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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 investigates whether higher-derivative terms in projectable Hořava gravity can stabilize its infrared instability by evolving into static, inhomogeneous solutions, but concludes that no such static endpoints exist, thereby reinforcing the necessity of time-dependent mechanisms like cosmic expansion to conceal the instability.
This paper establishes a framework for constructing worldvolume gauge theories on D2-branes probing non-toric compound Du Val Calabi-Yau threefolds by encoding their geometry as ADE surface fibrations in a Higgs field, which induces deformations via monopole superpotentials that, through 3d mirror symmetry, reproduce the mathematical quiver-collapsing mechanism.
This paper computes the quantum radiation emitted by relativistic single-electron wavepackets, demonstrating that while radiation vanishes for electrons at rest, uniformly accelerated electrons exhibit secularly growing power with a classical interpretation, and that proposed experimental signatures of the Unruh effect in specific "blind spots" are dominated by transverse deviation correlators rather than the Unruh effect itself.
This paper demonstrates that equivariant localization can be used to compute the on-shell action for supersymmetric rotating, charged black holes in five-dimensional higher-derivative supergravity, achieving an exact match with dual field theory calculations of the superconformal index in a Cardy-like limit.
This paper derives the conservation laws, including the energy-momentum tensor and electric charge, for Lie-Poisson classical field theories within the -Minkowski spacetime framework and demonstrates that the non-relativistic limit of the Dirac equation introduces an orbital Zeeman coupling with energy shifts dependent solely on the -parameter.
This paper derives the total even-in-velocity scattering observables at fifth post-Newtonian order using a worldline action and Feynman's prescription to establish a universal conservative Hamiltonian and resolve ambiguities in Effective One Body coefficients, while demonstrating the superiority of this approach over the prescription in preserving expected theoretical structures.
This paper employs a bootstrap approach combining Mellin amplitude factorization, supersymmetric constraints, and protected observables to compute the first stringy correction to the five-point correlation function of 20' operators in super Yang-Mills, leaving only a single undetermined coefficient that is constrained by non-protected CFT data and flat-space limits, while also deriving corrections for related four-point correlators.
This paper presents solutions to the discrete Nahm equation by imposing Platonic symmetries and directly calculates the spectral curves of the corresponding hyperbolic $SU(2)$ magnetic monopoles.
This paper investigates how shear viscosity in the post-inflationary universe modifies the propagation of primordial gravitational waves, demonstrating that viscosity induces additional damping and spectral running—such as a blue tilt from freeze-out in the electron-photon-baryon plasma—thereby altering the gravitational wave energy density spectrum by approximately .
This paper utilizes the heat kernel technique to demonstrate that specific ghost-free, infinite derivative gravity theories with generic form factors can completely cancel one-loop ultraviolet logarithmic divergences in four dimensions, thereby identifying conditions for renormalizability and providing general expressions for beta functions.