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 measuring the frequency of the asteroseismic crust-core interface mode in neutron stars, via resonant shattering flares or tidal resonances, can determine stellar radii to within 5–10% with minimal dependence on inner core physics, provided that low-density nucleonic matter is well-constrained.
This study utilizes time-dependent density functional theory to demonstrate that scission neutrons constitute a significant, high-energy component of the prompt fission neutron spectrum in , , and fission, providing direct evidence that their inclusion resolves the systematic underestimation of high-energy yields observed in traditional evaporation-only models.
This paper investigates the Einstein-de Haas effect in an expanding quark-gluon plasma using a quasiparticle model, revealing that the induced angular velocity grows with proper time and reaches significant magnitudes near the crossover temperature, thereby establishing a distinct transition between spin-dominated and inertia-dominated regimes driven by magnetic fields.
This paper presents the first study of jet substructure modifications during the bottom-up evolution of out-of-equilibrium QCD matter, demonstrating that the early stages of bulk matter evolution in heavy-ion collisions leave a sizable imprint on jet radiation patterns and establishing a foundation for incorporating pre-equilibrium dynamics into realistic jet quenching models.
This paper develops a Fermi-liquid framework to derive leading-order expressions for shear and bulk viscosities in cold, dense nucleon matter, demonstrating that the bulk-to-shear viscosity ratio scales as in the degenerate regime and remains robust against quasiparticle mass corrections when coupled with a Walecka-type equation of state.
This work demonstrates that exterior complex scaling transforms non-decaying scattering wave functions into exponentially decaying forms, enabling physics-informed neural networks to accurately solve nuclear scattering problems for the first time and paving the way for efficient inverse problems and complex reaction modeling.
This study investigates the production mechanisms of and in scattering using an effective Lagrangian approach with Regge trajectories, revealing distinct dominant exchange contributions for each resonance and suggesting that possesses an exotic structure while aligns with a conventional three-quark configuration, thereby providing a theoretical basis for future high-precision experimental measurements.
This whitepaper proposes the Hyperon-Nucleon Spectrometer (H-NS) at the High-Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) to systematically investigate the unresolved polarization puzzle through high-precision measurements of hyperon and proton spin observables across a wide range of collision energies and systems.
This paper presents a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm combining quantum annealing and classical deflation to iteratively solve large-scale eigenvalue problems from the Equation-of-Motion Phonon Method on D-Wave quantum hardware, demonstrating both the potential and current limitations of near-term quantum devices for nuclear many-body theory.
This paper investigates the mechanical properties of pseudoscalar charmonium and bottomonium within the light-front quark model by evaluating gravitational form factors and analyzing their spatial distributions, revealing that while most properties are sensitive to wave function choices near the meson's center, the pressure distribution exhibits a sign-changing node and the force distribution remains positive to support stability.