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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 study demonstrates that the carrier-envelope phase and pulse shape of asymmetric electric fields significantly influence electron-positron pair production, with specific configurations capable of enhancing pair density by two to three orders of magnitude through multiphoton dominance and optimized envelope steepness.
This paper introduces gauged Courant sigma models (GCSMs), a new class of AKSZ-type sigma models extended by additional gauge symmetries associated with Lie groups, Lie groupoids, and Courant algebroids, whose consistency relies on geometric flatness conditions and which are further analyzed in the presence of fluxes and boundaries.
This paper investigates the propagation of massive scalar fields in regular black holes supported by a phantom scalar field, revealing that the scalar charge induces an anomalous decay rate where the longest-lived modes correspond to lower angular momentum above a critical mass, while also demonstrating excellent agreement between WKB and Horowitz-Hubeny methods for quasinormal frequencies and clarifying how regularity affects greybody factors.
This paper investigates conformal quantum mechanics by analyzing perturbative ultraviolet divergences in multi-dimensional -matrices and deriving exact, infinite-series results for the beta function of the inverse square potential in one dimension across both bound and scattering sectors.
This paper proves that local conformal field theories (CFTs) correspond to the extrema, specifically local maxima for unitary theories, of the sphere free energy along lines of nonlocal CFTs parametrized by the scaling dimension of the fundamental field, thereby providing a new extremisation principle for determining scaling dimensions in non-supersymmetric settings.
This paper develops a semiclassical framework in the Abelian Higgs model at large external charges to compute the cusp anomalous dimension and predict defect CFT observables, effectively bridging perturbative and large-charge regimes through a double-scaling limit.
This paper introduces a new class of nonlinear analytic dispersion relations that enable the direct extraction of the tree-level spectrum of heavy particles from the Wilson coefficients of an effective field theory, providing an exact solution for a finite number of resonances and an approximate one otherwise.
This paper proposes a manifestly supersymmetric formulation of the Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SuSymTFT) as a super-BF theory on supermanifolds to systematically organize symmetries and anomalies in supersymmetric models, validating the construction through examples of compact and chiral super-bosons in two dimensions.
This paper introduces Systematic Analytic Regularization (SAR), a novel scheme that regularizes quantum field theories by analytically continuing the power of the kinetic operator at the action level to ensure formal finiteness, and demonstrates its self-consistent application to and Yukawa theories at next-to-leading order.
This paper presents an exact solution for two-dimensional Palatini Gauss-Bonnet theory on an infinite strip, demonstrating that its boundary degrees of freedom correspond to geodesics on the group manifold with a mass determined by the coupling constant, while also exploring alternative boundary Hamiltonians and providing initial comments on the quantum theory.