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 presents a novel framework using absorbing Markov chains and Hierarchical Bayesian analysis to precisely compute and decompose uncertainties in -ray feeding probabilities for the Mg(p,)Al reaction, thereby improving the accuracy of astrophysical Al production rate predictions.
This paper introduces the Schrödinger Generator, a novel framework that combines adaptive marginal mapping with normalizing flows and a resampling step to achieve stable, unbiased, and scalable high-dimensional integration and sampling for complex quantum many-body systems, successfully demonstrating its efficacy on nuclear states with over 600 dimensions.
This paper argues that the recently introduced reducible-basis renormalization method has generated misconceptions regarding the QCD trace anomaly, thereby obscuring its established, regulator-independent, and scheme-free nature and leading to flawed interpretations of nucleon mass and internal forces.
By integrating ab initio nuclear lattice effective field theory densities with a deformed Glauber model, this study demonstrates that accounting for intrinsic deformation significantly improves the theoretical description of reaction cross sections and momentum distributions for beryllium isotopes, particularly the halo nucleus 11Be, without relying on single-particle orbital assumptions.
This paper demonstrates that proton-proton femtoscopy in high-energy O+O collisions serves as a sensitive probe of short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations, effectively distinguishing between different nuclear structure models and revealing sub-femtometer details that are invisible to traditional size measurements or pion correlations.
The paper argues that simultaneously preserving renormalization group invariance, Ward identities, and parton density sum rules in QCD factorization theorems necessitates that independent factorization and renormalization scales must be equal, with significant implications for phenomenological scale sensitivity, global QCD analyses, and connections to lattice QCD.
This study investigates the influence of shell closures at and on multipartite entanglement in Ca and Ti isotopes by calculating 4- and 6-tangles from nuclear shell-model wavefunctions of the first excited states.
This paper demonstrates a robust and scalable approach for simulating low-lying nuclear eigenstates on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices by employing a hybrid quantum-classical Generator Coordinate Method (QuGCM) enhanced with an adaptive selection strategy (ADAPT-GCIM) and optimized Gray code encoding, achieving accurate energy spectra for systems like the deuteron, Li, and Ar that align with classical results despite hardware limitations.
This paper derives simple, necessary and sufficient inequalities that ensure nonlinear causality in viscous anisotropic hydrodynamics by analyzing characteristic velocities, thereby establishing the theory's regime of validity for describing the early-time dynamics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
This paper reviews recent theoretical advancements in predicting the QCD critical point, focusing on the equation of state, the maximum entropy freeze-out framework for linking hydrodynamic fluctuations to hadronic cumulants, and the dynamical evolution of critical fluctuations.