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.

Angular-resolved nonlinear optical response as a probe of Lorentz violation in noncentrosymmetric materials

This paper proposes a method to detect weak Lorentz-violating backgrounds in noncentrosymmetric crystals by measuring a distinct π\pi-periodic angular modulation in the nonlinear shift photocurrent, which arises from momentum-odd corrections to the Bloch Hamiltonian and offers sensitivity to coupling strengths as low as ξ1024Cm\xi\sim10^{-24}\,\mathrm{C\,m}.

Guilherme J. Inacio, Nathanael N. Batista, Wesley Spalenza, Humberto Belich, Juan José Palacios, Wendel S. Paz2026-04-24🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Sharpening New Physics Searches in Neutrino Oscillations with DUNE-PRISM

This paper demonstrates that the DUNE-PRISM technique, which utilizes measurements at multiple off-axis angles to mitigate flux and cross-section systematic uncertainties, significantly restores the sensitivity of the DUNE experiment to new physics scenarios like non-unitarity and sterile neutrinos in the electron and muon sectors, while providing high-statistics flux data for future analyses.

Josu Hernández-García, Jacobo López-Pavón, Salvador Urrea2026-04-24⚛️ hep-ph

Kitchen Sink Anomaly Detection

This paper addresses limitations in existing resonant anomaly detection methods by introducing new simulated signal benchmarks and a comprehensive "kitchen sink" observable set combining Energy Flow Polynomials and subjettiness variables, demonstrating that this approach offers superior sensitivity across diverse signal types while an attribute bagging variant significantly reduces training costs with comparable performance.

Ranit Das, Marie Hein, Gregor Kasieczka, Michael Krämer, Lukas Lang, Radha Mastandrea, Louis Moureaux, Alexander Mück, David Shih2026-04-24⚛️ hep-ph

Impact of different neutrino decoherence formalisms at the future long-baseline Experiments

This paper investigates how two distinct formalisms for modeling neutrino decoherence—one defined in the matter mass eigenstate basis and the other in the vacuum mass eigenstate basis—yield divergent oscillation probabilities and experimental sensitivities for future long-baseline experiments like DUNE and P2SO, particularly when decoherence parameters are large or matter effects are significant.

Rudra Majhi, Koushik Pal, Monojit Ghosh, Rukmani Mohanta2026-04-24⚛️ hep-ph

Relativistic effects in k-essence

This paper demonstrates that while relativistic effects in the Fourier-space galaxy power spectrum exhibit strong degeneracies among different k-essence models, the angular power spectrum significantly amplifies these effects—particularly for tachyon fields—making it a more robust probe for detecting non-standard dark energy and highlighting the necessity of full relativistic modeling in upcoming horizon-scale surveys.

Didam Duniya (BIUST), Isaac Opio (BIUST), Bishop Mongwane (Cape Town), Hassan Abdalla (NWU,Omdurman)2026-04-24🔭 astro-ph