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

Can γγ\gamma\gamma collisions rival e−e+e^-e^+ in probing doubly charged Higgs bosons?

This paper demonstrates that high-energy γγ\gamma\gamma collisions at future linear colliders can rival the discovery potential of conventional e+e−e^+e^- modes for doubly charged Higgs bosons within the 2HDMcT framework, achieving 5σ5\sigma significance through significantly enhanced production cross sections that compensate for reduced effective luminosity.

Abdesslam Arhrib, Rachid Benbrik, Mohammed Boukidi, Mohamed Chabab, Khalid Goure, Stefano Moretti2026-08-19
⚛️ nuclear theory

Confining density functional approach to the QCD phase diagram at low temperatures and thermal twin stars

This paper presents a confining density functional equation of state for hybrid stars that reveals the existence of "thermal twin stars" at finite temperatures, suggesting that the presence of such disconnected branches serves as a new criterion to exclude strong color superconductivity and assess the explodability of core-collapse supernovae.

David Blaschke, Oleksii Ivanytskyi2026-08-19
⚛️ phenomenology

Schwinger dark matter production

This paper proposes that an inflationary dark Schwinger mechanism can generate the observed dark matter relic abundance for a wide mass range (0.1 eV to 101210^{12} GeV) by producing dark electrons that interact via light dark photons, a process that remains viable even when purely gravitational production is negligible and successfully evades isocurvature constraints.

Mar Bastero-Gil, Paulo B. Ferraz, Lorenzo Ubaldi, Roberto Vega-Morales2026-08-18
⚛️ phenomenology

Low scale leptogenesis and TM1TM_1 mixing in neutrinophillic two Higgs doublet model(ν\nu2HDM) with S4 flavor symmetry

This paper proposes a TeV-scale neutrinophilic two-Higgs-doublet model augmented by S4×Z4S_4 \times Z_4 flavor symmetry and five flavons to realize Trimaximal TM1\text{TM}_1 mixing, successfully explaining lepton masses under normal ordering while predicting a sub-threshold neutrinoless double-beta decay mass and enabling low-scale leptogenesis to account for the universe's matter-antimatter asymmetry.

Abhishek, V. Suryanarayana Mummidi2026-08-18