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.

Hits to Higgs: Hit-Level Higgs Classification from Raw LHC Detector Data Using Higgsformer

The paper introduces Higgsformer, a transformer-based model that successfully classifies ttˉHt\bar{t}H versus ttˉt\bar{t} events directly from raw inner tracker hits, achieving performance comparable to traditional object-based reconstruction pipelines while bypassing intermediate physics object reconstruction.

Sascha Caron, Polina Moskvitina, Roberto Ruiz de Austri, Eugene Shalugin2026-04-02⚛️ hep-ph

Gravitational Waves from Hyperbolic Encounters of Primordial Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies

This paper investigates the stochastic gravitational wave background from primordial black holes in dwarf galaxies, revealing that while hierarchical binary mergers dominate the total signal, hyperbolic encounters provide an earlier, continuous subdominant background that becomes relatively more significant as the population evolves, with distinct spectral features potentially detectable by future observatories like LISA and ET.

Tadeo D. Gòmez-Aguilar, Encieh Erfani, N. M. Jimènez Cruz2026-04-02⚛️ hep-ph

Semileptonic decay and form factors of ΩbΩc0eνeˉΩ_b^- \rightarrow Ω_c^0\,e\,\bar{ν_e}

This paper investigates the semileptonic decay ΩbΩc0eνˉe\Omega_b^- \rightarrow \Omega_c^0 e \bar{\nu}_e using the Hypercentral Constituent Quark Model to calculate baryon masses and Heavy Quark Effective Field Theory form factors with subleading 1/mQ1/m_Q corrections, ultimately determining the decay width and branching ratio for comparison with other theoretical approaches.

Kinjal Patel, Kaushal Thakkar2026-04-02⚛️ hep-ph