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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.
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Below are the latest papers in high-energy theoretical physics, curated to help you navigate the most significant recent discoveries.
This paper proposes a Starobinsky supergravity framework coupled to the MSSM that simultaneously explains the observed Higgs boson mass through three-loop renormalization-group evolution and predicts a 3 TeV thermal wino dark matter candidate with a disappearing-track signature detectable by future 100 TeV colliders.
This paper presents a comprehensive algebraic framework for three-flavor neutrino oscillations in constant-density matter by deriving exact closed-form evolution operators via the Cayley--Hamilton theorem, validating the high-precision DMP approximation as a resummation that resolves near-degeneracies, and providing analytic Jacobians for robust uncertainty propagation in global fits.
This paper demonstrates that Airy function partition functions for M2-brane theories can be derived from the relative equivariant localization of quantum M-theory, where the eleven-dimensional Chern--Simons coupling and correction determine the grand potential's cubic term and charge shift, respectively, thereby reproducing results for ABJM theory, toric Calabi--Yau generalizations, and gravitational blocks.
The paper introduces {\sc Akribeia}, a hybrid framework combining physics-informed neural networks with pseudo-spectral refinement to generate and certify precise, continuous rotating black hole solutions in higher-curvature gravity theories, enabling the first construction of such solutions with multiple angular momenta in non-perturbative regimes.
This paper demonstrates that interactions between the adiabatic curvature perturbation and a massive entropic scalar environment during a transient Ultra-Slow-Roll inflationary phase induce distinct non-Markovian decoherence effects that significantly alter the primordial scalar power spectrum and generate unique signatures in the stochastic background of Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves, potentially offering observable evidence for open quantum dynamics in the early universe.
This paper establishes a localization principle for odd-dimensional supergravity theories with Chern-Simons interactions by constructing a relative equivariant cohomology class, which yields a universal fixed point formula for the on-shell action of supersymmetric solutions and is applied to cases in and supergravity including M5-branes and black ring/lens solutions.
This paper investigates topologically nontrivial multicritical points in one-dimensional chains with third-nearest-neighbor couplings, characterizing their stable localized edge modes and quadratic dispersion through topological invariants and discriminant analysis while revealing a gapless Anderson-localized phase under strong disorder.
This paper demonstrates that spacetime noncommutativity, when applied to charged matter in Melvin's electric universe via twist-deformation formalism, effectively induces a transition to a rotating reference frame, a phenomenon that could potentially be experimentally verified through Sagnac interferometry to constrain the scale of noncommutativity.
This paper introduces a generalized unitarity method for worldline field theory that computes perturbative gravitational observables, such as the next-to-leading order waveform for scattering point masses, by leveraging locality and unitarity to bypass gauge redundancies and Feynman diagrams.
This paper constructs a high-temperature effective field theory for gauge-Higgs models up to by performing three-loop matching to derive improved scalar and Debye masses and quartic couplings, demonstrating that one-loop dimension-six operators dominate thermodynamic corrections relevant for gravitational-wave observables while identifying previously missing contributions to master integrals and the QCD Debye mass.