18th International Workshop on Boosted Object Phenomenology, Reconstruction, Measurements, and Searches at Colliders

Overview BOOST 2026 is the 18th conference of a series of successful joint theory/experiment workshops that bring together the world's leading experts in theoretical and experimental collider physics to discuss the latest progress and develop new approaches on the reconstruction of and use of jet substructure to study Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and search for physics beyond the Standard Model. Note: BOOST 2026 will be held in the week just after PSR 2026 in Manchester. For attendees of...

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Topological Vortex Superradiance and TMST: A QCD Framework for Intrinsic Charm and Proton Structure Tests with Belle II at the Chiral Belle Polarization Upgrade

We develop a topological QCD framework in which color confinement, intrinsic charm and the proton’s partonic structure emerge from an entanglement–driven phase transition between a three–valence–quark regime and a gluon–dominated collective condensate. The central ingredient is the Two–Mode Squeezing Threshold (TMST), an entanglement–dominance threshold T_0 at which a collective vortex mode in color space becomes superradiantly amplified and stabilizes heavy quark–antiquark components (such as intrinsic charm) as quasi–topological excitations rather than rare perturbative fluctuations. This mechanism provides a first–principles, geometric explanation of intrinsic charm signals in global PDF analyses and of the gluon–cloud picture of the proton, unifying them with a topological vortex description of confinement and ER=EPR–type geometric channels. On the phenomenological side, we show how the TMST can be probed through two–particle correlation observables in high–luminosity e+e− collisions. In particular, we formulate an operational equation (Eq. 1, implemented in an open Python module) that relates an effective “entanglement temperature” T_obs derived from the log–negativity of the TMST state, to quantities extracted from two–particle correlation functions, dT_obs = (d dv) / (dv dT), providing a concrete handle to distinguish standard gluon radiation from topological vortex stabilization in heavy–flavor final states. The Chiral Belle / SuperKEKB electron–polarization upgrade and Belle II–style e+e− correlation measurements offer an especially clean environment to test this scenario, by searching for TMST–driven changes in spin– and flavor–sensitive observables associated with charm and exotic spectroscopy. The framework is formulated in a way that is directly implementable in basf2–type analysis chains and extensible to lattice QCD, global PDF fits and cold–atom analogs. Keywords QCD confinement intrinsic charm proton structure topological vortices Two–Mode Squeezing Threshold (TMST) entanglement dominance gluon condensate Belle II Chiral Belle polarization upgrade SuperKEKB e+e− correlations spin observables exotic hadron spectroscopy dark sector searches electroweak precision