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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 reviews and extends the application of the JETHAD method to analyze the NLL/NLO+ behavior of light and heavy hadron production in forward and far-forward rapidity ranges, demonstrating the stabilization of semi-inclusive heavy hadron detections against higher-order corrections and exploring kinematic regions accessible at current LHC experiments and future Forward Physics Facilities.
This study utilizes a two-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model within a kinetic theory framework to demonstrate that finite rotation modifies the transport properties of quark matter by reducing the chiral condensate, inducing anisotropy in shear viscosity and electrical conductivity, and generating significant non-dissipative Hall-like currents at zero net density.
This paper systematically analyzes double Gamow-Teller sum rules in even-even nuclei across the and shells by approximating shell model ground states with nucleon-pair condensates, thereby quantifying model-dependent fractions and assessing the role of double isospin-analogue states in the transition strength.
This paper demonstrates that normalizing flow models trained on previous posteriors can serve as effective, flexible priors for sequential Bayesian inference in high-dimensional spaces, provided that target distributions are unimodal and robust sampling algorithms are employed.
This paper investigates how spin condensates, arising from rigid rotation in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, can counteract the rotational suppression of chiral condensates and potentially shift the chiral phase transition from second to first order.
This study demonstrates that many-body nuclear correlations, particularly deformation and cross-shell mixing in heavy open-shell nuclei, are the primary origin of Gamow-Teller quenching in nuclear -decay, driving strength to high excitation energies and overshadowing the modest contribution from chiral two-body currents.
This paper reviews the current state of the QCD phase diagram by synthesizing insights from lattice simulations, effective field theories, and chiral models to reconstruct the full phase structure for physical quark flavors and constrain matter properties in neutron star cores.
This study utilizes the EPOS4 model to systematically investigate the transverse mass and collision-energy dependence of three-dimensional femtoscopic Lévy source parameters for pion pairs across the STAR Beam Energy Scan range, revealing distinct trends in radii, the Lévy index, and correlation strength while highlighting a systematic reduction in the sideward radius compared to EPOS3 results.
This paper extends active learning emulators with error estimation to coupled-channel nuclear two-body scattering in momentum space by employing Lippmann-Schwinger-based reduced-order models trained via greedy algorithms, demonstrating high accuracy and computational speedup for phase shifts and cross sections to facilitate future Bayesian calibrations of nuclear interactions.
This paper presents a first-principles, non-perturbative study of quantum entanglement among partons in a strongly coupled scalar Yukawa theory using light-front Hamiltonian methods, revealing that while entanglement in the quenched limit relates to classical Shannon entropy, the unquenched framework exhibits genuine non-classical correlations that encode quantum information beyond classical probabilities.