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.

⚛️ phenomenology

Compact Stars as Portals to Extra-Dimensional Dark Matter

This paper proposes that asymmetric dark matter capable of propagating into extra dimensions can trigger the collapse of neutron stars into long-lived black holes that consume the entire star, thereby imposing significantly tighter constraints on dark matter masses and extra-dimensional sizes compared to standard three-dimensional scenarios.

Raghuveer Garani, Chris Kouvaris, Michel H. G. Tytgat, Jérôme Vandecasteele2026-08-20
⚛️ phenomenology

On the Origins of Varying Gauge Couplings

This paper argues that in weakly coupled, renormalizable four-dimensional ultraviolet completions, gauge invariance necessitates that the dependence of gauge couplings on a dynamical scalar field is logarithmic rather than the commonly assumed linear form, effectively describing the variation through renormalization-group running with dynamical mass thresholds.

Carlos Henrique de Lima, David McKeen, David E. Morrissey, Michael Shamma2026-08-20
🔬 physics

Transferable Fast Calorimeter Shower Generation via Multi-Geometry Pre-training

This paper demonstrates that pre-training a deep generative model on a diverse set of synthetic calorimeter geometries (SimpleBox) enables effective transfer to unseen detectors, significantly reducing the data requirements and improving performance compared to training from scratch or using realistic detector priors.

Thorsten Buss, Henry Day-Hall, Frank Gaede, Gregor Kasieczka, Katja Krüger, Peter McKeown, Lorenzo Valente2026-08-20
⚛️ high-energy theory

A Rotor-Dressed Semiton State in a Monopole--Fermion Model

This paper constructs an explicit microscopic Hilbert-space representation of the semiton state in a four-flavor massless QED monopole--fermion model by utilizing a bosonized fermion--rotor framework to define a unitary operator that generates a localized fermion core and a half-integral semiton front, thereby providing a concrete realization of the varying-Fock-space interpretation of monopole--fermion scattering.

Yuta Hamada2026-08-20
⚛️ nuclear theory

Fourier Transforms of Color Glass Condensate Multi-Wilson-Line Correlators via Filon Quadrature

This paper introduces a GPU-accelerated Filon-type quadrature method that efficiently computes the oscillatory Hankel transforms of multi-Wilson-line correlators required for Color Glass Condensate cross-section calculations, significantly reducing runtime and enabling next-to-leading-order proton-nucleus and electron-ion scattering simulations beyond the correlation-limit approximation.

Haowu Duan, Si-Wei Dai, Cong Yi, Wenbin Zhao2026-08-20
⚛️ phenomenology

Identifying the origin of the 146-GeV excess at the LHC

This paper proposes three new production channels (HγH\gamma, HjHj, and $Hjj$) within the two-Higgs-doublet model to distinguish between Higgs-mixing and leptophilic origins of the 146-GeV CMS excess, demonstrating that the HγH\gamma channel alone can achieve a 7.1σ\sigma significance at the high-luminosity LHC, rising to 7.6σ\sigma when combined with the other channels.

P. Uttayarat, J. Julio, R. Primulando2026-08-20