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 systematically calculates and predicts the half-lives of spontaneous one-proton radioactivity for nuclei across the proton drip line (30 < Z < 84) using a quantum tunneling model with a deformed Woods-Saxon potential, providing a comprehensive dataset to guide future experimental investigations.
This study demonstrates that differential rotation in hybrid stars with a first-order deconfinement phase transition can support unique quasi-toroidal configurations with ring-shaped quark cores, while revealing a degeneracy in rotational profiles between models with and without phase transitions that necessitates multi-messenger observations for differentiation.
This study confirms that the isomeric state in Si possesses a dominant single-neutron configuration and reveals that the hindrance of its decay to the state arises from a lack of participation by both protons and neutrons rather than differences in neutron structure overlap.
This paper reviews experimental data on electric dipole polarizability in nuclei from Ca to Pb, demonstrating how comparisons with theoretical models constrain neutron skin thickness and indicate a soft symmetry energy equation of state around nuclear saturation density.
This paper discusses the significant impact of Angela Bracco's research on the electric dipole response of nuclei by examining three key areas: the decay width of the giant dipole resonance, the equivalence of photo-absorption and emission, and the nature of the pygmy dipole resonance.
This paper proposes a new method for identifying far-from-equilibrium attractors in boost-invariant relativistic fluid dynamics by leveraging the early-time singularity of evolution equations as a physical initial condition, thereby extending the concept of attractors to systems where traditional partial decoupling of equations is not possible.
This paper constructs a generalized second-order relativistic magnetohydrodynamics framework using Zubarev's nonequilibrium statistical operator to derive all dissipative tensors and Kubo formulas for a parity- and charge-conjugation-symmetric magnetized plasma, while extending the formalism to include nonlocal contributions.
This study presents new total photoabsorption cross sections for several $sd$-shell nuclei derived from small-angle 295 MeV proton scattering, comparing the results with artificial neural network predictions and configuration-interaction shell-model calculations to validate the latter's ability to describe fragmented electric dipole strength for applications in ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray research.
The paper demonstrates that small perturbations in the boost-invariant color fields of the glasma exhibit an exponential growth rate proportional to the square root of time, identifying this leading Lyapunov exponent as a key factor in entropy production and thermalization during the earliest stages of heavy-ion collisions.
This pedagogical review synthesizes experimental data from relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions with Lattice QCD predictions to explore the existence and properties of the quark-gluon plasma and the broader QCD phase diagram.