Hep-Lat, short for High Energy Physics – Lattice, explores the fundamental forces of nature by simulating particle interactions on a digital grid. Instead of relying solely on abstract equations, researchers in this field use powerful computers to model how quarks and gluons bind together, offering deep insights into the structure of matter that are often impossible to derive analytically.

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Below are the latest papers in High Energy Physics – Lattice, curated directly from arXiv and ready for you to explore.

Spectral reconstruction techniques, their shortcomings and relevance to the electric conductivity coefficient

This paper evaluates a machine learning framework and a novel multipoint method for the ill-posed spectral reconstruction problem by comparing them against established techniques on mock data, then applying the most effective approaches to quenched lattice data to extract the electric conductivity in the presence of a non-zero external magnetic field.

C. Andratschke, B. B. Brandt, E. Garnacho-Velasco, L. Pannullo, S. Singh, A. Dean M. Valois2026-03-20⚛️ hep-lat

A global analysis of Energy-Energy Correlation data: determination of αSα_S and non-perturbative QCD parameters

This paper presents a comprehensive global analysis of Energy-Energy Correlation data across a wide range of center-of-mass energies, utilizing N³LL resummation matched to O(αS3)\mathcal{O}(\alpha_S^3) fixed-order calculations and including non-perturbative power corrections to precisely determine the strong coupling constant αS(mZ2)=0.119±0.002\alpha_S(m_Z^2) = 0.119 \pm 0.002 and non-perturbative QCD parameters.

Ugo Giuseppe Aglietti, Giancarlo Ferrera, Lorenzo Rossi2026-03-20⚛️ hep-lat

Investigating the role of tetraquark operators in lattice QCD studies of the a0(980)a_0(980) and κκ resonances

This lattice QCD study demonstrates that including tetraquark operators is essential for reliably extracting the finite-volume spectrum of the a0(980)a_0(980) and κ\kappa scalar mesons, as their omission leads to unreliable results and fails to reveal critical energy levels such as an additional state below the KηK\eta threshold.

Andrew D. Hanlon, Daniel Darvish, Sarah Skinner, John Meneghini, Ruairí Brett, John Bulava, Jacob Fallica, Colin Morningstar, Fernando Romero-López, André Walker-Loud2026-03-20⚛️ hep-lat

Singly heavy tetraquark resonant states with multiple strange quarks

Using the constituent quark potential model combined with the Gaussian expansion and complex scaling methods, this study systematically investigates S-wave singly heavy tetraquark systems with multiple strange quarks, finding no bound states but identifying several compact resonances in the charm and bottom sectors that decay into specific meson pairs and serve as targets for future experimental searches.

Xin-He Zheng, Yao Ma, Shi-Lin Zhu2026-03-19✓ Author reviewed ⚛️ hep-lat

A Continuum Schwinger Method to Study the Pion's Generalized Parton Distribution

This paper introduces a novel algebraic modeling strategy for pion Generalized Parton Distributions that rigorously satisfies all QCD constraints, demonstrating through next-to-leading order calculations that gluons dominate the pion's response in deeply virtual Compton scattering at Electron Ion Collider kinematics.

J. M. Morgado-Chávez, J. Segovia, F. de Soto, J. Rodríguez-Quintero, V. Bertone, M. Defurne, C. Mezrag, H. Moutarde2026-03-19⚛️ hep-lat

KπK \pi scattering as a step towards BK+B \to K^* \ell^+ \ell^- from Lattice QCD

This paper presents the status of an exploratory lattice QCD calculation utilizing a dual heavy-quark strategy and the 1+J21+J\to2 finite-volume formalism to determine the hadronic matrix elements for the resonant KπK\pi final state, a crucial step toward achieving precise Standard Model predictions for the BK+B\to K^*\ell^+\ell^- decay.

Felix Erben, Matthew Black, Peter Boyle, Matteo Di Carlo, Vera Gülpers, Maxwell T. Hansen, Nelson Pitanga Lachini, Rajnandini Mukherjee, Antonin Portelli, J. Tobias Tsang2026-03-19⚛️ hep-lat

CaRBM: A Fixed-Depth Quantum Algorithm with Partial Correction for Thermal State Preparation

The paper introduces CaRBM, a fixed-depth quantum algorithm that utilizes Restricted Boltzmann Machine block-encoding with partial correction to efficiently prepare thermal states, particularly at high temperatures, as demonstrated by its application to calculating partition function zeros and phase diagrams in the XXZ and Gross-Neveu models.

Omar Alsheikh, A. F. Kemper, Ermal Rrapaj, Goksu C. Toga2026-03-19⚛️ hep-lat