1145 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 study predicts the -decay half-lives of 154 actinide nuclei using the Density-Dependent M3Y effective interaction potential within a double-folding model and WKB approximation, demonstrating superior agreement with experimental data compared to established semi-empirical models.
This study investigates nuclear pasta phases in hot neutron-star matter and proto-neutron stars using a compressible liquid-drop model, finding that models with a small symmetry energy slope predict diverse pasta shapes that significantly influence the thermal evolution and structure of the inner crust.
This paper reviews recent lattice QCD results on strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions, focusing on the finite-temperature transition at zero baryon chemical potential, the search for a critical endpoint at finite density, and thermodynamic properties under external influences such as magnetic fields, rotation, and acceleration.
This paper proposes a derivative analysis approach that successfully identifies fission modes and their properties in the 180Hg region, even when experimental data suffers from limited mass resolution, low statistics, and structureless mass distributions that typically render standard identification methods ambiguous.
This paper presents a theoretical analysis demonstrating that finite size and lifetime effects in heavy-ion collisions modify the momentum-space two-point correlation function of baryon density, resulting in an effective scaling exponent that matches the infinite-system value only within a specific, experimentally accessible momentum range.
This paper presents a novel, noise-resilient quantum algorithm for simulating neutron-nucleus dynamics with general potentials, demonstrating through comprehensive analysis of qubit encodings and a new distance-grouped commutativity scheme that the approach significantly reduces runtime and resource requirements while successfully solving neutron-alpha dynamics on current quantum processors.
This paper calculates the first-order transport coefficients, specifically bulk and shear viscosities, for a chiral fluid of quasiparticles with temperature-dependent masses by applying a Chapman-Enskog expansion within a relativistic Boltzmann framework using the relaxation time approximation and thermal masses derived from the linear sigma and NJL models.
This study utilizes the Interacting Boson Model-2 (IBM-2) to successfully investigate the rare intruder nuclear levels in , , and , attributing their anomalous positions to double subshell closures and demonstrating strong agreement between theoretical predictions and experimental data for various transition rates.
This paper demonstrates that ultracold quantum gases with externally modulated scattering lengths exhibit a novel cyclic hydrodynamic attractor during oscillating isotropic expansion, extending the concept of hydrodynamic attractors beyond the previously studied monotonic expansion scenarios.
This paper extends the symmetry-energy expansion to include finite strangeness by redefining the isospin asymmetry parameter consistent with QCD SU(3) flavor symmetry, thereby enabling a more accurate description of dense matter in neutron stars and heavy-ion collisions that accounts for strange particles and introduces a skewness term under weak equilibrium.