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 demonstrates that proton-proton femtoscopy in high-energy O+O collisions serves as a sensitive probe of short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations, effectively distinguishing between different nuclear structure models and revealing sub-femtometer details that are invisible to traditional size measurements or pion correlations.
The paper argues that simultaneously preserving renormalization group invariance, Ward identities, and parton density sum rules in QCD factorization theorems necessitates that independent factorization and renormalization scales must be equal, with significant implications for phenomenological scale sensitivity, global QCD analyses, and connections to lattice QCD.
This study investigates the influence of shell closures at and on multipartite entanglement in Ca and Ti isotopes by calculating 4- and 6-tangles from nuclear shell-model wavefunctions of the first excited states.
This paper demonstrates a robust and scalable approach for simulating low-lying nuclear eigenstates on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices by employing a hybrid quantum-classical Generator Coordinate Method (QuGCM) enhanced with an adaptive selection strategy (ADAPT-GCIM) and optimized Gray code encoding, achieving accurate energy spectra for systems like the deuteron, Li, and Ar that align with classical results despite hardware limitations.
This paper derives simple, necessary and sufficient inequalities that ensure nonlinear causality in viscous anisotropic hydrodynamics by analyzing characteristic velocities, thereby establishing the theory's regime of validity for describing the early-time dynamics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
This paper reviews recent theoretical advancements in predicting the QCD critical point, focusing on the equation of state, the maximum entropy freeze-out framework for linking hydrodynamic fluctuations to hadronic cumulants, and the dynamical evolution of critical fluctuations.
Using a chiral SU(3) model and the Chapman-Enskog expansion, this study calculates the diffusion and shear viscosity coefficients of hot isospin asymmetric strange hadronic matter, revealing that finite strangeness significantly enhances shear viscosity while isospin asymmetry strongly influences diffusion coefficients but has only a marginal effect on shear viscosity.
This paper utilizes angular momentum projection within the interacting boson model to demonstrate that -mixing is negligible in transitional nuclei and reveals that increasing angular momentum stretches quadrupole deformation, offering a geometric explanation for Jacobi-type transitions and low-spin anomalies in nuclei such as Gd, Dy, and Os.
Using the Functional Renormalization Group with a hydrodynamical algorithm, this study investigates the (2+1)-dimensional Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model at finite temperature, density, and magnetic field, revealing that strong magnetic fields induce magnetic catalysis and dimensional reduction while weak fields at high chemical potential produce de Haas–van Alphen oscillations and multiple first-order phase transitions alongside a shifting critical endpoint.
Using a lattice Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck transport model with a kinetic approach for light-cluster formation, this study demonstrates that explicitly including dynamical light-cluster degrees of freedom significantly modifies proton collective flows at beam energies below 600 A MeV and successfully reproduces the nucleon-number scaling of light nuclei flows, thereby highlighting the necessity of dynamical cluster treatment for interpreting heavy-ion collision data in this energy regime.