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These simulated samples are used for optimizing the selection strategy, but not for background estimation in the signal extraction, which is performed using the observed data. For all processes, the hard interactions are simulated with the NNPDF 3.1 set of parton dis- tribution functions (PDFs) at next-to-NLO (NNLO) accuracy [34], and the parton shower is simulated byPYTHIA, version 8.240 [35]. Pileup events are generated withPYTHIAand are added according to the expected pileup profile in the observed data. All generated events are passed through a GEANT4-based [36] simulation of the CMS detector and reconstructed using the same version of the CMS event reconstruction software used for collision data."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.03063","ref_index":29,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.88,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"From Information Geometry to Jet Substructure: A Triality of Cumulant Tensors, Energy Correlators, and Hypergraphs","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-05-04T18:33:01+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":7.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Higher-order Fisher tensors in exponential-family coordinates of binned energy correlators are simultaneously local KL coefficients, connected cumulants, and hyperedge weights, enabling hypergraph constructions for jet substructure analysis.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"method","top_context_polarity":"use_method","context_text":"Zaro. 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Simulated events from"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.02808","ref_index":95,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Third moments of nucleon unpolarized, polarized, and transversity parton distribution functions from physical-point lattice QCD","primary_cat":"hep-lat","submitted_at":"2026-05-04T16:46:12+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":7.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"First lattice QCD calculation at the physical pion mass of the isovector third moments of nucleon unpolarized, polarized, and transversity PDFs via forward matrix elements of local operators.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"baseline","top_context_polarity":"baseline","context_text":"Schmidt, D. Stump, and C. P. Yuan, New parton distribution functions from a global analysis of quantum chromodynamics, Phys. Rev. D93, 033006 (2016), arXiv:1506.07443 [hep-ph]. [94] L. A. Harland-Lang, A. D. Martin, P. Motylinski, and R. S. 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We use a fixed value for the electromagnetic cou- pling with 1/α=137.036. We derive the electroweak pa- rameters from the input ofα(M Z), electroweak mixing an- gle sin2 θW =0.2312, and theZ-boson massM Z =91.1876 GeV . We use the PDF setNNPDF31_nlo_as_0118_luxqed [51] provided by the LHAPDF library [52]. The running of the strong coupling is handled by the PDF set. Setting up the event generation with beam energies cor- responding to the HERA experiments, 27.5 GeV for the elec- tron and 920 GeV for the proton, we generate events with the three generators at process level; without parton show- ers, beam remnants or hadronization."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.28154","ref_index":40,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Mapping data sensitivities in global QCD analysis with linear response and influence functions","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-04-30T17:42:12+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":7.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"A framework based on linear response and influence functions maps data sensitivities in global QCD analyses to show how experiments determine central values, uncertainties, and correlations of non-perturbative functions.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"Del Debbio, S. 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We use a to- tal inelastic cross section of 69.2 mb [42] to estimate the expected number of pp interactions"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.27044","ref_index":69,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.88,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Improved results on Higgs boson pair production in the 4b final state","primary_cat":"hep-ex","submitted_at":"2026-04-29T17:54:15+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"CMS sets an observed upper limit of 4.4 on the HH signal strength μ_HH in the 4b final state at 13.6 TeV, improving prior LHC results by more than a factor of two in the resolved topology.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"method","top_context_polarity":"use_method","context_text":"The increase in center-of-mass energy from √s=13 TeV in Run 2 to 13.6 TeV in Run 3 raised the HH production cross section by about 10% [58]. 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The GEANT4 [70] package is used to model the response of the CMS detector, and simulated minimum bias pp interactions are mixed with the hard parton interactions in simulated events to model additional pp interactions within the same or nearby bunch crossings (pileup)."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.25678","ref_index":35,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.88,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Measurement of the Z $\\to$ $\\mu^+\\mu^-$ angular coefficients in pp collisions at $\\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV as functions of transverse momentum and rapidity","primary_cat":"hep-ex","submitted_at":"2026-04-28T14:08:50+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"New double-differential measurement of angular coefficients A0-A7 in Drell-Yan muon pair production in eight pT and two rapidity bins, compared to NNLO pQCD.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"method","top_context_polarity":"use_method","context_text":"To simulate the signal process, thePOWHEGv2.0 + MINNLO [31, 32] generator interfaced with PYTHIA8.240 [33] andPHOTOS++ [34] is used. By interfacing withPHOTOS++, quantum elec- trodynamics (QED) final state radiation (FSR) is considered at leading logarithmic precision, including matrix-element corrections and the effect of lepton pair production. The PDF set used is NNPDF3.1 [35] with the strong interaction coupling constant set toα S(mZ) =0.118, wherem Z is the mass of the Z boson. The Z boson event samples simulate all contributions to the dilepton final state, including those from virtual photons. For the Z boson production, the (Gµ, sin2 θeff W ,m Z) EW input scheme is used, whereG µ is the Fermi constant extracted from"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.25604","ref_index":43,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.88,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Search for electroweakinos in compressed-spectrum scenarios with low-momentum isolated tracks in proton-proton collisions at $\\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV","primary_cat":"hep-ex","submitted_at":"2026-04-28T13:09:44+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"No significant excess observed; 95% CL exclusion of higgsino electroweakinos with mass splittings 0.28-1.15 GeV and chargino masses up to 185 GeV using soft-track and neural-network selection.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"method","top_context_polarity":"use_method","context_text":"2 [37, 38], with up to four additional partons in the matrix element. ThePYTHIA8.240 [39] generator is used for parton showering, fragmenta- tion, and hadronization, with matching between jets from the matrix element and those from the parton shower. The CUETP8M1 [40] (CP5 [41]) underlying event tunes are used for back- ground samples, along with NNPDF3.0 LO [42] (NNPDF3.1 NNLO [43]) parton distribution functions for the 2016 (2017-2018) data-taking periods. Additional interactions in the same or adjacent bunch crossings (pileup) are generated withPYTHIAand added to the hard-scatter event in all simulated samples, with the multiplicity distribution matching that observed in data. Signal events are simulated at LO usingPYTHIA8."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.25538","ref_index":108,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.88,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Simultaneous measurements of $N$-subjettiness observables in jets from gluons and light-flavour quarks, and in decays of boosted W bosons and top quarks","primary_cat":"hep-ex","submitted_at":"2026-04-28T12:04:54+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":7.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"CMS reports a simultaneous measurement of 25 N-subjettiness observables in 1-, 2-, and 3-prong jets, unfolded to stable particles with particle-level correlations for QCD modeling.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"dataset","top_context_polarity":"use_dataset","context_text":"Uncertainty contributions from the former consider the varia- tion of the strong couplingα FSR S (Q2)used to model ISR and FSR, by independently varying the renormalization scaleQ 2 up and down by a factor of 2. For the latter, a combined uncertainty for the PDF andα S variations is computed following the PDF4LHC [107] recommendations, using the NNPDF3.1 set [108] for simulations. These include 100 MC replicas (which assume a central value forα S(m2 Z) =0.118 for the hard scatter) in the PDF set and variations of the central value ofα S(m2 Z) =0.118±0.0015 within its uncertainties. Finally, the uncertainty stemming from the choice of the parton shower and hadronization model used in simulations is estimated"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.24531","ref_index":47,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.88,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Search for associated production of a Higgs boson and two vector bosons via vector boson scattering at $\\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV","primary_cat":"hep-ex","submitted_at":"2026-04-27T14:30:10+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"CMS excludes κ_VV outside 0.40-1.60 at 95% CL and constrains κ_2W and κ_2Z using VBS events with a boosted Higgs to bb decay.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"method","top_context_polarity":"use_method","context_text":"1140/epjc/s10052-007-0490-5,arXiv:0706.2569. 12 [45] CMS Collaboration, \"Extraction and validation of a new set of CMS PYTHIA8 tunes from underlying-event measurements\",Eur. Phys. J. 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[49] CDF Collaboration, \"Measurement ofσB(W→eν)andσB(Z 0 →e +e−)in ¯ppcollisions"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.21857","ref_index":53,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Odd Physics Off the Diagonal: Constraining CP-violating SMEFT with Quantum Tomography","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-04-23T16:51:52+00:00","verdict":null,"verdict_confidence":null,"novelty_score":null,"formal_verification":null,"one_line_summary":null,"context_count":1,"top_context_role":"dataset","top_context_polarity":"use_dataset","context_text":"Quantum entanglement and Bell violation in Higgs Boson decays.https://ora. ox . ac . uk / objects / uuid : 1bbc0dde - 531b - 487f-817d-fa4bb16f23c2. Working paper, Ox- ford Research Archive (ORA). 2023. [52] Ilaria Brivio, Yun Jiang and Michael Trott. 'The SMEFTsim package, theory and tools'. In:JHEP12 (2017), p. 070.doi:10 . 1007 / JHEP12(2017)070. arXiv:1709.06492 [hep-ph]. [53] Ilaria Brivio. 'SMEFTsim 3.0 - a practical guide'. In:JHEP04 (2021), p. 073.doi:10 . 1007 / JHEP04(2021 ) 073. arXiv:2012 . 11343 [hep-ph]. [54] Kenneth G. Wilson. 'Non-Lagrangian models of current algebra'. In:Phys. Rev.179 (1969), pp. 1499-1512.doi:10 . 1103 / PhysRev . 179 . 1499. [55] W. Buchm¨ uller and D. Wyler. 'Effective Lag- rangian analysis of new interactions and fla-"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.20999","ref_index":49,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Search for dark matter produced in association with a dark Higgs boson decaying into a bottom quark-antiquark pair in proton-proton collisions at $\\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV","primary_cat":"hep-ex","submitted_at":"2026-04-22T18:41:48+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"New upper limits exclude mediator masses up to 4.5 TeV for a 50 GeV dark Higgs and up to 2.5 TeV for 150 GeV in a spin-1 mediator dark matter model, the most stringent to date for these masses.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"method","top_context_polarity":"use_method","context_text":"In all cases, parton showering, hadronization, and underlying event properties are modeled usingPYTHIA[45] version 8.202 or later with the underlying event tune CUETP8M1 or CP5 [46], based on the data-taking year. The simulation of the interactions between the par- ticles and the CMS detector is based on GEANT4 [47]. The NNPDF 3.0 [48] and NNPDF 3.1 [49] next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) parton distribution functions are used for the generation of all samples based on the year of data collection. The same reconstruction algorithms used for the data are applied to the simulated samples. This analysis considers the following SM vector boson plus jets processes: Z(→νν)+jets, re- ferred to as Z+jets; Z(→µµ,→ee)+jets, referred to as DY+jets; and W(→µν,→eν)+jets, re-"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.17564","ref_index":44,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Search for the single production of vector-like quarks decaying into a W boson and a b quark using single-lepton final states in proton-proton collisions at $\\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV","primary_cat":"hep-ex","submitted_at":"2026-04-19T18:10:43+00:00","verdict":"ACCEPT","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"No significant excess observed in search for vector-like quark single production to Wb, setting 95% CL upper limits on κ_W as low as 0.086 near 1.4 TeV mass and excluding masses below 2.4 TeV at κ_W=0.2.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"method","top_context_polarity":"use_method","context_text":"data, optimizing selection criteria for maximum signal sensitivity, and estimate backgrounds. Simulations with conditions appropriate for the 2016 data are generated using the NNPDF 3.0 parton distribution function (PDF) set at LO or next-to-LO (NLO) [43]. Simulations correspond- ing to the 2017-2018 conditions are produced using the NNPDF 3.1 PDF set at next-to-NLO (NNLO) [44]. The signal samples are generated at LO with MADGRAPH5 aMC@NLO2.3.3 [45, 46] covering them VLQ range from 0.7 to 2.4 TeV, in steps of 0.1 TeV. TheΓ VLQ value is fixed to 10 GeV for all masses, which is small compared to the experimental invariant mass resolution. The signal contributions are normalized using the cross sections from Refs. [17, 47]."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.14236","ref_index":29,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Search for heavy resonances decaying into four-lepton final states via light bosons in proton-proton collisions at $\\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV","primary_cat":"hep-ex","submitted_at":"2026-04-14T22:17:26+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"No significant excess observed in four-lepton events from heavy resonances, setting upper limits on production cross sections for dilepton masses 0.4-15 GeV using novel merged-object techniques.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"method","top_context_polarity":"use_method","context_text":"5 [23] with next-to-leading order matrix-element calculations. The ZZ→4ℓevents are generated usingPOWHEGv2.0 [24-27], with dilepton mass>1 GeV to prevent collinear di- vergence. All event generators are interfaced withPYTHIAusing the CP5 underlying event tune [28] to describe parton showering and hadronization. The NNPDF3.1 set of parton dis- tribution functions at next-to-next-to-leading order is used [29]. The detector response is sim- ulated using the GEANT4 [30] package. The effect of additional pp interactions in the same or adjacent bunch crossings (pileup) is incorporated into the simulation by including minimum bias pp interactions generated byPYTHIA. The simulated samples are reweighted to reproduce the same pileup distribution as measured in data."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.13320","ref_index":27,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Highly boosted dielectron identification in proton-proton collisions at $\\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV","primary_cat":"hep-ex","submitted_at":"2026-04-14T21:56:57+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"CMS develops two multivariate models for identifying boosted dielectrons with γ_L > 20, reporting 80% efficiency for two-track cases from J/ψ data and 60% for single-track from Z conversions, plus an energy correction.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"method","top_context_polarity":"use_method","context_text":"Lastly, Z→µ +µ−γevents are generated using thePOWHEGv2.0 framework with the MiNNLO parton shower scheme [23, 24]. The radiative correction for photons is addressed byPHOTOSv215.5 [25]. All event generators are interfaced withPYTHIAwith the CP5 underlying event tune [26] to describe parton showering and hadronization. The NNPDF3.1 set of parton distribution func- tions is used [27]. The detector response is simulated using the GEANT4 [28] package. The effect of additional proton-proton (pp) interactions in the same or adjacent bunch crossings (pileup) is incorporated into the simulation by including additional pp interactions that have been generated withPYTHIA. The simulated samples are reweighted to reproduce the pileup distribution equivalent to that of the mean number of interactions in data, as measured using"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.13157","ref_index":85,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Proton Structure from Neural Simulation-Based Inference at the LHC","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-04-14T18:00:00+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":8.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Neural simulation-based inference on unbinned top-quark pair data at 13 TeV yields improved gluon PDF precision over traditional binned analyses while incorporating experimental and theoretical uncertainties.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"dataset","top_context_polarity":"use_dataset","context_text":"DT implies that forNbasis elements, the reconstruction accuracy is a factorD T of the underlying PDF uncertainty averaged over theN T target gluon replicas andn x grid points. In the following, we consider theNT = 100 replicas of PDF4LHC21 NNLO set [42] in its Monte Carlo rep- resentation [84] as the target gluon PDFs. The rationale for this choice is that PDF4LHC21 is an unweighted combination of the CT18 [39], MSHT20 [40], and NNPDF3.1 [85] global PDF determinations, and hence the spread of its replicas for the gluon covers a broad range of results determined from recent phenomeno- logical analyses. Nevertheless, we have verified that our qualitative findings concerning the reconstruction accuracy of the linear model are unchanged if one uses instead different targets such as ABMP16 [37] or"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.12706","ref_index":84,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Measurement of the $W$-boson production cross-sections in $pp$ collisions at $\\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV in the forward region","primary_cat":"hep-ex","submitted_at":"2026-04-14T13:22:01+00:00","verdict":"ACCEPT","verdict_confidence":"MODERATE","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"LHCb measures forward W+ and W- production cross-sections of 1754.2 pb and 1178.1 pb at 13 TeV, agreeing with NNLO QCD predictions at higher precision than prior results.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"dataset","top_context_polarity":"use_dataset","context_text":"Reconstruction efficiency 0.33 0.33 Generator weight 0.27 0.52 QCD background 0.06 0.09 Selection efficiency 0.51 0.52 Smearing 0.02 0.03 FSR 0.10 0.15 Total Systematic (excl. lumi.) 0.68 0.83 Luminosity 2.00 2.00 Total 2.11 2.17 DYTurbo vs.Powheg + Pythia (NLO) predictions with/without unpolarized weights; and PDF uncertainties probed using NNPDF31 nnlo as 0118 [84], MSHT20nnlo as118 [85], and CT18NNLO [86] sets, with the envelope defining the systematic uncertainty. The asso- ciated uncertainty for W − is much larger than for W +, which is driven by the contribution from the highestη µ interval (see Tables 4-5). Systematic uncertainties in QCD background estimation comprise two components: the statistical uncertainty in data/simulation and misidentification fit parameters, assessed"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.12593","ref_index":54,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Precision measurement of the muon charge asymmetry from $W$-boson decays in $pp$ collisions at $\\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV in the forward region","primary_cat":"hep-ex","submitted_at":"2026-04-14T11:19:24+00:00","verdict":"ACCEPT","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Muon charge asymmetry from W decays is measured with highest precision in the forward region at 13 TeV and agrees with NNLO pQCD.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"baseline","top_context_polarity":"baseline","context_text":"The reconstruction efficiency uncertainties comprise the limited tag-and-probe sample size, the fit-function dependence, and the kinematic adjustments to pµ T thresholds and Z-boson mass-window definitions. Uncertainties from generator modeling include scale variations inDYTurbo, comparisons betweenDY- Turboand Powheg predictions, and PDF variations using MSHT20 [53], NNPDF31 [54], and CT18 [55] PDFs sets. Uncertainties from the smearing model used to correct the simulated muon momenta are propagated in the fit. Selection efficiency uncertainties arise from limited data and simulation sample size, binning-scheme-dependent event topology variations, and the Z-boson selection criteria definitions. Uncertainties from QCD background modeling arise from the fluctuations in the ratio of data to simulation"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.10738","ref_index":55,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Accessing gluon GTMD $F^g_{1,4}$ via the $\\langle\\sin(2\\phi)\\rangle$ azimuthal asymmetry of exclusive $\\pi^0$ production in $ep$ collisions","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-04-12T17:20:26+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"A light-front spectator model yields the first calculation of Im(F^g_{1,4}) and the resulting sin(2φ) asymmetry in ep → epπ⁰ at EIC kinematics.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"model parameters by fitting the unpolarized gluon PDF to the NNPDF 3.1 at an initial scale µ 0 = 2 GeV [ 51]. The model has previously been benchmarked against experimental con straints and theoretical requirements [ 52-56]. The reliability of this model relies on the consistency between model resu lts and experimental data [ 52-54] or theoretical constraints [ 55, 56]. The paper is organized as follows. In Sec. II, we introduce the kinematics of exclusive π 0 production in ep collisions and the parameterizations of relevant gluon TMDs and GTMDs. In Se c. III we derive expressions for the unpolarized and helicity PDFs, the gluon Sivers function, and the GTMD F g 1, 4 of gluons using the overlap representation of the"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.10732","ref_index":50,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"A search for microscopic black holes, string balls, and sphalerons in proton-proton collisions at $\\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV","primary_cat":"hep-ex","submitted_at":"2026-04-12T17:12:30+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"No evidence found; excludes semiclassical black holes below 8.4-11.4 TeV and string balls below 9.0-10.7 TeV at 95% CL, and caps the quark-quark sphaleron fraction above 9 TeV at 0.0034.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"method","top_context_polarity":"use_method","context_text":"fraction of all quark-quark interactions above the sphaleron energy thresholdEsph that undergo the sphaleron transition. The sphaleron samples were generated assumingp sph =1, which facilitates setting a limit on this factor. In all MC samples,PYTHIAv8.205 was used for hadronization with tune CP5 [49]. The par- ton distribution function (PDF) set used in simulation is NNPDF3.1 at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD [50]. Simulated minimum bias events are superimposed on the pri- mary collision to mimic the impact of additional interactions that occur in the same or adjacent bunch crossings (pileup) [51]. 4 Event reconstruction For this analysis, which focuses on searching for signals at the TeV scale, events are selected using an HLT criterion based on the scalar sum of transverse momenta of the reconstructed jets"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.10729","ref_index":46,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Search for a new heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a neutral scalar boson in proton-proton collisions at $\\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV","primary_cat":"hep-ex","submitted_at":"2026-04-12T17:02:10+00:00","verdict":"ACCEPT","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"No excess found in search for T' to top plus phi; excludes T' masses 0.85-1.3 TeV at 95% CL for SM Higgs case with 5% width, and sets cross-section limits as low as 0.1 fb.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"for checks of self-consistency of the background estimate and do not enter in the final likelihood model used to extract results. Hadronization and parton showering are simulated using thePYTHIA(version 8.240) soft- ware package [44]. The NNPDF3.1 [45] parton distribution functions (PDFs) at next-to-next- to-leading order accuracy are used with the CP5 [46] underlying event tune for all simulations. The CMS detector simulation is performed with GEANT4 [47]. To simulate the effect of pileup, additional simulated inelastic pp collisions are superimposed on the hard scattering process usingPYTHIA. Simulated samples are reweighted to correct the pileup simulation by using the total inelastic cross section of 69."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.09809","ref_index":77,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Particle transformers for identifying Lorentz-boosted Higgs bosons decaying to a pair of W bosons","primary_cat":"hep-ex","submitted_at":"2026-04-10T18:33:27+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"PaRT achieves >50% tagging efficiency for boosted H->WW jets at 1% background efficiency, decorrelated from jet mass, with data-to-simulation scale factors of 0.9-1.0 on 138 fb^{-1} of 13 TeV collisions.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"method","top_context_polarity":"use_method","context_text":"normalized to the prediction at next-to-NNLO (N 3LO) in QCD with the same N 3LO/LO cor- rection applied to all other couplings. For all processes in this paper, the parton showering, hadronization, and underlying event interactions are simulated usingPYTHIA8.205 [62] with the CP5 [75] tune. The parton distribu- tion functions used correspond to those from NNPDF 3.0 [76] and 3.1 [77]. The response of the CMS detector is modeled with the GEANT4 package [78], with pileup included by overlaying simulated minimum bias interactions on the hard scattering process. 5 The PART algorithm The PART algorithm is an AK8 jet tagger that incorporates a dedicated H→WW classification node while achieving decorrelation with the jet mass. It is a self-attention-based model that is"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.09485","ref_index":46,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Threshold Top-Quark Pair-Production: Cross Sections and Key Uncertainties","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-04-10T16:51:37+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":3.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Near-threshold top-quark pair production cross section at 13 TeV LHC is 11.67 pb with +1.43/-1.47 pb uncertainty, including NRQCD Green's function effects and comparison to POWHEG-BOX.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"dataset","top_context_polarity":"use_dataset","context_text":"variations around the central value, comparing results form t =172.5GeV with those form t = 171.5GeV and 173.5GeV. Top-quark width:For the top widthΓ t, we vary it by±0.05GeV around its central value of 1.36GeV, and the impact of this variation is confirmed to be small. PDF variation:We also consider other PDF sets, such as ABMP16als118_5_nnlo [45], CT18_NNLO [46], MSHT20_nnlo_as_118 [47], NNPDF3.0_nnlo_as_118 [48], and NNPDF4.0_nnlo_as_118 [49], each with their respectiveα s(MZ) andm t values, see Sec. III F for details. We estimate PDF uncertainties using the envelope of different sets with the sameαs(MZ) 2 Note that the full NNLO Green's function is divergent; this aspect is yet to be fully implemented."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.05996","ref_index":35,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Search for soft unclustered energy patterns produced in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at $\\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV","primary_cat":"hep-ex","submitted_at":"2026-04-07T15:21:23+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"No significant excess is observed in leptonic W/Z plus high-multiplicity soft-particle events, setting limits on Higgs to SUEP decays across a range of model parameters.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"method","top_context_polarity":"use_method","context_text":"(NLO). 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