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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 explores how next-generation detectors can utilize high-frequency kilohertz gravitational-wave signals from core-collapse supernovae—arising from proto-neutron star oscillations, black hole formation, QCD phase transitions, and alternative gravity theories—to probe extreme matter and identify physics beyond the Standard Model.
This paper proposes a Dark Matter-Baryon Separability condition to demonstrate how dark matter deficient galaxies serve as unique probes for constraining late-time dark matter interactions, dissipation, and halo stability, thereby complementing cosmological and laboratory studies.
This paper derives a unified parton shower from effective kinetic theory that consistently describes both high-energy jet quenching and thermal equilibration, enabling the study of jet-medium interactions and hydrodynamic responses like wakes and Mach cones.
This paper establishes universal bounds on the intersection numbers of BPS string generators in six-dimensional supergravity by combining Zariski decomposition with current algebra embeddings, thereby proving the finiteness of tensor charge intersections up to duality.
This paper investigates nucleon spectra by refining the Einstein-dilaton holographic model with new parameters and extending the approach to a Starobinsky-dilaton gravity framework, ultimately comparing both improved models against soft-wall predictions and experimental data.
This paper develops a coordinate-independent algebraic framework for zero-field D-brane boundary conditions in the pure spinor string using involutive automorphisms of , and derives a system of Dirac-Born-Infeld-like equations of motion governing the consistency of matter, ghost, and embedding interactions on the resulting half-BPS brane world-volumes.
This paper formulates a "first quantisation" 1-dimensional AKSZ theory on graphs that reproduces the Feynman graphs of a given AKSZ theory by interpreting gauge-fixing choices as Lagrangian submanifolds defining sewing conditions within the BV-BFV formalism, thereby establishing a bridge between the cohomological structure of and a cyclic -algebra in Weinstein's symplectic category.
This paper refines the Generalized Bergshoeff-de Roo identification method to derive higher-derivative couplings in the effective action of string theory directly within the standard Supergravity framework, leveraging symmetries such as diffeomorphism, Lorentz, gauge invariance, and T-duality.
This paper presents a linearly stable kinetically braided dark energy model with momentum exchange that successfully achieves an upward phantom-divide crossing while simultaneously suppressing cold dark matter structure growth through a reduced effective gravitational coupling, yielding distinct signatures in the matter power spectrum and CMB temperature anisotropies.
This paper proposes a top-down geometric framework within the Standard Model that utilizes dimensionless 2D ratio vectors to derive exact analytical expressions for the CKM matrix and Jarlskog invariant, demonstrating how a "quark mass spurt" near critical boundaries generates sufficient CP violation to explain the cosmological baryon asymmetry while offering a unified geometric description of flavor mixing in both quark and lepton sectors.