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

Search for Dark Matter in 2HDMS at LHC and future Lepton Colliders

This paper investigates the phenomenological prospects of the Two Higgs Doublet and Complex Singlet Scalar Extension (2HDMS) model as a dark matter candidate, demonstrating through benchmark scans and collider analyses that while the High Luminosity LHC may only offer hints of new physics, future lepton colliders serve as highly efficient discovery probes for this framework.

Juhi Dutta, Jayita Lahiri, Cheng Li, Gudrid Moortgat-Pick, Sheikh Farah Tabira, Julia Anabell Ziegler2026-04-23
⚛️ phenomenology

Ultralight Dilatonic Dark Matter

This paper investigates whether supersymmetry can stabilize the mass of an ultralight dilatonic dark matter candidate against quantum corrections, concluding that while such a model can produce the observed dark matter abundance, irreducible gravitational supersymmetry-breaking effects render the dilaton's couplings to the Standard Model too weak for detection by current or proposed experiments.

Abhishek Banerjee, Csaba Csáki, Michael Geller, Zamir Heller-Algazi, Ameen Ismail2026-04-23
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Searching for a Charged Higgs Boson in Top-Quark Decays via the WZWZ Mode

This paper recasts existing ttˉZt\bar{t}Z analyses to search for charged Higgs bosons decaying via the WZWZ channel, setting sub-permille limits on their production that constrain the triplet vacuum expectation value more stringently than previous modes or electroweak precision data, while a 2σ2\sigma excess supports the existence of a ≈152\approx152 GeV boson.

Saiyad Ashanujjaman, Andreas Crivellin, Siddharth P. Maharathy, Bruce Mellado2026-04-23
⚛️ lattice

Fully charm tetraquark production at hadronic collisions with gluon radiation effects

This paper presents the first complete next-to-leading order QCD calculation for fully charm tetraquark production at hadronic collisions, incorporating gluon radiation effects through resummation and utilizing LHCb and CMS data to extract universal long-distance matrix elements and predict kinematic distributions for the X(6900)X(6900) and its spin-zero partners.

Yefan Wang, Ruilin Zhu2026-04-23
⚛️ phenomenology

NLO QCD sum rules analysis of 1−+1^{-+} tetraquark states

This paper employs next-to-leading order QCD sum rules to analyze 1−+1^{-+} light tetraquark states, concluding that the π1(1400)\pi_1(1400) is unlikely to be a tetraquark while identifying the π1(2015)\pi_1(2015) as a strong tetraquark candidate around 2.0 GeV and suggesting the π1(1600)\pi_1(1600) is less likely to be a tetraquark than previously thought.

Wei-Yang Lai, Hong-Ying Jin2026-04-23
⚛️ nuclear experiments

Bayesian Constraints on the Neutron Star Equation of State with a Smooth Hadron-Quark Crossover

This paper employs Bayesian inference within a unified framework to constrain the neutron star equation of state across hadronic, crossover, and quark phases, revealing that current multi-messenger data strongly limit low-to-intermediate density nuclear symmetry energy parameters while leaving high-density quark matter properties largely unconstrained until next-generation observations become available.

Xavier Grundler, Bao-An Li2026-04-23