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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Possible Existence of ϕ3^3_ϕH, ϕ4^4_ϕH, ϕ4^4_ϕHe, and ϕ5^5_ϕHe Nuclei

Motivated by recent HAL QCD simulations, this study employs a first-principles few-body framework to predict the existence of deeply and moderately bound ϕ\phi-mesic nuclei (ϕ4H^4_\phi\mathrm{H}, ϕ4He^4_\phi\mathrm{He}, and ϕ5He^5_\phi\mathrm{He}), demonstrating that strong short-range attraction in the 2S1/2^2S_{1/2} ϕN\phi N channel is the key binding mechanism.

Rimantas Lazauskas, Roman Ya. Kezerashvili, Igor Filikhin2026-05-26⚛️ hep-lat

Finite-volume analysis of the HH-dibaryon including left-hand-cut effects

This paper employs a finite-volume N/DN/D formalism incorporating left-hand-cut effects from one-pion exchange to analyze lattice QCD data at the SU(3)F_\text{F}-symmetric point, revealing that these effects produce a mild but statistically significant impact on the binding energy of the HH-dibaryon compared to standard Lüscher quantization methods.

Arkaitz Rodas, Lin Qiu, César Fernández-Ramírez, Vincent Mathieu, Glòria Montaña, Alessandro Pilloni, Adam P. Szczepaniak2026-05-25⚛️ hep-lat

Disorder-Free Localization and Fragmentation in a Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theory

This paper investigates a (1+1)D SU(2)\mathrm{SU}(2) lattice gauge theory with dynamical matter and static background charges, revealing a dynamical phase diagram that includes ergodic, nonthermal fragmented, and disorder-free many-body localized regimes, where the latter preserves spatial inhomogeneities through superpositions of gauge superselection sectors.

Giovanni Cataldi, Giuseppe Calajó, Pietro Silvi, Simone Montangero, Jad C. Halimeh2026-05-22⚛️ hep-lat

Impact of Hadronic Resonances on BK()τ+τB\to K^{(*)}\tau^+\tau^- decays

This paper proposes a data-driven strategy to predict BK()τ+τB\to K^{(*)}\tau^+\tau^- decays by explicitly incorporating hadronic resonance contributions, such as those from ψ(2S)\psi(2S), rather than avoiding them, thereby enabling the use of hadron-collider data and enhancing sensitivity to large New Physics effects across the full kinematic spectrum.

Guillermo Baltà, Andreas Crivellin, Rafel Escribano, Joaquim Matias, Martín Novoa-Brunet2026-05-21⚛️ hep-lat