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

Multiplicity distribution of produced gluons in deep inelastic scattering: main equations and their homotopy solutions for heavy nuclei

This paper derives new equations for the multiplicity distribution of produced gluons in deep inelastic scattering on heavy nuclei using a dipole approach and AGK cutting rules, develops a homotopy method to solve them, and provides an analytical solution for large multiplicities to calculate the resulting gluon entropy.

Carlos Contreras (UTFSM), Jose Garrido (UTFSM), Eugene Levin (Tel Aviv U.)2026-03-24
⚛️ phenomenology

Energy loss predicts no v2v_2 in small systems

This paper presents a perturbative QCD-based energy loss model calibrated on large systems that successfully predicts experimental RAAR_{AA} data in small systems like Ne+Ne and O+O, yet surprisingly forecasts a near-zero high-pTp_T elliptic flow (v2v_2) due to a geometric decorrelation between hard and soft participant planes inherent to standard experimental measurement methods.

Ben Bert, Coleridge Faraday, W. A. Horowitz2026-03-24
⚛️ nuclear experiments

Jet quenching and its substructure dependence due to color decoherence

Motivated by color coherence and decoherence effects, this paper proposes a theoretical framework combining vacuum-like evolution and medium-induced radiation to successfully describe the inclusive jet modification factor and its substructure dependence in 0–10% PbPb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02~\rm{TeV} as measured by ATLAS.

Xiang-Pan Duan, Lin Chen, Guo-Liang Ma, Carlos A. Salgado, Bin Wu2026-03-24
⚛️ lattice

Exact center symmetry and first-order phase transition in QCD with three degenerate dynamical quarks

Using first-principles lattice simulations with an exact center symmetry induced by a specific imaginary isospin chemical potential, this study demonstrates that QCD with three degenerate dynamical quarks undergoes a first-order deconfinement phase transition and maps its behavior in the mass-isospin chemical potential plane.

Gergely Endrodi, Guy D. Moore, Adam Pieczynski, Alessandro Sciarra2026-03-24
⚛️ phenomenology

The Genuine Type-V Seesaw Model: Phenomenological Introduction

This paper introduces a TeV-scale Type-V Seesaw model featuring new SU(2)LSU(2)_L fermionic multiplets that generate Majorana neutrino masses via a dimension-9 operator, and it investigates its phenomenological implications by constraining Yukawa couplings through lepton flavor violation limits and establishing 95% CL mass bounds for the new particles using CMS multilepton data.

Saiyad Ashanujjaman, Kirtiman Ghosh2026-03-23
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Revisiting Type-II see-saw: Present Limits and Future Prospects at LHC

This paper conducts a comprehensive study of the Type-II see-saw mechanism with a non-degenerate triplet Higgs spectrum, deriving updated 95% CL lower limits on the doubly charged scalar mass that exceed current LHC constraints by 50–230 GeV while identifying unconstrained parameter regions and proposing improved search strategies for the high-luminosity phase.

Saiyad Ashanujjaman, Kirtiman Ghosh2026-03-23