A model of pure SU(3) gluon matter produces a pronounced near-transition rise in specific heat and a rapid increase in compression response, with both approaching high-temperature plateaus.
A mathematical preprint finds that local spinor responses near a fixed BTZ horizon can retain whether a singular coupling follows an inverse-radial or inverse-square profile, even after the coupling values are matched. The result is local and does not provide a global BTZ spectrum.
A theoretical preprint proposes a low-energy electron–positron scattering program that could help separate two-photon-exchange effects and improve studies of proton and neutron structure. It presents calculations and measurement ideas, not results from a completed experiment.
A particle-physics preprint reports that negative diffusion appears alongside strong oscillations in a Quark-Diquark Model flow. Adding hyperdiffusion produces a non-oscillatory calculation and phase diagrams with normal-conducting and color-superconducting regions, while leaving open whether the effect belongs to the model or to the approximation used.
A theoretical comparison of traditional and QED+QCD factorized radiative-correction methods finds small selected cross-section gaps but much larger radiation-versus-baseline differences in some Collins and Sivers calculations.
A theoretical preprint models inclusive heavy-quarkonium-pair production with charm and bottom contributions. It reports a significant role for dihadron fragmentation and a tension when that contribution is added to direct SPS, but NLO corrections and interference terms were not evaluated.
A mathematical analysis of untwisted WZW categories reports quadratic growth for optimized vacuum-flux torus topological entanglement entropy, with balanced symplectic theories reaching the leading coefficient.
A new arXiv preprint sets out a semistrict higher Chern–Simons theory in 2n + 2 dimensions. The mathematical construction defines a characteristic form, proves key closure and infinitesimal gauge-invariance properties, and derives higher transgression and boundary relations. Its results are formal and local, with global questions and finite transformations left open.
A CMS preprint reports an excess near the threshold where top-quark pairs are produced in 13 TeV collision data. The result is statistically strong in the tested models, but it does not establish a model-independent toponium bound state.
A global arXiv preprint extracts proton and neutron deeply virtual Compton scattering amplitudes from selected experimental data. The results broadly agree across two models and are consistent with exploratory TCS data and lattice-QCD predictions, although important uncertainties remain.