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

Multi-parton contributions to BˉXsγ\bar B \to X_s γ at NLO

This paper presents the first complete calculation of the remaining formally NLO multi-parton contributions to the inclusive radiative decay BˉXsγ\bar{B} \to X_s \gamma, providing fully analytic results in terms of multiple polylogarithms and demonstrating that their numerical impact on the decay rate is small due to a partial cancellation with leading-order terms.

Kevin Brune, Tobias Huber, Lars-Thorben Moos2026-01-30
⚛️ general relativity

Vector Horndeski black holes in nonlinear electrodynamics

This paper investigates linearly stable black hole solutions in nonlinear electrodynamics coupled with Horndeski vector-tensor theory, finding that while nonsingular black holes are inherently unstable due to Laplacian instabilities, singular black holes can satisfy stability conditions only if the Horndeski coupling is sufficiently weak, as strong coupling generally induces instabilities in the high-curvature regime.

Che-Yu Chen, Antonio De Felice, Shinji Tsujikawa, Taishi Sano2026-01-30
⚛️ nuclear experiments

Resonance Contributions to Radiative Corrections in Charged-Current Elastic (Anti)Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering at GeV Energies

This paper presents the first evaluation of virtual Δ(1232)\Delta(1232) resonance contributions to charged-current (anti)neutrino-nucleon elastic scattering at GeV energies, demonstrating that these intermediate states induce permille-level corrections to the cross sections while exhibiting expected infrared behavior.

Oleksandr Tomalak2026-01-30
⚛️ phenomenology

Thermal photon emission from quark-gluon plasma: 1+1D magnetohydrodynamics results

This study investigates thermal photon production in a 1+1D quark-gluon plasma under strong magnetic fields using a magnetohydrodynamic framework with Bjorken flow, revealing how the magnetic field decay rate and initial strength significantly influence temperature evolution and photon yields across different transverse momentum ranges.

Jie Xiong, Xiang Fan, Jing Jing, Weishan Yang, Duan She, Ze-Fang Jiang2026-01-30
⚛️ phenomenology

Pion-Kaon femtoscopy as a probe of the space-time emission anisotropies due to interactions at the hadronic stage of matter evolution in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

By comparing comprehensive hadronic interaction models with sudden-conversion models against ALICE data, this study demonstrates that pion-kaon emission asymmetries and femtoscopic radii scale with particle multiplicity and require the inclusion of hadronic-stage interactions to be accurately described.

P. Chakraborty, G. Kornakov, A. Kisiel, Yu. M. Sinyukov, V. M. Shapoval, S. Dash2026-01-30
⚛️ phenomenology

Photon angular momentum near Planck scale

This paper demonstrates that within the Lorentz covariant relativistic generalized uncertainty principle framework, the canonical and Belinfante-Rosenfeld angular momentum tensors for gauge fields satisfy standard conservation laws despite Planck-scale minimal length effects, which introduce higher-order corrections to angular momentum density and the Poynting vector while recovering Maxwell's theory in the limit of vanishing RGUP parameters.

Kenil Solanki, Gaurav Bhandari, S. D. Pathak, Vikash Kumar Ojha2026-01-30