1396 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 employs normalizing flows to construct statistical ensembles of chiral nuclear interactions, revealing non-Gaussian correlations among low-energy constants and establishing a framework for systematically constraining nuclear forces with experimental and astrophysical data.
This paper demonstrates that symbolic regression can effectively emulate the isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck transport model to predict proton collective flow observables with accuracy comparable to deep neural networks while providing interpretable analytic expressions and faster evaluation, despite requiring longer training times.
This paper proposes and calculates how the elliptic anisotropy of the quark-gluon plasma's density gradient and flow in non-central heavy-ion collisions distorts jet-induced medium responses into an azimuthally dependent elliptic wind, offering a new observable in -jet events to constrain the QGP's shear viscosity.
This paper proposes utilizing the Bethe-Heitler process () as a laboratory to generate and validate high-fidelity bipartite and genuine tripartite entanglement, specifically identifying thousands of GHZ and W states below 5 GeV center-of-mass energy through event simulations.
This paper presents a confining density functional equation of state for hybrid stars that reveals the existence of "thermal twin stars" at finite temperatures, suggesting that the presence of such disconnected branches serves as a new criterion to exclude strong color superconductivity and assess the explodability of core-collapse supernovae.
This paper presents a PYTHIA8-based Monte Carlo study of jet substructure observables, including angularities and the primary Lund Plane with a focus on the dead cone effect, for light and heavy flavor jets in 200 GeV collisions at RHIC to test non-perturbative physics models and enable feasible measurements at sPHENIX.
This study evaluates the weak Gamow-Teller responses for low-lying states in by combining experimental electron capture rates, corrected charge exchange reaction data, and shell model calculations, finding that while excited states contribute approximately 4.2% to the total response, the Ga anomaly remains unexplained by these nuclear uncertainties.
This paper proposes projected energy correlators measured on the recoiling QCD radiation of a boson as a benchmark observable for precision QCD at the LHC, presenting the first complete NLO+NNLL matched predictions by combining fixed-order amplitudes, high-order resummation, and non-perturbative matrix elements within a flexible framework that avoids jet algorithms.
This paper presents a Monte Carlo method based on the Raubold-Lynch algorithm to construct the exact relativistic three-body phase space for hypertriton mesonic decays into charged and neutral pions, providing a kinematic baseline for future theoretical predictions and experimental comparisons.
This paper derives a general non-abelian Lindblad-type quantum master equation for quarkonium evolution in a quark-gluon plasma that overcomes previous temperature-energy gap limitations, enabling a faithful description of the system's quantum dynamics across all expansion regimes.