Publications

Publications in Refereed Journals

1.   (L) Higgs Width and Couplings at High Energy Muon Colliders with Forward Muon Detection, P. Li, Z. Liu, K. Lyu, under review, 2401.08756 [hep-ph] (2024)

2.   (L) Maglev for Dark Matter: Dark-photon and axion dark matter sensing with levitated superconductors, G. Higgins, S. Kalia, Z. Liu, under review, 2310.18398 [hep-ph] (2023)

3.   (E) Searching for axions with kaon decay at rest, Y. Ema, Z. Liu, R. Plestid, accepted by PRD, 2308.08589 [hep-ph] (2023)

4.   (L) Top Yukawa Coupling Determination at High Energy Muon Collider, Z. Liu, K.F. Lyu, I. Mahbub, L.T. Wang, accepted by PRD, 2308.06323 [hep-ph] (2023)

5.   (E) Heavy Neutral Leptons from Stopped Muons and Pions, Y. Ema, Z. Liu, K.F. Lyu, M. Pospelov, JHEP08(2023)169, 2306.07315 [hep-ph] (2023)

6.   (E) A Guide to Diagnosing Colored Resonances at Hadron Colliders, T. Han, I. Lewis, H. Liu, Z. Liu, X. Wang, JHEP08(2023)173, 2306.00079 [hep-ph] (2023)

7.   (E) SENSEI: Search for Millicharged Particles produced in the NuMI Beam, with SENSEI collaboration, submitted, 2305.04964 [hep-ex] (2023)

8.   (E) Early Science with the Oscura Integration Test, Oscura collaboration, 2304.08625 [hep-ex] (2023)

9.   (L) New Exclusion Limit for Dark Photons from an SRF Cavity-Based Search (Dark SRF), A. Romanenko et al. (Z. Liu is one of the corresponding authors), Phys.Rev.Lett. 130 (2023) 26, 261801, 2301.11512[hep-ex] (2023)

10.   (L) Heavy Neutral Leptons at Muon Colliders, P. Li, Z. Liu, K.-F. Lyu, JHEP 03 (2023) 231, 2301.07117[hep-ph] (2023)

11.    (E) Flavor-changing light bosons with accidental longevity, Y. Ema, Z. Liu, K.-F. Lyu, M. Pospelov, JHEP 02 (2023) 135, 2211.00664[hep-ph] (2022)

12.    (S) Entanglement-Enhanced Optomechanical Sensing, Y. Xia, A. Agrawal, C. Pluchar, A. Brady, Z. Liu, Q. Zhuang, D. Wilson, Z. Zhang, Nature Photon. 17 (2023) 6, 470-477, 2210.16180[quant-ph] (2022)

13.    (S) Entanglement-enhanced optomechanical sensor array for dark matter searches, A. Brady, X. Chen, K. Xiao, Y. Xia, Z. Liu, R. Harnik, D. Wilson, Z. Zhang, Q. Zhuang, accepted by Communications Physics, 2210.07291[quant-ph] (2022)

14.    (L) Enhancing Searches for Heavy QCD Axions via Dimuon Final States, R. Co, S. Kumar, Z. Liu, JHEP02(2023)111, 2210.02462[hep-ph](2022)

15.    (L) First constraints on Heavy QCD Axions with a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber using the ArgoNeuT Experiment, ArgoNeuT Collaboration (Z. Liu is one of the corresponding authors), Phys.Rev.Lett. 130 (2023) 22, 221802(Editor’s Suggestion), 2207.08448[hep-ph](2022)

16.    (L) Speculations on the W-Mass Measurement at CDF, J. Gu, Z. Liu, Teng. Ma, J. Shu, Chin.Phys.C 46 (2022) 12, 123107, 2204.05296[hep-ph](2022)

17.    (S) Entangled sensor-networks for dark-matter searches, A. Brady, C. Gao, R. Harnik, Z. Liu, Z. Zhang, Q. Zhuang, PRX Quantum 3, 030333, 2203.05375[quant-ph](2022)

18.    (L) Higgs Precision at a 125 GeV Muon Collider, J. de Blas, J. Gu, Z. Liu, PhysRevD.106.073007, 2203.04324[hep-ph](2022)

19.    (E) Sleptonic SUSY: From UV Framework to IR Phenomenology, K. Agashe, M.Ekhterachian, Z. Liu, R. Sundrum, JHEP09(2022)142, 2203.01796[hep-ph](2022)

20.    (L) Probing Higgs exotic decay at the LHC with machine learning, S. Jung, Z. Liu, L.-T. Wang, K.-P. Xie, PhysRevD.105.035008, 2109.03294[hep-ph] (2021)

21.    (E) Jet Timing, W.-H. Chiu, Z. Liu, M. Low, L.-T. Wang, JHEP 01 (2022) 014, 2109.01682[hep-ph] (2021)

22.    (E) Exploring Uncharted Soft Displaced Vertices in Open Data, H. An, Z. Hu, Z. Liu, D. Yang, submitted, 2107.11405[hep-ph] (2021)

23.    (E) A New Approach to Electroweak Symmetry Non-Restoration, M. Carena, C. Krause, Z. Liu, Y. Wang, Phys.Rev.D 104 (2021) 5, 055016, 2104.00638[hep-ph] (2021)

24.    (E) The Muon Smasher’s Guide, Ali et al, Rept.Prog.Phys. 85 (2022) 8, 084201, 2103.14043[hep-ph] (2021)

25.    (E) Neutrino Masses from Low Scale Partial Compositeness, Z. Chacko, P. Fox, R. Harnik, Z. Liu, JHEP 03 (2021) 112, 2012.01443[hep-ph] (2020)

26.    (E) Electroweak Restoration at the LHC and Beyond: The Vh Channel, L. Huang, S. Lane, I. Lewis, Z. Liu, Phys. Rev. D 103, 053007 (2021)(Editor’s Suggestion), 2012.00774[hep-ph] (2020)

27.    (L) Heavy Axion Opportunities at the DUNE Near Detector, K. Kelly, S. Kumar, Z. Liu, Phys. Rev. D 103, 095002, 2011.05995[hep-ph] (2020)

28.    (L) WIMPs at High Energy Muon Colliders, T. Han, Z. Liu, L.-T. Wang, X. Wang, Phys. Rev. D 103, 075004 (2021), 2009.11287 [hep-ph] (2020)

29.    (L) Enhancing Sensitivities to Long-lived Particles with High Granularity Calorimeters at the LHC, J. Liu, Z. Liu, L.-T. Wang, X.-P. Wang, JHEP11(2020)066, 2005.10836 [hep-ph] (2020)

30.    (E) The High Quality QCD Axion and the LHC, A. Hook, S. Kumar, Z. Liu, R. Sundrum, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 221801 (2020), 1911.12364 [hep-ph] (2019)

31.    (E) Electroweak phase transition with spontaneous Z2-breaking, M. Carena, Z. Liu, Y. Wang, JHEP 08 (2020) 107, 1911.10206 [hep-ph] (2019)

32.    (L) Improved Limits on Millicharged Particles Using the ArgoNeuT Experiment at Fermilab, ArgoNeuT Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 131801 (2020), 1911.07996 [hep-ex] (2019)

33.    (E) Probing Flavor Non-Universal Theories Through Higgs Physics at the LHC and Future Colliders, W.H. Chiu, Z. Liu, L.-T. Wang, Phys. Rev. D 101, 035045 (2020), 1909.04549 [hep-ph] (2019)

34.    (E) Ultralight Dark Matter Detection with Mechanical Quantum Sensors, D. Carney, A. Hook, Z. Liu, J. Taylor, New J.Phys. 23 (2021) 2, 023041, 1908.04797 [hep-ph] [quant-ph] (2019)

35.    (E) Seeking for sterile neutrinos with displaced leptons at the LHC, J. Liu, Z. Liu, L.-T. Wang, X.-P. Wang, JHEP 1907 (2019) 159, 1904.01020 [hep-ph] (2019)

36.    (L) Millicharged Particles in Liquid Argon Neutrino Experiments, R. Harnik, Z. Liu, O. Palamara, JHEP07(2019)170, 1902.03246 [hep-ph] (2019)

37.    (E) Heavy Higgs as a Portal to the Supersymmetric Electroweak Sector, S. Gori, Z. Liu, B. Shakya, JHEP 04 (2019) 049, 1811.11918 [hep-ph] (2018)

38.    (E) Precision Higgs Physics at CEPC, F. An et al, Chin.Phys. C43 (2019) no.4, 043002 (Most Influential Paper Award of Chinese Physics Society), 1810.09037 [hep-ph] (2018)

39.    (S) Long-Lived Particles at the Energy Frontier: The MATHUSLA Physics Case, D. Curtin et al, Rept.Prog.Phys. 82 (2019) no.11, 116201, 1806.07396 [hep-ph] (2018)

40.    (L) Long-lived particles at the LHC: catching them in time, J. Liu, Z. Liu, L.-T. Wang, PhysRevLett.122.131801, arXiv:1805.05957 [hep-ph] (2018)

41.    (L) Probing Electroweak Phase Transition via Enhanced Di-Higgs Production, M. Carena, Z. Liu, M. Riembau, Phys. Rev. D 97, 095032 (2018), arXiv:1801.00794 [hep-ph] (2018)

42.    (E) A global view on the Higgs self-coupling at lepton colliders, S. Di Vita, G. Durieux, C. Grojean, J. Gu, Z. Liu, G. Panico, M. Riembau, T. Vantalon, JHEP02 (2018) 178, arXiv:1711.03978 [hep-ph] (2017)

43.    (E) Would a Deeply Bound b¯bb¯b Tetraquark Meson be Observed at the LHC?, E. Eichten, Z. Liu, arXiv:1709.09605 [hep-ph] (2017)

44.    (E) Learning from Higgs Physics at Future Higgs Factories, J. Gu, H. Li, Z. Liu, S. Su, W. Su, JHEP 1712 (2017) 153, arXiv:1709.06103 [hep-ph] (2017)

45.    (L) Interference in the gg h γγ On-Shell Rate and the Higgs Boson Total Width, J. Campbell, M. Carena, R. Harnik, Z. Liu, PhysRevLett.119.181801, arXiv:1704.08259 [hep-ph] (2017)

46.    (L) Exotic decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson at future e+e colliders, Z. Liu, L.-T. Wang, H. Zhang, Chin.Phys. C41 (2017) no.6, 063102, arXiv:1612.09284 [hep-ph] (2016)

47.    (L) Challenges and opportunities for heavy scalar searches in the ttbar channel at the LHC, M. Carena, Z. Liu, JHEP11(2016)159, arXiv:1608.07282 [hep-ph] (2016)

48.    (L) ISR effects for resonant Higgs production at future lepton colliders, M. Greco, T. Han, Z. Liu, Phys.Lett. B763 (2016) 409-415, arXiv:1607.03210 [hep-ph] (2016)

49.    (E) Physics implications of the diphoton excess from the perspective of renormalization group flow, Z. Liu, J. Gu, PhysRevD.93.075006, arXiv:1512.07624 [hep-ph] (2015)

50.    (E) Beyond Higgs Couplings: Probing the Higgs with Angular Observables at Future e+e Colliders, N. Craig, J. Gu, Z. Liu, K. Wang, JHEP 1603 (2016) 050, arXiv:1512.06877 [hep-ph] (2015)

51.    (E) Heavy Higgs bosons and the 2 TeV W boson, B. Dobrescu, Z. Liu, JHEP 10 (2015) 118, arXiv:1507.01923 [hep-ph] (2015)

52.    (E) A W boson near 2 TeV: predictions for Run 2 of the LHC, B. Dobrescu, Z. Liu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211802, arXiv:1506.06736 [hep-ph] (2015)

53.    (L) Improving Higgs coupling measurements through ZZ Fusion at the ILC, T. Han, Z. Liu, Z. Qian, J. Sayre, Phys. Rev. D 91, 113007, arXiv:1504.01399 [hep-ph] (2015)

54.    (E) The Fate of Long-Lived Superparticles with Hadronic Decays after LHC Run 1, Z. Liu, B. Tweedie,JHEP 06 (2015) 042, arXiv:1503.05923 [hep-ph] (2015)

55.    (L) Radiative Return for Heavy Higgs Boson at a Muon Collider, N. Chakrabarty, T. Han, Z. Liu, B. Mukhopadhyaya, Phys.Rev. D91, 015008, arXiv:1408.5912 [hep-ph] (2014)

56.    (L) Light Neutralino Dark Matter: Direct/Indirect Detection and Collider Searches, T. Han, Z. Liu, S. Su, JHEP 08 (2014) 093, arXiv:1406.1181 [hep-ph] (2014)

57.    (E) Exotic Decays of the 125 GeV Higgs Boson, D. Curtin et al., Phys. Rev. D90 (2014) 075004 (Editor’s suggestion), arXiv:1312.4992 [hep-ph] (2013)

58.    (L) Potential Precision on Higgs Couplings and Total Width at the ILC , T. Han, Z. Liu, J. Sayre, Phys. Rev. D 89 113006, arXiv:1311.7155 [hep-ph] (2013)

59.    (L) Dark Matter and Higgs Bosons in the MSSM, T. Han, Z. Liu, A. Natarajan, JHEP 1311 (2013) 008, arXiv:1303.3040 [hep-ph] (2013)

60. (E) Low-Mass Higgs Bosons in the NMSSM and Their LHC Implications, N. Christensen, T. Han, Z. Liu, S. Su, JHEP 1308 (2013) 019, arXiv:1303.2113 [hep-ph] (2013)

61. (L) Potential precision of a direct measurement of the Higgs boson total width at a muon collider, T. Han and Z. Liu, Phys.Rev. D87 (2013) 033007, arXiv:1210.7803 [hep-ph] (2012)

62. (E) Colored Resonant Signals at the LHC: Largest Rate and Simplest Topology, T. Han, I. Lewis, Z. Liu, JHEP 1012 (2010) 085, arXiv:1010.4309 [hep-ph] (2010)


Review Articles and Proceedings (editor or co-editor) (refereed and non-refereed)

63.    (L) A “Cool” route to the Higgs boson and beyond. The Cool Copper Collider, C. Vernieri et al, JINST 18 (2023) 07, P07053 [hep-ex] (2023)

64.    (L) Report of the Topical Group on Physics Beyond the Standard Model at Energy Frontier for Snowmass 2021, T. Bose et al, 2209.13128[hep-ph] (2022)

65.    (E) The Physics potential of the CEPC, H. Cheng et al, 2205.08553[hep-ph] (2022)

66.    (L) Searches for New Particles, Dark Matter, and Gravitational Waves with SRF Cavities, A. Berlin et al, 2203.12714[hep-ph] (2022)

67.    (E) Strategy for Understanding the Higgs Physics: The Cool Copper Collider, S. Dasu et al, 2203.07646[hep-ex] (2022)

68.    (L) Physics at Future Colliders: the Interplay Between Energy and Luminosity, L.-T. Wang and Z. Liu, 2205.00031[hep-ph](2022)

69.    (L) Probing the Electroweak Phase Transition with Exotic Higgs Decays, M. Carena et al, LHEP 2023 (2023) 432, 2203.08206[hep-ph](2022)

70.    (E) The International Linear Collider: Report to Snowmass 2021, ILC International Development Team, 2203.07622[hep-ph](2022)

71.    (E) Snowmass Whitepaper: The Windchime Project, Windchime Collaboration, 2203.07242[hep-ex](2022)

72.    (E) WIMP Dark Matter at High Energy Muon Colliders –A White Paper for Snowmass 2021, T. Han, Z. Liu, L.-T. Wang, X. Wang, 2203.07351[hep-ph](2022)

73.    (L) Unveiling Hidden Physics at the LHC, O. Fischer et al, The European Physical Journal C 82 (8), 1-58, 2109.06065[hep-ph] (2021)

74.    (E) Higgs boson pair production at colliders: status and perspectives, B. Di Micco et al, 1910.00012 [hep-ph] (2019)

75.    (L) Searching for long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider, Juliette Alimena et al, J.Phys.G 47 (2020) 9, 090501, 1903.04497 [hep-ph] (2019)

76.    (E) CEPC Conceptual Design Report: Volume 2 - Physics & Detector, M. Ahmad et al., 1811.10545 [hep-ph] (2018)

77.    (S) New physics implication of Higgs precision measurements, C. Ning et al, Int.J.Mod.Phys. A34 (2019) no.13n14, 1940012, 1808.10177 [hep-ph] (2018)

78.    (L) Probing the Higgs with angular observables at future e+e colliders, Z. Liu, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A, 31, 1644005 (2016)

79.    (L) CEPC-SppC Preliminary Conceptual Design Report Volume I: Physics and Detector, M. Ahmad et al., (link) [hep-ph] (2015)

80.    (L) Beyond Standard Model Physics at Current and Future Colliders, Z. Liu, thesis [hep-ph] (2015)

81.    (L) Diagnosis of a New Neutral Gauge Boson at the LHC and ILC for Snowmass 2013, T. Han, P. Langacker, Z. Liu and L.-T. Wang, arXiv:1308.2738 [hep-ph] (2013)


Review Articles and Proceedings (contributor) (refereed and non-refereed)

82.     (S) Towards a Muon Collider, C. Accettura et al, 2303.08533 [physics.acc-ph] (2023)

83.    (S) The Future of US Particle Physics – The Snowmass 2021 Energy Frontier Report, M. Narain et al, 2211.11084 [hep-ph](2022)

84.    (S) TF07 Snowmass Report: Theory of Collider Phenomena, F. Maltoni et al, 2210.02591[hep-ph](2022)

85.    (S) Report of the Topical Group on Higgs Physics for Snowmass 2021: The Case for Precision Higgs Physics, S. Dawson et al, 2209.07510[hep-ph](2022)

86.    (S) Muon Collider Forum Report, K. Black et al, 2209.01318[hep-ex] (2022)

87.    (S) New Horizons: Scalar and Vector Ultralight Dark Matter, D. Antypas et al, 2203.14915[hep-ex] (2022)

88.    (S) Recent Progress and Next Steps for the MATHUSLA LLP Detector, MATHUSLA Collaboration, 2203.08126[hep-ex](2022)

89.    (S) A Muon Collider Facility for Physics Discovery, International Muon Collider Collaboration, 2203.08033[physics.acc-ph](2022)

90.    (S) Muon Collider Physics Summary, C. Amie et al, 2203.07256[hep-ph](2022)

91.    (S) The physics case of a 3 TeV muon collider stage, Muon Collider Collaboration, 2203.07261[hep-ph](2022)

92.    (S) The Forward Physics Facility at the High-Luminosity LHC, J. Feng et al, 2203.05090[hep-ex](2022)

93.    (S) Neutrino Self-Interactions: A White Paper, J. Berryman et al, Phys.Dark Univ. 42 (2023) 101267, 2203.01955[hep-ph](2022)

94.    (S) The Forward Physics Facility: Sites, Experiments, and Physics Potential, L. Anchordoqui et al, 2109.10905[hep-ph] (2021)

95.    (S) An Update to the Letter of Intent for MATHUSLA: Search for Long-Lived Particles at the HL-LHC, MATHUSLA Collaboration, 2009.01693 [physics.ins-det] (2020)

96.    (S) Mechanical Quantum Sensing in the Search for Dark Matter, D. Carney et al, Quantum Sci.Technol. 6 (2021) 024002, 2008.06074[physics.ins-det] (2020)

97.    (S) Reinterpretation of LHC Results for New Physics: Status and Recommendations after Run 2, LHC Reinterpretation Forum Collaboration, SciPost Phys. 9, 022 (2020)2003.07868 [hep-ph] (2020)

98.    (S) Higgs Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC, Physics of the HL-LHC Working Group, 1902.00134 [hep-ph] (2019)

99.    (S) MATHUSLA: A Detector Proposal to Explore the Lifetime Frontier at the HL-LHC, Physics of the HL-LHC Working Group, 1901.04040 [hep-ph] (2019)

100.    (S) Future Circular Collider : Vol. 1 Physics opportunities , FCC Collaboration, Eur.Phys.J. C79 (2019) no.6, 474 [hep-ph] (2018)

101.    (S) Future Circular Collider : Vol. 2 The Lepton Collider (FCC-ee) , FCC Collaboration, Eur.Phys.J.ST 228 (2019) no.2, 261-623 [hep-ph] (2018)

102.    (S) Future Circular Collider : Vol. 3 The Hadron Collider (FCC-hh) , FCC Collaboration, Eur.Phys.J.ST 228 (2019) no.4, 755-1107 [hep-ph] (2018)

103.    (S) Future Circular Collider : Vol. 4 The High-Energy LHC (HE-LHC) , FCC Collaboration, Eur.Phys.J.ST 228 (2019) no.5, 1109-1382 [hep-ph] (2018)

104.    (S) Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC, X. Cid Vidal et al., 1812.07831 [hep-ph] (2018)

105.    (S) The CLIC Potential for New Physics, J. de Blas et al., CERN Yellow Rep. Monogr. Vol. 3 (2018), 1812.02093 [hep-ph] (2018)

106.    (S) New Particles Working Group Report of the Snowmass 2013 Community Summer Study, Y. Gershtein et al., arXiv:1311.0299 [hep-ph] (2013)

107.    (S) Higgs Working Group Report of the Snowmass 2013 Community Planning Study, S. Dawson et al., arXiv:1310.8361 [hep-ph] (2013)

108.    (S) Muon Collider Higgs Factory for Snowmass 2013, Y. Alexahin et al., arXiv:1308.2143 [hep-ph] (2013)

109.    (S) The Case for a Muon Collider Higgs Factory, Y. Alexahin et al., arXiv:1307.6129 [hep-ph] (2013)

110.    (S) Simplified Models for LHC New Physics Searches, Daniele Alves et al., J.Phys. G39 (2012) 105005, arXiv:1105.2838 [hep-ph] (2011)