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

Search potential for direct slepton pair production at the CEPC with s\sqrt{s} = 360 GeV

This paper presents a sensitivity study demonstrating that the CEPC operating at a center-of-mass energy of 360 GeV, with an integrated luminosity of 1.0 ab−1^{-1}, has the potential to discover direct stau pair production up to masses of approximately 170 GeV and smuon pair production up to 178 GeV.

Feng Lyu, Jiarong Yuan, Huajie Cheng, Jianxiong Wang, Rabia Hameed, Da Xu, Xuai Zhuang2026-01-22
⚛️ nuclear theory

3^3H and 3^3He nuclei production in a combined thermal and coalescence framework for heavy-ion collisions in the few-GeV energy regime

This paper presents a combined thermal and coalescence model for heavy-ion collisions in the few-GeV regime that successfully reproduces proton, pion, and deuteron yields but underpredicts the production of 3^3H and 3^3He nuclei by a factor of two compared to experimental data.

Zbigniew Drogosz, Wojciech Florkowski, Radoslaw Ryblewski, Nikodem Witkowski2026-01-22
⚛️ nuclear experiments

Skewness-dependent moments of the pion GPD from nonlocal quark-bilinear correlators

This paper presents lattice QCD calculations of the odd Mellin moments of the pion valence-quark generalized parton distribution up to fifth order across a range of skewness values, utilizing boosted pion states and advanced renormalization techniques to extract skewness-dependent moments through polynomiality-constrained fits.

Xiang Gao, Swagato Mukherjee, Qi Shi, Fei Yao, Yong Zhao2026-01-22
⚛️ general relativity

Primordial black holes within Higgs hybrid metric-Palatini approach

This paper investigates the formation of primordial black holes as dark matter candidates within the Higgs hybrid metric-Palatini framework, demonstrating that enhanced primordial curvature perturbations can lead to a PBH abundance capable of accounting for all or part of the universe's dark matter depending on the coupling constant and e-folds number.

Brahim Asfour, Farida Bargach, Yahya Ladghami, Ahmed Errahmani, Taoufik Ouali2026-01-22