1156 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 theoretical study predicts the existence of well-isolated, deeply bound atoms with narrow widths and demonstrates that reactions on light nuclei are a highly effective method for observing these states as discrete peaks, thereby offering new insights into -nucleus interactions.
This paper demonstrates that shock-induced density and temperature perturbations in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers can overcome electron mass damping to sustain the chiral plasma instability and generate substantial ohmic heating via the chiral magnetic effect.
This paper generalizes the jet transport coefficient to a Lorentz-covariant diffusion tensor to describe momentum broadening in out-of-equilibrium media, revealing new energy-momentum correlations and demonstrating that non-equilibrium corrections can either enhance or reduce broadening depending on the initial distribution.
This paper analyzes the missing-energy spectrum from monochromatic neutrino-C interactions measured by the JSNS collaboration using a relativistic distorted-wave approach with an improved spectral function, while discussing the roles of nuclear recoil, final-state interactions, and neutrino event generators in describing low-energy nuclear effects.
This paper summarizes the achievements of the MexNICA Collaboration, established in 2016 to coordinate Mexican participation in the MPD-NICA experiment at JINR, highlighting their contributions to the development of the miniBeBe trigger detector and advances in phenomenological and theoretical studies of the baryon-rich QCD phase diagram.
This paper presents a self-consistent coupled transport framework for open and hidden charm in a strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma, utilizing thermodynamic -matrix interactions constrained by lattice QCD to simultaneously describe charm-quark diffusion and charmonium kinetics, thereby successfully reproducing LHC Pb-Pb collision observables.
This paper employs a Green's function approach within relativistic Hartree-Fock theory to demonstrate that the exact microscopical treatment of Coulomb exchange terms significantly reduces proton resonance energies and widths in isotones compared to phenomenological methods, while revealing clear shell effects in their evolution.
This paper introduces BNN-I6, a Bayesian Neural Network framework trained on ENDF/B-VIII.1 data that accurately predicts (n,p) reaction cross sections with quantified uncertainties, outperforming TENDL-2023 benchmarks while identifying theoretical cross-sections as the dominant predictive feature.
This paper demonstrates that the Superfluid -Cluster Model, by rigorously treating Nambu-Goldstone zero modes, provides a unified description of low-spin six- condensate states and high-spin C()+C() molecular resonances in Mg, identifying these states as a signature of nuclear supersolidity characterized by the coexistence of superfluidity and crystallinity.
This paper introduces a novel virtual rishon framework that enforces gauge symmetry via intermediate quantum-link representations to enable scalable simulations of lattice gauge theories in d+1 dimensions using both classical tensor networks and near-term quantum hardware, validated by benchmarking on the multi-flavor Schwinger model and 2D string tension.