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

Thermal Metastable Strings in One-Scale Models and Gravitational Waves

This paper demonstrates that thermal effects in a minimal one-scale dark-sector gauge theory significantly alter the decay dynamics of metastable ZZ-strings by favoring thermally induced nucleation over zero-temperature monopole nucleation, thereby shifting the viable parameter space for explaining the nanohertz gravitational wave background observed by Pulsar Timing Arrays toward lower dark fine-structure constants and higher monopole-to-string-tension ratios.

Arturo de Giorgi, James Ingoldby, Valentin V. Khoze, Jessica Turner2026-06-03
⚛️ high-energy theory

Perturbative construction of amplitudes from on-shell trees with vacuum pairs: the all-plus four-gluon amplitude through order g6\boldsymbol{g}^{\boldsymbol{6}}

This paper proposes a fixed-order perturbative on-shell construction of scattering amplitudes using BCFW-generated trees and integrated vacuum pairs, successfully reproducing the known one- and two-loop all-plus four-gluon amplitudes up to order g6g^6 through a polygon-organized inclusion-exclusion framework.

M. Maniatis2026-06-03✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
⚛️ phenomenology

Anatomy and Phenomenology of Minimal Flavor Deconstruction in the Lepton Sector

This paper investigates the low-energy phenomenology of a minimal flavor-deconstructed framework in the lepton sector, demonstrating that next-to-leading order effects induce physical CP-violating phases and flavor misalignment that make future searches for μ−e\mu-e conversion and electron electric dipole moments powerful probes of multi-10 TeV scales beyond direct collider reach.

Antonio Masiero, Paride Paradisi, Daniel Quieroz, Andrea Sainaghi, Nicola Valori, Oscar Vives2026-06-03
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Projected Energy Correlators: Two-Loop Jet Functions and NNLL Resummation

This paper presents the next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) collinear resummation of projected NN-point energy correlators up to N=6N=6, incorporating newly computed two-loop jet functions and leading non-perturbative corrections, thereby establishing quantitative control over these observables for future precision αs\alpha_s extractions.

Kyle Lee, Yibei Li, Zhen Xu, Xiaoyuan Zhang2026-06-03
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Boosted dark matter via semi-annihilation in a radiative neutrino mass model

This paper constructs an explicit model where a Dirac fermion dark matter candidate is boosted via semi-annihilation into anti-dark matter and neutrinos, simultaneously generating radiative neutrino masses at the two-loop level, and demonstrates that a mediator mass of O(1)\mathcal{O}(1) MeV enhances the elastic scattering cross section to levels detectable by future experiments like DUNE and DARWIN.

Motoko Fujiwara, Takashi Toma2026-06-03
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Chiral Quark Soliton Model And Nucleon Parton Distribution Functions

This paper elucidates how the Chiral Quark Soliton Model (CQSM), by uniquely incorporating non-local quark-quark correlations arising from spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking, successfully predicts various nucleon parton distribution functions, particularly the flavor asymmetry of sea-quark distributions, outperforming traditional effective meson theories like the Skyrme model.

Masashi Wakamatsu2026-06-03