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.

Light states in real 3HDMs with spontaneous CP violation and softly broken symmetries

This paper demonstrates that in real 3-Higgs-doublet models with spontaneous CP violation and softly broken discrete symmetries, perturbativity constraints on quartic couplings prevent new scalar masses from significantly exceeding the electroweak scale, even when arbitrary large mass terms are present, a finding supported by both analytic and numerical analyses of the scalar sector's phenomenological consequences.

José M. Camacho, Carlos Miró, Miguel Nebot, Daniel Queiroz, Tomás Tobarra2026-05-18⚛️ hep-ph

Sivers Tomography from Charge and Angle Only

This paper proposes a theoretically clean and experimentally simple "one-point charge-correlator" probe for measuring the Sivers effect in back-to-back deep-inelastic scattering using only charged track signs and directions, which achieves factorization without relying on non-perturbative fragmentation functions and provides high-precision resummed predictions for future Electron-Ion Collider experiments.

Haotian Cao, Xiaohui Liu, Frank Petriello2026-05-18⚛️ nucl-th

Predicting Three Generations of Fermions: Discovery Prospects of the Bilepton Model

This paper investigates the discovery potential of doubly-charged bileptons at the High-Luminosity LHC through direct pair production and heavy-quark-mediated channels, demonstrating that the latter offers significantly enhanced sensitivity capable of achieving a 5σ5\sigma discovery for heavy quark masses up to 2.5 TeV and bilepton masses up to 2 TeV due to a distinctive, background-free four-lepton signature.

Andreas Crivellin, Paul H. Frampton, Ahmed Hammad2026-05-18⚛️ hep-ex

Forward hadron production in pp collisions at LHC energies from an event generator based on the color glass condensate framework

This paper utilizes the MC-CGC event generator to demonstrate that LHCb data favors HERA-constrained initial conditions for the rcBK evolution equation and that the dense-dense kTk_T factorization framework better describes mid-rapidity particle production than the dilute-dense DHJ approach, while also providing predictions for future ALICE FoCal measurements.

Hirotsugu Fujii, Tetsufumi Hirano, Kazunori Itakura, Yasushi Nara, Shujun Zhao2026-05-18⚛️ nucl-ex

Baryon and lepton asymmetry of the Universe in the left-right weak interaction model

This paper proposes that in a left-right weak interaction model, baryon and lepton asymmetries arise during the hadronization of quark-gluon plasma due to CP-violating differences in neutron and antineutron lifetimes caused by right-handed vector boson mixing, while sterile neutrinos account for dark matter and carry a compensating lepton asymmetry.

A. P. Serebrov, O. M. Zherebtsov, A. K. Fomin, R. M. Samoilov, N. S. Budanov2026-05-18⚛️ hep-ph