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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 proposes that the smallness of the Higgs mass is a natural consequence of power-law renormalization group evolution, where an order-one boundary condition at the unification scale is exponentially suppressed to the electroweak scale by the top-quark Yukawa coupling, thereby resolving the hierarchy problem without requiring protective symmetries or fine-tuning.
This paper demonstrates that the moments of the double-scaled SYK model's transfer matrix correspond to the overlap between the stationary state of the asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP) and a product state, establishing this relationship as an analogue of the strange correlator found in the correspondence between Levin-Wen string-net models and Turaev-Viro state sums.
This paper investigates how the tidal charge () arising from extra dimensions in the DMPR braneworld model significantly modifies strong-field gravitational lensing and quasinormal mode frequencies compared to standard Schwarzschild black holes, suggesting that DMPR$-$ variants exhibit stronger Lyapunov instability and could be constrained by Event Horizon Telescope observations of SgrA*.
This paper establishes a holographic framework for finite Carrollian black-hole thermodynamics by demonstrating that phase-space contractions in the bulk AdS geometry correspond to a double-scaled, large- boundary ensemble where the first law is realized as a thermal zero-mode sector of the Carrollian Ward identity, linking the Hawking-Page transition to the vanishing of a chemical potential conjugate to the number of degrees of freedom.
This paper constructs an exact solution for an electrically charged distorted black hole using the Harrison transformation and analyzes its thermodynamic properties, particle dynamics, shadow characteristics, and quasinormal mode spectrum, revealing that while the electric charge expands the thermodynamic phase space and shifts perturbation frequencies, it does not alter the horizon location or induce superradiance.
This paper investigates the extended thermodynamics and Joule-Thomson expansion of four-dimensional charged AdS black holes in ModMax-dRGT massive gravity using Sharma-Mittal entropy, revealing how ModMax nonlinearities, non-extensive statistical parameters, and massive gravity distinctively govern the cooling domain, local stability, and global phase landscape respectively.
This paper presents a novel formula for computing conserved charges in arbitrary Lagrangian field theories using only algebra data, thereby enabling calculations in nonlocal models like string field theory where conventional derivative-based methods fail, while also successfully recovering known results for general relativity and Yang-Mills theory.
This paper investigates odd-even staggering in large, harmonically trapped unitary Fermi gases by demonstrating that the extra fermion in odd-numbered systems forms an edge-localized quasiparticle, a phenomenon successfully described through both large- BdG theory and large-charge EFT, yielding a universal scaling law for the splitting energy that is confirmed by numerical calculations.
This paper presents new closed-form analytic solutions for charged and rotating near-horizon geometries in five-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory (with and without a Chern-Simons term), characterizing them as the most general rotating extremal horizons with a constant co-rotating electric field and extending the construction to higher dimensions via Sasaki-Einstein manifolds.
This paper investigates the fate of RR fluxes and D-branes in Type 0A tachyon condensation within an M-theory framework of two joined circles, demonstrating that the collapse of one branch renders isolated unscreened D-branes infinitely costly while identifying an effective Stückelberg screening mechanism and a parametric criterion for the energetic favorability of charge-discharging transitions.