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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.
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Below are the latest papers in high-energy theoretical physics, curated to help you navigate the most significant recent discoveries.
This paper proposes a novel experimental search for dark photons at electron accelerators using inverse Compton scattering () with laser photons and a 3 GeV electron beam, demonstrating that this setup can probe unexplored regions of dark sector parameter space through photon counting techniques.
This paper elucidates how the topological structure of Calabi-Yau threefolds in heterotic string theory generates specific Yukawa textures, such as the Weinberg texture, and demonstrates that a flavor symmetry emerging at specific moduli loci can produce semi-realistic quark mass and mixing patterns through small perturbations.
This paper investigates the one-dimensional Generalized Klein--Gordon Oscillator within Doubly Special Relativity kinematics by employing a complexified Morse interaction to ensure a real energy spectrum through -pseudo-Hermiticity or symmetry, ultimately deriving closed-form Magueijo--Smolin and Amelino-Camelia energy branches.
This paper proposes a new, information-theoretic measure of fine-tuning based on the Fisher information metric, which generalizes the Barbieri--Giudice criterion to multiple correlated parameters and provides a geometric interpretation of sensitivity as the stretching of the parameter space submanifold within observable space.
This paper investigates the Higgs branches and associated vertex operator algebras (VOAs) of 4d SCFTs engineered from IIB superstring theory on canonical threefold singularities, deriving new examples with E-type Kleinian singularities, proposing conjectures for their affine W-algebra VOAs, and analyzing Schur indices through BPS quivers and deformed singularities.
Using first-principles lattice simulations of SU(3) Yang-Mills theory in Rindler spacetime, this study demonstrates that weak acceleration induces a spatially inhomogeneous confinement-deconfinement phase transition where distinct phases coexist, with a phase boundary consistent with theoretical predictions and a critical temperature matching that of non-accelerated gluodynamics.
This paper proves that scale-invariant one-loop corrections to superhorizon curvature perturbations from small-scale scalar modes are absent in general inflationary scenarios, including transient ultra-slow-roll, due to dilatation symmetry and explicit one-loop calculations within an in-in effective field theory framework.
This paper derives a systematic framework for one-loop effective potentials in curved spacetimes and demonstrates that, for scalar theories in de Sitter and anti-de Sitter backgrounds, the computed -functions and anomalous mass dimensions coincide exactly with their flat-space counterparts despite significant curvature-induced modifications to physical masses and couplings.
This paper investigates the scalar curvature of the vector moduli space in 5d supergravities derived from M-theory compactifications, demonstrating that curvature divergences occur exclusively at points where gauge interactions become infinitely strong, leading to decoupled superconformal field theories or little string theories, with specific conditions for rank theories and decompactification limits involving 6d SCFTs.
This paper demonstrates within the holographic QCD framework that the ground state in a strong magnetic field and finite baryon density is a chiral soliton lattice, which is interpreted as uniformly distributed D4-branes and unified through five-dimensional instanton charge, leading to a magnetic-field-dependent pion decay constant that qualitatively agrees with lattice QCD results.