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1. CUPID, the Cuore upgrade with particle identification

   https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14352-1  

   Alfonso, K; Armatol, A; Augier, C; Avignone_III, F T; Azzolini, O; Barabash, A S; Bari, G; Barresi, A; Baudin, D; Bellini, F; et al (July 2025, The European Physical Journal C)

   Abstract CUPID, the CUORE Upgrade with Particle Identification, is a next-generation experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($$0\mathrm {\nu \beta \beta }$$ $0\nu \beta \beta$) and other rare events using enriched Li$$_{2}$$ $_2^{}$$$^{100}$$ $_{}^{100}$MoO$$_{4}$$ $_4^{}$scintillating bolometers. It will be hosted by the CUORE cryostat located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The main physics goal of CUPID is to search for$$0\mathrm {\nu \beta \beta }$$ $0\nu \beta \beta$of$$^{100}$$ $_{}^{100}$Mo with a discovery sensitivity covering the full neutrino mass regime in the inverted ordering scenario, as well as the portion of the normal ordering regime with lightest neutrino mass larger than 10 meV. With a conservative background index of 10$$^{-4}$$ $_{}^{-4}$ cts$$/($$ $/($keV$$\cdot $$ $·$kg$$\cdot $$ $·$yr$$)$$ $)$, 240 kg isotope mass, 5 keV FWHM energy resolution at 3 MeV and 10 live-years of data taking, CUPID will have a 90% C.L. half-life exclusion sensitivity of$$1.8\cdot 10^{27}$$ $1.8·{10}^{27}$ yr, corresponding to an effective Majorana neutrino mass ($$m_{\beta \beta }$$ $m_{\beta \beta }$) sensitivity of 9–15 meV, and a$$3\sigma $$ $3\sigma$discovery sensitivity of$$1\cdot 10^{27}$$ $1·{10}^{27}$ yr, corresponding to an$$m_{\beta \beta }$$ $m_{\beta \beta }$range of 12–21 meV. 

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2. Size dependence- and induced transformations- of fractional quantum Hall effects under tilted magnetic fields

   https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22812-x  

   Wijewardena, U. Kushan; Nanayakkara, Tharanga R.; Kriisa, Annika; Reichl, Christian; Wegscheider, Werner; Mani, Ramesh G. (November 2022, Scientific Reports)

   Abstract Two-dimensional electron systems subjected to high transverse magnetic fields can exhibit Fractional Quantum Hall Effects (FQHE). In the GaAs/AlGaAs 2D electron system, a double degeneracy of Landau levels due to electron-spin, is removed by a small Zeeman spin splitting,$$g \mu _B B$$ $g{\mu }_{B}B$, comparable to the correlation energy. Then, a change of the Zeeman splitting relative to the correlation energy can lead to a re-ordering between spin polarized, partially polarized, and unpolarized many body ground states at a constant filling factor. We show here that tuning the spin energy can produce fractionally quantized Hall effect transitions that include both a change in$$\nu$$ $\nu$for the$$R_{xx}$$ $R_{\mathrm{xx}}$minimum, e.g., from$$\nu = 11/7$$ $\nu =11/7$to$$\nu = 8/5$$ $\nu =8/5$, and a corresponding change in the$$R_{xy}$$ $R_{\mathrm{xy}}$, e.g., from$$R_{xy}/R_{K} = (11/7)^{-1}$$ $R_{\mathrm{xy}}/R_K={(11/7)}^{-1}$to$$R_{xy}/R_{K} = (8/5)^{-1}$$ $R_{\mathrm{xy}}/R_K={(8/5)}^{-1}$, with increasing tilt angle. Further, we exhibit a striking size dependence in the tilt angle interval for the vanishing of the$$\nu = 4/3$$ $\nu =4/3$and$$\nu = 7/5$$ $\nu =7/5$resistance minima, including “avoided crossing” type lineshape characteristics, and observable shifts of$$R_{xy}$$ $R_{\mathrm{xy}}$at the$$R_{xx}$$ $R_{\mathrm{xx}}$minima- the latter occurring for$$\nu = 4/3, 7/5$$ $\nu =4/3,7/5$and the 10/7. The results demonstrate both size dependence and the possibility, not just of competition between different spin polarized states at the same$$\nu$$ $\nu$and$$R_{xy}$$ $R_{\mathrm{xy}}$, but also the tilt- or Zeeman-energy-dependent- crossover between distinct FQHE associated with different Hall resistances. 

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3. Measurements of Higgs boson production in the decay channel with a pair of $$\uptau $$ leptons in proton–proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ TeV

   https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11452-8  

   Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W.; Andrejkovic, J. W.; Bergauer, T.; Chatterjee, S.; Damanakis, K.; Dragicevic, M.; Valle, A. Escalante; Frühwirth, R.; Jeitler, M.; et al (July 2023, The European Physical Journal C)

   Abstract Measurements of Higgs boson production, where the Higgs boson decays into a pair of$$\uptau $$ $\tau$leptons, are presented, using a sample of proton-proton collisions collected with the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of Equation missing<#comment/>, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138$$\,\text {fb}^{-1}$$ ${\text{fb}}^{-1}$. Three analyses are presented. Two are targeting Higgs boson production via gluon fusion and vector boson fusion: a neural network based analysis and an analysis based on an event categorization optimized on the ratio of signal over background events. These are complemented by an analysis targeting vector boson associated Higgs boson production. Results are presented in the form of signal strengths relative to the standard model predictions and products of cross sections and branching fraction to$$\uptau $$ $\tau$leptons, in up to 16 different kinematic regions. For the simultaneous measurements of the neural network based analysis and the analysis targeting vector boson associated Higgs boson production signal strengths are found to be$$0.82\pm 0.11$$ $0.82\pm 0.11$for inclusive Higgs boson production,$$0.67\pm 0.19$$ $0.67\pm 0.19$($$0.81\pm 0.17$$ $0.81\pm 0.17$) for the production mainly via gluon fusion (vector boson fusion), and$$1.79\pm 0.45$$ $1.79\pm 0.45$for vector boson associated Higgs boson production. 

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4. An algorithm and computation to verify Legendre’s conjecture up to $$7\cdot 10^{13}$$

   https://doi.org/10.1007/s40993-024-00589-4  

   Sorenson, Jonathan; Webster, Jonathan (March 2025, Research in Number Theory)

   Abstract We state a general purpose algorithm for quickly finding primes in evenly divided sub-intervals. Legendre’s conjecture claims that for every positive integern, there exists a prime between$$n^2$$ $n^2$and$$(n+1)^2$$ ${(n+1)}^2$. Oppermann’s conjecture subsumes Legendre’s conjecture by claiming there are primes between$$n^2$$ $n^2$and$$n(n+1)$$ $n(n+1)$and also between$$n(n+1)$$ $n(n+1)$and$$(n+1)^2$$ ${(n+1)}^2$. Using Cramér’s conjecture as the basis for a heuristic run-time analysis, we show that our algorithm can verify Oppermann’s conjecture, and hence also Legendre’s conjecture, for all$$n\le N$$ $n\le N$in time$$O( N \log N \log \log N)$$ $O(NlogNloglogN)$and space$$N^{O(1/\log \log N)}$$ $N^{O(1/loglogN)}$. We implemented a parallel version of our algorithm and improved the empirical verification of Oppermann’s conjecture from the previous$$N = 2\cdot 10^{9}$$ $N=2·{10}^9$up to$$N = 7.05\cdot 10^{13} > 2^{46}$$ $N=7.05·{10}^{13}>2^{46}$, so we were finding 27 digit primes. The computation ran for about half a year on each of two platforms: four Intel Xeon Phi 7210 processors using a total of 256 cores, and a 192-core cluster of Intel Xeon E5-2630 2.3GHz processors. 

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5. Search for supersymmetry in final states with missing transverse momentum and three or more b-jets in 139 fb$$^{-1}$$ of proton–proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 13$$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

   https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11543-6  

   Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abbott, D. C.; Abeling, K.; Abidi, S. H.; Aboulhorma, A.; Abramowicz, H.; Abreu, H.; Abulaiti, Y.; Abusleme Hoffman, A. C.; et al (July 2023, The European Physical Journal C)

   Abstract A search for supersymmetry involving the pair production of gluinos decaying via off-shell third-generation squarks into the lightest neutralino$$(\tilde{\chi }^0_1)$$ $\left({\tilde{\chi }}_1^0\right)$is reported. It exploits LHC proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy$$\sqrt{s} = 13$$ $\sqrt{s}=13$TeV with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb$$^{-1}$$ ${}^{-1}$collected with the ATLAS detector from 2015 to 2018. The search uses events containing large missing transverse momentum, up to one electron or muon, and several energetic jets, at least three of which must be identified as containingb-hadrons. Both a simple kinematic event selection and an event selection based upon a deep neural-network are used. No significant excess above the predicted background is found. In simplified models involving the pair production of gluinos that decay via off-shell top (bottom) squarks, gluino masses less than 2.44 TeV (2.35 TeV) are excluded at 95% CL for a massless$$\tilde{\chi }^0_1.$$ ${\tilde{\chi }}_1^0.$Limits are also set on the gluino mass in models with variable branching ratios for gluino decays to$$b\bar{b}\tilde{\chi }^0_1,$$ $b\overline{b}{\tilde{\chi }}_1^0,$$$t\bar{t}\tilde{\chi }^0_1$$ $t\overline{t}{\tilde{\chi }}_1^0$and$$t\bar{b}\tilde{\chi }^-_1/\bar{t}b\tilde{\chi }^+_1.$$ $t\overline{b}{\tilde{\chi }}_1^{-}/\overline{t}b{\tilde{\chi }}_1^{+}.$ 

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