1644 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 computes diffractive structure functions using JIMWLK evolution constrained by HERA vector meson data, comparing results to existing measurements and providing predictions for nuclear modification factors and diffractive-to-total cross-section ratios at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC).
This paper demonstrates the direct computation of hadronic tensors in (1+1)-dimensional U(1) and SU(2) gauge theories using quantum algorithms on classical hardware, successfully extracting reliable hadron form factors that align with exact diagonalization results.
This paper investigates charm-quark hadronization in high-energy nuclear collisions using a sequential coalescence model coupled with Langevin transport, successfully reproducing ALICE's and elliptic flow data and predicting a low- peak in the yield ratio driven by strangeness enhancement.
This review examines how quantum anomalies and vacuum topology in QCD resolve the problem and generate hadron mass, while connecting these nonperturbative dynamics to modern studies of nucleon spin structure and partonic observables.
This paper theoretically demonstrates that quantum teleportation of a spin state can occur in a three-proton scattering system involving an entangled proton pair, evidenced by the transfer of polarization from a target proton to a final-state proton when the target is polarized, or through residual spin correlations when the target is unpolarized.
Using a 4HEX action to achieve the continuum limit, this study presents the first lattice QCD calculation of fourth-order electric charge fluctuations, revealing a persistent tension with the hadron resonance gas model that is only partially mitigated by including light meson interactions and suggesting a future LHC measurement of the ratio to resolve the discrepancy.
This paper presents a large-scale shell-model investigation of two-neutrino double electron capture in Ba and Kr, providing updated nuclear matrix elements and half-life predictions based on validated effective interactions to support future experimental efforts.
Using an improved AMPT model, this study demonstrates that the coalescence mechanism is essential for accurately reproducing the enhanced ratio observed in Au+Au collisions at RHIC, whereas fragmentation alone fails to capture this trend.
This paper proposes a data-constrained method using blast-wave fits to charged hadron spectra to predict the low- ratio, thereby significantly reducing background uncertainties for direct-photon and dilepton measurements in heavy-ion collisions.
This paper investigates the analytic structure of the QCD phase diagram by treating temperature as a complex variable, combining universal critical scaling, effective models, and lattice-QCD data to locate the nearest Yang-Lee edge singularities and establish a consistency test for critical-point searches via the relationship between complex-temperature and complex-chemical-potential trajectories.