The branching fraction of the electromagnetic Dalitz decay $D_s^{*+}\to e^{+}{e}^{-}{D}_s^{+}$ is measured with an $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ collision data sample collected by the BESIII experiment at center-of-mass energies between 4.128 and 4.226 GeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of $7.33{\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$. The measurement yields the b…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 052010] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

We study the sensitivity of the Compact Linear Collider at $\sqrt{s}=3\mathrm{TeV}$ to the single electroweak production of a vectorlike bottom quark in a type II two-Higgs-doublet model extended by vectorlike quarks. We consider the process $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to B\overline{b}+\overline{B}b$, followed by $B\to \varphi b$ with $\varphi =H$, $A$ and $\varphi \to t\overline{t}$. We focus on the semi…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 053006] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

We introduce a novel approach to high-energy QCD factorization of cross sections for processes involving a dilute projectile and a dense target. Our method preserves the factorization between “fast” and “slow” modes in the longitudinal momentum $k^{+}$ for a projectile moving along the positive light con…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054029] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

We implement a finite-energy constraint in the dipole picture of deep inelastic scattering, by restricting the invariant mass of the produced partonic system by the virtual photon-target center of mass energy. We show that, for $Q^2=1{\mathrm{GeV}}^2$, the effect of this constraint can reach up to $\sim 35\%$ for charm…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054030] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

The dynamically correlated quark-diquark system $q+(qq)$ is describing the nucleon as relativistic bound state. This approach has a close analogy with nonrelativistic few-body physics. In particular, a similar ansatz, $\alpha +(2\alpha )$, was previously applied to the study of the $0_2^{+}$ three-$\alpha$ state of the ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}$ nucl…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054031] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

We propose a general framework in which a phase transition is triggered during cosmic inflation by the slow-roll dynamics of a spectator field. The topological defects formed at the transition are inflated outside the horizon, reenter it after inflation, and can subsequently generate characteristic …

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055008] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Large numbers of $J/\psi$ mesons can be resonantly produced at BESIII and STCF at the center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=3.097\mathrm{GeV}$. Such $J/\psi$ mesons may undergo rare decays into an axionlike particle (ALP) $a$ and a dark photon ${\gamma }^{\prime }$ through the dark axion portal. We investigate the exclusion reach of the existing BESII…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055027] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 059901] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Glitches frequently contaminate data in gravitational wave detectors, complicating the observation and analysis of astrophysical signals. This work introduces VIGILant, an automatic pipeline for classification and visualization of glitches in the Virgo detector. Using a curated dataset of Virgo O3b …

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 062008] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

We compute the weak gravitational deflection of light by a neutron star that carries a self-consistent dark matter component, in the regime in which the dark matter forms an extended halo reaching beyond the baryonic surface. Two observations motivate this configuration. First, a dark matter core co…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063033] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

The void probability function (VPF) is the likelihood of finding no tracers (galaxies or dark-matter haloes) within a given volume, and is sensitive to the large-scale matter distribution in the Universe. In this work, we investigate the VPF of dark matter haloes and galaxies using the quijote N-bod…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063513] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

As the number of confident gravitational-wave detections grows, population-level hierarchical analyses face increasing computational costs. Dark-siren cosmological inference integrates over the localisation volume of each gravitational-wave source. To remain feasible without discarding information f…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063528] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

We perform a search for binary black hole mergers with one subsolar mass (SSM) black hole and a primary component above $\sim 2M_{\odot }$ in data from the second observing run (O2) of the LIGO-Virgo detectors. Our analysis extends the parameter space explored by previous LIGO-Virgo Collaboration searches for bin…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063529] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected via gravitational waves are addressing key open questions in astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics. Our scientific conclusions rely on extracting accurate source parameters, for which we require accurate signal modeling. It is well known that curre…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 064058] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

We initiate the study of gravitational-wave lensing in the wave-optics regime within modified gravity. We consider a phenomenological setup in which the gravitational-wave amplitude obeys a curvature-coupled propagation equation. This framework reproduces the standard general relativity (GR) behavio…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 064059] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Modifications to general relativity can significantly alter the perturbative response of black holes, leaving imprints on quasinormal-mode spectra, waveform amplitudes and phases, and late-time tails. The parametrized beyond-Teukolsky framework was introduced to capture possible deviations from Kerr…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 064060] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

We demonstrate how the two-dimensional gravity emerges within the “general relativity (GR) from renormalization group (RG)” program initiated in Refs. [1,2]. To achieve this, we consider a generic 2D conformal field theory (CFT) with a 3D holographic description, which we assume to be well described…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 066009] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Gravitational waves provide a unique probe of the strong-field regime of gravity, offering access to physics beyond the classical black hole paradigm. We explore how space-based observations of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) can be used to test …

[Phys. Rev. D 114, L061501] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

The precise measurement of the $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to {\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}{\pi }^0$ cross section is performed in the center-of-mass energy range $E=560–1100\mathrm{MeV}$ using a data sample of $66{\mathrm{pb}}^{-1}$ collected in the experiment with the SND detector at the VEPP-$2000e^{+}{e}^{-}$ collider. The systematic uncertainty of the cross section measurement is 0…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 052009] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We investigate saturation effects in exclusive vector meson production in deep inelastic scattering, where we model fluctuations within the target protons as localized color-charge hot spots. Based on the color glass condensate framework and the dipole picture for vector meson production, we examine…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054017] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

This work investigates dynamically generated hidden-charm baryon resonances arising from meson-baryon interactions. Using the local hidden gauge formalism, we model the interaction via t-channel vector meson exchange and unitarize the amplitude using the Bethe-Salpeter equation. To address regulariz…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054024] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We search for the reaction channel $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to \eta \eta J/\psi$ in a data sample with center-of-mass energies from 4.226 to 4.950 GeV that was collected by the BESIII detector operating at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPCII). The data analysis is performed with two different reconstruction methods, exclus…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054025] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We present a constituent two-gluon description of the lowest-lying glueball states in pure Yang-Mills theory, calibrated against quenched lattice results. The framework incorporates an instanton-induced dynamical gluon mass, Casimir-scaled adjoint confinement, the short-distance adjoint Coulomb inte…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054026] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

A pseudoscalar resonance structure, denoted as the $K(1690)$, was recently discovered by the COMPASS Collaboration in the scattering reaction $K^{-}+p\to K^{-}{\pi }^{-}{\pi }^{+}+p$. If the $K(1690)$ is a genuine state, there are three observed pseudoscalar strange mesons, namely the $K(1460)$, $K(1690)$, and $K(1830)$, in the 1.0–2.0…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054027] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We study near-threshold $D\overline{D}$ scattering in $S$- and $D$-wave to determine whether or not resonances or bound states are present. Working in the approximation where charm annihilation is forbidden, with two degenerate light-quark flavors and a heavier strange quark, isospin is a good quantum number, and t…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054028] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We formulate QCD discretized on the four-dimensional 16-cell honeycomb. The advantage is a higher degree of rotational symmetry as compared to a traditional cubic lattice leading to much smaller cutoff effects. We demonstrate in quenched QCD, through both gluonic and fermionic observables, that the …

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054504] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We come up with a novel search strategy for long-lived doubly charged scalars at future proposed lepton colliders. The doubly charged scalar studied in this work belongs to an $SU(2{)}_L$ complex scalar triplet that accounts for tiny neutrino masses via the type II seesaw mechanism. For scalar masses $\lesssim \mathrm{20\dots }$

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055022] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We investigate the long-standing anomaly in the rare decay $B\to K{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ within the left-right inverse seesaw (LRIS) model. Global analyses of the $b\to s{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ data consistently indicate a significant negative shift in the vector Wilson coefficient, $\mathrm{\Delta }{C}_9^{\mu }\approx -1$, while the axial coefficient $\mathrm{\Delta }{C}_{10}^{\mu }$ remains consistent…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055023] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We analyze the prospects for studying scalar nonstandard interactions (SNSI) using the neutrino burst from a galactic supernova (SN). SNSI modifies the resonant flavor conversion and, correspondingly, the neutronization burst signal, and may be identifiable in future multi-tonne-scale experiments, s…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055024] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Leptogenesis provides an elegant mechanism to explain the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe (BAU), yet its experimental verification remains challenging due to requirements of either extremely heavy right-handed neutrinos or precisely fine-tuned mass splittings. We present a scenario where a…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055025] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We study the collider phenomenology of a long-lived scalar particle $S$ that arises from Higgs mixing in a broad class of Standard-Model (SM) extensions. When the mixing angle is sufficiently small, $S$ becomes long-lived, while its pair production via the Higgs portal can remain sizable. We focus on th…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055026] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Previous studies have shown that cascade production in the thick target of the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment may substantially enhance the number of light long-lived particles (LLPs) decaying in the fiducial volume. However, cascade-produced LLPs are typically soft, so daughter-level…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 056016] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Outflows of rapidly rotating protomagnetars have been considered as attractive sites for the synthesis of nuclei heavier than iron, but the question remains whether these nuclei are able to survive against photodisintegration as they make their way out of their formation environments. In this work, …

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063031] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We develop a self-consistent dark matter admix neutron star framework based on a contact vector current-current interaction that couples the chemical potentials of both sectors through mutual mean-field shifts, with the dark matter (DM) fraction $F_D=N_D/N_B$ fixed as a global input parameter. This formu…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063032] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We investigate the prospects for observing a specific spectral distortion of the cosmic microwave background, which occurs due to the anisotropy of the radiation when it is scattered by hot plasma of galaxy clusters. Detection of this anisotropic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect would enable an independent…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063522] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We show that perturbative techniques inspired by effective field theory (EFT) can be used to “paint on” the large-scale 21 cm field during reionization using only the underlying linear density field. It is, therefore, possible to enlarge or “supersize” hydrodynamical simulations at low resolution, o…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063523] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We present a cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum analysis using daytime data (11am–11pm UTC) gathered by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) over the period 2017–2022 (ACT Data Release 6). This dataset is challenging to analyze because the Sun heats and deforms the telescope m…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063524] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

The local physics of light scalar fields in de Sitter space is well described by classical random walks, as expressed through the framework of stochastic inflation. Recent work has clarified how this formalism arises from quantum field theory and the renormalization group (RG), allowing for correcti…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063525] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We compute $⟨{\widehat{\mathrm{\Phi }}}^2{⟩}_{\mathrm{ren}}$ as well as the energy fluxes $⟨{\widehat{T}}_{uu}{⟩}_{\mathrm{ren}}$ and $⟨{\widehat{T}}_{vv}{⟩}_{\mathrm{ren}}$ (where $u$ and $v$ are the standard Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates) associated with a quantum massless real scalar field $\widehat{\mathrm{\Phi }}$, with a general curvature coupling constant $\xi$, near the inner horizon (IH) of a Kerr black hole, along t…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 064039] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We derive the effective action governing the dynamics of a compact binary system when gravitational radiation is emitted by any mass or current multipole, scattered by the quasistatic field associated with the binary’s angular momentum, and then reabsorbed. Among such angular momentum failed-tail pr…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 064057] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We propose a scheme to regularize divergent integrals in quantum field theory based on a new asymptotic subtraction method. The framework builds on the structural decomposition of the integrand asymptotic expansion, which distinguishes between contributions that drive ultraviolet singularities and t…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 065015] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We develop an operator-algebraic framework for modular self-duality, symmetrized relative entropy, and Bogoliubov-Kubo-Mori (BKM) susceptibility of local states in quantum field theory. In finite dimensions, modular self-duality singles out fixed points at which a state coincides with its modularly …

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 065016] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We investigate dualities between ${\mathbf{Z}}_2$ quotients of recently proposed compactifications of M-theory on ‘quantum geometries’ of the form ${\mathbf{S}}^1\vee {\mathbf{S}}^1$ and 10D orientifolds of type 0A and 0B string theories. In particular, we relate the Hořava-Witten theory on ${\mathbf{S}}^1\vee {\mathbf{S}}^1$ to a 0B orientifold with gauge group $SO(16{)}^4$. …

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 066008] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

I present a unified model for single pion production in photo-, electro-, and neutrino-nucleon interactions that is applicable across the broad kinematic range in the GeV regime relevant to accelerator-based neutrino experiments. The model incorporates vector and axial-vector transition form factors…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 053009] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

We study the use of higher-order resummation for transverse observables to achieve $\mathrm{NNLO}+\mathrm{PS}$ matching within the geneva framework. In particular, we embed $q_T$ resummation for color-singlet production at ${\mathrm{N}}^3\mathrm{LL}$ obtained via soft-collinear effective theory and implemented in the library scetlib within gene…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054022] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

We investigate the boost-invariant expansion of a recently developed first-order spin hydrodynamic framework in which the spin chemical potential is treated as a leading-order hydrodynamic variable. Considering a symmetric energy-momentum tensor and a separately conserved spin tensor, we derive the …

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054023] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

We study top-antitop pair production in proton-proton collisions within the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) at dimension six. We focus on the top chromomagnetic operator $C_{tG}$ together with the four-quark operators relevant for unpolarized $t\overline{t}$ production. We analyze the top-quark single-…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055019] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

We revisit the renormalization of models with two U(1) gauge symmetries, in a formulation with noncanonical gauge kinetic terms which is covariant under field reparametrizations among the two gauge bosons. This approach is convenient to study the appearance of kinetic mixing in scale evolution becau…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055020] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

The Standard Model (SM) cannot explain the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe (BAU), thus driving the need for physics beyond the SM, which can generate the electroweak baryogenesis through a strong first-order electroweak phase transition (SFOPT). We extend the SM with a complex singlet scal…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055021] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

We investigate the arrival time and the Faraday rotation of extragalactic electromagnetic signals coming from fast radio bursts (FRBs) and propagating through chiral cosmic media within the framework of the Maxwell-Carroll-Field-Jackiw (MCFJ) electrodynamics. By treating the interstellar medium as a…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 056014] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

We derive compact analytical formulas for the spectrum of nonlinear Compton scattering in a finite plane-wave pulse with a smooth temporal envelope. The strong-field QED probability is reduced to finite-pulse phase integrals, which are evaluated asymptotically for multicycle pulses with a broad clas…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 056015] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

One of the key tests of the quantum nature of gravity is to test whether the virtual mediator of gravity between matter and photon gives rise to the quantum light-bending phenomenon. The off-shell degrees of freedom, involving the spin-2 and spin-0 components of graviton, reproduce the classical dev…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 062004] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Constructing spacetime solutions that describe black holes embedded in dark matter environments is a crucial step toward probing the properties of dark matter in the strong-field regime of gravity. At present, however, there is no unique or systematic framework to model such configurations, and seve…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063028] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs) are repeated x-ray bursts originating in galactic nuclei. Of the many proposed models, the favored model is the disk-collision model, in which a stellar mass orbiter collides with a disk formed from a tidal disruption event, generating flares twice per orbit. In this m…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063029] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Axionlike particles (ALPs) coupled to nucleons can be efficiently produced in core-collapse supernovae (SNe) and then, if they couple to photons, convert into gamma rays in cosmic magnetic fields, generating short gamma-ray bursts. Though ALPs from a Galactic SN would induce an intense and easily de…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063030] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Single-field ultra-slow-roll (USR) inflation is among the most studied mechanisms for primordial black hole (PBH) formation. When a nonstationary inflection point close to cosmic microwave background (CMB) scales is present, these models predict a negative spectral running (${\alpha }_s<0$), whose magnitude…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063521] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

We examine analytically the restricted 3-body problem in general relativity for a set of extremally charged black holes. We apply the method of Ferrell and Eardley, which consists in perturbing the Majumdar-Papapetrou solution that describes a static set of such black holes. We extend the method fro…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 064053] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

In an ideal world, the measurement noise in gravitational wave data would be stationary and Gaussian. In reality, neither of these conditions holds. Here a general framework is introduced that can be used to model nonstationary noise in an easily interpretable way, using a dynamic power spectrum $S(f\dots$

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 064054] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

We observe that a large class of well-behaved stationary and axisymmetric black hole solutions in general relativity and in the Einstein-Maxwell theory can be classified according to the properties of their backgrounds. Indeed, all these backgrounds belong to a unique family, which includes simultan…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 064055] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Understanding the properties of strongly interacting matter at extreme densities is a central problem in fundamental physics, with neutron star mergers offering a natural laboratory to probe this regime. However, the complexity of the merger process complicates the interpretation of the associated g…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 064056] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

We study the real-time quantum dynamics of a matrix model consisting two bosonic fields on the fuzzy sphere $S_F^2$ using the Gaussian state approximation. Starting from the Hamiltonian formulation and using Wick’s theorem, we derive a closed set of coupled nonlinear differential equations governing the…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 065014] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

We introduce equivariant localization as a method for computing the action of probe branes in supergravity backgrounds. We apply it to supersymmetric probe D3-branes in type IIB supersymmetric spacetimes obtained by uplifting the Kerr-Newman-anti-de ${\mathrm{Sitter}}_5$ black hole on a toric Sasaki-Einstein spac…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 066004] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Using $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ collision data collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of $44{\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$, we present the first measurement of the Born cross sections for the process $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to K_S^0{\overline{\mathrm{\Xi }}}^{+}{\mathrm{\Sigma }}^{-}$ at 56 center-of-mass energies from 3.510 to 4.951 GeV. By fitting …

[Phys. Rev. D 114, L051101] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

A precision measurement of the $W$-boson production cross section is performed using the $W\to \mu \nu$ decay channel, based on a sample of proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at $\sqrt{s}=13\mathrm{TeV}$ and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $5.1{\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$. The cross section is measured for muo…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 052003] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

We analyze the mixing between the ${\pi }^0$ meson and the photon in the presence of a strong uniform magnetic field, in the context of a two-flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. It is shown that only one specific photon polarization state can get mixed with the ${\pi }^0$ state, a fact that can be understood on genera…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054007] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

We deploy quantum chromodynamics in light-front quantization (and gauge), discretized and truncated in both Fock and momentum spaces with a particle-register encoding suited for quantum simulation; we show for the first time how to calculate fragmentation functions, a problem heretofore untractable …

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054021] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

We demonstrate that TeV-scale heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) responsible for inverse-seesaw neutrino mass generation can simultaneously fix the cosmological abundance and decay properties of dark matter (DM). The spontaneous breaking of lepton number gives rise to a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson that s…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055017] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

We study the cosmology and observational probes of majoron dark matter in a high-scale seesaw framework with spontaneously broken lepton number. Right-handed neutrinos naturally generate light neutrino masses and can realize thermal leptogenesis, while the associated majoron is a light pseudo-Nambu-…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055018] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Inspired by the latest BESIII measurement of the $\mathrm{\Lambda }(1520)\to \gamma {\mathrm{\Sigma }}^0$ radiative decay, we systematically study the decays $\mathrm{\Lambda }(1520)\to \gamma \mathrm{\Lambda }({\mathrm{\Sigma }}^0)$ within the chiral unitary approach, where the $\mathrm{\Lambda }(1520)$ is treated as a dynamically generated resonance from meson-baryon interactions. Compared with previous chiral unitary …

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 056012] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

For both theoretical and phenomenological studies, it is important to analyze the function types of Feynman integrals. The phenomenon of genus drop between different representations of hyperelliptic Feynman integrals was discussed in [1]. In this paper, we reformulate the extra-involution mechanism …

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 056013] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

AlGaAs/GaAs coatings are being considered as coating candidates for gravitational-wave detectors. In this paper we investigate the birefringence properties of this crystalline semiconductor material by modulating the optical illumination on the mirror coating and monitoring the induced birefringence…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 062006] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Higher-order Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) laser modes have been proposed to reduce test-mass thermal noise in laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, owing to their more homogeneous intensity profiles compared to the currently employed fundamental Gaussian beam. However, LG beams such as the ${\mathrm{L\dots }}_{}$

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 062007] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

We study induced (stimulated) scattering of linearly polarized, strong electromagnetic waves in pair plasmas, which is crucial for understanding the propagation of fast radio bursts (FRBs). Magnetars are the most promising progenitors of FRBs, and FRBs propagate through the magnetar wind and success…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063022] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Recent observations by IceCube and KM3Net of PeV-scale ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos, together with detections of TeV-PeV photons from various sources such as the Crab Nebula, the Galactic Center, and gamma-ray burst by ground-based observatories including Tibet $\mathrm{AS}\gamma$, MAGIC, Carpet-3, and LHAASO,…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063023] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Motivated by the observed horizon-scale polarization variability in multiepoch Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) data, we develop a time-dependent general relativistic polarized ray-tracing framework to study how localized magnetic reconnection near a black hole imprints itself on synchrotron polarizati…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063024] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Primordial black holes (PBHs) in the asteroid-mass window (${10}^{17}–{10}^{22}\mathrm{g}$) can account for all of the dark matter without violating any observational constraint, yet are routinely dismissed as fine-tuned. I put that dismissal to the test by applying three complementary sensitivity measures uniformly a…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063025] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Astrophysical formation channels of stellar-mass binary black holes (sBBHs) can induce significant orbital eccentricities in their early inspiral. We analyze the implications on the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) from unresolved sBBHs, which can be detected with the Laser Interferom…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063026] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Recent detections of very-high-energy [(VHE) $\gtrsim 100\mathrm{GeV}$] photons from afterglows like gamma-ray burst (GRB) 221009A demand models that treat jet angular structure, circumburst stratification, and inverse Compton radiation self-consistently. We present a numerical afterglow framework in which a Gaussi…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063027] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

We present a blind time-delay cosmography measurement of the Hubble-Lemaître constant $H_0$ based on the quadruply imaged quasar SDSSJ1433 + 6007. Our analysis combines deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging, extended time-delay monitoring from the Wendelstein and Maidanak Observatories, and spatially res…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063509] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

In this paper, nonperturbative lattice simulations are used to study Higgs preheating and the associated gravitational wave (GW) background after the inflaton $Z_2$ symmetry is broken during inflation. This symmetry breaking generates both trilinear and quartic inflaton-Higgs interactions during prehea…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 063520] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

We explore the gravitational-wave phenomenology of equal-mass inspiralling boson-star binaries using numerical relativity simulations. In particular, we characterize the waveform differences between binary boson-star and black-hole systems across (i) the early inspiral, by matching our waveforms to …

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 064049] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Wormholes are fascinating alternatives to black hole geometries. In this paper, we have studied a special case of wormhole solution in the context of $R=0$ spacetime. Our approximate analytical calculations show that, under a strictly static axial gravitational perturbation of this spacetime, the magn…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 064050] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Recent gravitational wave (GW) detections showing signatures of eccentricity and spin precession underscore the need to model binary black holes (BBHs) possessing these features simultaneously. Most efforts over the past fifteen years to model spinning BBHs and their corresponding GWs have relied on…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 064051] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

The spin-weighted spheroidal functions are the eigenfunctions of the angular Teukolsky equation. They are a generalization of the widely used spin-weighted spherical functions, and are extremely important in the area of black-hole perturbation theory. Like other special functions, they have an inher…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 064052] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Black hole thermodynamics provides a unique setting in which general relativity, quantum field theory, and statistical mechanics converge. In semiclassical gravity, this interplay culminates in the generalized second law (GSL), whose modern proofs rely on information-theoretic techniques applied to …

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 065011] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

The generalized second law (GSL) of black hole thermodynamics asserts the monotonic increase of the generalized entropy combining the black hole area and the entropy of quantum fields outside the horizon. Modern proofs of the GSL rely on information-theoretic methods and are typically formulated usi…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 065012] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

We present the first combined oscillation analysis of recent atmospheric neutrino datasets, featuring data from Super-Kamiokande, IceCube-DeepCore, and KM3NeT/ORCA together with reactor data from Daya Bay. Such combinations have long been considered infeasible outside experimental collaborations; we…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 053005] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

We revisit the $CP$-odd form factor in the $HWW$ vertex within the Standard Model, which is induced only at the one-loop level when one of the $W$ bosons is off-shell. To the best of our knowledge, the numerical evaluation of this form factor is presented for the first time. The relevant contributions fro…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 053007] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most challenges in modern physics. Composite or macroscopic DM present a compelling alternative to conventional particle DM, yet their terrestrial search is notoriously challenging due to low number density. This article presents a unified, multimess…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 053008] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

We compute the cross sections for the two-photon processes $\gamma \gamma \to {\pi }^0{\pi }^0$ and $\gamma \gamma \to K_S^0{K}_S^0$ in $k_T$ factorization, including the chirally enhanced two-parton twist-3 light cone distribution amplitudes. For these charge-suppressed neutral channels the twist-3 cross sections exceed the twist-2 ones by close to an …

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054016] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Under the hypothesis that the $f_0(1370)$ is a $\kappa \overline{\kappa }$ molecular state, we calculate the partial widths of its various decay channels, including the two-body decays $K\overline{K}$, $\pi \pi$, and $\eta \eta$ and the four-body decays $\rho \rho /\sigma \sigma \to 4\pi$ and $K\overline{K}\pi \pi$. Treating the coupling $g_{f_0(1370)\kappa \overline{\kappa }}$ as a free parameter, we find that a value of 2…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054018] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

We consider the energy loss of a high-energy parton in the early anisotropic plasma in heavy-ion collisions. Working in the harmonic approximation, we compute the change in the mean energy of an emitted gluon in the presence of an anisotropic background, characterized by anisotropic jet quenching pa…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054019] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

We investigate the lineshape of the $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to J/\psi {\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ cross section in the vicinity of the $D^{*}\overline{D}+\mathit{c}.\mathit{c}.$ threshold, where the “so-called” $G(3900)$ is observed in the $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to D\overline{D}$ channel. To take into account the possible $D^{*}\overline{D}+\mathit{c}.\mathit{c}.$ open channel effects or possible contributions from $G(3900)$, we include the interm…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 054020] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

We explore the discovery potential of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), motivated by models addressing the origin of neutrino masses, at the proposed high-energy same-sign muon collider known as $\mu \mathrm{TRISTAN}$. The study focuses on two complementary HNL-mediated signatures: (i) the lepton-flavor-violating (LF…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055006] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

We present a UV completion of the Standard Model in which quarks and leptons are unified under color SU(4). A single fermionic representation, the real antisymmetric, provides the building blocks to address the strong $CP$ problem via the Nelson-Barr mechanism, while simultaneously correcting the char…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055012] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

This paper explores a simplified extension of the standard model featuring a neutral fermion quintuplet and a scalar quadruplet, which together generate neutrino masses through tree and loop level mechanisms. The quintuplet fermions decay into standard model gauge bosons via the scalars, producing u…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055013] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

We investigate constraints on large extra dimensions (LED) using the latest results from reactor antineutrino experiments. Specifically, we analyze the full data sets from Daya Bay, RENO, KamLAND, NEOS, and STEREO to derive updated bounds. For the case of one extra dimension, we find constrains on i…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055014] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

In this article, we study loop-induced Higgs decays into gauge bosons within the framework of radiative natural supersymmetry. We reproduce the one-loop MSSM calculations for the Higgs partial decay widths into a Z boson-photon pair, two photons, and two gluons, providing the corresponding analytica…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055015] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

A kinetically mixed dark photon produced in $D^0\to \gamma A^{\prime }$ probes the timelike electromagnetic current at $q^2=m_{A^{\prime }}^2$, where resolved vector-meson structure can render a pointlike continuation from the real photon point inadequate. The magnitudes of the ${\rho }^0$ and $\varphi$ pole residues are normalized to measured radiativ…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 055016] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

In this work, I consider scalar field theory with negative quartic self-interaction, corresponding to an upside-down classical potential. Despite not possessing a classically stable ground state, such potentials are known to behave properly when treated quantum mechanically, leading to stable and un…

[Phys. Rev. D 114, 056011] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026