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.

⚛️ nuclear experiments

Resonance Contributions to Radiative Corrections in Charged-Current Elastic (Anti)Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering at GeV Energies

This paper presents the first evaluation of virtual Δ(1232)\Delta(1232) resonance contributions to charged-current (anti)neutrino-nucleon elastic scattering at GeV energies, demonstrating that these intermediate states induce permille-level corrections to the cross sections while exhibiting expected infrared behavior.

Oleksandr Tomalak2026-01-30
⚛️ phenomenology

Thermal photon emission from quark-gluon plasma: 1+1D magnetohydrodynamics results

This study investigates thermal photon production in a 1+1D quark-gluon plasma under strong magnetic fields using a magnetohydrodynamic framework with Bjorken flow, revealing how the magnetic field decay rate and initial strength significantly influence temperature evolution and photon yields across different transverse momentum ranges.

Jie Xiong, Xiang Fan, Jing Jing, Weishan Yang, Duan She, Ze-Fang Jiang2026-01-30
⚛️ phenomenology

Pion-Kaon femtoscopy as a probe of the space-time emission anisotropies due to interactions at the hadronic stage of matter evolution in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

By comparing comprehensive hadronic interaction models with sudden-conversion models against ALICE data, this study demonstrates that pion-kaon emission asymmetries and femtoscopic radii scale with particle multiplicity and require the inclusion of hadronic-stage interactions to be accurately described.

P. Chakraborty, G. Kornakov, A. Kisiel, Yu. M. Sinyukov, V. M. Shapoval, S. Dash2026-01-30
⚛️ phenomenology

Photon angular momentum near Planck scale

This paper demonstrates that within the Lorentz covariant relativistic generalized uncertainty principle framework, the canonical and Belinfante-Rosenfeld angular momentum tensors for gauge fields satisfy standard conservation laws despite Planck-scale minimal length effects, which introduce higher-order corrections to angular momentum density and the Poynting vector while recovering Maxwell's theory in the limit of vanishing RGUP parameters.

Kenil Solanki, Gaurav Bhandari, S. D. Pathak, Vikash Kumar Ojha2026-01-30
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Precision Jet Substructure of Boosted Boson Decays with Energy Correlators

This paper initiates a precision study of boosted jet substructure using energy correlators applied to hadronic Higgs decays, demonstrating that the two-body decay manifests as a distinct angular peak and that infrared scales like the dead-cone effect and confinement transition are resolvable, thereby enabling precision electroweak studies and new physics searches.

Anjie Gao, Kyle Lee, Xiaoyuan Zhang2026-01-30
⚛️ high-energy theory

Proposal to Search for the CP Violating Electromagnetic Vacuum Angle at the Event Horizon Telescope

This paper proposes a method to detect a CP-violating electromagnetic vacuum angle using Event Horizon Telescope observations of Sgr A* and M87* by analyzing time-averaged polarization residuals and universal topological signals that distinguish the predicted Fischler-Kundu Hall current from confounding plasma effects, though it concludes that current data is insufficient for such a test.

Willy Fischler, Tom Banks2026-01-30