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.

From WIMP to FIMP during reheating: collider vs non-collider probes for p-wave annihilation

This paper investigates how collider and non-collider probes can constrain the reheating temperature, dark matter mass, and interaction scale of a scenario where dark matter transitions from WIMP to FIMP production via p-wave suppressed interactions, demonstrating that collider experiments are uniquely powerful in constraining derivative operators that are weakly limited by astrophysical observations.

Dipankar Pradhan, Niloy Mondal, Abhik Sarkar, Anupam Ghosh, Shashwat Sharma, Mathew Thomas Arun, Basabendu Barman2026-05-28⚛️ hep-ph

$CP$ phase structure of QCD from functional renormalization group

Using the functional renormalization group, this study demonstrates that in QCD-like theories, a $CP$-violating four-fermion interaction becomes relevant in the chirally broken phase while the running of the θ\theta-parameter is strongly suppressed toward the infrared in the presence of finite quark mass, thereby clarifying how strong-$CP$ effects generated at high energies are transferred to low-energy physics.

Yuepeng Guan, Shinya Matsuzaki, Masatoshi Yamada2026-05-28⚛️ hep-ph

Fermionic Bubble Loop in Cosmological Collider Revisited: Exact signals from spectral and Mellin-Barnes methods

This paper presents an exact analytical calculation of fermionic bubble loop contributions to cosmological collider signals using parallel spectral and Mellin-Barnes methods, revealing that Yukawa interactions with the inflaton yield a vanishing bispectrum due to a field redefinition of tree-level counterparts.

Shuntaro Aoki, Zhehan Qin, Masahide Yamaguchi, Yuhang Zhu2026-05-28⚛️ hep-th

The origin of excited states of the Λ\Lambda baryon at the SU(3) point from Lattice QCD

This study utilizes large-volume lattice QCD simulations at the flavor-symmetric SU(3) point to identify bound states corresponding to the Λ(1405)\Lambda(1405), Λ(1380)\Lambda(1380), and Λ(1670)\Lambda(1670) resonances, subsequently employing Unitary Chiral Perturbation Theory to trace their pole trajectories to the physical point.

Javier Suarez Sucunza, Thomas Luu, Maxim Mai, Ferenc Pittler, Carsten Urbach, Haobo Yan2026-05-28⚛️ hep-lat