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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 an exactly solvable three-dimensional model of the Dirac oscillator within Standard and Generalized Doubly Special Relativity frameworks, demonstrating how Planck-scale deformations modify the energy spectrum and introduce branch-dependent shifts for particle and antiparticle states while preserving the system's fundamental oscillator-spinor structure.
Using Planck data, this paper conducts the first cosmological collider searches for primordial non-Gaussianity mediated by heavy scalar particles, finding no evidence for masses near the Hubble scale but reporting a global hint of non-zero non-Gaussianity for parametrically heavier particles excited by a chemical potential.
This paper presents examples of worldsheet conformal field theories that describe string propagation through target space wormholes, including those with string-scale throats inaccessible to supergravity, and interprets a specific conformal manifold as mediating a transition between a closed universe and a wormhole.
This paper demonstrates that while certain non-minimal interactions in effective field theories induce a negative one-loop renormalization group running of Wilson coefficients, gravitational loops generate dominant positive infrared contributions that preserve dispersive bounds, provided the number of non-minimally coupled particles respects the species bound.
This paper analyzes the phenomenological viability of primordial micro black holes as dark matter in modified gravity scenarios, concluding that while neutron star survival provides the strongest constraints, specific parameter regions remain consistent with observations and offer testable signatures through pulsar anomalies, neutrino emissions, and merger-induced bursts.
This paper demonstrates that a dimensionless, scaled transverse-momentum spectrum exhibits universal behavior across heavy-ion collision conditions, serving as a powerful new probe that reveals collective dynamics and provides independent constraints on quark-gluon plasma properties through Bayesian analysis.
This paper develops classical and quantum descriptions of Carroll particles with nonzero energy within the framework of two-time physics, demonstrating how gauge symmetries in an extended phase space unify these systems and reveal connections to Freudenthal triple systems over Lorentzian spin factor Jordan algebras.
This paper presents a recursive perturbative solution to the Einstein equations in de Donder gauge that characterizes the gravitational metric of a stationary, localized star using an infinite set of mass and current multipoles, yielding explicit expressions up to second post-Minkowskian order that encompass the Kerr black hole solution while also describing Kerr-like stars.
This paper demonstrates that universal quartic modifications to relativistic dispersion relations emerge generically from deformation-quantized phase spaces under minimal kinematical assumptions, a result confirmed through three independent mathematical frameworks: Fedosov-Berezov quantization, spectral geometry, and topos theory.
This paper applies the Hamiltonian formalism to analyze Hawking-Page phase transitions in BTZ, Reissner-Nordström, and Kerr-Newman black holes, demonstrating that the system's Hamiltonian corresponds to its thermodynamic free energy and revealing how electric charge and rotation enable the coexistence of black hole and thermal soliton states in off-shell configurations.