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.

Probing the three-body force in hadronic systems with specific charge parity

This paper proposes that three-body forces are definitively necessary in specific three-body hadronic systems with certain charge parities, demonstrating through contact-range potential calculations that while these forces play a minor role in the DˉsDK\bar{D}_sDK system, they are crucial for determining whether the DˉDη\bar{D}^*D\eta system forms a bound state.

Ya-Wen Pan, Ming-Zhu Liu, Li-Sheng Geng2026-03-27⚛️ nucl-th

Dirac neutrinos and gauged lepton number

This paper proposes the first scotogenic model with gauged lepton number U(1)LU(1)_L that is spontaneously broken to a residual Z6\mathbb{Z}_6 symmetry, thereby generating tiny Dirac neutrino masses at one loop while simultaneously providing a stable scalar dark matter candidate consistent with current experimental constraints and predicting observable charged lepton flavor violating decays.

A. E. Cárcamo Hernández, Andrés Enríquez, Sergey Kovalenko, Eduardo Peinado, Carlos A. Vaquera-Araujo2026-03-27⚛️ hep-ph

Neutrino and electromagnetic signatures from Superluminous Supernovae: a case study for SN 2017egm

This paper models the multi-messenger signatures of Superluminous Supernovae powered by millisecond magnetars, demonstrating that the scenario successfully explains the high-energy gamma-ray detection of SN 2017egm by Fermi LAT and predicts that stacking analyses with future observatories could achieve a 3σ3\sigma detection of neutrinos from such events within a decade.

Mainak Mukhopadhyay, Shigeo S. Kimura, Indrek Vurm, Brian D. Metzger2026-03-27🔭 astro-ph

Cogenesis of visible and dark matter in type-I Dirac seesaw

This paper proposes a novel cogenesis framework based on the type-I Dirac seesaw mechanism, where the out-of-equilibrium decays of heavy vector-like fermions simultaneously generate the baryon asymmetry and an asymmetric dark matter component, allowing for successful cogenesis with dark matter masses ranging from 100 MeV to 39 TeV while remaining testable through neutrino, dark matter, CMB, and gravitational wave observations.

Debasish Borah, Partha Kumar Paul, Narendra Sahu2026-03-27⚛️ hep-ph

Exploring two-body strong decay properties for possible single charm molecular pentaquarks with strangeness S=1,2|S|=1,2

This paper employs an effective Lagrangian approach combined with one-boson-exchange molecular wave functions to systematically calculate the two-body strong decay widths and branching ratios of single-charm molecular pentaquarks with strangeness S=1,2|S|=1,2, revealing distinctive decay patterns dominated by light meson exchange that serve as testable fingerprints for future experimental searches at LHCb and Belle II.

Xiao-Mei Tang, Jin-Yu Huo, Qi Huang, Rui Chen2026-03-27⚛️ hep-ph

Quantum field-theoretic framework for neutrino decoherence from scattering in a medium

This paper develops a quantum field-theoretic framework that derives a generalized Lindblad master equation to describe neutrino decoherence from momentum-changing scattering in a medium, explicitly linking decoherence parameters to scattering cross sections to probe new physics scenarios including non-standard interactions and dark matter.

Konstantin Stankevich, Alexander Studenikin, Maksim Vyalkov2026-03-27⚛️ hep-ph