Motivated by experimental hints and theoretical frameworks indicating the existence of an extended Higgs sector,we explore the feasibility of detecting a 95 GeV light Higgs boson decaying into a diphoton within the minimal dilaton model at the 14 TeV LHC.Initially,we identify the correlations between the production cross section,decay branching ratios,and model parameters,e.g.,the scalar mixing angle■Subsequently,we utilize Monte Carlo simulations to generate the signal of the light Higgs boson via the■process,along with the corresponding backgrounds.To effectively separate the signal from the dominant backgrounds■,we employ a meticulous cut-based selection process.Ultimately,we find that with an integrated luminosity of L=3000fb^(-1),the regions of■can be covered over the3σlevel.
A spatial template is important to study nearby supernova remnants(SNRs).For SNR G332.5-5.6,we report a Gaussian disk with a radius of about 1°.06 to be a potential good spatial model in the γ-ray band.Employing this new Gaussian disk,its GeV lightcurve shows a significant variability of about seven sigma.The γ-ray observations of this SNR could be explained well either by a leptonic model or a hadronic model,in which a flat spectrum for the ejected electrons/protons is required.
An intense laser pulse focused onto a plasma can excite nonlinear plasma waves.Under appropriate conditions,electrons from the background plasma are trapped in the plasma wave and accelerated to ultra-relativistic velocities.This scheme is called a laser wakefield accelerator.In this work,we present results from a laser wakefield acceleration experiment using a petawatt-class laser to excite the wakefields as well as nanoparticles to assist the injection of electrons into the accelerating phase of the wakefields.We find that a 10-cm-long,nanoparticle-assisted laser wakefield accelerator can generate 340 pC,10±1.86 GeV electron bunches with a 3.4 GeV rms convolved energy spread and a 0.9 mrad rms divergence.It can also produce bunches with lower energies in the 4–6 GeV range.
We study the production of light nuclei in the coalescence mechanism of Au-Au collisions at midrapidity at √sNN=3GeV.We derive analytic formulas of the momentum distributions of two bodies,three bodies,and four nucleons coalescing into light nuclei and naturally explain the transverse momentum spectra of the deuteron(d),triton(t),helium-3(3He),and helium-4(4He).We reproduce data on the yield rapidity densities,yield ratios,and averaged transverse momenta of d,t,3He,and 4He and provide the proportions of contributions from different coalescence sources for t,3He,and 4He in their production.We find that besides nucleon coalescence,nucleon+nucleus coalescence and nucleus+nucleus coalescence may play requisite roles in light nucleus production in Au-Au collisions at √sNN=3 GeV.