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.

⚛️ high-energy experiments

Novel and Updated Bounds on Flavor-Violating Z Interactions in the Quark Sector

This paper derives updated constraints on flavor-violating ZZ boson couplings to quarks, demonstrating that low-energy flavor experiments currently provide significantly tighter bounds (ranging from O(10−9)\mathcal{O}(10^{-9}) to O(10−3)\mathcal{O}(10^{-3})) than existing collider searches and presenting future sensitivity projections.

Fayez Abu-Ajamieh (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), Amine Ahriche (University of Sharjah), Suman Kumbhakar (Univ (…)2026-03-27
⚛️ phenomenology

The Cosmic Horizon of Neutrinos

This paper demonstrates that a light Z′Z' gauge boson associated with U(1)Lμ−LτU(1)_{L_\mu - L_\tau} symmetry can simultaneously resolve the muon g−2g-2 anomaly, alleviate the Hubble tension via ΔNeff\Delta N_{\mathrm{eff}}, and create a "neutrino cosmic horizon" by significantly attenuating high-energy cosmic neutrinos through resonant scattering with the cosmic neutrino background.

James Fardeen, Stefano Profumo, M. Grant Roberts2026-03-27
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Dark Matter and Electroweak Baryogenesis with Spontaneous CPCP Violation in the Early Universe

This paper proposes an extended inelastic Higgs-portal complex singlet model that simultaneously explains dark matter, the Galactic Center gamma-ray excess, and the baryon asymmetry of the universe through a two-step electroweak phase transition featuring spontaneous CP violation, while predicting gravitational wave signals detectable by future space-based observatories.

Subhojit Roy2026-03-27
⚛️ phenomenology

OmniLearned: A Foundation Model Framework for All Tasks Involving Jet Physics

This paper introduces OmniLearned, a major upgrade to the OmniLearn foundation model framework for jet physics that leverages a billion-jet training dataset and improved architecture to achieve state-of-the-art performance in top-quark tagging, b-tagging, and anomaly detection, thereby significantly enhancing the discovery potential of collider experiments.

Wahid Bhimji, Chris Harris, Vinicius Mikuni, Benjamin Nachman2026-03-27
⚛️ nuclear theory

Probing the three-body force in hadronic systems with specific charge parity

This paper proposes that three-body forces are definitively necessary in specific three-body hadronic systems with certain charge parities, demonstrating through contact-range potential calculations that while these forces play a minor role in the DˉsDK\bar{D}_sDK system, they are crucial for determining whether the Dˉ∗Dη\bar{D}^*D\eta system forms a bound state.

Ya-Wen Pan, Ming-Zhu Liu, Li-Sheng Geng2026-03-27
⚛️ phenomenology

Dirac neutrinos and gauged lepton number

This paper proposes the first scotogenic model with gauged lepton number U(1)LU(1)_L that is spontaneously broken to a residual Z6\mathbb{Z}_6 symmetry, thereby generating tiny Dirac neutrino masses at one loop while simultaneously providing a stable scalar dark matter candidate consistent with current experimental constraints and predicting observable charged lepton flavor violating decays.

A. E. Cárcamo Hernández, Andrés Enríquez, Sergey Kovalenko, Eduardo Peinado, Carlos A. Vaquera-Araujo2026-03-27
🔭 astrophysics

Neutrino and electromagnetic signatures from Superluminous Supernovae: a case study for SN 2017egm

This paper models the multi-messenger signatures of Superluminous Supernovae powered by millisecond magnetars, demonstrating that the scenario successfully explains the high-energy gamma-ray detection of SN 2017egm by Fermi LAT and predicts that stacking analyses with future observatories could achieve a 3σ3\sigma detection of neutrinos from such events within a decade.

Mainak Mukhopadhyay, Shigeo S. Kimura, Indrek Vurm, Brian D. Metzger2026-03-27