1401 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 review presents a bottom-up theoretical framework for electric dipole moments (EDMs) that traces the connection from fundamental CP-violating interactions at the quark-gluon level to observable EDMs in nucleons, nuclei, atoms, and molecules, emphasizing the role of chiral perturbation theory and the complementarity of various systems in identifying the sources of CP violation beyond the Standard Model.
This paper demonstrates that hyperons in core-collapse supernovae reach local chemical equilibrium rapidly via nonleptonic reactions and significantly enhance muon (anti)neutrino opacities through semileptonic channels, thereby influencing proto-neutron star evolution and flavor-dependent neutrino transport.
This paper investigates three-nucleon short-range correlations using the generalized contact formalism, revealing significant isospin-symmetry breaking in light nuclei and establishing a universal scaling relation for three-body nuclear contacts across medium-mass and heavy nuclei.
This paper presents a reduced-profile maximum-entropy method that constructs constrained zero-skewness valence-quark generalized parton distribution transverse profiles by integrating nucleon electromagnetic form factors and forward parton distribution functions to establish a stable baseline for analyzing impact-parameter distributions.
This paper extends the fluid-dynamic description of charm quarks in the quark-gluon plasma by incorporating out-of-equilibrium corrections from both the initial free-streaming phase and the freeze-out surface, enabling precise calculations of charm hadron yields and momentum distributions to systematically determine transport coefficients while validating the model against experimental data and defining its kinematic limits.
This concise review examines how nucleon short-range correlations and their resulting high-momentum tails modify the kinetic and interaction contributions to the neutron star equation of state, thereby influencing macroscopic observables such as mass-radius relations and tidal deformabilities, while summarizing current constraints and outlining open questions for future research.
This paper presents the first complete theoretical calculations of jet substructure observables on tracks at the Large Hadron Collider, utilizing factorization theorems and renormalization group techniques to compute projected energy correlators up to four points at next-to-leading collinear logarithmic accuracy, thereby enabling precise comparisons between experimental tracking data and theory.
This paper proposes "spin femtoscopy," a novel framework that utilizes spin-resolved femtoscopic correlation functions of particle pairs (such as ) to experimentally access and disentangle genuine two-particle spin correlations from quantum statistical and final-state interaction effects in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
This paper proposes that weakly damped, coherent energy oscillations between the electron shell and nucleus of Th ions can be harnessed to excite the nuclear isomer via an electron bridge without strict resonance, thereby enabling the realization of a nuclear quantum battery using current technology.
This paper presents the first nuclear lattice effective field theory calculation of low-energy deuteron-deuteron scattering in the spin-quintet channel, utilizing chiral interactions and stabilization techniques to derive consistent phase shifts and scattering parameters that reveal a stronger effective repulsion than previously reported.