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.

⚛️ phenomenology

SU(3)-flavor breaking as a structural probe of hidden-charm-strange 0−−0^{--} tetraquarks in a color-octet basis

This paper utilizes QCD sum rules with explicit SU(3)-flavor breaking effects to demonstrate that the magnitude of mass shifts in hidden-charm-strange 0−−0^{--} tetraquarks serves as a structural discriminator, distinguishing between compact [cˉc]8c⊗[sˉs]8c[\bar c c]_{8_c}\otimes[\bar s s]_{8_c} and molecular-like [cˉs]8c⊗[sˉc]8c[\bar c s]_{8_c}\otimes[\bar s c]_{8_c} color-octet configurations.

Bing-Dong Wan, Jun-Hao Zhang, Yan Zhang, Ming-Yang Yuan2026-06-25
⚛️ phenomenology

Spin-dependent neutrino oscillations in torsion backgrounds: A quantum-field-theoretic analysis

This paper investigates neutrino mixing within the Einstein–Cartan framework, demonstrating that constant and time-dependent axial torsion induces spin-dependent effective masses and energies that modify both oscillation frequencies and amplitudes in a quantum-field-theoretic analysis, with the most pronounced deviations from standard quantum-mechanical descriptions occurring in the nonrelativistic regime.

Raoul Serao, Giuseppe De Maria, Simone Monda, Aniello Quaranta, Antonio Capolupo2026-06-25
⚛️ phenomenology

Leptonic CP asymmetry and heavy neutrino searches in seesaw scenario

This paper investigates the prospects for detecting heavy Majorana neutrinos at the 14 TeV LHC within the type-I seesaw framework, demonstrating that collider sensitivity to light-heavy neutrino mixing is strongly correlated with the ratio of same-sign to opposite-sign dilepton events and the associated CP asymmetry, particularly for neutrino masses between 50 and 100 GeV.

Arindam Das, Wei Liu, Supriya Senapati2026-06-25
⚛️ high-energy theory

Electroweak corrections to Higgs boson pair production: The quark channel

This paper presents the first calculation of mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to Higgs boson pair production in the quark-antiquark channel, deriving fully analytic virtual amplitudes and implementing them in the POWHEG-BOX framework to reveal significant shape modifications in differential cross sections, particularly near the production threshold.

Marco Bonetti, Gudrun Heinrich, Philipp Rendler, William J. Torres Bobadilla2026-06-25
⚛️ phenomenology

Forward Searches for Heavy Neutrinos and Z′Z' Bosons at FCC-hh

This paper investigates the discovery potential of the Forward Physics Facility at the 100 TeV FCC-hh for heavy neutral leptons and Z′Z' bosons within anomaly-free chiral U(1)U(1) extensions of the Standard Model, demonstrating that the facility can significantly extend sensitivity to light, long-lived particles beyond current and proposed experiments through various production and decay channels.

ShivaSankar K. A., Souvik Das, Arindam Das, Sanjoy Mandal2026-06-25
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Factorization of the Energy-Energy Correlation in the two-jet limit in the massive case

This paper investigates non-logarithmic heavy-quark mass effects in the two-jet limit of the Energy-Energy Correlation by introducing a novel partial event fraction calculable via real emission diagrams in four dimensions and proposing an improved factorization scheme that ensures a smooth massless limit through an angle-dependent coefficient function.

Ugo Giuseppe Aglietti, Giancarlo Ferrera, Lorenzo Rossi2026-06-25
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Lepton number violation at hadron colliders via pseudo-Dirac heavy neutral leptons

This paper demonstrates that damped heavy neutrino-antineutrino oscillations significantly alleviate the suppression of lepton number violation in symmetry-protected pseudo-Dirac heavy neutral leptons at hadron colliders, while showing that combining lepton-number-blind and lepton-number-violating searches can distinguish these models from the double-Majorana limit despite the sensitivity challenges posed by small mass splittings.

Stefan Antusch, Jan Hajer, Bruno M. S. Oliveira2026-06-25