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A sample of 365 fb$^{-1}$ of $e^+e^- \to Υ(4S) \to B\bar{B}$ data collected by the Belle II experiment is used to measure the partial branching fractions of charmless semileptonic $B$ meson decays and determine the magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $V_{ub}$. Events containing a signal electron or muon $\ell$ and a fully reconstructed hadronic $B$ decay that constrains the signal kinematics are selected, while the rest of the event defines the hadronic system $X_u$ associated with the signal. [...]

We present a measurement of the time-dependent CP asymmetry in ${B}^{0}\to {K}_{\text{S}}^{0}{\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}\gamma $ decays using a data set of 365 fb$^{−1}$ recorded by the Belle II experiment and the final data set of 711 fb$^{−1}$ recorded by the Belle experiment at the Υ(4S) resonance. The direct and mixing-induced time-dependent CP violation parameters C and S are determined along with two additional quantities, S$^{+}$ and S$^{−}$, defined in the two halves of the ${m}^{2}\left({K}_{\text{S}}^{0}{\pi }^{+}\right)-{m}^{2}\left({K}_{\text{S}}^{0}{\pi }^{-}\right)$ plane [...]

We present the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG), a global network dedicated to connecting students, educators, and the general public with the world of particle physics. In this paper, we outline the need to bridge the existing gap between the particle physics community and the wider audience, and we present the solutions that IPPOG has implemented to overcome it through three pillar Activities: the International Masterclasses and the Global Cosmics hands-on activities network, which have engaged together over 200,000 high-school students to date, and the curation of an Outreach Resource Database and web portal..

Using a data sample of 427.9 fb$^{-1}$ collected by the Belle~II detector at or near the $Υ(4S)$ and $Υ(10753)$ resonances, the cross sections for $e^+e^-\to h^+h^-J/ψ$$(h=π/K/p)$ at center-of-mass energies ranging from 3.8 GeV or the production threshold to 5.5/6.0/7.0 GeV have been measured via initial-state radiation. The cross sections for the processes $e^+e^-\to π^+π^-J/ψ$ and $e^+e^-\to K^+K^-J/ψ$ are consistent with previously published results. [...]

Titin kinase (TK) is an enigmatic pseudokinase specific to the striated muscle of vertebrates. Embedded within the contractile sarcomere and flanked by extensible regulatory tails, TK is thought to act as a mechanoreceptor that senses mechanical signals arising from muscle function. [...]

We study the non-Gaussian tail of the curvature fluctuation, $\zeta$, in an inflationary scenario with a transient ultra slow-roll phase that generates a localized large enhancement of the spectrum of $\zeta$. To do so, we implement a numerical procedure that provides the probability distribution of $\zeta$ order by order in perturbation theory. [...]

Designing proteins that bind with high affinity to hydrophilic protein target sites remains a challenging problem. Here we show that RFdiffusion can be conditioned to generate protein scaffolds that form geometrically matched extended β-sheets with target protein edge β-strands in which polar groups on the target are complemented with hydrogen bonding groups on the design. [...]

This case report describes single surface substitutions that improve the crystallizability and diffraction properties of a flexible two-domain protein. InlB392 comprises the internalin domain and the B repeat of the Listeria monocytogenes invasion protein InlB. [...]

We review lattice results related to pion, kaon, D-meson, B-meson, and nucleon physics with the aim of making them easily accessible to the nuclear and particle physics communities. More specifically, we report on the determination of the light-quark masses, the form factor f+(0) arising in the semileptonic K→π transition at zero momentum transfer, as well as the decay-constant ratio fK/fπ and its consequences for the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements Vus and Vud. [...]

Infections with Streptococcus pyogenes are among the most important diseases caused by bacteria and are responsible for around 500,000 deaths every year. In 2024, macrolide-resistant S. [...]