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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.
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Below are the latest papers in high-energy theoretical physics, curated to help you navigate the most significant recent discoveries.
This paper constructs and analyzes five-dimensional generalizations of the Myers-Perry black hole and rotating black ring embedded in a swirling universe, demonstrating that both solutions are free of conical singularities while detailing their geometric properties, conserved charges, and uniqueness.
This paper presents the first fully analytic calculation of the four-loop pure-singlet contribution to the quark-to-quark splitting function in perturbative QCD, thereby completing the full splitting function at this order and providing precise numerical representations for parton evolution.
This paper demonstrates that inflationary models with a large number of fields () generically produce almost-local cosmological collider signals in the bispectrum squeezed limit, as extreme value statistics and random-matrix universality drive the scaling dimensions of field mixings toward the unitarity boundary, transforming what would be a fine-tuned signal for few fields into a robust prediction for many.
This paper computes the scaling dimensions of monopole operators in Chern-Simons QED at large charge and large to provide strong quantitative evidence for proposed dualities with scalar QED and to investigate the behavior of universal effective field theory terms in parity-breaking regimes.
This paper establishes a direct connection between the finite-size response of compact objects in AdS, described by a worldline effective field theory, and the dimensions and OPE coefficients of heavy-light and light-light composite operators in the dual holographic CFT.
This paper constructs canonical master integrals and forms for planar and non-planar two-loop Feynman integral families relevant to vector boson fusion Higgs production at NNLO QCD, providing strategies to handle nested square roots and expressing the results in an algebraically independent function basis via numerical integration of differential equations.
This paper presents a diagrammatic algorithm to construct GKZ hypergeometric systems for polygonal functions, which are conjectured to evaluate multipoint one-loop conformal integrals, by deriving a finite subsystem of second- and third-order equations from a transition matrix that encodes the underlying toric structure.
This paper investigates the boundary criticality of (2+1)-dimensional U(1) Dirac quantum spin liquids, demonstrating that distinct boundary universality classes emerge from Neumann and Dirichlet conditions for the emergent gauge field and proposing a lattice model to realize these phenomena.
This paper classifies bulk one-point functions of primary operators in Euclidean conformal field theories at finite temperature with both thermal-circle-wrapping and localised defects, deriving bootstrap sum rules and computing thermodynamic observables and defect data across various free and interacting examples.
This paper utilizes the effective field theory of inflation with resummed curvature-isocurvature mixing to derive exact, closed-form expressions for all cubic primordial bispectra, revealing new strong-mixing shapes and universal cosmological collider signals that show a preference for strong mixing when confronted with Planck PR4 data.