1067 papers
Nuclear theory sits at the fascinating intersection of particle physics and the forces that hold our universe together. This field explores how protons and neutrons bind inside atomic nuclei, seeking to understand the fundamental interactions that govern matter at its most dense and energetic levels. While the mathematics involved can be incredibly complex, the core questions are deeply human: how does the universe function at its smallest scales, and what happens when we push matter to its limits?
At Gist.Science, we make these cutting-edge discoveries accessible by processing every new preprint published in this category on arXiv. Our team transforms dense academic manuscripts into clear, plain-language summaries alongside detailed technical overviews, ensuring that both experts and curious readers can grasp the latest breakthroughs without getting lost in the jargon. Below are the latest papers in nuclear theory, distilled and ready for you to explore.
This paper proposes a new measurement technique that combines jet charge with global event shapes (specifically 1-jettiness in DIS) to simultaneously probe quark flavor dynamics in both initial-state nucleon structure and final-state hadronization processes.
By performing general-relativistic simulations, the authors demonstrate that the "favoured" branch of twin stars in a mass-radius sequence is determined by which configuration can withstand larger perturbations before migrating to the other branch, a property that can be predicted using binding energies rather than full simulations.
The paper proposes that steep matter-density gradients in neutron star interiors can produce neutrino-antineutrino pairs through a mechanism analogous to the Schwinger effect, potentially offering a new way to probe neutron star structure and dense QCD.
This paper provides a unified theoretical framework for the angular structure of energy-energy correlators (EECs) in heavy-ion collisions, demonstrating how they transition from being dominated by collective hydrodynamic flow at large angles to being controlled by hydrodynamic modes and light-ray operator product expansions at smaller angles.
This paper demonstrates that including nonperturbative QED corrections—such as vertex, self-energy, and vacuum polarization effects—changes the calculated parity-violating asymmetry by less than one percent for various nuclei at both GeV and MeV energy scales.
This paper presents a global analysis of HERA data using a next-to-leading order (NLO+NLL) Balitsky-Kovchegov framework to extract the non-perturbative initial conditions for the Color Glass Condensate, utilizing a Bayesian approach to provide a streamlined method for estimating theoretical uncertainties.
This paper presents a deep-learning-assisted quasi-particle model (DLQPM) using physics-informed neural networks to construct a thermodynamically consistent, four-dimensional QCD equation of state that extrapolates lattice QCD data to finite temperature and chemical potentials.
This paper presents a few-body dynamics method using Faddeev integral equations in momentum space to calculate total cross sections for various light nuclei fusion and breakup reactions, demonstrating good agreement with experimental data while accounting for Coulomb effects and cluster representations.
This paper demonstrates that the accumulation of states in various rare earth nuclei can be microscopically explained using the pseudo-SU(3) model, highlighting the essential role of the Pauli Exclusion Principle and the microscopic Hilbert space in understanding these spectra.
This paper investigates how different treatments of mass loss and convective overshooting influence the pre-collapse core properties and neutrino emission of red supergiants, demonstrating that these factors significantly alter the star's thermal structure, isotopic composition, and the resulting neutrino spectra in the final days before collapse.