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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.

⚛️ phenomenology

Dark Matter at the Kinematic Edge: Interpreting the 248 keV LZ Nuclear-Recoil Candidate

This paper proposes that the 248 keV nuclear recoil candidate observed by the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Collaboration can be explained by endothermic dark matter scattering, specifically through thermal pseudo-Dirac fermion or Higgsino models with mass splittings of approximately 297–371 keV, which naturally suppress low-energy backgrounds and satisfy relic abundance and indirect-detection constraints.

Mattia Di Mauro2026-09-03

⚛️ high-energy theory

Zero-damped modes of near-extremal Reissner--Nordström black holes from exact WKB

This paper demonstrates that exact WKB methods provide a powerful and systematically improvable framework for analytically computing the zero-damped mode spectrum of near-extremal Reissner--Nordström black holes with higher accuracy than previous studies.

Prisco Lo Chiatto, Sebastian Schenk, Nils Wagner, Felix Yu2026-09-03

⚛️ high-energy theory

Scattering Radiation Emitted Near a Black Hole Horizon

This paper investigates how outgoing electromagnetic radiation prepared near a Schwarzschild black hole horizon undergoes gravitational redshift into a soft regime, leading to an infrared-safe scattering probability that links the zero-frequency component of the transmitted radiation to electromagnetic memory at future null infinity, thereby offering a new asymptotic constraint and fingerprint for the radiation source.

Peng Cheng2026-09-02

🔢 mathematics

Topological quantum color code model on infinite lattice

This paper rigorously analyzes the topological color code model on an infinite lattice using the $C^*$ -algebra framework and DHR theory to classify its anyon superselection sectors, demonstrate their equivalence to a double layer of the toric code, and characterize the system's thermal states.

Shiyu Cao, Zhian Jia, Sheng Tan2026-09-02

⚛️ high-energy theory

Birman-Schwinger Formulation of the Faddeev-Popov Zero-Mode Problem

This paper reformulates the Landau-gauge Faddeov-Popov zero-mode problem on a periodic domain using the Birman-Schwinger method, establishing a self-adjoint spectral criterion for the first Gribov horizon that, for SU(2) Yang-Mills theory, reduces to a Mathieu problem allowing the independent determination of horizon thresholds and their volume-dependent classical action.

Daniel G. Tedesco2026-09-02

⚛️ high-energy theory

Quantum corrections to the black hole entropy using the brick wall model

This paper investigates the brick wall model for Reissner-Nordström and quantum-corrected black holes without relying on near-horizon approximations, demonstrating that this approach yields a logarithmic correction to the entropy that exceeds the standard Bekenstein-Hawking value, consistent with Barrow entropy.

Gopinath Guin, Arpita Jana, Sunandan Gangopadhyay2026-09-02

⚛️ phenomenology

Reining in an Agentic Harness for High Energy Physics

This paper proposes a framework for creating a portable, community-maintained agentic harness for High Energy Physics by promoting stable workflow components into versioned scientific operations with common protocols and machine-readable contracts to overcome interoperability challenges across different models and tools.

Tony Menzo, George T. Fleming, Konstantin T. Matchev, Stephen Mrenna, Alexander Roman2026-09-02

⚛️ high-energy theory

Black Hole-Tower Correspondence: Species backreaction in minimal black hole limits

This paper extends the Black Hole-Tower Correspondence by analyzing the thermodynamic and gravitational backreaction of Kaluza-Klein and string-oscillator towers to demonstrate a robust transition to black strings, while revealing that the continuity of this phase transition depends on the string theory framework, being smooth in heterotic strings but obstructed in type II theories due to cobordism group mismatches that require non-perturbative charge-violating processes to resolve.

Miquel Aparici, Alvaro Herráez, Joaquin Masias2026-09-02

⚛️ phenomenology

Dynamics and Frequency Conversion of Accreting Axion Clouds

This paper identifies two late-time evolutionary regimes for accreting axion clouds around compact objects—a collapse-driven "Bosenova" and a saturation regime—and demonstrates that the latter produces distinct, stable spectral lines that can be used to probe the global structure of the axion potential and its ultraviolet completion through terrestrial detection.

Ximeng Li, Zhen Zhong, Yifan Chen, Yue Zhao, Hidetoshi Omiya, Vitor Cardoso2026-09-02

⚛️ general relativity

Guiding center quantization of a quantum Hall analog of Hawking radiation

This paper demonstrates that the quantum Hall analog of Hawking radiation, arising from a Fermi sea under a quadrupolar potential, is accurately described by guiding center quantization on a non-commutative plane, where the resulting kinematical constraint forces edge-localized electrons to propagate thermally in both directions, effectively corresponding to analog Unruh radiation.

Rodrigo Andrade e Silva, Ted Jacobson2026-09-02

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