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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.
Using a neural-network-calibrated five-dimensional Einstein–Maxwell–dilaton holographic model, this study predicts a magnetic-field-driven critical end point at where the QCD thermal transition shifts from a crossover to a first-order phase transition, a finding that qualitatively aligns with lattice results.
This paper presents a dynamical holographic study of gravitational form factors for scalar, pseudoscalar, and tensor glueballs, demonstrating that while standard constrained cubic vertices fail to match lattice data, a proposed normalized heavy-target effective coupling successfully reproduces scalar observations and provides predictions for tensor and pseudoscalar form factors and pressure profiles.
This paper resolves the apparent discrepancy between the linear () and quadratic () scaling of photon growth rates in stimulated axion decay by demonstrating that the transition from parametric resonance to kinetic behavior is governed by the coherence properties and momentum dispersion of the axion field.
This paper demonstrates that in vacuum AdS, the key properties of generalized entanglement wedges—such as monotonicity and strong subadditivity—are direct consequences of the corresponding properties of CFT entropies, as these wedges can be constructed from unions and intersections of ordinary entanglement wedges whose perimeters are expressible via the Crofton formula in terms of boundary interval entropies.
This paper demonstrates that Standard Model flavor anomalies associated with magnetic monopoles induce a striking phenomenological consequence where electroweak interactions cause scattering processes to violate baryon and lepton number by multiples of three (), even when these quantities are classically conserved, a mechanism explicitly illustrated within Pati-Salam and trinification theories.
This paper applies equivariant localization to supersymmetric solutions of M-theory to derive topological formulae for central charges and gravitational anomalies in terms of quantized fluxes and fixed-point data, successfully recovering known results and constructing a new compact numerical solution outside the standard polynomial branch.
This paper validates a proposed matrix-tensor description of three-dimensional gravity by demonstrating that a Schwinger-Dyson relation in its purely open sector yields agreement with conjectured topological counts only when a specific Virasoro TQFT-motivated counting prescription is applied, thereby underscoring the critical importance of defining the set of bulk topologies included in the gravitational path integral.
This paper demonstrates through lattice simulations that introducing an explicit Majorana mass to half of a Spin(10)-like generation in a four-dimensional Symmetric Mass Generation (SMG) model does not induce a seesaw mechanism or generate a light mass for the unsourced half, as the exact symmetry of the sourced action forces all unsourced mass terms to average to zero without spontaneous symmetry breaking.
This paper proposes the normalized Wigner negativity rate as a second-moment diagnostic for infalling particles in AdS, demonstrating that at late times it scales with the variance of the Krylov wavepacket and, for conformal dimension , interprets the resulting product of position and momentum as the rate of tidal stretching near the horizon.
This paper demonstrates that suitable quartic couplings in the Pati-Salam model can prevent symmetry restoration at high temperatures, thereby avoiding the thermal production of 't Hooft-Polyakov monopoles and removing associated constraints on the symmetry breaking scale.