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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 applies exact WKB analysis and Borel–Padé resummation of quantum periods to derive high-precision quantization conditions that accurately reproduce the quasinormal mode frequencies of extremal Reissner–Nordström and Kerr black holes.
This paper demonstrates that renormalizable interactions of Standard Model particles can be derived solely from quantum principles and Hilbert space representation without assuming gauge invariance, revealing that such interactions naturally possess a hidden, exact gauge symmetry that allows for a consistent description of massive vector bosons without indefinite state spaces or ghosts.
This paper investigates heavy meson pair correlations in forward proton-nucleus collisions by incorporating unified Sudakov resummation within the Color Glass Condensate framework, demonstrating good agreement with LHCb data and predicting a robust mass hierarchy in nuclear suppression that highlights the sensitivity of heavy quarks to gluon saturation effects.
This paper presents an effective low-energy QCD framework treating atomic nuclei as bound systems of quarks, utilizing a modified bag model and gauge/gravity duality to accurately describe nuclear static properties, predict glueball decay channels, and explain the existence of a finite number of stable elements with a maximum atomic number of approximately 82.
This paper defines higher-derivative generalizations of and supersymmetric Maxwell-Chern-Simons theories and explicitly computes their one-loop superfield effective potentials in closed form using background field quantization.
This paper proposes a semiclassical framework for the final stages of gravitational collapse, demonstrating that a quantum potential arising after "Minkowski breaking" strongly opposes the formation of the central Schwarzschild singularity.
This paper introduces a unified formalism based on the "expectation Pauli-Lubanski vector" to describe the intrinsic angular momentum of relativistic wavepackets by combining spin and orbital contributions relative to the energy centroid, thereby resolving the zero-mass singularity and allowing arbitrary orientation of angular momentum even for massless particles.
This paper investigates the pole structure of the Kerr Green's function in the frequency domain, demonstrating that while homogeneous solutions and connection coefficients exhibit Matsubara poles and zero-frequency singularities, these features cancel out in the total radial Green's function, thereby providing a frequency-domain foundation for understanding prompt response in Kerr spacetime ringdown waveforms.
This paper proposes that in quadratic gravity, the massive ghost responsible for unitarity violation is confined within zero-norm states via a BRST quartet mechanism involving a bound state with Faddeev-Popov ghosts, thereby restoring unitarity in a manner analogous to color confinement in QCD.
This paper refutes the claim that the Schrödinger equation can be solved exactly using only classical action and fluid density by demonstrating that the authors' derivation contains a foundational error which neglects the quantum potential, thereby reducing their proposed method to a standard semiclassical approximation rather than an exact solution.