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.

Generation of gravitating solutions with Baryonic charge from Einstein-Scalar-Maxwell seeds

This paper establishes the first exact correspondence between Einstein-scalar-Maxwell theory and gauged Skyrme-Maxwell-Einstein models, enabling the transfer of electrovacuum solution-generating techniques to construct new exact solutions with nonvanishing baryonic charge, including a rotating configuration where baryonic charge quantization enforces a quantization of the Kerr rotation parameter.

Fabrizio Canfora, Anibal Neira, Seung Hun Oh2026-05-14⚛️ hep-th

Atmospheric Neutrino Charged-Current Interactions at Large Liquid-Scintillator Detectors: I. Physics of Neutrino-Antineutrino Discrimination

This paper presents a systematic study of atmospheric neutrino-antineutrino discrimination in large liquid-scintillator detectors by analyzing event characteristics such as inelasticity and neutron multiplicity, thereby establishing a foundation for determining the neutrino mass ordering through oscillation studies.

Xinhai He, Gao-song Li, Yu-Feng Li, Wuming Luo, Liang-jian Wen2026-05-14⚛️ hep-ex

Jet Momentum Broadening in Viscous QCD Matter: A Moment Expansion Approach

This paper formulates out-of-equilibrium jet momentum broadening in QCD effective kinetic theory using a moment expansion to explicitly derive a leading-order correction to the spatial broadening tensor controlled by the medium's shear-stress tensor, thereby establishing a direct link between kinetic theory and event-by-event viscous hydrodynamic simulations for heavy-ion collisions.

Isabella Danhoni, Nicki Mullins, Jorge Noronha2026-05-14⚛️ hep-ph

Inspiral gravitational waveforms from charged compact binaries with scalar hair

This paper derives gravitational waveforms for charged compact binaries in Einstein-scalar-Maxwell theories, demonstrating how scalar and vector charges induce dipole radiation and phase modifications characterized by a single parameter bb, which is constrained by binary pulsar observations and applicable to black hole, neutron star, and exotic compact object systems.

Antonio De Felice, Shinji Tsujikawa2026-05-14⚛️ gr-qc