931 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.
Using a non-relativistic quark model with a harmonic oscillator potential, this paper investigates how neutral and charged mesons behave in magnetic fields across weak to strong regimes, highlighting distinct differences in their transverse dynamics and demonstrating how zero-point energy stabilizes high-spin charged mesons by canceling orbital Zeeman effects.
This paper calculates charged-current quasielastic-like neutrino and antineutrino scattering cross-sections on C using the coherent density fluctuation model with a relativistic effective mass and two-nucleon emission, providing predictions for accelerator experiments like MiniBooNE, T2K, and MINERvA while analyzing the axial form factor and momentum transfer dependencies.
This paper summarizes the ISO-BREAK 25 workshop held in Kielce in October 2025, which reviewed the current status of isospin-symmetry breaking observed by NA61/SHINE in nucleus-nucleus collisions, discussed its confirmation by other experiments, and outlined future experimental and theoretical priorities to explain this phenomenon.
This study utilizes the PHQMD approach with a novel momentum-dependent potential to demonstrate that a soft, momentum-dependent nuclear equation of state best reproduces experimental flow data for protons and light clusters in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions, while also revealing distinct flow signatures that can help discriminate between different cluster formation mechanisms.
This paper extends the solution of the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation with full impact-parameter dependence to nuclear targets, providing predictions for key processes like deep-inelastic scattering and diffractive vector meson production to investigate gluon saturation and nuclear structure effects relevant for future facilities like the EIC and current LHC studies.
This study presents the first simultaneous Bayesian inference of temperature-dependent heavy-quark spatial diffusion and jet transport coefficients in quark-gluon plasma using LHC D-meson data, revealing a non-monotonic temperature dependence in their ratio and establishing a data-driven quantitative relationship between these fundamental transport properties.
New high-precision measurements of the helicity-dependent cross sections for protons and deuterons in the 200–1400 MeV photon energy range, obtained at the MAMI facility, have been used to verify the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule for the proton, neutron, and deuteron while providing a critical benchmark for theoretical models of nucleon structure.
This paper demonstrates that a renormalization-group-invariant power counting scheme in chiral effective field theory, treating subleading two-nucleon interactions perturbatively and calibrating with the triton binding energy, enables robust NLO predictions for the ground-state energies of H, He, and Li.
This paper presents a minimal, resource-efficient framework for digitally simulating SU() pure Yang-Mills theory in 3+1 dimensions by combining an orbifold lattice protocol with simplified Hamiltonians and SU(2) embedding techniques, while validating these analytical improvements through Monte Carlo benchmarks to support practical quantum simulation of non-Abelian gauge theories.
Using Monte Carlo simulations of two-dimensional two-state and three-state Potts models, this study investigates the hierarchy of higher-order cumulant ratios near criticality and finds that, contrary to theoretical predictions for QCD, the specific ordering observed by the STAR experiment does not generically emerge in these finite statistical systems undergoing second-order phase transitions.