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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 derives a fundamental, model-independent inequality that limits the detectability of vacuum excitations in finite-size local detectors based on a trade-off between vacuum insensitivity and excitation sensitivity, offering a potential experimental test for the axioms of algebraic quantum field theory.
This paper systematically analyzes the vacuum stability of a specific 331 model with three triplets and a softly broken symmetry by identifying all potential minima, deriving conditions for a global electroweak vacuum, and calculating metastability bounds to map the viable parameter space in terms of physical quantities.
This paper investigates the causal structure and interior geometry of asymptotically AdS black holes containing vacuum bubbles by analyzing holographic entanglement entropy and bulk-cone singularities, revealing that while collapsing and expanding bubbles exhibit thermalization, static bubbles display non-thermal "scar state" properties.
This paper proposes a minimal framework utilizing the discrete gauge symmetry , motivated by the Standard Model's internal structure, to naturally resolve the axion quality problem while simultaneously explaining neutrino masses, baryon asymmetry, and dark matter.
This paper generalizes Carrollian Lie algebroids to the framework of -commutative (almost commutative) geometry via -Lie-Rinehart pairs, establishing foundational analogues for Carrollian structures and demonstrating their application through explicit constructions on the extended quantum plane and the noncommutative 2-torus.
This paper demonstrates that incorporating quantum fluctuations via Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity in a holographic model of near-extremal black branes generates a non-universal, temperature-dependent shear viscosity to entropy ratio () that dips below the KSS bound in the semi-classical regime before rising above it at lower temperatures, a result that aligns with the quantum-corrected absorption cross-section.
This paper proposes constructing local gauge invariant operators on isometry-breaking backgrounds via the Stückelberg mechanism—effectively introducing physical clocks and rods—but argues that suppressing the resulting spacetime fluctuations to reliably define operators in localized regions (such as black hole islands) requires strong isometry breaking, potentially achieved through transitions to higher-dimensional black holes.
This paper demonstrates that Newtonian gravity can generate quantum entanglement between mesoscopic bodies only when the gravitational tidal field is quantized (as in the mini-superspace framework), whereas models treating the field as classical (semiclassical and stochastic gravity) fail to produce such entanglement.
This paper presents a simplified Standard Model plus gravity framework featuring left and right mirror sectors that share $SU(2)$ and gravitational fields to cancel anomalies, interprets the right sector as dark matter, and explores the cosmological and quantum implications of Weyl symmetry, including potential solutions to the cosmological constant problem and the avoidance of negative norm states.
This paper introduces a new parton-shower algorithm that exactly reproduces the dynamics of linearized effective kinetic theory to provide a first-principles description of jet thermalization in QCD plasmas, overcoming previous limitations by properly incorporating recoils, holes, quantum statistics, and merging processes.