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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 develops an analytic field-theoretic approach to interacting two-body tunneling by deriving the Bethe-Salpeter equation for a Yukawa-coupled tunneling field, demonstrating a closed-form solution in the 1+1 dimensional instantaneous positive-energy regime, and confirming physical consistency through the recovery of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation.
This paper investigates nonconformally Ricci-flat gravitational instantons in four-dimensional Conformal Gravity, analyzing their conserved charges, regularity, and self-duality in both vacuum and the presence of nonlinear conformal matter fields such as scalar fields and ModMax electrodynamics.
Although a secondary potential barrier can induce a distinct family of spectrally unstable quasinormal modes that persist even after the barrier vanishes, time-domain simulations demonstrate that early-time black hole ringdown signals remain dominated by stable modes, thereby confirming the robustness of black hole spectroscopy.
This paper demonstrates that the Witten-O'Raifeartaigh potential can support a unified cosmological model where Warm Inflation occurs on its steep left wing and transient dark energy arises on its flatter right wing, provided the potential is normalized differently for each era and the quintessence field incorporates dissipative dynamics to sustain slow-roll.
This paper presents a new model of quantum computation based on the representation theory of the massless sector of unitary irreducible representations of the extended Poincare group.
This paper demonstrates that the chaos bound proposed in MSS can be violated in the spinor field of a Reissner-Nordström black hole by analyzing the orbital motions of both neutral and charged spinning particles, showing that sufficiently large spin magnitudes or specific spin-angular momentum alignments lead to Lyapunov exponents exceeding the surface gravity.
This paper derives a model-independent upper limit on the amplitude of a chiral gravitational wave background produced before the electroweak epoch, which, for high reheating temperatures, provides a significantly more stringent constraint than standard big bang nucleosynthesis bounds at frequencies above the MHz scale.
This paper proposes and verifies a correction to an elliptic block in the 2d superconformal field theory NS sector by analyzing the 4-point block in pillow geometry and confirming the result through crossing symmetry checks in super Liouville theory and comparisons between - and -recursion methods.
This paper derives exact one-loop QED effective actions for scalar and spinor fields in global (anti-)de Sitter spacetime under a uniform electric field by utilizing the in-out formalism and Bogoliubov coefficients, revealing a strong interplay between electric fields and spacetime curvature while recovering known limits in pure (A)dS and Minkowski spaces.
This paper proposes an improved Two Higgs Doublet Model derived from six-dimensional $SU(4)$ gauge theory compactified on an orbifold, where the inclusion of brane-localized gauge kinetic terms naturally enforces CP conservation and symmetry at tree level while allowing for the generation of soft symmetry-breaking masses and the Standard Model Higgs mass at the one-loop level.