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 introduces VarP-GP, a cost-efficient Bayesian emulator that leverages variable statistical precision in Monte Carlo simulations to significantly reduce uncertainty in quark-gluon plasma modeling, thereby enabling previously infeasible multi-model calibrations of high-energy nuclear collision data.
Using CMS Open Data from PbPb collisions at , this study presents preliminary measurements of the radial flow observable , confirming key collective phenomena such as long-range correlations and factorization that are consistent with ATLAS results at higher energies.
This paper presents the first systematic lattice QCD study of proton- scattering across multiple pion masses and lattice spacings, yielding scattering parameters and cross sections that agree with experimental data and confirm attractive interactions critical for nuclear theory and neutron star modeling.
This study investigates how temperature-induced shape transitions and shell quenching in hot nuclei (–$50$) alter particle stability and -decay lifetimes, revealing that critical thermal effects can expand drip-line boundaries and significantly impact weak interaction rates relevant to astrophysical environments.
This paper employs nonperturbative Hamiltonian theory with two-particle coupled channels to extract physical electric dipole amplitudes from recent lattice QCD data on threshold pion electroproduction, while deriving a new expression for transition amplitudes that depends solely on final-state interactions.
This study employs Bayesian inference within a density-dependent relativistic mean-field framework, constrained by multi-messenger data ranging from chiral effective field theory to massive pulsar observations, to reconstruct a thermodynamically consistent neutron-star equation of state that predicts a compact canonical radius of approximately 11.6 km and reveals strongly interacting matter cores with sound speeds exceeding the conformal limit.
This paper develops new analytic fitting formulae for photodisintegration cross sections to demonstrate that the survival of ultraheavy nuclei in protomagnetar outflows is highly sensitive to the outflow geometry and engine properties, with spherical winds allowing survival only in the early phase and jetted outflows permitting survival primarily in low-spin-down energy scenarios before jet breakout.
This paper develops a fully field-theoretic effective description of photon condensation in a hadronic cavity by deriving analytic criteria for condensation and mapping the reduced dynamics to standard nonlinear quantum-optics Hamiltonians, thereby bridging finite-density hadronic physics with experimental cavity diagnostics.
This paper presents a simultaneous analysis of measured and calculated data to predict the prompt fission neutron spectra (PFNS) of 233U(n,F) up to 20 MeV, establishing that while its spectrum is harder than 235U(n,F) but softer than 239Pu(n,F), the underlying pre-fission contributions and energy partitioning differ significantly due to fissility and competing reaction channels.
This paper proposes and validates a Pearson correlation between spectator and charged-particle forward-backward asymmetries as a robust, data-driven observable to constrain models of preferential emission and spectator breakup dynamics in heavy-ion collisions.