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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 numerical methods, this study computes leading-order effective field theory corrections to the Kerr metric across all sub-extremal spins, revealing that rapidly rotating black holes are the most sensitive probes for detecting new physics beyond General Relativity.
This paper demonstrates that 3d gravity on manifolds with end-of-the-world branes is described by the Virasoro minimal string random matrix model, explicitly verifying this correspondence for genus-zero cases and interpreting general path integrals as gravitational inner products within Virasoro TQFT.
This paper investigates quantum corrections to the Randall-Sundrum model in a near-extremal black brane background by incorporating Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity and Schwarzian modes, deriving the corrected Kaluza-Klein mass spectrum, and analyzing the impact on the Goldberger-Wise mechanism to provide new insights into cosmology and phase transitions.
This study presents the first simultaneous Bayesian inference of temperature-dependent heavy-quark spatial diffusion and jet transport coefficients in quark-gluon plasma using LHC D-meson data, revealing a non-monotonic temperature dependence in their ratio and establishing a data-driven quantitative relationship between these fundamental transport properties.
This paper develops a quantum-optical framework for acceleration radiation from atoms falling into a Schwarzschild black hole interacting with a massive Proca field, demonstrating that while the thermal excitation balance remains universal, the absolute spectra and entropy flux are uniquely shaped by mass thresholds, polarization-dependent graybody transmissions, and vector-field-specific radiative area changes.
This paper establishes a double-copy relationship between open- and closed-string amplitudes in Anti-de Sitter space by developing a noncommutative version of twisted de Rham theory to derive the AdS double-copy kernel as the inverse of the intersection number of open-string contours.
This paper investigates infinite-distance limits in 4d quiver gauge theories to establish a connection between the large- Hagedorn temperature and the type of bulk string theory, while deriving sharp bounds on the exponential rate of higher-spin tower conservation as predicted by the CFT Distance Conjecture.
This paper presents exact solutions for bumpy black holes and black branes in the Einstein $SU(2)$ non-linear sigma model, where superfluid pion multi-vortices induce horizon deformations governed by a Liouville equation and characterized by a topological vorticity invariant that dictates the geometry and thermodynamics.
This paper demonstrates that the signum-Gordon model, despite its non-analytic potential, generates a spectral mass through nonlinear Fourier mode mixing, effectively mimicking the behavior of a massive Klein-Gordon field and providing a robust framework for defining mass in such nonlinear scalar theories.
This paper introduces a five-level expert-curated evaluation framework to demonstrate that while large language models excel at explicit derivations in quantum field theory and string theory, they systematically fail when tasks require reconstructing tacit reasoning or maintaining global conceptual consistency, thereby revealing the limitations of current evaluation paradigms for highly abstract theoretical physics.