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

Quantum probes of invisible particles in top-quark pair production at the LHC

This paper demonstrates that quantum-information-motivated observables, particularly the spin correlation D\mathcal{D} measured as a function of visible invariant mass in dileptonic top-quark pair events at the High-Luminosity LHC, significantly enhance the sensitivity to invisible new physics and the discrimination of mediator couplings compared to traditional rate and kinematic analyses.

Blanca Belmonte, Diego Blas, Alba Cervera-Lierta, Francesco Montagno2026-09-28
⚛️ phenomenology

High-frequency gravitational waves from microscopic particle-graviton associated production in bubble collisions

This paper investigates a novel high-frequency gravitational wave source arising from the microscopic associated production of particles and gravitons during runaway bubble collisions in cosmological first-order phase transitions, offering a potential multiband signature that links gravitational radiation to new particle production such as dark matter.

Peilin Chen, Dayun Qiu, Zihong Cheng, Fa Peng Huang2026-09-28
⚛️ general relativity

A Multidimensional General-Relativistic Boltzmann Solver for Neutrino Transport: Implementation, Discretization and Optimization

This paper presents the implementation, optimization, and validation of a multidimensional general-relativistic Boltzmann solver for neutrino transport that extends the \texttt{Gmunu} code to discretize the full 6D phase space, achieving quadratic convergence, significant computational speed-ups through Legendre expansion techniques, and results consistent with the M1 scheme in core-collapse supernova simulations.

Arthur Offermans, Harry Ho-Yin Ng, Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong, Anthony Mezzacappa, Tjonnie Guang Feng Li2026-09-28
⚛️ phenomenology

Detecting Extragalactic Axion-like Dark Matter with Polarization Measurements of Fast Radio Bursts

This paper utilizes time-resolved polarization measurements of the repeating fast radio burst FRB 20220912A from the FAST telescope to set upper limits on the coupling constant of extragalactic axion-like dark matter, offering a complementary approach to galactic probes for detecting these particles on intergalactic scales.

Bao Wang, Xuan Yang, Jun-Jie Wei, Song-Bo Zhang, Xue-Feng Wu2026-09-25
⚛️ nuclear theory

Chiral anomaly and nucleon spin decomposition in the chiral quark soliton model

This study extends the chiral quark soliton model to include a flavor-singlet pseudoscalar field generated by the chiral anomaly, revealing that while the anomaly-induced field enhances quark helicity and its associated mass suppresses this effect in favor of orbital angular momentum, these modifications result in only modest redistributions that do not qualitatively alter the conventional nucleon spin decomposition.

Josuke Minamiguchi, Tomoya Uji2026-09-25