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 paper proposes that imaginary magnetic fields induce non-Hermitian dynamics in hadronic systems, revealing the existence of exceptional points in neutral meson mass spectra that separate real and complex eigenvalue regimes and signal a field-induced deconfinement transition.
This study investigates how finite baryon density and transverse expansion within conformal Gubser flow delay the chemical equilibration of a quark-gluon plasma, resulting in a chemically undersaturated medium that suppresses overall thermal photon yields while enhancing early-time high- photon production.
This paper utilizes recent LHCb data to demonstrate that both the Fragmenting Jet Function (FJF) and Gluon Fragmentation Improved Pythia (GFIP) formalisms significantly outperform default Pythia+NRQCD predictions in describing production in jets, while highlighting the distribution's utility as a discriminator to reveal large discrepancies among different Long-Distance Matrix Element (LDME) extractions.
This paper proposes a unified theoretical framework for dense QCD matter in the Veneziano large- limit, identifying four distinct phases—including two types of partial deconfinement driven by string or baryon condensation—and suggesting that their interplay naturally gives rise to the QCD critical point.
This paper reviews recent advancements in constraining the dense matter equation of state by synthesizing heavy-ion collision and multi-messenger astrophysics data through three key frameworks—NMMA, MUSES, and BAND—and outlines a path toward integrating these methods into a unified workflow for precision nuclear physics.
This paper identifies the origin of perturbative instabilities in NNLO QCD corrections to quarkonium production and decay within non-relativistic QCD and proposes a simple remedy involving soft contributions that significantly improves convergence and agreement with experimental data for S-wave color-singlet processes.
This paper demonstrates that transverse-longitudinal polarization interference in exclusive jets processes vanishes upon phase-space integration for decays but is softened by parity violation for and bosons, providing a framework to account for fiducial cuts and implications for new physics and heavy ion collisions.
This paper demonstrates that in a massless two-component Dirac theory with exact SU(2) flavor symmetry, the condensation of a self-interacting vector boson dynamically generates a Fermi surface mismatch through spontaneous symmetry breaking, thereby enabling the formation of a stable relativistic superfluid and extending the Chandrasekhar-Clogston limit into a surface within coupling space.
Using the heavy-flavor improved AMPT model, this study demonstrates that the forward-backward asymmetry in prompt D0 meson production and elliptic flow in 8.16 TeV p-Pb collisions arises from the interplay of initial-state cold nuclear matter effects and final-state partonic interactions, providing evidence for the formation of a partonic medium in high-multiplicity events.
This paper reviews recent experimental and theoretical advances in understanding dineutron clusters within neutron-rich nuclei, highlighting evidence from halo nuclei and unbound systems, the role of few-body theories in interpreting decay processes, and the potential connection to four-neutron clusters and universal few-body physics.