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.

Model Parameter Reconstruction of Electroweak Phase Transition with TianQin and LISA: Insights from the Dimension-Six Model

This paper demonstrates that the TianQin and LISA gravitational wave detectors can achieve sub-percent precision in reconstructing the new physics scale Λ\Lambda of the dimension-six Higgs operator model, which generates a strong first-order electroweak phase transition, by combining simulated data analysis, Bayesian inference, and machine learning techniques.

Aidi Yang, Chikako Idegawa, Fa Peng Huang2026-05-25⚛️ hep-ph

Valence quark distribution of the pion inside a medium with finite baryon density: A Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model approach

This paper employs a two-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model coupled with a light-cone quark model to calculate and analyze the in-medium valence quark distribution, electromagnetic form factor, and distribution amplitude of the pion at finite baryon density, comparing the resulting parton distribution functions and their Mellin moments with experimental data, lattice QCD, and theoretical predictions after NLO DGLAP evolution.

Ashutosh Dwibedi, Satyajit Puhan, Sabyasachi Ghosh, Harleen Dahiya2026-05-25⚛️ nucl-th

Earth-Density Effects in Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments

This paper demonstrates that realistic spatial variations in Earth's matter density introduce energy-dependent structures in neutrino oscillation probabilities that cannot be captured by path-averaged approximations, thereby creating degeneracies that obscure CP violation measurements and necessitating the use of spatially resolved density profiles in future long-baseline experiment analyses.

Tia Pandit, Bipin Singh Koranga2026-05-25⚛️ hep-ph

RadioAxion results on the search for axion dark matter under Gran Sasso

The RadioAxion experiment, conducted underground at the Gran Sasso Laboratory using a NaI detector to monitor the 59.5 keV gamma line of 241^{241}Am alpha decay, reports no evidence of periodic modulations indicative of axion dark matter and consequently establishes new constraints on the axion decay constant for masses between 102110^{-21} and 10910^{-9} eV.

Carlo Broggini, Giuseppe Di Carlo, Luca Di Luzio, Denise Piatti, Claudio Toni2026-05-25⚛️ nucl-ex

Scale-Invariant Open Quantum Systems

This paper establishes a comprehensive theoretical framework for open quantum systems coupled to scale-invariant "unparticle" environments, deriving exact non-Markovian dynamics and identifying a rich phase structure of decoherence and thermalization transitions governed by the scaling dimension dUd_{\mathcal{U}}, with applications ranging from critical quantum magnets and inflationary cosmology to high-energy astrophysical neutrinos.

Carlos Argüelles, Gabriela Barenboim, Gonzalo Herrera, Tanvi Krishnan, Héctor Sanchis2026-05-25⚛️ hep-ph

Finite-volume analysis of the HH-dibaryon including left-hand-cut effects

This paper employs a finite-volume N/DN/D formalism incorporating left-hand-cut effects from one-pion exchange to analyze lattice QCD data at the SU(3)F_\text{F}-symmetric point, revealing that these effects produce a mild but statistically significant impact on the binding energy of the HH-dibaryon compared to standard Lüscher quantization methods.

Arkaitz Rodas, Lin Qiu, César Fernández-Ramírez, Vincent Mathieu, Glòria Montaña, Alessandro Pilloni, Adam P. Szczepaniak2026-05-25⚛️ hep-lat

Cuspidal Singularities in Collapsing Domain Walls

This paper demonstrates that collapsing domain walls generically develop robust cuspidal edge and vertex singularities, a phenomenon predicted by Nambu-Goto and eikonal approximations and confirmed by full field theory simulations, which has significant implications for localized energy density and potential phenomenological effects.

Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Matthew Elley, Francesc Ferrer, Alberto García Martín-Caro, Daniel Jiménez-Aguilar, Oriol Pujolàs, Juan S. Valbuena-Bermúdez2026-05-25⚛️ hep-th