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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 demonstrates that one- and two-point functions of inverse characteristic polynomials in three specific -deformed matrix models (Chern-Simons, -Laguerre, and -Gaussian) can be interpreted as quantizations of Lagrangian subvarieties in and , respectively, utilizing superintegrability and anti-symplectic birational involutions to establish a new geometric framework for analyzing their semiclassical expansions.
This paper presents a precise Monte-Carlo model that successfully reproduces SLAC E-144 experimental results and predicts that future ELI-NP experiments using sub-GeV electron beams and high-intensity optical lasers can verify strong-field quantum electrodynamic effects, including stochastic photon emission, polarization, and spin asymmetry, through precision counting of countable signals.
This paper proposes that a nearly pure, approximately 1 TeV Higgsino dark matter candidate, which naturally produces inelastic scattering with a mass splitting of roughly 350 keV, provides a viable explanation for the unexplained 248 keV nuclear-recoil event observed by the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment.
This paper proposes that a "domain wall dominant" phase in the early universe, characterized by power-law accelerated expansion, produces a distinct stochastic gravitational wave background with amplitude independent of wall tension, offering a unique signature to differentiate these events from other cosmological sources.
This paper utilizes Hilbert Series and Superconformal Indices to characterize the moduli spaces of Improved Bifundamentals SCFTs, revealing that they are simple algebraic varieties comprising either a single connected component or a main branch with additional singlet-generated branches depending on the specific family.
This paper clarifies the consistency issue in truncating linearized gravitational waves in de Sitter space-time by deriving a general procedure that ensures truncated solutions satisfy both the wave equation and gauge conditions, while correcting previous errors and verifying the method in both generalized harmonic and Bondi gauges.
This paper classifies the gravitational wave phenomenology of cosmic string networks with time-varying tension arising from moduli dynamics in string compactifications, providing concrete type IIB string theory examples and deriving general bounds on tension variation and spectral indices using Swampland constraints.
This paper introduces Carroll-Cotton tensors as a first-principles, conformally covariant geometric tool defined on conformal Carroll geometries to naturally quantify gravitational radiation and deviations from stationarity at null infinity, offering a more complete description than the Bondi news which requires supplementary data.
This paper extends the construction of scalar channel descendants in the operator product expansion (OPE) on conformally flat spaces and investigates short-distance behaviors of three-point functions on non-conformally flat curved spaces, identifying necessary corrections to the existing ansatz to ensure a local covariant OPE.
This paper demonstrates that for static and spherically symmetric black holes, the angular components of the Brown-York tensor define a quasi-local entropy that vanishes at infinity, increases monotonically toward the horizon, and equals the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy there, thereby providing explicit verification of the covariant entropy conjecture.