1634 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 method for performing quantum state tomography of quark-antiquark pairs at the Electron-Ion Collider by utilizing azimuthal angular correlations from fragmentation functions to experimentally reconstruct spin density matrices and investigate quantum properties like entanglement and Bell-nonlocality.
This paper utilizes a unitarity-preserving fixed-center approximation to predict a bound state interpreted as a configuration and calculates its characteristic correlation function as a testable observable for future ALICE experiments.
This paper demonstrates that a compressed, six-cycle factorized geometric-time RODEO circuit (FG-R6) executed on an IBM quantum processor significantly reduces gate counts and energy uncertainty compared to a standard ten-cycle dynamic approach, thereby enabling more accurate reconstruction of nuclear neutron-proton scattering phase shifts from trapped spectra.
This paper analyzes isolated neutron star cooling data to conclude that fast direct Urca processes, moderated by proton superfluidity, must be active in most stars with onset thresholds below canonical masses, rendering medium modifications to modified Urca rates negligible while highlighting the dominant role of neutron-neutron Bremsstrahlung.
This paper introduces a new perturbative framework that defines an in-medium jet function to extend the BDMPS-Z formalism, enabling a virtuality-resolved description of jet propagation in heavy-ion collisions that elucidates the interplay between vacuum-like evolution and medium-induced dynamics.
This paper proposes that the spin skin thickness and mean-square charge radii of the high-spin isomeric state in Fe serve as effective experimental probes to constrain the spin slope parameter of the equation of state for spin-polarized nuclear matter.
This paper introduces a permutation-invariant Set Transformer that learns to map unordered sets of neutron star observations directly to the dense matter equation of state, providing physically interpretable, well-calibrated predictions with density-dependent uncertainties without assuming a fixed star-to-density correspondence.
This paper reports the first observation of distinctive baryon-meson grouping in anisotropic flow within high-multiplicity proton-proton and proton-lead collisions at the LHC, providing strong evidence for the formation of partonic flowing systems consistent with quark-gluon plasma in these smaller collision systems.
This paper introduces BSkG5, the first large-scale nuclear structure model based on a next-to-next-to-leading order (N2LO) Skyrme energy density functional, which achieves high accuracy in predicting nuclear masses, charge radii, and fission barriers while maintaining a neutron matter equation of state consistent with neutron star observations, all with fewer parameters than previous models.
This study extends the chiral quark soliton model to include a flavor-singlet pseudoscalar field generated by the chiral anomaly, revealing that while the anomaly-induced field enhances quark helicity and its associated mass suppresses this effect in favor of orbital angular momentum, these modifications result in only modest redistributions that do not qualitatively alter the conventional nucleon spin decomposition.