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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 viability of mutated hilltop, D-brane, and Woods-Saxon inflationary models within a minimally coupled gravity framework, demonstrating that specific parameter spaces for these models can satisfy current observational constraints from Planck, BICEP/Keck, DESI, and ACT.
This paper investigates 2d theories derived from 4d class theories by proposing conjectural formulas for their central charges and validating them through a Lagrangian analysis of vacuum moduli spaces for gauge groups.
This paper extends the holographic symmetry algebra for gravitons and gluons by demonstrating that conformally soft higher spin particles generate a subalgebra (and an -algebra for colored particles) that does not commute with the standard subalgebra, a result verified via tree-level MHV amplitudes and extended to non-zero cosmological constants.
This paper employs CUDA-accelerated machine learning to constrain non-commutative black hole parameters by analyzing shadow behaviors and energy emission rates, ultimately demonstrating that the proposed model is consistent with Event Horizon Telescope observations of the black hole.
This paper establishes a comprehensive theoretical framework for open quantum systems coupled to scale-invariant "unparticle" environments, deriving exact non-Markovian dynamics and identifying a rich phase structure of decoherence and thermalization transitions governed by the scaling dimension , with applications ranging from critical quantum magnets and inflationary cosmology to high-energy astrophysical neutrinos.
This paper derives analytical approximations for the ultra-high-frequency secondary peak in the gravitational wave background from cosmic strings sourced by friction-era loops, demonstrating their accuracy and revealing that this distinctive signature is observable across a broader range of high-energy physics scenarios than previously reported.
This paper demonstrates that collapsing domain walls generically develop robust cuspidal edge and vertex singularities, a phenomenon predicted by Nambu-Goto and eikonal approximations and confirmed by full field theory simulations, which has significant implications for localized energy density and potential phenomenological effects.
This paper analyzes finite-temperature effects in perturbatively stabilized Large Volume Scenarios, determining the maximum decompactification temperature, deriving reheating bounds that favor high-scale inflation, and characterizing the thermal metastability and potential vacuum transitions of the model.
This paper proposes a thermodynamic framework for charged black holes, treating the cosmological constant as a dynamical quantity and the horizon metric function as an equation of state, to bridge swampland conjectures with Kaluza-Klein interpretations of dark matter and the dark dimension.
This paper investigates how introducing a new X17 vector boson could resolve existing Standard Model tensions and act as a portal to the dark sector, thereby motivating further experimental and theoretical research into physics beyond the Standard Model.