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.

⚛️ nuclear theory

Resonating group method for baryon-baryon interactions with unequal oscillator frequencies and its application to the NΔNΔ system in a chiral quark model

This paper develops a new resonating group method formalism that accommodates unequal harmonic-oscillator frequencies for baryons with distinct quantum numbers, applying it to the NΔN\Delta system within a chiral SU(3) quark model to provide a unified framework for describing both single-baryon properties and baryon-baryon interactions.

Ke-Rang Song, Fei Huang2026-08-14
⚛️ phenomenology

Dark matter in scale-invariant gravity with hidden-sector condensation

This paper proposes a unified framework based on classically scale-invariant quadratic gravity coupled to a strongly interacting hidden sector, where hidden-sector confinement dynamically generates the Planck and electroweak scales while enabling Starobinsky inflation and the gravitational freeze-in production of various dark matter candidates.

Juan P. Garcés, Jisuke Kubo, Manfred Lindner, Markus Reinig2026-08-14
⚛️ phenomenology

Soft Collinear Effective Theory for Heavy QCD Axions

This paper develops a Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) framework for heavy QCD axions by analyzing two distinct low-energy realizations of the B→KaB\to Ka decay, deriving factorized expressions for soft and spectator-scattering contributions, and establishing the specific conditions under which spectator scattering becomes phenomenologically relevant for constraining the axion decay constant.

Deepanshu Bisht, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Siddhartha Karmakar, Atanu Samanta2026-08-14
⚛️ high-energy theory

Constraints on the O(n)O(n) model from a negative number of flavors

By treating the number of flavors nn as a variable and exploiting the duality between O(n)O(n) and Sp(−n)Sp(-n), this paper derives non-perturbative constraints on the O(n)O(n) model's operator spectrum, revealing novel degeneracies that enable the calculation of two-loop anomalous dimensions and new non-renormalization results without additional loop computations.

Daniele Artico, Jasper Roosmale Nepveu2026-08-14
⚛️ phenomenology

Singlet-Doublet fermion origin of dark matter, neutrino mass and inverse first-order electroweak phase transition

This paper proposes a scotogenic model extending the Standard Model with singlet-doublet fermions and right-handed neutrinos to simultaneously explain dark matter, Dirac neutrino masses, and an inverse first-order electroweak phase transition that produces observable gravitational waves, with its parameter space testable by future collider, direct-detection, and cosmological experiments.

Debasish Borah, Indrajit Saha, Sujit Kumar Sahoo, Narendra Sahu, Shashwat Sharma2026-08-14
⚛️ nuclear experiments

How Neutron Star Radii Encode the Dense-Matter Equation of State and Hadron-Quark Transition

This study employs a Bayesian analysis of mock neutron star radius measurements to demonstrate that while high-precision data can tightly constrain symmetry-energy parameters and transition densities, it cannot uniquely identify the underlying mass-radius topology or fully determine high-density quark-matter properties without complementary probes.

Bao-An Li, Xavier Grundler2026-08-14
⚛️ phenomenology

A Novel One-loop Model for Majorana Neutrino Mass and Dark Matter

This paper presents the first complete field-theoretic realization of the finite one-loop T4-3-i topology for Majorana neutrino mass, proposing a minimal singlet-doublet model with Dirac and Majorana fermions and inert scalars that simultaneously explains neutrino oscillations, predicts a massless neutrino, and offers viable fermionic or scalar dark matter candidates stabilized by a Z2Z_2 symmetry.

Mohamed Belfkir, Mohamed Amin Loualidi, Salah Nasri2026-08-14