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 analyzes how soft versus stiff nuclear equations of state influence hybrid star properties, demonstrating that a low-density onset of stiff quark matter in binary hybrid stars best reconciles GW170817 and NICER observations while clarifying the role of nuclear symmetry energy.
This paper presents a thermodynamically consistent mean-field model of interacting relativistic charged bosons at finite temperature and isospin density, formulated in an Extended Canonical Ensemble with repulsive and interactions, which successfully reproduces lattice QCD results for isospin density, energy density, and trace anomaly using a single fitted parameter.
This paper derives a closed-form expression for new jet-medium transport coefficients () associated with fermionic two-point correlators in a weakly-coupled plasma by computing leading-order scattering rates, revealing significant deviations from leading-logarithmic approximations and enabling their application in Monte Carlo simulations to probe flavor hydrodynamization dynamics.
This paper presents a hybrid framework combining the deformed Gamow-like model with the Tabular Prior-data Fitted Network (TabPFN) to significantly improve the accuracy and generalization of half-life predictions for proton, two-proton, alpha, and cluster radioactivity across 583 nuclei while preserving physical interpretability.
This paper demonstrates that bosonic tensor networks quantitatively connect the lattice sine-Gordon model to its continuum theory, accurately reproducing exact soliton masses, breather spectra, and scattering dynamics without adjustable parameters, thereby establishing a robust framework for studying non-integrable extensions and gauge theories.
This paper provides a brief overview of tensor-polarized parton distribution functions and fragmentation functions for spin-1 hadrons, highlighting unique observables like the , structure functions and gluon transversity that offer insights into hadron dynamics beyond simple nucleon models.
This paper theoretically demonstrates that nuclear modifications to the longitudinal-transverse structure function ratio in the deuteron, arising from transverse Fermi motion, result in a few-percent effect that must be accounted for in high-energy nuclear data analysis and is expected to be confirmed by upcoming experiments at JLab.
This paper presents data-driven hydrodynamic predictions for the new observable in Pb+Pb collisions at TeV, demonstrating its agreement with existing data and forecasting unique features such as a high- decrease, meson-baryon splitting, and non-monotonic proton behavior that distinguish it from traditional flow observables.
This paper reviews three decades of progress in generalized parton distributions (GPDs), highlighting significant advancements in experimental measurements, sophisticated phenomenological analyses, theoretical refinements, and lattice QCD calculations that collectively enable three-dimensional nucleon tomography and a deeper understanding of the nucleon's mass, spin, and internal forces.
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical foundations and phenomenology of higher-twist effects in QCD, detailing their role in nonperturbative dynamics, their extraction from global DIS analyses, and future experimental opportunities at Jefferson Lab and the Electron-Ion Collider.