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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.

⚛️ general relativity

Factorized neural posterior estimation for rapid and reliable inference of parameterized post-Einsteinian deviation parameters in gravitational waves

This paper introduces a factorized neural posterior estimation framework that leverages normalizing flows and hybrid deep learning architectures to achieve millisecond-scale, statistically reliable inference of parameterized post-Einsteinian deviation parameters for gravitational wave tests of general relativity, offering a $9 \times 10^4$ speedup over traditional Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.

Yong-Xin Zhang, Tian-Yang Sun, Chun-Yu Xiong, Song-Tao Liu, Yu-Xin Wang, Shang-Jie Jin, Jing-Fei Zhang, Xin Zhang2026-10-01

⚛️ phenomenology

Constraints on Complex Electroweak WIMPs from Solar Capture

This paper analyzes solar capture and annihilation of electroweak multiplet dark matter, finding that IceCube constraints on the mass splitting $\delta$ effectively rule out most such models as the origin of the single high-recoil event reported by the LZ collaboration, even when accounting for high-velocity dark matter tails.

Juan P. Luengas, Maxim Pospelov, Harikrishnan Ramani2026-10-01

⚛️ phenomenology

A Partial Wave Formalism for High-Energy Meson Electroproduction

This paper presents a comprehensive partial-wave formalism for high-energy meson electroproduction that utilizes parity-based symmetries and Regge factorization to separate cross sections and extract production amplitudes directly from spherical harmonic moments, thereby enabling model-independent analysis of unpolarized and polarized data for upcoming experimental programs.

Dillon Leahy, Derek Glazier, Vincent Mathieu, Marco Filippini, David Ireland, Glòria Montaña, Alessandro Pilloni, Bhawan (…)2026-10-01

🔭 astrophysics

HESS J1507-622: A Plausible Young Galactic Kilonova Remnant

This paper proposes that the unusual TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1507-622 is a young Galactic kilonova remnant, explaining its off-plane location via a natal kick and its observed flux through leptonic inverse-Compton scattering, while predicting unique multi-wavelength signatures like MeV gamma rays from r-process decay for future confirmation.

Prantik Sarmah, Xilu Wang, Myles Carley, Shu-Xu Yi, Ming-Yu Ge, Rebecca Surman2026-10-01

⚛️ phenomenology

Imprints of Left-Right Symmetry breaking in Gravitational Wave Spectroscopy: A non-minimal case study

This paper investigates a non-minimal Left-Right symmetric gauge model derived from $E_6$ unification, demonstrating that its rich scalar sector can drive a strong first-order cosmological phase transition at tens of TeVs, producing stochastic gravitational waves detectable by current and future observatories like LISA and DECIGO.

Abdul Rahaman Shaikh, Nandini Das, Rathin Adhikari, Anindya Datta2026-10-01

⚛️ high-energy theory

Symmetry-Restoring Counter-terms in Massive Gauge Theories with Non-Anticommuting $\gamma_5$ via Gauge-Invariant Sector Decomposition

This paper employs the Frölich-Morchio-Strocchi gauge-invariant formalism and cohomological techniques to compute one-loop Slavnov-Taylor identity violations and derive the necessary finite counter-terms for restoring symmetry in a massive Abelian chiral gauge theory regularized via the BMHV scheme, establishing a framework generalizable to non-Abelian cases.

Andrea Quadri2026-10-01

⚛️ nuclear theory

Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering around $x=0.3$

This paper presents a global analysis of deep-inelastic scattering data showing that nuclear effects on partonic structure remarkably cancel out around $x=0.3$ across various nuclear targets, a finding interpreted within a microscopic model of nuclear modifications.

S. A. Kulagin, R. Petti2026-10-01

⚛️ phenomenology

Inclusive diffraction in eA at small x with the Sartre event generator

This paper presents an extension of the Sartre event generator that implements inclusive diffractive deep inelastic scattering for both proton and nuclear targets at small $x$ using the colour-dipole picture, enabling fully exclusive hadronic final states and providing the first predictions for the Electron-Ion Collider.

Tobias Toll, Bhakta Naik, Jaswant Singh, Thomas Ullrich2026-10-01

⚛️ phenomenology

Heavy Dark Baryons at Large $N$ : Self-Interactions across All Scales

This paper proposes that heavy dark baryons in a moderately large- $N$ confining $SU(N)$ sector can naturally explain the full range of observed dark matter self-interactions across astrophysical scales through van der Waals forces, while simultaneously accounting for the dark matter abundance via a baryon asymmetry and allowing the number of colors $N$ to be inferred from observational data.

Giovani Dalla Valle Garcia, Juan Herrero-Garc\'ıa2026-10-01

⚛️ phenomenology

Heavy Dark Baryons as Self-Interacting Dark Matter: A GeV-Scale Coincidence

This paper proposes that heavy dark baryons in a confining $SU(N)$ gauge theory with a large number of colors (e.g., $N=10$ ) can serve as viable self-interacting dark matter, where attractive multipole forces overcome Pauli repulsion to produce velocity-dependent cross sections consistent with astrophysical observations and GeV-scale masses.

Giovani Dalla Valle Garcia, Juan Herrero-Garc\'ıa2026-10-01

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hep-ph

Factorized neural posterior estimation for rapid and reliable inference of parameterized post-Einsteinian deviation parameters in gravitational waves

Constraints on Complex Electroweak WIMPs from Solar Capture

A Partial Wave Formalism for High-Energy Meson Electroproduction

HESS J1507-622: A Plausible Young Galactic Kilonova Remnant

Imprints of Left-Right Symmetry breaking in Gravitational Wave Spectroscopy: A non-minimal case study

Symmetry-Restoring Counter-terms in Massive Gauge Theories with Non-Anticommuting γ5\gamma_5γ5​ via Gauge-Invariant Sector Decomposition

Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering around x=0.3x=0.3x=0.3

Inclusive diffraction in eA at small x with the Sartre event generator

Heavy Dark Baryons at Large NNN: Self-Interactions across All Scales

Heavy Dark Baryons as Self-Interacting Dark Matter: A GeV-Scale Coincidence

Symmetry-Restoring Counter-terms in Massive Gauge Theories with Non-Anticommuting $\gamma_5$ via Gauge-Invariant Sector Decomposition

Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering around $x=0.3$

Heavy Dark Baryons at Large $N$ : Self-Interactions across All Scales