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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 presents the first analytic calculation of three-loop massless QCD and QED helicity amplitudes for light-by-light scattering, which are used to derive NNLO differential cross-section predictions that show agreement with ATLAS experimental data from ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions.
This paper introduces a quiver map incorporating symmetric group actions to relate magnetic and electric quivers, thereby resolving obstructions in quiver dualities for 3d gauge theories whose moduli spaces correspond to nilpotent orbits and Special Pieces of classical and exceptional algebras.
The paper introduces \texttt{Kummitus}, an open-source Wolfram Mathematica toolbox designed to efficiently compute gauge-invariant propagators and determine the propagating degrees of freedom in perturbative quantum field theories for both research and pedagogical applications.
This paper investigates how frequency chirps and field polarization influence dynamically assisted electron-positron pair production within the Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism, revealing that chirps significantly enhance pair yields through interference effects while simultaneously reducing the system's sensitivity to polarization, thereby offering a pathway for optimizing particle generation.
This paper derives exact expressions for peeling-violating Weyl tensor components in classical gravitational scattering by utilizing matching conditions at spatial and timelike infinity alongside a "celestial diamond" framework, while also highlighting that perturbative quantum gravity exhibits even stronger peeling violations.
This paper continues the authors' investigation into Cartier integration of infinitesimal 2-braidings by proposing that the Drinfeld-Kohno Lie 2-algebra has trivial cohomology, a conjecture which implies that constructing a braided monoidal 2-category automatically satisfies its axioms, and subsequently demonstrates this by explicitly constructing the pentagonator using the CMKZ 2-connection over the configuration space of four particles.
This paper computes holographic one-point functions for toroidal and cylindrical Wilson surface operators, revealing their intricate dependence on geometry and position through analytical and numerical methods that involve averaging over the dual membrane moduli space.
Using unbiased quantum Monte Carlo simulations, this study confirms the existence of a symmetric mass generation transition in a bilayer honeycomb lattice model at a critical coupling of , identifies its novel universality class distinct from mean-field theory, and demonstrates that its nonequilibrium dynamics obey generalized finite-time scaling despite the breakdown of standard Kibble-Zurek prerequisites.
This paper investigates the evolution of massive and massless neutrinos in rotating matter by solving the Dirac equation in a corotating frame, deriving a nonzero electroweak vector current analogous to the chiral vortical effect, and analyzing neutrino flavor oscillations to reveal resonance phenomena and generalize noninertial effects in astrophysical contexts.
This paper derives updated constraints on the amplitude of the primordial curvature power spectrum from primordial black hole abundances by systematically comparing Press-Schechter and peak theory formalisms, revealing that non-spherical collapse effects and the choice of statistical method significantly influence the inferred limits, particularly for broad power spectra.