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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 study utilizes the PACIAE 4.0 model, which incorporates both color-singlet and color-octet NRQCD contributions alongside cluster collapse and -hadron decays, to successfully simulate inclusive production in proton-proton collisions at 5.02, 7, and 13 TeV and provide a quantitative analysis of the relative contributions and rescattering effects across various production mechanisms.
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the beam normal spin asymmetry in Bhabha scattering to beyond-the-Standard-Model mediators within the JLab polarized positron program, highlighting how the observable's unique zero crossing in the Standard Model provides a clean, background-free opportunity to significantly extend search ranges for scalar and vector new physics scenarios.
This paper utilizes Ultra-Relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) simulations to demonstrate that the three-dimensional two-pion emission source in intermediate-mass Ar+Sc collisions at SPS energies is well-described by Lévy-stable distributions, thereby establishing a theoretical baseline for future femtoscopy measurements in such systems.
This paper develops theoretical diagnostics for the breakdown of mean-field theory, demonstrating how spatial structure and finite interaction ranges qualitatively alter the effective description and renormalization-group flow.
This study investigates proton-induced reactions on an enriched 118Sn target up to 18 MeV using the stacked-foil activation technique, reporting first-time cross-section measurements for specific channels and revealing discrepancies between experimental data and theoretical models regarding composite-particle emission.
This paper presents a multi-dimensional Langevin model that dynamically simulates the time evolution of fissioning nuclei with stochastic neutron emission, enabling the calculation and comparison of pre-scission neutron multiplicities, fragment mass distributions, and neutron energy spectra against experimental data.
This paper introduces controlled gate networks, a quantum circuit design strategy that significantly reduces the number of two-qubit gates required for linear combinations of unitary operators, and demonstrates its effectiveness in variational calculations, eigenvalue estimation via the rodeo algorithm, and lattice nucleon time evolution through both theoretical analysis and experimental implementation on real quantum hardware.
This paper presents an exactly solvable integrable statistical model for fluid systems that links finite-size virial expansions to nonlinear hydrodynamic PDEs, demonstrating how thermodynamic phase transitions emerge as shock waves in the infinite-particle limit and applying this framework to map the QCD phase diagram while quantifying how finite-size effects obscure critical signatures.
This paper proposes using the one-point energy correlator (OPEC) in transversely polarized proton-proton collisions as a novel, infrared-and-collinear safe method to probe the nucleon's transversity distribution with a clean angular asymmetry over a wider kinematic range than traditional hadron transverse momentum measurements.
This paper analytically demonstrates that the variation of the quark-gluon plasma volume in ultracentral collisions depends on initial density fluctuations and is negligible when total entropy scales with the mass number, thereby establishing that measurements of average transverse momentum can probe detailed nuclear structure and pre-equilibrium dynamics.