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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 investigates the Casimir effect in rectangular cavities as a probe for Lorentz symmetry violation, demonstrating how a fixed background four-vector induces anisotropic, direction-dependent corrections to the vacuum energy while preserving the separability of field modes.
This paper derives closed-form analytic expressions for leading-order relativistic corrections to the wave-packet dynamics and uncertainty relations of a quantum harmonic oscillator, demonstrating that these effects become experimentally verifiable (reaching 0.1% to 1% deviation) for electron wave packets confined within keV-scale energies.
This paper presents a new family of exact five-dimensional vacuum black brane solutions with Bianchi VI symmetry that generalize the Solv geometry, deriving their metrics analytically and analyzing their thermodynamics and hyperscaling-violating properties despite their non-AdS asymptotics.
This study numerically investigates the interior of asymptotically flat hairy black holes with inverted Higgs potentials, revealing that they possess a central curvature singularity without an inner Cauchy horizon and exhibit a violation of the weak energy condition that intensifies with the scalar field strength.
This paper constructs the lattice by gluing together singularity lattices of rank 8 from extremal rational elliptic surfaces using error-correcting codes over their Mordell-Weil groups, thereby generalizing classical code-to-lattice constructions like Construction A.
This paper investigates the structure of charmonium, bottomonium, and mesons using the Basis Light-Front Quantization approach with both quark-antiquark and quark-antiquark-gluon Fock sectors to calculate various observables and provide the first BLFQ predictions for gluon parton distribution functions in heavy mesons.
This paper reports the discovery of a critical error in the 2006 Maniatis et al. analysis of the two Higgs doublet model potential's stability, which was identified through formalization in the Lean theorem prover and represents the first known non-trivial error in a physics paper uncovered by this rigorous method.
This paper derives WKB-asymptotic expressions for multipoint Virasoro conformal blocks in the comb channel on the sphere by applying the WKB method to the classical BPZ equation, validating the results against known exact solutions and AGT correspondence while demonstrating their utility for generalizing Zamolodchikov's elliptic recursion and numerically evaluating minimal string theory amplitudes.
This paper employs a holographic approach to analyze the transport properties of baryon-rich thermal plasma with finite 't Hooft coupling corrections, revealing that Gauss-Bonnet coupling, baryon density, and flavor density enhance drag force and jet quenching while reducing screening length, and further characterizing how these parameters influence the radial profile and energy loss of rotating quarks.
This paper presents a non-perturbative lattice determination of the baryon junction mass in -dimensional $SU(3)$ Yang--Mills theory using high-precision simulations and Effective String Theory corrections, while also confirming the Svetitsky--Yaffe conjecture by demonstrating that the system's high-temperature behavior aligns with the two-dimensional three-state Potts model near the deconfinement transition.