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

Top-Yukawa contributions to pp→bbˉHpp\to b\bar{b}H: two-loop leading-colour amplitudes

This paper presents the derivation of two-loop leading-colour scattering amplitudes for bottom-quark pair production in association with a Higgs boson (pp→bbˉHpp \to b\bar{b}H) at the LHC, focusing on top-Yukawa contributions within the massless bottom and heavy-top approximations, and expresses the finite remainder using one-mass pentagon functions with analytically reconstructed rational coefficients.

Heribertus Bayu Hartanto, Rene Poncelet2026-04-01
⚛️ lattice

Imprint of the adjoint meson spectrum in the decay patterns of hidden-bottom tetraquarks

This paper utilizes Born-Oppenheimer Effective Field Theory and lattice QCD calculations to demonstrate that the near-degeneracy and specific decay patterns of the hidden-bottom tetraquarks Zb(10610)Z_b(10610) and Zb(10650)Z_b(10650) arise from the degeneracy of their underlying light degrees of freedom, identified as 1−−1^{--} and 0−+0^{-+} adjoint mesons.

Sipaz Sharma, Juan Andrés Urrea-Niño, Nora Brambilla, Francesco Knechtli, Michael Peardon2026-04-01
⚛️ nuclear theory

Revisiting QCD-induced little inflation with chiral density wave state and its implications on pulsar timing array gravitational-wave signals

This paper investigates whether a chiral density wave phase at large baryon chemical potential can enable QCD-induced little inflation to produce observable nano-Hz gravitational waves, but concludes that the resulting latent heat is insufficient to support a viable cosmological scenario.

Tae Hyun Jung, Seyong Kim, Jong-Wan Lee, Chang Sub Shin, Hee Beom Yang2026-04-01
⚛️ lattice

The hadronic contribution to the running of the electroweak gauge couplings

Using Nf=2+1N_f=2+1 CLS lattice ensembles with a refined analysis strategy involving telescopic series and new kernel functions, this paper presents an updated, high-precision ab initio determination of the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the running of the electromagnetic coupling and the electroweak mixing angle, aiming to meet the projected precision requirements of future electroweak measurements at next-generation colliders.

Alessandro Conigli, Dalibor Djukanovic, Georg von Hippel, Simon Kuberski, Harvey B. Meyer, Kohtaroh Miura, Konstantin Ot (…)2026-04-01
⚛️ phenomenology

Conventional and Unitarity-Conserving Pecci-Quinn Inflation Models and ACT

This paper demonstrates that a unitarity-conserving Peccei-Quinn inflation model, unlike its conventional counterpart, achieves better agreement with ACT observational data on the scalar spectral index and permits significantly larger axion decay constants (fa≤6.4×1013f_a \leq 6.4 \times 10^{13} GeV) without requiring unnaturally small self-couplings, thereby allowing faf_a to exceed the standard cosmological symmetry restoration bound.

J. McDonald2026-04-01
⚛️ high-energy theory

Warm Warped Throats

This paper investigates two distinct single-field brane inflation scenarios—radial and angular—within a warped deformed conifold geometry, where moduli stabilization via D7-brane Kuperstein embeddings generates the inflaton potentials, demonstrating that embedding these models in the warm inflation paradigm with dissipation enables them to satisfy current observational constraints from Planck and ACT, whereas their cold inflation counterparts fail.

Dibya Chakraborty, Rudnei O. Ramos2026-04-01