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.

Sub-GeV dark matter and multi-decay signatures from dark showers at beam-dump experiments

This paper investigates sub-GeV dark matter signatures from dark showers in strongly-interacting dark sectors, demonstrating that beam-dump experiments like SHiP could detect multiple displaced vertices in single events to reveal the dark sector's structure, while also evaluating current constraints from NA62 and BaBar and future sensitivities at Belle II.

Elias Bernreuther, Nicoline Hemme, Felix Kahlhoefer, Suchita Kulkarni, Maksym Ovchynnikov2026-06-04⚛️ hep-ex

Determination of the HERA coherent diffractive J/ψJ/\psi production cross section via artificial neural network

This paper presents a model-independent analysis of HERA's exclusive coherent diffractive J/ψJ/\psi production data using artificial neural networks to predict differential cross-sections and extract a Q2Q^2- and WW-dependent exponential slope by integrating HERA and LHC datasets.

Taufiq Iqbal Baihaqi, Chalis Setyadi, Zulkaida Akbar, Parada T. P. Hutauruk, Apriadi Salim Adam2026-06-04⚛️ hep-ex

Gravitational waves from seesaw assisted collapsing domain walls

This paper proposes that heavy right-handed neutrinos in the type-I seesaw framework can generate the necessary bias to annihilate domain walls formed by discrete symmetry breaking, thereby producing a stochastic gravitational wave signal with correlated features that link the seesaw scale to observable GW and CMB data while simultaneously enabling resonant leptogenesis to explain the universe's baryon asymmetry.

Debasish Borah, Indrajit Saha2026-06-04⚛️ hep-ph

Rotational enhancement and stability of protoquark stars during thermal evolution

This study presents the first systematic analysis of rigidly rotating protoquark stars within the density-dependent quark mass framework, revealing that thermal evolution and rapid rotation significantly enhance stellar stability and deformation, thereby creating distinct observational signatures that future multimessenger data must account for to robustly identify quark matter in compact stars.

Adamu Issifu, Andreas Konstantinou, Prashant Thakur, Tobias Frederico2026-06-04⚛️ nucl-th

CaloTrilogy: Toward a Breakthrough in One-Step, End-to-End, Physics-Guided Shower Generation for Modern Calorimeters

The paper introduces CaloTrilogy, a unified framework that achieves high-quality, physics-guided particle shower generation for modern calorimeters in just one or a few inference steps by combining an average velocity field integrator, a data-derived generative prior, and training-time physics constraints, thereby overcoming the computational inefficiencies of existing flow and diffusion models.

Cheng Jiang, Sitian Qian, Kevin Pedro, Oz Amram, Huilin Qu, Maggie Voetberg2026-06-04⚛️ hep-ex