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.

⚛️ nuclear experiments

Skewness-dependent moments of the pion GPD from nonlocal quark-bilinear correlators

This paper presents lattice QCD calculations of the odd Mellin moments of the pion valence-quark generalized parton distribution up to fifth order across a range of skewness values, utilizing boosted pion states and advanced renormalization techniques to extract skewness-dependent moments through polynomiality-constrained fits.

Xiang Gao, Swagato Mukherjee, Qi Shi, Fei Yao, Yong Zhao2026-01-22
⚛️ general relativity

Primordial black holes within Higgs hybrid metric-Palatini approach

This paper investigates the formation of primordial black holes as dark matter candidates within the Higgs hybrid metric-Palatini framework, demonstrating that enhanced primordial curvature perturbations can lead to a PBH abundance capable of accounting for all or part of the universe's dark matter depending on the coupling constant and e-folds number.

Brahim Asfour, Farida Bargach, Yahya Ladghami, Ahmed Errahmani, Taoufik Ouali2026-01-22
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Weak boson probes of Higgs unitarity restoration at 10 TeV parton colliders

This paper estimates and compares the discovery potential of a 100 TeV hadron collider and a 10 TeV muon collider to detect and resolve unitarity violations caused by sub-percent Higgs coupling deviations, demonstrating that both facilities can probe mass scales up to approximately 6 TeV, with intermediate precision measurements from FCC-ee providing corroborating evidence.

Christoph Englert, Wrishik Naskar, Andrew D. Pilkington, Michael Spannowsky2026-01-22
⚛️ phenomenology

How large are curvature perturbations from slow first-order phase transitions? A gauge-invariant analysis

This paper employs a gauge-invariant multi-fluid formalism to demonstrate that super-horizon inhomogeneities from slow, strongly supercooled first-order phase transitions are unlikely to produce Primordial Black Holes, while providing a fitting formula for the resulting curvature perturbations and discussing their observational constraints via primordial curvature limits and scalar-induced gravitational waves.

Xiao Wang, Csaba Balázs, Ran Ding, Chi Tian2026-01-22