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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 derives analytical approximations for the ultra-high-frequency secondary peak in the gravitational wave background from cosmic strings sourced by friction-era loops, demonstrating their accuracy and revealing that this distinctive signature is observable across a broader range of high-energy physics scenarios than previously reported.
This paper demonstrates that collapsing domain walls generically develop robust cuspidal edge and vertex singularities, a phenomenon predicted by Nambu-Goto and eikonal approximations and confirmed by full field theory simulations, which has significant implications for localized energy density and potential phenomenological effects.
This paper analyzes finite-temperature effects in perturbatively stabilized Large Volume Scenarios, determining the maximum decompactification temperature, deriving reheating bounds that favor high-scale inflation, and characterizing the thermal metastability and potential vacuum transitions of the model.
This paper proposes a thermodynamic framework for charged black holes, treating the cosmological constant as a dynamical quantity and the horizon metric function as an equation of state, to bridge swampland conjectures with Kaluza-Klein interpretations of dark matter and the dark dimension.
This paper investigates how introducing a new X17 vector boson could resolve existing Standard Model tensions and act as a portal to the dark sector, thereby motivating further experimental and theoretical research into physics beyond the Standard Model.
This paper demonstrates that poly-vector deformations of Type II and 11D membrane backgrounds, probed by various branes, induce world-volume theory deformations that can be characterized as flows analogous to the flow, applicable to both abelian and non-abelian cases.
This paper demonstrates that introducing specific impurities into vacuumless scalar field models enables the formation of stable compact or half-compact kink structures, which are impossible to achieve in impurity-free canonical systems, while preserving half of the BPS sectors.
This paper constructs a -dimensional dissipative non-Abelian colored fluid by performing a Scherk-Schwarz dimensional reduction of a neutral viscous conformal fluid on an -dimensional unimodular group manifold, deriving the resulting hydrodynamic equations, transport coefficients, and entropy current to provide a toy model for non-Abelian dissipative hydrodynamics such as quark-gluon plasma.
This paper theoretically identifies a new conformal interface between the Tricritical Ising and Ising universality classes characterized by emergent symmetry and non-invertible symmetries, while proposing its experimental realization and specific observable predictions using Rydberg atom arrays.
The paper demonstrates that near-extremal charged black holes can suppress or even eliminate the decoherence of charged particle superpositions at late times due to a spin-induced energy gap in the quantum black hole spectrum, thereby enhancing quantum coherence beyond semiclassical expectations.