Operational experience and performance of the Silicon Vertex Detector after the first long shutdown of Belle II

Kavli Affiliate: T. Higuchi | First 5 Authors: K. Ravindran, K. Adamczyk, H. Aihara, S. Bacher, S. Bahinipati | Summary: In 2024, the Belle II experiment resumed data taking after the Long Shutdown 1, which was required to install a two-layer pixel detector and upgrade accelerator components. We describe the challenges of this shutdown and […]


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Phases of Dark Matter from Inverse Decays

Kavli Affiliate: Hitoshi Murayama | First 5 Authors: Ronny Frumkin, Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik, Hitoshi Murayama, | Summary: Inverse decays are an interesting avenue for producing dark matter in the early universe. We study in detail various phases of dark matter parameter space where inverse decays control its abundance, expanding on our work of INDY […]


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Measurement of the time-integrated $CP$ asymmetry in $D^0 to K^0_{rm S} K^0_{rm S}$ decays using opposite-side flavor tagging at Belle and Belle II

Kavli Affiliate: T. Higuchi | First 5 Authors: Belle, Belle II Collaborations, :, I. Adachi, Y. Ahn | Summary: We measure the time-integrated $CP$ asymmetry in $D^0 to K^0_{rm S} K^0_{rm S}$ decays reconstructed in $e^+e^-to c{overline c}$ events collected by the Belle and Belle II experiments. The corresponding data samples have integrated luminosities of […]


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Search for lepton-flavor-violating $τ^- to ell^- K_s^0$ decays at Belle and Belle II

Kavli Affiliate: T. Higuchi | First 5 Authors: Belle, Belle II Collaborations, :, I. Adachi, L. Aggarwal | Summary: We present the results of a search for charged-lepton-flavor violating decays $tau^{-} rightarrow ell^{-}K_{S}^{0}$, where $ell^{-}$ is either an electron or a muon. We combine $e^+e^-$ data samples recorded by the Belle II experiment at the […]


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Evaluating Temporal Plasticity in Foundation Time Series Models for Incremental Fine-tuning

Kavli Affiliate: Jia Liu | First 5 Authors: Jia Liu, Cheng Jinguo, Xia Fang, Zhenyuan Ma, Yuankai Wu | Summary: Time series foundation models excel at diverse time series forecasting tasks, but their capacity for continuous improvement through incremental learning remains unexplored. We present the first comprehensive study investigating these models’ temporal plasticity – their […]


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Q-balls Under Spontaneously Broken U(1) Symmetry

Kavli Affiliate: Masahiro Kawasaki | First 5 Authors: Masahiro Kawasaki, Kai Murai, Fuminobu Takahashi, , | Summary: We study the evolution of Q-balls under a spontaneously broken global $U(1)$ symmetry. Q-balls are stabilized by the conservation of $U(1)$ charge, but when the symmetry is spontaneously broken, the resulting Nambu-Goldstone (NG) boson can carry charge away […]


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Light WIMPs and MeV Gamma-ray Detection with COSI

Kavli Affiliate: Tom Melia | First 5 Authors: Yu Watanabe, Shigeki Matsumoto, Christopher M. Karwin, Tom Melia, Michela Negro | Summary: Light weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), whose masses are in the sub-GeV scale, have been attracting more attention due to the negative results searching for traditional WIMPs. The light WIMPs are expected to produce […]


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Sample Efficient Algorithms for Linear System Identification under Noisy Observations

Kavli Affiliate: Jia Liu | First 5 Authors: Yuyang Zhang, Xinhe Zhang, Jia Liu, Na Li, | Summary: In this paper, we focus on learning linear dynamical systems under noisy observations. In this setting, existing algorithms either yield biased parameter estimates, or suffer from large sample complexities. To address these issues, we adapt the instrumental […]


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Disk-jet coupling across the spectral transition in supermassive black holes

Kavli Affiliate: John D. Silverman | First 5 Authors: Jia-Lai Kang, Chris Done, Scott Hagen, Mai Liao, Matthew J. Temple | Summary: Accretion flows in both stellar and supermassive black holes show a distinct spectral transition. This is seen directly in binaries and changing look AGN, and also in a recent sample of eROSITA X-ray […]


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Probing the UV with IR Axion Dark Matter Experiments

Kavli Affiliate: Hitoshi Murayama | First 5 Authors: Jacob M. Leedom, Serah Moldovsky, Hitoshi Murayama, , | Summary: There is an ongoing and future experimental program searching for axions as both extensions of the Standard Model and as candidates for the observed dark matter. In this paper, we examine the feasibility of being able to […]


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