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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 proposes and constrains a generalized "Power law -Starobinsky" inflation model by combining power-law and -Starobinsky features, finding that it is mildly favored by CMB and LSS observations and remains consistent with current bounds.
This study investigates the impact of -clustering on nucleonic correlations in relativistic light ion collisions by extracting and comparing structural parameters from various *ab initio* models and density functions, revealing distinct geometric configurations and validating perturbative calculations against Monte Carlo simulations for both symmetric and asymmetric collision systems.
Using numerical relativity to evolve the Einstein equations, this study demonstrates that while scalar perturbations during the kination epoch follow perturbative predictions in the sub-horizon limit, they exhibit rich non-linear dynamics in the super-horizon regime that could lead to primordial black hole formation and potentially reheat the universe.
This paper introduces a novel Gaussian process-based method implemented in the `mochi_class` solver to generate stable Horndeski gravity models that produce weak gravity and suppress Large-Scale Structure growth, demonstrating the existence of broad "islands" of such behavior even under varying expansion histories and fifth-force conditions.
This paper analyzes the dynamics of charged test particles in a singular, horizonless spacetime derived from the Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar framework, demonstrating how the system transitions from a hydrogenic-like weak-field regime with curvature-corrected thermodynamics to a hard-wall confined state near the outermost curvature singularity.
This paper derives an effective field theory for the long-wavelength critical dynamics of holographic superfluids, providing explicit constitutive relations and transport coefficients in terms of background quantities, which are subsequently validated through numerical cross-checks.
This paper investigates the one-loop Ward-Takahashi identity for a spinless fermion bound state in the light-front formalism, demonstrating that its validity relies on the crucial contributions of pair production diagrams and the necessary inclusion of zero modes.
This paper derives relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics for a two-component ultrarelativistic plasma directly from kinetic theory using the 14-moment approximation, establishing a simplified model that accurately describes systems with small viscosity-to-entropy ratios and weak fields while revealing controlled deviations, such as nonlinear back-reaction and shear-stress generation, in regimes with strong electric fields or significant shear stress.
This paper derives closed-form analytical solutions for the scattering of spin-1/2 particles in a spinning cosmic string spacetime with torsion and curvature, demonstrating how these geometric defects and a Coulomb potential modify quantum phase shifts and cross-sections to produce topology-renormalized scattering patterns with potential applications in Dirac materials.
This paper elucidates the connections between auxiliary field formulations of four-dimensional duality-invariant electrodynamics and two-dimensional integrable sigma models by demonstrating that their relationships are governed by Legendre transformations and field redefinitions, thereby establishing correspondences between specific formalisms and extending known families of integrable deformations.