dimension matrix of Eq. 10) rather than merely asserting unification, and for stating falsifiable low-energy consequences (a TeV-scale neutral gauge boson, TeV-scale quasi-Dirac neutral leptons, enhanced μ → eγ). The D-parity-breaking chain with a light (1,1,3,0) admixture from 45 ⊕ 210 is a more economical alternative to the three-copy construction of Deshpande et al. [14], and the paper says so explicitly.","major_comments":[{"comment":"The texture zero in the (3,3) entry of Eq. (6) is imposed by assertion: 'From now on we will neglect μ.' The justification offered is qualitative, via U(1)_X charges in an E6 embedding, and no operator analysis or numerical bound is given. This is load-bearing for the central claim, because a nonzero μ contributes to the light mass the standard inverse-seesaw term of the authors' own Eq. (3), of order μ (v/vR)^2 (Y F̃^{-1})^2. For vR = 1 TeV and v = 174 GeV this is approximately 0.03 μ, so consistency with the atmospheric scale of about 0.05 eV requires μ below roughly an eV. The paper should identify the leading operator that generates the 1_F 1_F bilinear, estimate its coefficient in terms of the cut-off and the U(1)_X breaking scale, and state explicitly the resulting upper bound on μ as a function of vR. Without that, the 'required magnitude of the light neutrino masses' prong of the abstract is not established in the low-vR regime that the paper claims to open.","section":"Eq. (6) and the paragraph beginning 'First note that there are several mechanisms...' (p. 2)","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The paper states that 'the scale of neutrino masses can be adjusted by choosing appropriately the value of the cubic scalar sector coupling constant ρ' but never states the required size of ρ. With MG ≈ 10^16 GeV and v = 174 GeV, the prefactor v^2/MG is about 3 meV, so reproducing the atmospheric scale of about 0.05 eV requires ρ of order 10-20 for Y and F F̃^{-1} of order unity. That is a quantitatively significant input, not a free dial, and it should be stated together with a check that it remains in the perturbative regime and does not destabilize the scalar potential. Relatedly, Eq. (5) is suppressed by M16 while Eq. (7) is written with MG; the relation between M16 and MG (and which mass parameter actually controls the suppression if there are several 16_H copies) should be made explicit.","section":"Eq. (7) and the discussion immediately following it (p. 2)","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The claim that 'the vR scale does not affect the predicted value of α1^{-1}(MZ)' is supported only by two figures, with no numerical values of MG, VR, αG^{-1}, or the resulting α1^{-1}(MZ) quoted in the text, and no analytic argument. The reader cannot verify the vR-independence from Eq. (10) alone, because the matching condition αY^{-1}(vR) = (3/5)αR^{-1}(vR) + (2/5)α'^{-1}_{B-L}(vR) involves a fixed combination of the two U(1) couplings, and vR-independence requires that this combination be an eigenvector of the anomalous-dimension matrix with the MSSM eigenvalue 33/5. The paper should either exhibit that eigenvector argument explicitly, with its normalization conventions, or state the numerical range over which the insensitivity holds. The lower bound VR ≳ 10^14 GeV is likewise quoted without derivation and should be shown to follow from the stated b-coefficients.","section":"Eq. (10) and Figs. 2-3 (pp. 3-4)","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The paper verifies only the overall scale of the light neutrino mass and does not show that the three-generation matrix of Eq. (7) can reproduce the observed mass splittings and mixing angles. Since Eq. (7) is a sum of two terms linear in Y and in F F̃^{-1}, its rank and texture are constrained, and a short existence proof (for instance, a representative choice of Y, F, F̃, ρ giving the two measured splittings and a viable mixing pattern) would substantiate the claim that the mechanism is consistent with oscillation data rather than merely with the mass scale. If the authors intend only a scale argument, the abstract and the concluding paragraph should say so explicitly.","section":"Eq. (7) (p. 2)","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null}],"minor_comments":[{"comment":"The displayed relation reads 'vL ≃ ρ vRvM16' in the manuscript; it should presumably be vL ≃ ρ vR v / M16. Please correct the typography and confirm the dimension.","section":"Eq. (5)","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The protection of the (1,1) and (2,2) texture zeros is discussed only in passing. A sentence stating which symmetry (U(1)_R, U(1)_X, or matter parity) forbids each entry, and at what operator dimension, would make the structure of Eq. (6) easier to check.","section":"Eq. (6)","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The statement that heavy-lepton exchange 'can induce flavour violating processes, like μ → eγ with potentially very large rates' is not quantified. A rough estimate, or an explicit reference to the corresponding calculation in Refs. [10,11] with the parameters of this model, would make the phenomenological claim assessable.","section":"Conclusions (p. 4)","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The comparison with Barr et al. and Fukuyama et al. [22] is appropriately disclosed, but the statement that the present mechanism 'differs crucially from all of the previous in that our B-L scale can be very low' would be more useful if it named the structural reason (the vL ∝ vR relation of Eq. 5) rather than only the phenomenological consequence.","section":"Note added (p. 4)","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"Dimension-five proton decay mediated by the 10_H multiplet is not discussed. Given that the paper invokes matter parity to forbid dimension-four operators, a sentence on the dimension-five rate, or a reference establishing that it is under control in this class of models, would be appropriate.","section":"Model content (p. 3)","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The caption says the diagram gives the mass 'up to transposition'; the sense in which the transpose is equivalent (given that the light mass matrix is symmetric) should be stated.","section":"Fig. 1 caption","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The term 'quasi-Dirac heavy leptons' should be defined at first use: in Eq. (6) the νc-S pair is Dirac at leading order with a splitting induced by the vL entry, and the size of that splitting relative to the mass F̃ vR should be stated.","section":"Abstract and p. 4","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The entry 'F. Deppisch and J. W. F. Valle, hep-ph/0406040, to appear in PRD' should be updated to its published form if it has appeared by the time of revision.","section":"Reference [10]","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null}],"recommendation":"major_revision","confidential_remarks":"The algebraic core of the paper is sound and the mechanism is a legitimate contribution. My recommendation turns on two quantitative gaps that the authors can close within the scope of a revised manuscript: the μ = 0 assertion, which is the sharper threat to the low-vR regime, and the required size of ρ, which the paper treats as freely adjustable. The gauge-unification section would also benefit from an analytic demonstration of the claimed vR-independence rather than two figures. The novelty relative to Barr et al. and Fukuyama et al. is disclosed in the Note added, which is appropriate."},"author_rebuttal":null,"desk_editor":{"model":"selfhosted/deepseek-v4.1-flash","letter":"The thing to take away: they have found a way to make the B-L scale drop out of the light neutrino mass entirely, so vR can sit at a TeV without wrecking either unification or the neutrino mass scale. That is a structural result, not a refit, and it is the reason to read the paper. The mechanism is short and checkable. In SUSY SO(10) the 16_H picks up an induced left-handed VEV vL ≈ ρ vR v / M16 from its F-terms. Feed that into the 3x3 matrix in the νL, νcL, SL basis and the vR in the ν-S entry cancels against the vR in the νc-S entry, leaving Mν ∝ (v²/MG) ρ [Y(FF̃⁻¹)^T + transpose]. Linear in Y, suppressed by MG, independent of vR. That is genuinely different from both the canonical and the inverse seesaw, and I do not see it in Ref. [9] or in the SO(10) breaking papers [15-17]. The unification section is the part I would actually redo, and I can: they give the chain SU(2)_R⊗U(1)_{B-L} → U(1)_R⊗U(1)_{B-L} → U(1)_Y with VR ≫ vR, the light spectrum at each stage, b = (-3, 1, 4, 20), and the mixed anomalous dimension matrix. That is a cleaner answer than Deshpande et al's three pushed-down (1,1,2,±1) copies, and they say so. Where it is soft: the μ = 0 step is asserted, not bounded. They wave at U(1)_X charges and move on. But the μ entry feeds the light mass at order μ(v/vR)², so at vR = 1 TeV you need μ below roughly an eV. That is the prong of the abstract claim that actually needs an operator analysis, and it is not there. I would push on that first. The reader's worry about vL ∝ vR is, I think, overstated: every F-term contribution to that VEV carries a 16_H VEV, so it scales as vR, and a vR-independent piece would need a 16 10 10 term that is absent from the superpotential. Smaller items: ρ is chosen to fit the mass scale, which they admit; the unification claim rests on two figures with no numbers quoted and one loop only; and the light (1,1,3,0) admixture needs fine-tuning they criticize others for but do not quantify. Worth a referee. The mechanism is clean, the falsifiable handles (TeV Z', quasi-Dirac leptons, LFV) are concrete, and the μ gap is fixable in revision.","headline":"A clean structural result — the B-L scale cancels from the light neutrino mass — with one load-bearing gap: μ = 0 is asserted rather than bounded.","tokens_in":10604,"tokens_out":1764,"would_cite":true,"duration_ms":31822,"reading_group":"maybe","serious_thinker":"yes","would_accept_peer_review":true},"pith_extraction":{"msc":[],"pacs":["12.10.-g","12.60.-i","12.60.Jv","14.60.St"],"model":"selfhosted/deepseek-v4.1-flash","headline":"In a supersymmetric SO(10) model with broken D-parity, the B-L breaking scale cancels out of the light neutrino mass formula, so that scale can sit at a few TeV while neutrinos stay as light as observed.","keywords":["seesaw mechanism","supersymmetric SO(10)","D-parity breaking","B-L gauge boson","neutrino masses","gauge coupling unification","quasi-Dirac heavy leptons","lepton flavour violation"],"falsifier":"A computation of the next-to-leading corrections to $v_L$ in the superpotential of Eq. (9), together with a two-loop renormalization-group analysis using the actual light spectrum, would show whether the proportionality of $v_L$ to $v_R$ survives well enough to keep the $B-L$ scale at a TeV; on the experimental side, a Drell-Yan search at the LHC that excludes a TeV-scale neutral gauge boson with these $B-L$ couplings, or a $μ$ to $e γ$ measurement below the rate the TeV-scale heavy leptons would induce, would remove the scenario's observable consequences.","tokens_in":23585,"feed_emoji":"⚛️","tokens_out":4911,"duration_ms":117761,"temperature":0.7,"pith_summary":"The paper asks how low the scale of $B-L$ breaking can be. In the standard seesaw, light neutrino masses are inversely proportional to the scale of the heavy neutral fermions, so a low scale means heavy neutrinos that are not heavy and neutrino masses that come out too large. The authors construct a supersymmetric $SO(10)$ model in which the singlet neutrinos $S$ and the right-handed neutrinos $ν^c$ get their mass from the vacuum expectation value $v_R$ of a Higgs field $χ_R$, and they show that a second, induced vacuum expectation value $v_L$ for the left-handed partner $χ_L$ is proportional to $v_R$ through the $F$-term conditions. Inserting that relation into the $3$ by $3$ mass matrix makes $v_R$ cancel identically, leaving a neutrino mass suppressed by the unification scale $M_G$ alone. If this holds, the $B-L$ scale is a free parameter set only by gauge coupling unification, and the model predicts a possibly light neutral gauge boson and quasi-Dirac heavy leptons within reach of the LHC.","feed_headline":"Neutrino masses survive B-L breaking down to a few TeV","feed_subtitle":"A cancellation in supersymmetric SO(10) makes the seesaw scale-free, leaving a TeV gauge boson and light heavy leptons in reach.","key_machinery":"The load-bearing object is the induced vacuum expectation value $⟨χ_L⟩ ≡ v_L ≃ ρ v_R v / M_{16}$, read off from the $F$-term condition of the $(1,2,1,∓1)$ component of $16_H$ in the superpotential $W_H$. It converts the $S$ to $ν_L$ entry of the neutrino mass matrix from an independent parameter into a quantity strictly proportional to $v_R$, which is exactly what cancels the $ν^c$ to $S$ entry in the determinant and yields a mass depending only on $v^2/M_G$. The second piece of machinery is the two-step breaking chain with broken D-parity, in which a light admixture of $(1,1,3,0)$ from $45_H$ and $210_H$ breaks $SU(2)_R$ at $V_R$ well above $10^{14}$ GeV while a light component of $16_H$ plus its conjugate breaks $U(1)_R ⊗ U(1)_{B-L}$ at $v_R$, keeping the unification prediction for $α_1^{-1}(M_Z)$ insensitive to $v_R$.","core_discovery":"The central claim is that in a supersymmetric $SO(10)$ theory with broken D-parity, the light neutrino mass is suppressed by the unification scale rather than by the $B-L$ breaking scale. The mechanism is a cancellation. In the basis $(ν_L, ν^c_L, S_L)$ the mass matrix has a $ν^c$ to $S$ entry $F v_R$ generated by $⟨χ_R⟩$, and an $S$ to $ν_L$ entry $F v_L$ generated by the left-handed partner $χ_L$. Supersymmetry ties the two: the $F$-term for the $(1,2,1,∓1)$ component of $16_H$ forces $v_L ≃ ρ v_R v / M_{16}$ once $χ_R$ and the electroweak doublets take vacuum expectation values. Substituting this into the mass matrix gives $M_ν ≃ (v^2/M_G) ρ [Y (F F_{inv})^T + (F F_{inv}) Y^T]$, in which $v_R$ no longer appears. Two features distinguish this from the ordinary and inverse seesaw: the result is linear, not quadratic, in the Dirac Yukawa couplings $Y$, and the overall scale can be tuned by the cubic Higgs coupling $ρ$ and by the ratio of $F$ to its partner coupling, which tends to one when there is a single $16_H$ plus its conjugate. The authors also show that gauge coupling unification tolerates this, provided the breaking is staged as $SU(2)_R ⊗ U(1)_{B-L}$ to $U(1)_R ⊗ U(1)_{B-L}$ to $U(1)_Y$ with $V_R$ much greater than $v_R$, so that the $v_R$ scale drops out of the prediction for $α_1^{-1}(M_Z)$ at one loop.","pith_inferences":["The cancellation is a structural statement about one superpotential, not a symmetry: if the $ν$ to $S$ entry ever received a contribution not proportional to $v_R$, the suppression by $M_G$ would degrade to suppression by that new scale, so the mechanism's reach is set by how well the proportionality can be protected.","Because the mass formula is linear in $Y$ rather than quadratic, the model's neutrino mass ratios trace the Dirac Yukawa matrix more directly than in the ordinary seesaw, which in principle makes the pattern of mixing angles a sharper discriminant between this scheme and its relatives.","A TeV-scale $B-L$ boson with these couplings would also mediate rare decays and matter effects; the same parameter space that makes $μ$ to $e γ$ large tends to make the $Z'$ width and Drell-Yan cross section large, so a null LHC search and a null flavour-violation search constrain the scenario from two sides at once.","The paper sets the singlet mass $μ$ to zero by invoking an unbroken $U(1)$ factor from an $E_6$ embedding; if that factor is broken at any scale, a nonzero $μ$ re-enters the mass matrix and the question becomes whether the resulting contribution stays subleading to the $v^2/M_G$ term."],"forward_implications":["The $B-L$ breaking scale can be as low as a few TeV, so a new neutral gauge boson with $B-L$ couplings may be light enough to be produced at the LHC through the Drell-Yan process.","The heavy neutrinos of the mass matrix get their masses at $v_R$ and can be relatively light quasi-Dirac states at the TeV scale rather than superheavy.","Exchange of those TeV-scale states can induce lepton flavour and CP violating processes, such as $μ$ to $e γ$, at rates comparable to the inverse seesaw.","Gauge coupling unification survives because the two-stage breaking makes the prediction for $α_1^{-1}(M_Z)$ independent of $v_R$ at one loop, leaving $V_R$ above about $10^{14}$ GeV as the only constrained intermediate scale."],"supporting_citations":[{"why":"Supplies the dimension-five operator that defines the neutrino mass problem the model must reproduce.","marker":"[1]"},{"why":"The inverse seesaw with singlet fermions, the template whose three-by-three mass texture the paper reshapes into an $SO(10)$ setting.","marker":"[9]"},{"why":"Establishes that lepton flavour and CP violation can be large at low seesaw scales, the phenomenological payoff the paper claims to inherit.","marker":"[10]"},{"why":"Shows the $SU(2)_R ⊗ U(1)_{B-L}$ breaking scale can be arbitrarily low with suitable light multiplets, the unification precedent the paper improves on.","marker":"[14]"},{"why":"Provides the D-parity breaking pattern in $SO(10)$ with asymmetric particle content that permits unequal left and right couplings below the unification scale.","marker":"[15]"},{"why":"Further development of the D-parity breaking vacuum structure used to set up the intermediate scales.","marker":"[16]"},{"why":"Supplies the low-energy input values of the three gauge coupling inverses used in the unification analysis.","marker":"[18]"},{"why":"The reference point for the minimally fine-tuned supersymmetric $SO(10)$ unification behaviour against which the $V_R$ bound is judged.","marker":"[21]"}],"fun_headline_variants":["Seesaw cancellation frees neutrino mass from the B-L scale","D-parity breaking lets B-L sit at the TeV scale","SO(10) seesaw drops v_R from the neutrino mass formula","Light neutrinos coexist with a TeV-scale B-L boson","Gauge unification survives a TeV-scale B-L"],"cache_read_input_tokens":0,"weakest_assumption_plain":"The cancellation depends on the induced vacuum expectation value relation $v_L ≃ ρ v_R v / M_{16}$ holding exactly at leading order, with no extra contribution to the $ν$ to $S$ entry from additional Higgs copies, from the singlet mass $μ$ the paper sets to zero, or from higher-order superpotential terms.","fun_headline_variants_meta":{"raw":{"variants":["Seesaw cancellation frees neutrino mass from the B-L scale","D-parity breaking lets B-L sit at the TeV scale","SO(10) seesaw drops v_R from the neutrino mass formula","Light neutrinos coexist with a TeV-scale B-L boson","Gauge unification survives a TeV-scale B-L"]},"model":"selfhosted/deepseek-v4.1-flash","effort":"low","attempts":1,"cost_usd":0.0,"raw_usage":{"total_tokens":1402,"prompt_tokens":1029,"completion_tokens":373,"prompt_tokens_details":null,"completion_tokens_details":{"reasoning_tokens":297}},"tokens_in":1029,"tokens_out":373,"duration_ms":6048,"image_pages":[],"temperature":1.0,"reasoning_budget":50,"reasoning_tokens":297,"transport_provider":"selfhosted","cache_read_input_tokens":0,"cache_creation_input_tokens":0},"cache_creation_input_tokens":0},"created_at":"2026-10-29T16:14:33.919633+00:00","model_set":{"reader":"selfhosted/deepseek-v4.1-flash"},"falsifier":"A computation of the next-to-leading corrections to $v_L$ in the superpotential of Eq. 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