1422 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.
By constructing formal solutions to the Boltzmann moment equations, this paper demonstrates that relativistic hydrodynamics remains effective far from equilibrium not because systems are near equilibrium, but because non-perturbative modes allow it to smoothly interpolate between free-streaming and collective behavior, effectively explaining its success in modeling quark-gluon plasma.
This paper proposes a statistical model analysis of heavy-ion collisions that quantitatively extracts baryon-stopping parameters from isobar data and introduces a new oxygen-baseline observable to systematically probe neutron-skin thickness across various collision systems and energies.
Using Antisymmetrized Molecular Dynamics, this study reveals that while cluster formation in Boron isotopes is monotonically suppressed by increasing neutron number, H clustering exhibits a non-monotonic trend peaking at B due to a competition between neutron skin suppression and neutron-proton asymmetry enhancement, a phenomenon effectively quantified by the H/ spectroscopic factor ratio.
This paper presents a large-scale systematic study of fission barriers and spontaneous fission half-lives for approximately 3,300 heavy nuclei using the BSkG3 energy density functional and the MOCCa code, incorporating triaxial and octupole deformations to provide critical data for r-process nucleosynthesis.
This study employs an effective Lagrangian approach combined with QCD sum rules to demonstrate that increasing baryonic density induces a negative mass shift in the meson due to and meson loop contributions, suggesting the formation of meson-nucleus bound states and providing binding energy and decay width predictions for various nuclei to guide upcoming experimental investigations.
This work demonstrates that for the production of inclusive jets at the LHC, the usual scale variations used to estimate missing higher-order uncertainties can be drastically unreliable, as NNLO+NNLL calculations reveal that resummation effects significantly alter both the central cross sections and the uncertainty estimates.
This paper presents the first quark-gluon level tomographic image of the helium-4 nucleus by analyzing coherent deeply virtual Compton scattering data with essential kinematic higher-twist and next-to-leading-order strong coupling corrections.
This paper demonstrates that the kilonova-like emissions observed following long-duration gamma-ray bursts can be explained by nucleosynthesis in a collapsar scenario rather than a neutron star merger, challenging the assumption that red light evolution inherently requires heavy lanthanide elements.
This paper investigates the uncertainty introduced by the "hunter-gatherer" approximation used in factorized IMSRG(3) methods, finding that it can cause energy discrepancies comparable in magnitude to the actual three-body corrections being sought.
An analysis of global deep-inelastic scattering data reveals that nuclear modifications to nucleon structure functions remarkably cancel out in the valence quark region (), resulting in an isoscalar cross-section ratio near unity across all nuclei.