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 study investigates how non-extensive statistics and hadronic composition influence the drag, diffusion, and relaxation properties of hadrons in a thermal bath, revealing that increasing the non-extensivity parameter and mass cutoffs enhances momentum transport while decreasing spatial diffusion.
The paper proposes a theoretical model where relativistic gravitational collapse results in a hypermassive quark–gluon plasma (QGP) star rather than a black hole, stabilized against implosion by the combined effects of nonlinear electrodynamics (vacuum polarization) and QCD asymptotic freedom.
This paper provides a comprehensive and unified set of Huff factors for nuclei with atomic numbers by using a microscopic nuclear structure model to account for charge distributions, demonstrating that while the factor decreases monotonically with , the isotope dependence remains small.
Researchers observed a broad -wave resonant state in He at 1.28(1) MeV using two-body invariant-mass spectroscopy following the knockout reaction of Li at approximately 250 MeV/nucleon.
This paper uses the Chapman-Enskog method to derive analytical expressions for the shear viscosity of a massless quark-gluon gas in chemical equilibrium, incorporating all parton scattering processes, including inelastic ones, for the first time.
This paper introduces a scalable quantum-classical framework that utilizes the Lorentz integral transform and a new Hamiltonian input scheme to compute both the response functions and the full bound-state spectrum of general many-fermion systems.
This paper investigates neutrinoless double beta decays of spin-1/2 hyperons using covariant baryon chiral perturbation theory, finding that while long-range one-loop amplitudes exist, the leading contributions arise from short-range counterterm operators and result in branching ratios far below current experimental limits.
By measuring proton elastic scattering at approximately 200 MeV/nucleon, researchers extracted the first matter radius for Sn ( fm), finding that current theoretical models cannot simultaneously reconcile this value with the known charge radius.
This paper establishes a rigorous microscopic foundation for non-Hermitian renormalization group (RG) methods by deriving them from the invariance of scattering amplitudes in few-body systems, providing a unified framework that links quantum measurement effects to phenomena in both high-energy and atomic physics, such as nuclear scale anomalies and halo nuclei structures.