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

Determination of the HERA coherent diffractive J/ψJ/\psi production cross section via artificial neural network

This paper presents a model-independent analysis of HERA's exclusive coherent diffractive J/ψJ/\psi production data using artificial neural networks to predict differential cross-sections and extract a Q2Q^2- and WW-dependent exponential slope by integrating HERA and LHC datasets.

Taufiq Iqbal Baihaqi, Chalis Setyadi, Zulkaida Akbar, Parada T. P. Hutauruk, Apriadi Salim Adam2026-06-04
⚛️ phenomenology

Gravitational waves from seesaw assisted collapsing domain walls

This paper proposes that heavy right-handed neutrinos in the type-I seesaw framework can generate the necessary bias to annihilate domain walls formed by discrete symmetry breaking, thereby producing a stochastic gravitational wave signal with correlated features that link the seesaw scale to observable GW and CMB data while simultaneously enabling resonant leptogenesis to explain the universe's baryon asymmetry.

Debasish Borah, Indrajit Saha2026-06-04
⚛️ nuclear theory

Rotational enhancement and stability of protoquark stars during thermal evolution

This study presents the first systematic analysis of rigidly rotating protoquark stars within the density-dependent quark mass framework, revealing that thermal evolution and rapid rotation significantly enhance stellar stability and deformation, thereby creating distinct observational signatures that future multimessenger data must account for to robustly identify quark matter in compact stars.

Adamu Issifu, Andreas Konstantinou, Prashant Thakur, Tobias Frederico2026-06-04
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Fully differential Higgs boson pair production at N3^3LO with top quark mass effects

This paper presents the first fully differential predictions for Higgs-boson pair production via gluon-gluon fusion at N3^3LO in the heavy-top limit, demonstrating a threefold reduction in scale uncertainties and incorporating top-quark mass effects to provide highly precise theoretical benchmarks for LHC searches.

Xuan Chen, Yuesheng Dai, Hai Tao Li, Shi-Yuan Li, Hua-Sheng Shao, Jian Wang2026-06-04
⚛️ high-energy experiments

CaloTrilogy: Toward a Breakthrough in One-Step, End-to-End, Physics-Guided Shower Generation for Modern Calorimeters

The paper introduces CaloTrilogy, a unified framework that achieves high-quality, physics-guided particle shower generation for modern calorimeters in just one or a few inference steps by combining an average velocity field integrator, a data-derived generative prior, and training-time physics constraints, thereby overcoming the computational inefficiencies of existing flow and diffusion models.

Cheng Jiang, Sitian Qian, Kevin Pedro, Oz Amram, Huilin Qu, Maggie Voetberg2026-06-04
⚛️ phenomenology

Unveiling the elusive Σ(1380)\Sigma(1380) resonance through coupled-channel dynamics in Λc+→ηπ+Λ\Lambda_c^+\to\eta\pi^+\Lambda reaction

This paper investigates the Λc+→ηπ+Λ\Lambda_c^+ \to \eta \pi^+ \Lambda decay using a coupled-channel framework and demonstrates that including the elusive Σ(1380)\Sigma(1380) resonance with JP=1/2−J^P=1/2^- significantly improves the theoretical description of experimental data from Belle and BESIII.

Wen-Tao Lyu, Si-Wei Liu, Jia-Jun Wu, De-Min Li, En Wang2026-06-04