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.
Through transport simulations and experimental validation, this paper demonstrates that relativistic heavy-ion collisions exhibit a Barnett-like effect where the global spin polarization of hyperons scales linearly with the source tilt angle, revealing a geometry-modulated spin-vorticity coupling at the femtometre scale.
This study calculates how the inclusion of isobars and specific weak interaction channels significantly reduces neutrino mean free paths in hot, dense matter, thereby altering lepton-number diffusion in proto-neutron stars and neutron star merger remnants.
This review examines recent *ab initio* calculations of finite nuclei to demonstrate how specific observables, such as neutron-skin thicknesses, electric dipole polarizabilities, and monopole sum rules, can be used to constrain the equation of state and bulk properties of nuclear matter.
This paper presents improved theoretical predictions and prospects for the first precision measurement of muon trident scattering at TeV energies using data from the FASER and NA64 experiments, demonstrating their potential to probe the process's energy dependence with percent-level accuracy.
This memoir dedicated to Mannque Rho recounts the author's journey into hadron physics in dense matter, clarifies the original intent behind Brown-Rho scaling, and discusses recent refinements to the theory involving chiral symmetry and -breaking effects.
This paper demonstrates that the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) can probe previously unexplored light dark matter parameter space by detecting MeV-scale photon "blips" from nuclear deexcitation, utilizing state-of-the-art ab initio nuclear calculations to predict signals in argon nuclei.
This paper extends a previous study by constructing effective shell-model decay operators for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ca, Ge, and Se up to next-to-next-to-leading order, including for the first time three-body current contributions at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order, to evaluate theoretical uncertainties arising from both model space limitations and chiral expansion truncation.
This paper presents the first microscopic calculation of the strangeness-changing two-body (2p2h) weak currents at tree level using SU(3) chiral dynamics, detailing the contributions of various meson-exchange and baryon-pole mechanisms and analyzing their impact on the hyperon composition of neutrino-induced reactions.
This paper employs a Bayesian analysis combining Halo-EFT and reaction models to re-analyze the Coulomb breakup of C, yielding a more precise one-neutron separation energy and asymptotic normalization constant with quantified uncertainties.
This paper computes the modifications to the unpolarized, helicity, and transversity parton distribution functions of a proton within hot, isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter and finite nuclei using a diquark spectator model coupled with the chiral SU(3) quark mean field approach, revealing that spin-dependent distributions are altered more strongly than unpolarized ones and that axial charge variations in finite nuclei correlate with central density rather than mass number.