931 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 an augmentation method utilizing momentum conservation in -jet events to correct for jet-medium interaction effects in Energy-Energy Correlators (EECs) within heavy-ion collisions, thereby enabling a more precise extraction of jet shower dynamics and providing a novel tool to test QGP energy loss scenarios.
This paper employs a novel D ideal relativistic spin hydrodynamics model incorporating transverse flow and longitudinal spin acceleration to successfully reproduce experimental hyperon polarization data in Au+Au collisions at GeV and predicts the yet-unmeasured in-plane transverse spin polarization.
Using high-precision x-ray spectroscopy of muonic chlorine atoms combined with advanced theoretical calculations, researchers determined the charge radii of stable Cl and Cl isotopes with an order-of-magnitude improvement in precision, resolving previous discrepancies in mirror nuclei trends and establishing new reference values for future studies.
This paper proposes a non-parametric equation of state that reveals non-conformal behavior beyond neutron star densities, characterized by an early stiffening followed by extended softening to satisfy observational and theoretical constraints, thereby providing evidence for a hadron-quark phase transition in the cores of massive neutron stars.
This paper demonstrates that strong proton superconductivity can suppress standard nucleonic cooling, thereby allowing kaon-induced Urca processes to dominate the thermal evolution of massive neutron stars and making the presence of strangeness observable in cold isolated neutron stars.
This paper develops a light-front Hamiltonian formalism using the time-dependent Basis Light-Front Quantization framework to simulate the real-time quantum evolution of a high-energy quark in the Glasma, successfully computing transverse momentum broadening and the jet quenching parameter while demonstrating consistency with classical estimates and providing a foundation for future systematic improvements.
This paper investigates how implementing a temperature-dependent thermal cutoff to ensure renormalization group consistency in RGNJL and RGPNJL models resolves causality violations, improves convergence to the Stefan-Boltzmann limit, and enhances the description of net-baryon number fluctuations compared to lattice QCD data, while revealing complex sensitivities in the PNJL framework at high baryon densities.
This paper investigates low-energy -deuteron scattering using the Faddeev formulation with three different -nucleon interaction models, presenting -wave phase shifts and momentum correlation functions to demonstrate how deuteron breakup effects and prospective experimental data can refine the understanding of interactions.
This paper reviews the motivation and early experimental results from the July 2025 LHC light-ion run (pO, OO, and NeNe collisions), which provide strong evidence for quark-gluon plasma formation in small systems and bridge the gap between perturbative QCD, hot QCD, and low-energy nuclear structure physics.
This paper utilizes the Bethe ansatz to determine the zero-temperature equation of state for the massive Thirring/sine-Gordon model, thereby validating recently derived model-independent bounds on systems with non-zero current density and demonstrating that these bounds constrain the energy density within a factor of two at high densities.