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.

⚛️ high-energy experiments

Reviving Z′Z^\prime Portal Dark Matter with Conversion Mechanism

This paper proposes a gauged U(1)B−LU(1)_{B-L} benchmark model featuring a compressed dark fermion spectrum and a small mixing angle to suppress direct detection constraints, demonstrating that a novel conversion mechanism effectively generates the observed dark matter relic density while remaining consistent with current collider and cosmological limits.

Zhen-Wei Wang, Zhi-Long Han, Fei Huang, Honglei Li, Ang Liu2026-06-11
⚛️ phenomenology

Analysis of the semileptonic decays of ΞccΞ_{cc} and ΩccΩ_{cc} baryons in QCD sum rules

This paper employs three-point QCD sum rules to systematically analyze the spin-12+→32+\frac{1}{2}^{+} \to \frac{3}{2}^{+} weak transitions of doubly charmed baryons, calculating form factors and predicting the semileptonic decay rates of Ξcc\Xi_{cc} and Ωcc\Omega_{cc} to singly charmed baryons to aid in understanding heavy baryon dynamics and searching for new physics.

Guo-Liang Yu, Zhi-Gang Wang, Jie Lu, Bin Wu, Peng Yang, Ze Zhou2026-06-11
⚛️ phenomenology

The Cosmic Neutrino Background is within Reach of Future Neutrino Telescopes

This paper calculates the total diffuse boosted cosmic neutrino background arising from all scattering channels between cosmic rays and relic neutrinos, demonstrating that current and future neutrino telescopes like IceCube-Gen2 have the sensitivity to detect the expected cosmological overdensity of the cosmic neutrino background.

Gonzalo Herrera, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Xiaolin Qi, Ian M. Shoemaker2026-06-11
⚛️ high-energy experiments

SPADE: Split-and-Delay Embeddings for Autoregressive High-Granularity Calorimeter Simulation

The paper introduces SPADE, an autoregressive transformer that independently embeds and delays multi-feature tokens to leverage standard self-attention for learning intra-token correlations, achieving state-of-the-art performance in high-granularity calorimeter shower simulation.

Joschka Birk, Frank Gaede, Anna Hallin, Gregor Kasieczka, Martina Mozzanica, Henning Rose2026-06-11