951 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 a minimal dark scalar with a mass of approximately 9.40 GeV, which shares high- fragmentation scaling with NRQCD color-octet production, can simultaneously explain the anomalous high- plateau in nuclear modification factors, the vanishing elliptic flow, and the quarkonium polarization puzzle in heavy-ion collisions while evading historical low- constraints.
This paper presents a comprehensive effective field theory pipeline that connects baryon number-violating new physics to low-energy hadronic observables by systematically matching Standard Model EFT operators up to dimension nine to Low-Energy EFT and chiral perturbation theory, thereby enabling a model-independent analysis that incorporates higher-dimensional operators and a broader class of ultraviolet completions than previously possible.
This study employs the deformed quasiparticle random-phase approximation (DQRPA) with Brückner -matrix interactions to analyze Gamow-Teller transition strengths in carbon isotopes C, revealing that nuclear deformation significantly influences the strength distributions in C and C while a spherical limit successfully reproduces experimental data for C.
This paper investigates energy-momentum tensor form factors and spatial spin density distributions in the nucleon using a quantized Skyrme model with vector mesons, demonstrating that while global nucleon properties remain invariant, the choice of pseudogauge (canonical versus Belinfante) significantly alters the local interpretation of spin and momentum densities.
This paper presents a Bayesian-optimized XGBoost model that accurately predicts the -decay energy and half-life of superheavy nuclei by integrating key nuclear structural features, outperforming traditional empirical models while providing physical insights through SHAP analysis.
This paper develops a hybrid approach combining the Tabular Prior-data Fitted Network (TabPFN) with the Coulomb and Proximity Potential Model to accurately predict -particle preformation factors, thereby significantly improving -decay half-life calculations and suggesting as a neutron magic number for superheavy nuclei.
This paper numerically investigates the time evolution of single-particle excitations in a Fermi system using a nonlinear diffusion equation, proposing a method to distinguish between the relaxation of the excitation and the nuclear core while revealing discrepancies between the resulting relaxation times and previously estimated kinetic coefficients.
This paper utilizes realistic internucleon forces, particularly tensor forces, to describe nuclei with by modeling them as clusters of subsystems with specific orbital momenta, thereby explaining phenomena like the Be lifetime and the Hoyle state while rejecting the concept of a "power center" in favor of a cluster-based approach.
This paper extends the microscopic calculation of shear viscosity in graphene electron fluids to finite magnetic fields using kinetic theory, revealing that the magnetic field induces anisotropy resulting in five independent viscosity coefficients, with significant suppression of perpendicular and parallel components and maximized Hall effects occurring at specific field strengths that vary across non-relativistic, relativistic graphene, and ultra-relativistic quark fluid systems.
This paper presents the first complete next-to-leading-order calculation of BFKL impact factors for the hadroproduction of specific NRQCD quarkonium states by combining virtual corrections with real-emission contributions, demonstrating the cancellation of soft divergences and the compatibility of surviving collinear singularities with factorization to enable future next-to-leading-logarithmic precision studies.