1179 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 investigates how center-of-mass fluctuations, caused by the breaking of translational symmetry in density functional theory (DFT), significantly impact the accuracy of calculated ground-state nuclear properties across the nuclear chart.
This paper demonstrates that back-to-back dijet correlations in dilute-dense collisions can be factorized into universal sea-quark transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMDs) within the Color Glass Condensate framework, showing that saturation effects are more pronounced in these collisions than in SIDIS.
This study demonstrates that multi-particle azimuthal correlations and rapidity-even dipolar flow in collisions serve as sensitive probes for distinguishing -clustering nuclear geometries from standard Woods–Saxon configurations within a viscous hydrodynamic framework.
Researchers using the STAR experiment at RHIC have found evidence of spin correlations in hyperon pairs, suggesting that the spin-correlated virtual quark-antiquark pairs from the QCD vacuum are preserved during the process of confinement into hadrons.
This paper investigates how the Goldstone mode in a complex scalar field theory evolves across a thermal phase transition, demonstrating that the transition can be characterized by a shift from weak to strong thermal damping of the mode.
This paper proposes a resource-efficient method for simulating 1+1D quantum chromodynamics by encoding three qubits—representing quark color—within the electronic, nuclear, and motional states of individual ytterbium-171 atoms.
This paper presents the NLO twist-2 matching of helicity TMDs and FFs, providing NLL predictions for the SIDIS transverse momentum spectrum to enable high-precision studies of quark and gluon helicity at the future Electron-Ion Collider.
This paper investigates the first-order QCD phase transition at low temperatures and high densities by solving the quark gap equation, revealing multi-phase coexistence, spinodal decomposition, and the structural properties of the interface between Nambu and Wigner phases to predict nuclear bubble formation.
Researchers demonstrated the ability to simulate the ground-state energies of oxygen, calcium, and nickel isotopes on a trapped-ion quantum computer using a specialized nuclear shell model approach, achieving sub-percent error compared to noise-free simulations.
Using nuclear density functional theory, this study calculates and compares spectroscopic magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments for a large set of prolate and oblate quasiparticle configurations in heavy odd- nuclei against experimental data.