Hep-Ph explores the fundamental forces that govern how particles interact and behave at the smallest scales imaginable. This field bridges the gap between theoretical predictions and experimental reality, helping scientists understand the building blocks of our universe without getting lost in complex mathematics. Whether investigating the Higgs boson or searching for new physics beyond current models, these studies push the boundaries of human knowledge about matter and energy.

At Gist.Science, we process every new preprint in this category as soon as it appears on arXiv. We strip away the dense jargon to offer both accessible plain-language explanations and detailed technical summaries, ensuring that groundbreaking research is understandable to everyone from students to seasoned experts. Below are the latest papers in this dynamic field, ready for you to explore with clarity and depth.

Two-loop leading-color QCD corrections for Higgs plus two-jet production in the heavy-top limit

This paper presents the leading-color two-loop QCD corrections for Higgs-plus-two-jet production in the heavy-top limit, providing analytic expressions for finite helicity amplitudes derived via numerical unitarity and a novel partial fraction decomposition algorithm, alongside a stable numerical implementation and an analysis of their singularity structure.

Giuseppe De Laurentis, Harald Ita, Viktor Kuschke, Michael Ruf, Vasily Sotnikov2026-05-06⚛️ hep-ph

Covariant Spinor Formalism for Multipole Expanded Form Factor

This paper presents a systematic, Lorentz covariant spinor-helicity formalism that extends the traditional multipole expansion to construct complete and linearly independent orbital-spin bases for form factors of arbitrary spin particles, demonstrating their equivalence to established expansions while providing a universal construction formula for arbitrary tensor operators.

Hong Huang, Tuo Tan, Yi-Ning Wang, Jiang-Hao Yu2026-05-06⚛️ hep-ph

A Precise Determination of αs\alpha_s from the Heavy Jet Mass Distribution

This paper presents a precise determination of the strong coupling constant αs(mZ)=0.11480.0022+0.0015\alpha_s(m_Z) = 0.1148^{+ 0.0015}_{-0.0022} through a global fit of e+ee^+e^- heavy jet mass data, utilizing state-of-the-art theoretical predictions that combine fixed-order calculations, multiple resummation orders, and first-principles power corrections to demonstrate the critical role of resummation in achieving robust results and revealing evidence for negative power corrections in the trijet region.

Miguel A. Benitez, Arindam Bhattacharya, Andre H. Hoang, Vicent Mateu, Matthew D. Schwartz, Iain W. Stewart, Xiaoyuan Zhang2026-05-05⚛️ nucl-ex

Extending the sensitivity of heavy sterile neutrino searches with solar neutrino experiments

This paper presents a sensitivity study demonstrating that solar neutrino experiments can detect heavy sterile neutrinos in the MeV mass range by combining complementary detection methods for decay products (e+ee^+e^- pairs or νe\nu_e), thereby extending the observable parameter space for mixing angles and masses.

Yutao Zhu, Haoyang Fu, Wentai Luo, Shaomin Chen, Litao Yang, Zhicai Zhang2026-05-05⚛️ hep-ex