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Hep-Th, or high-energy theoretical physics, explores the fundamental building blocks of our universe and the forces that govern them. Researchers in this field use complex mathematics to understand everything from subatomic particles to the behavior of black holes, often pushing the boundaries of what we know about space and time.
At Gist.Science, we monitor the arXiv repository to ensure you stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving discipline. For every new preprint uploaded to arXiv under this category, our team generates both accessible plain-language overviews and detailed technical summaries, making cutting-edge research understandable regardless of your background.
Below are the latest papers in high-energy theoretical physics, curated to help you navigate the most significant recent discoveries.
This paper investigates the dynamics of first-order inverse phase transitions in the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto holographic QCD model by computing Euclidean bounce solutions to determine bubble nucleation rates and estimating bubble wall velocities for both deconfinement and chiral symmetry-restoring transitions.
This paper demonstrates that the CMB -distortion bound, which typically precludes the formation of supermassive primordial black hole seeds via Gaussian perturbations, can be evaded by invoking non-Gaussian probability distribution tails—specifically power-law or sufficiently heavy log-normal shapes—that decouple the small-scale variance from the collapse probability.
This paper argues that the claim "spacetime emerges from entanglement" actually refers to three distinct phenomena—metric, gravitational dynamics, and topological connectivity—none of which fully satisfy the conditions for emergence because they rely on additional non-entanglement factors, with only gravitational dynamics qualifying as truly novel.
This paper constructs the Carrollian limit of NS-NS and heterotic supergravity by employing an ultra-relativistic expansion with specific field scalings to ensure a finite action, derives the resulting equations of motion, demonstrates the finiteness of leading -corrected curvature terms, and explores connections to Carrollian string theory.
This paper extends the standard axion-like particle (ALP) framework by constructing an effective Lagrangian for ALPs carrying conserved dark charges, demonstrating that such particles cannot couple to Standard Model fields via dimension-5 operators and instead require dimension-6 interactions, while exploring their phenomenological implications and potential role as dark matter.
This paper demonstrates that solving the abelian local anomaly cancellation conditions for 4D gauge theories with rank is mathematically equivalent to finding -dimensional projective linear subspaces on a specific cubic hypersurface, a reformulation that allows for the complete parametrization and geometric characterization of solutions in the rank-2 case via the Fano variety of lines in the Segre cubic primal.
This paper demonstrates that chiral lattice fermions can be constructed from an ultra-local bosonic model via bosonization, yielding a doubler-free Dirac operator that circumvents the Nielsen-Ninomiya theorem by being non-local while still allowing for the gauging of non-anomalous symmetries.
This paper computes the one-loop fermion-photon vertex in QED under a constant magnetic field, revealing how the background breaks Lorentz and time-reversal invariance to induce a complex tensor structure with direction-dependent anomalous magnetic moments, specific Landau level selection rules, and an infrared-regulated framework that eliminates the need for a photon mass.
This paper utilizes auxiliary polarization spinors and superspace techniques to construct a complete list of 3-point invariant structures for and 3d SCFTs, revealing how non-abelian R-symmetry and mirror symmetry breaking determine the specific parity-even and parity-odd forms of conserved spinning correlators.
This paper investigates the motion and collisions of massive test particles around charged black holes with scalar hair, revealing that scalar fields enable up to four circular orbits and shift the critical charge required for infinite center-of-mass energy collisions compared to the standard Reissner-Nordström spacetime.