1396 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 presents a data-driven model explaining -process production patterns in metal-poor stars as mixtures of two distinct components, suggesting that Pattern 2 arises from regular neutron star mergers while Pattern 1 results from a superposition of various events, thereby offering new theoretical insights into stellar classification and highlighting the need for further observational verification.
This study demonstrates that femtoscopic correlations in baryon-rich heavy-ion collisions serve as a new microscopic probe of the nuclear equation of state by revealing distinct signatures of the nuclear mean field and its stiffness, particularly through enhanced sensitivity in higher-order particle correlations at low collision energies.
Using the Gaussian expansion and complex scaling methods with interactions derived from lattice QCD, this study predicts that the baryon induces deeply bound, contracted states in due to strong attraction, whereas the baryon yields only weakly bound or resonant states in , highlighting their distinct "gluelike" behaviors in exotic hypernuclei.
This paper presents a NICER-based analysis of the neutron star PSR J0614-3329 that derives an equatorial circumferential radius of 9.88–12.77 km using a three-hot-spot model, while noting challenges in jointly fitting NICER and XMM-Newton data and discussing the resulting constraints on dense matter properties.
This review surveys the microphysics of superfluidity and superconductivity in neutron stars, focusing on the dynamics of quantized vortices and magnetic flux tubes, their role in angular-momentum exchange and rotational phenomena, and the potential implications of quark matter deconfinement for observable stellar behavior.
This paper evaluates non-negligible QED nuclear medium effects on various scattering processes at the future Electron-ion collider in China (EicC), presenting first-order opacity expansion calculations and the first computations for charged-current deep inelastic and polarized scattering across heavy and light nuclei to highlight their importance for extracting nucleon structure.
This paper demonstrates that the extraction of nuclear surface diffuseness from relativistic heavy ion collisions is fundamentally limited by strong geometric degeneracies between the surface parameter and intrinsic nuclear deformations, though multiparticle triangular correlations offer a more independent pathway to constrain these properties.
This paper analyzes net-proton cumulants in Au+Au collisions using finite-size scaling to identify a potential QCD critical point near MeV, but concludes that while the observed scaling patterns are consistent with criticality, they are not yet definitive evidence due to similar behaviors arising from non-critical dynamical simulations and experimental acceptance effects.
This paper derives finite-range coordinate-space potentials for massive spin-1 and spin-2 bosons with various couplings to Dirac fermions, including novel mixed tensor interactions, and maps these results onto the standard sixteen-potential basis to translate existing experimental limits into constraints on the corresponding coupling products.
This paper investigates meson gravitational D-form factors within the three-flavor linear sigma model to demonstrate how symmetry breaking, particularly the anomaly and flavor-dependent mass hierarchies, governs these form factors and provides sensitive probes of low-energy QCD structures.