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 paper resolves the violation of local thermodynamic relations in relativistic spin fluids by identifying a specific family of pseudo-gauges that restore standard thermodynamics, thereby deriving universal relations and explicit equations of state for free Dirac fermions and scalar fields.
This paper investigates the thermodynamic geometry of the hadron resonance gas model with and without excluded volume effects across real and imaginary baryon chemical potentials, utilizing the scalar curvature to map phase structures, determine a baryon gas limitation temperature that aligns with lattice QCD predictions, and derive a simple sufficient condition for quark deconfinement.
This paper surveys empirical evidence and theoretical frameworks, ranging from multifragmentation data and mean-field calculations to chiral effective field theory, regarding the first-order liquid-gas phase transition in nuclear matter and the determination of its critical point.
This paper reviews and extends theoretical frameworks for alpha clustering in light nuclei, introducing a fully quantum formulation for dual rotational modes in cluster states, proposing an extended no-core shell model that integrates cluster-nucleon configurations, and analyzing the competition between cluster and shell-model components in nuclei like C driven by spin-orbit interactions.
This paper demonstrates that if neutron star merger matter passes near a QCD critical point, critical slowing down can significantly enhance bulk viscosity to levels comparable to electroweak contributions, potentially leaving observable imprints on the merger's hydrodynamic evolution.
This paper proposes a method to compute energy-integrated neutrino cross sections directly from Euclidean responses by decomposing kinematic prefactors into moments and specific weighted integrals, thereby avoiding the need for Laplace transform inversion and enabling ab-initio calculations with controlled uncertainties.
This paper proposes a new nonet scheme for scalar mesons (, , , and ) as -wave quark-antiquark states while identifying as a glueball, supporting this classification through statistical and coalescence model calculations of their production yields in relativistic heavy ion collisions.
This paper investigates the electromagnetic structure of heavy quarkonia and the meson using a light-front quark model with variational wave functions, finding that the electromagnetic radii of and states are approximately 1.5 and 1.9 times larger than their counterparts, respectively, in agreement with lattice QCD data and other model predictions.
This paper extends the consistent- scheme within the interacting boson fermion fermion model to odd-odd nuclei, demonstrating that unpaired nucleons do not suppress critical behavior during shape phase transitions, thereby confirming that these transitions remain fundamental to the structural evolution of such systems in heavy and intermediately-heavy mass regions.
This paper systematically investigates the global spin polarizations and spin correlations of various hadrons, including vector mesons and hyperons with different spins, in relativistic heavy ion collisions using a specific formalism to provide results and physical insights for future numerical studies and experiments.