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

Spin resummation of heavy quarkonium photoproduction: from the gluonic gravitational form factors to the holographic pomeron

This paper presents a unified holographic QCD framework that resums even-spin gluonic exchanges, anchored by lattice QCD gravitational form factors, to accurately describe exclusive heavy quarkonium photoproduction across the full energy range from near-threshold to high energies while revealing the limitations of fixed-spin approximations for extracting gravitational form factors.

Kiminad A. Mamo, Kemal Tezgin, Christian Weiss2026-07-29
⚛️ phenomenology

One-loop HDL thermodynamics of a strongly magnetized isospin asymmetric cold quark matter

Using hard-dense-loop perturbation theory, this study computes the longitudinal pressure and magnetization of strongly magnetized cold isospin-asymmetric quark matter, revealing that pressure increases monotonically with chemical potentials, the system exhibits paramagnetic behavior, and strong magnetic fields induce pressure anisotropy by suppressing transverse pressure relative to longitudinal pressure.

Salman Ahamad Khan, Sarthak Satapathy, Sumit2026-07-29
⚛️ phenomenology

Beyond a symmetry-restricted VEV ansatz: transverse stability of an SU(5)SU(5) special-subgroup vacuum

This paper demonstrates that in an SU(5)SU(5) GUT with an adjoint and complex symmetric Higgs sector, two distinct parameter choices can yield identical effective potentials for symmetry-preserving vacuum configurations yet exhibit fundamentally different transverse stability, with one forming a local minimum and the other a saddle point with six negative modes.

Hidetoshi Kawase2026-07-29
⚛️ phenomenology

Singly heavy tetraquarks

This paper employs a semi-relativistic hybrid quark potential model to systematically investigate the spectra and fall-apart decays of singly-heavy tetraquarks, concluding that while most predicted states are compact and lie above meson-meson thresholds, specific experimental resonances like Ds0(2317)D_{s0}(2317) and Tbsˉ(5568)T_{b\bar{s}}(5568) cannot be explained as compact tetraquarks, whereas others such as Tcˉsˉ0(2870)T_{\bar{c}\bar{s}0}(2870) and Tcsˉ0(2900)T_{c\bar{s}0}(2900) are consistent with the tetraquark interpretation.

Jun-Jie Liu, Zhi-Biao Liang, Feng-Xiao Liu, Mu-Yang Chen, Xian-Hui Zhong, Qiang Zhao2026-07-29
⚛️ phenomenology

Photon Gas Thermodynamics in Doubly Special Relativity at the Planck Scale

This paper investigates the thermodynamics of a photon gas within the Magueijo-Smolin formulation of doubly special relativity, deriving and numerically evaluating key thermodynamic quantities that smoothly recover standard special relativistic results at low energies while exhibiting systematic suppression near the Planck scale due to the invariant energy cutoff.

Qi Xiong, Xinyi Yang, Guifeng Su, Yi Zhang2026-07-29