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.

🔬 atomic physics

Black hole scalar sirens in the Milky Way

This paper proposes that spinning black holes in the Milky Way can act as persistent "scalar sirens" by ejecting light scalar particles via superradiant instability, thereby generating a detectable, high-velocity scalar background that offers a novel, independent probe of isolated black hole populations and scalar field properties.

Daniel Gavilan-Martin, Olivier Simon, Dhashin Krishna, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Dmitry Budker, Arne Wickenbrock2026-03-11
⚛️ phenomenology

Neutrino NSI in archaeological Pb

This paper demonstrates that the RES-NOVA experiment, utilizing archaeological lead crystals, can probe neutrino non-standard interactions (NSI) at levels comparable to current global fits in its nominal configuration and potentially surpass them with improved energy thresholds or increased exposure, particularly in the electron and tau sectors.

D. Alloni, G. Benato, P. Carniti, M. Cataldo, D. Cerdeño, A. Cheek, L. Cheng, M. Clemenza, M. Consonni, G. Croci, I. Daf (…)2026-03-11
⚛️ phenomenology

All-Loop Renormalization and the Phase of the de Sitter Wavefunction

This paper demonstrates that for shift-symmetric scalars in de Sitter space, a quantum anomaly in renormalization forces the late-time wavefunction to acquire an imaginary part that is entirely determined by its renormalization scale dependence to all loop orders, thereby establishing an infinite set of relations among correlators of massless fields and their conjugate momenta.

Alexander Farren, Ciaran McCulloch, Enrico Pajer, Xi Tong2026-03-11
⚛️ phenomenology

Explicit or Implicit? Encoding Physics at the Precision Frontier

This paper compares explicit symmetry encoding (L-GATr) and implicit structure learning (OmniLearn) in particle physics, finding that both approaches achieve comparable performance across challenging tasks like unfolding and anomaly detection, suggesting that efficiency gains from encoding known physics structures are largely method-independent.

Victor Breso-Pla, Kevin Greif, Vinicius Mikuni, Benjamin Nachman, Tilman Plehn, Tanvi Wamorkar, Daniel Whiteson2026-03-11
⚛️ phenomenology

DIS dijet production in Background Field Approach: General formalism and methods

This paper develops a general formalism for computing physical observables in the background field approach by representing propagators as path-ordered exponents, applying it to DIS dijet production to derive a cross section valid in arbitrary kinematics and demonstrating its consistency with known results in both back-to-back and small-xx limits while providing a quantitative matching between these regimes.

Tiyasa Kar, Andrey Tarasov, Vladimir V. Skokov2026-03-11
⚛️ phenomenology

Matter- and magnetically-driven flavor conversion of neutrinos in magnetorotational collapses

Using 3D neutrino-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a magnetorotational collapse, this study reveals that neutrino flavor conversion is driven by both matter effects and magnetic interactions, leading to significant orientation-dependent event rates at neutrino telescopes that are crucial for interpreting joint neutrino and gravitational wave detections.

Marco Manno, Pablo Martínez-Miravé, Irene Tamborra2026-03-11