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

From Florence to Fermions: a historical reconstruction of the origins of Fermi's statistics one hundred years later

This paper reconstructs the historical development of Fermi's statistics, tracing how Enrico Fermi's early interest in entropy and the limitations of Sommerfeld's quantization led him to apply the Exclusion Principle to non-interacting particles, thereby establishing the statistical framework for an ideal monatomic gas.

Roberto Casalbuoni, Daniele Dominici2026-02-05
⚛️ phenomenology

Fluctuation-Induced Friction in Bubble-Wall Dynamics of Cosmological First-Order Phase Transitions

This paper demonstrates that in a two-scalar-field model of cosmological first-order phase transitions, thermal fluctuations of a coupled scalar field induce patchy background modulations that cause bubble walls to undergo alternating acceleration and deceleration, resulting in a reduced time-averaged propagation speed and distinct deflagration, detonation, or hybrid profiles that significantly impact gravitational wave and baryogenesis predictions.

Dongdong Wei, Zong-Kuan Guo2026-02-05
⚛️ phenomenology

The contribution of new physics on the exclusive W boson hadronic decays in the final state at muon colliders in the Randall-Sundrum model

This paper investigates the impact of Randall-Sundrum model new physics, specifically scalar unparticles, beam polarization, and anomalous couplings, on exclusive hadronic W boson decays at muon colliders, finding that these effects significantly enhance cross-sections and statistical significance at high energies like 10 TeV, with the anomalous WWγWW\gamma coupling showing greater sensitivity than $WWZ$.

Bui Thi Ha Giang, Dang Van Soa2026-02-04