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.
This paper reviews a modified homotopic approach that analytically solves a simplified non-linear evolution equation for diffractive production in deep inelastic scattering by incorporating specific non-linear corrections into the linear term, finding that these corrections are small enough to be estimated via a regular iterative procedure.
This paper proposes a homotopy approach to analytically solve the nonlinear Balitsky-Kovchegov evolution equation with a running QCD coupling, demonstrating that the first iteration achieves high accuracy for the leading twist kernel while also analyzing geometric scaling and infrared cutoff dependencies.
This paper presents the first complete resource characterization for simulating nuclear dynamics using a first-quantized Leading Order pionless EFT Hamiltonian, demonstrating that polynomial-time evolution is achievable with early fault-tolerant quantum computers and offering an exponential improvement over previous second-quantization approaches.
This paper presents a full-coupling Feshbach theory approach within the CDCC framework to derive an explicit non-local dynamic polarization potential for nuclear optical models, which successfully reproduces elastic scattering data for Ni and quantifies the distinct energy-dependent roles of virtual breakup and continuum absorption in elastic flux loss.
This paper computes high-frequency gravitational wave radiation from collisions between light and heavy compact objects using shockwave propagators, revealing a perturbative expansion of tidal response functions that connect Lipatov vertex amplitudes to Weinberg's soft radiation limits while highlighting double-copy structures with Yang-Mills gluon radiation.
Using the Gogny finite-range interaction, this paper investigates semiclassical approximations for the nuclear surface energy's Fock term and derives a simple, highly accurate pocket formula by benchmarking against exact Hartree-Fock results in semi-infinite nuclear matter.
This paper re-evaluates Doppler-shift attenuation method (DSAM) lifetime measurements in Cr using contemporary stopping powers instead of historical LSS theory, resulting in increased lifetimes that align better with shell-model calculations and suggest a revision of the spin assignments for the 3.786 MeV and 4.043 MeV levels.
This study quantitatively evaluates various theoretical frameworks against data across the full NA61/SHINE system-size ladder, revealing that no single model explains the entire dataset but that a combination of core-corona and canonical statistical models successfully describes the observed step-like enhancement of strangeness production and the "horn" structure in heavy-ion collisions.
By analyzing production at RHIC energies through transport equations, this study demonstrates that continuous suppression via thermal decay, rather than sudden color screening, is the dominant mechanism responsible for quarkonium suppression in heavy-ion collisions.
This study demonstrates that hadronic rescattering significantly suppresses higher-order net-proton cumulant signals, particularly the ratio, during the late-stage evolution of heavy-ion collisions, necessitating its inclusion as a non-negligible background when extracting QCD critical endpoint signatures from experimental data.