1665 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 calculates enhanced electroweak, QCD, and QED radiative corrections to the nucleon coupling constants and , providing updated relations between lattice-QCD and physical values that yield a total correction of approximately 3.5% to 5.6% and predict a physical axial charge of 1.265(26) or 1.240(9) depending on the input methodology.
This paper develops an analytic field-theoretic approach to interacting two-body tunneling by deriving the Bethe-Salpeter equation for a Yukawa-coupled tunneling field, demonstrating a closed-form solution in the 1+1 dimensional instantaneous positive-energy regime, and confirming physical consistency through the recovery of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation.
This paper introduces VarP-GP, a cost-efficient Bayesian emulator that leverages variable statistical precision in Monte Carlo simulations to significantly reduce uncertainty in quark-gluon plasma modeling, thereby enabling previously infeasible multi-model calibrations of high-energy nuclear collision data.
This paper presents the first systematic lattice QCD study of proton- scattering across multiple pion masses and lattice spacings, yielding scattering parameters and cross sections that agree with experimental data and confirm attractive interactions critical for nuclear theory and neutron star modeling.
This study employs Bayesian inference within a density-dependent relativistic mean-field framework, constrained by multi-messenger data ranging from chiral effective field theory to massive pulsar observations, to reconstruct a thermodynamically consistent neutron-star equation of state that predicts a compact canonical radius of approximately 11.6 km and reveals strongly interacting matter cores with sound speeds exceeding the conformal limit.
This paper proposes and validates a Pearson correlation between spectator and charged-particle forward-backward asymmetries as a robust, data-driven observable to constrain models of preferential emission and spectator breakup dynamics in heavy-ion collisions.
This paper introduces a physics-embedded Bayesian neural network (PE-BNN) framework that integrates an energy-independent phenomenological shell factor and WAIC-based hyperparameter optimization to accurately predict energy-dependent fission product yields with fine structures and close agreement with known nuclear shell effects.
This paper investigates how magnetic fields in heavy ion collisions induce quarkonia spin alignment through both orbital wave function distortion and spin state mixing, finding that the spin contribution dominates phenomenologically while the subleading orbital effect offers a unique probe for studying quarkonium structural changes.
This paper demonstrates that shock-induced density and temperature perturbations in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers can overcome electron mass damping to sustain the chiral plasma instability and generate substantial ohmic heating via the chiral magnetic effect.
This paper generalizes the jet transport coefficient to a Lorentz-covariant diffusion tensor to describe momentum broadening in out-of-equilibrium media, revealing new energy-momentum correlations and demonstrating that non-equilibrium corrections can either enhance or reduce broadening depending on the initial distribution.