A Sign-Locked, Falsifiable Bridge Between Jet Quenching and Near-Threshold J/ψ Photoproduction

A Sign-Locked, Falsifiable Bridge Between Jet Quenching and Near-Threshold J/psi Photoproduction (v2) This record contains the manuscript and reproducibility assets for a falsifiable “sign-locked” link between (i) heavy-ion jet quenching (as a confinement-tension sign prior) and (ii) the near-threshold J/psi photoproduction small-|t| slope parameter B_g, which encodes the proton’s gluonic mass radius. The paper introduces a weak scalar “strain” field coupled to the gluonic energy density and derives a mechanical sign-locking rule: if the effective confining string tension shift is positive (stiffer effective strings), then the induced shift in B_g must be negative (gluonic mass radius decreases). A statistically significant opposite sign would falsify the interpretation. (See manuscript for the decision rule and extraction protocol.) Contents: Manuscript PDF (v2) Cleaned GlueX differential cross-section tables Analysis scripts and metadata required for reproducibility Licenses: Data: CC-BY-4.0 Code: MIT Version note: v2 updates the manuscript PDF only; all data/scripts/metadata are unchanged from v1.