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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 investigates the proton's Wehrl entropy using a gluon light-front spectator model based on soft-wall AdS/QCD wave functions, demonstrating how to decompose this entropy into entanglement and transverse components via a Husimi distribution derived from Wigner distributions, with numerical results for entanglement entropy showing agreement with CMS data.
Using the dynamic diquark model with a Born-Oppenheimer potential derived from lattice QCD, this study predicts that the doubly heavy scalar tetraquark lies near the threshold as a potential bound state or narrow resonance, while the axial-vector state is a compact -wave resonance situated approximately 23–28 MeV above the threshold.
This paper demonstrates that measurements of asymmetries in at Belle II, particularly those arising from the imaginary parts of light new physics contributions even without electron polarization, can be interpreted as model-dependent constraints on the lepton's dipole moments, offering a novel avenue for new physics searches using existing data.
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of light new physics contributions to lepton dipole moments, offering tailored interpretations of asymmetry measurements for spin-0 and spin-1 bosons while examining their transition to the effective-field-theory limit and complementarity with other constraints, with a specific focus on a tauphilic gauge vector boson at Belle II.
This study employs high-level relativistic coupled-cluster calculations to determine critical atomic properties of the Th ion, enabling precise estimates of nuclear charge radii and moments while simultaneously revealing significant higher-order relativistic effects that are essential for advancing nuclear clock technology and fundamental physics research.
This paper demonstrates that multi-gluon and multi-graviton radiation in strong field shockwave scattering can be modeled as generalized Susskind-Glogower squeezed coherent states via the QCD-Gravity double copy, revealing that large squeezing parameters in nearly minimal uncertainty configurations could produce gravitational wave quantum noise exceeding the sensitivity of current and future detectors.
This paper presents a next-to-leading order expansion formula for computing parton distribution functions from current-current correlators, which offer simple renormalization properties and avoid linear power divergences, alongside preliminary numerical results utilizing four-point functions on the lattice.
This paper establishes a fully general relativistic framework for analyzing non-radial polar oscillations in gravitationally coupled two-fluid neutron stars by deriving the necessary perturbation equations and boundary conditions, then numerically computing mode spectra to classify fundamental and pressure modes based on their fluid character.
This paper presents a unified four-body DWBA framework that derives a common Hamiltonian-based description for both pair-detected and single-particle inclusive breakup channels of three-body projectiles, successfully recovering established limits like IAV and CFH while providing new diagnostic tools for cluster approximations and target excitations.
This paper employs Landau singularity analysis within the Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory framework to systematically identify frequency-space singularities induced by nonlinear interactions, thereby determining the power-law late-time relaxation modes of gapless fluctuations without explicitly performing loop integrations.