960 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 utilizes a form-invariant algebraic model to investigate the internal structure of and mesons by calculating their light-front wavefunctions, valence-quark generalized parton distributions (GPDs), and other related physical observables.
This paper investigates how Lorentz-violating wormhole geometries act as frequency-dependent effective media, using a geometric-optical framework to demonstrate how spacetime curvature and Lorentz violation control the transmission, reflection, and confinement of massless scalar waves.
This paper presents an analytical framework using a square-well potential to model short-range nucleon-nucleon interactions, providing a more accurate tool for proton-proton femtoscopy than the standard Lednicky-Lyuboshits approximation, especially for small source sizes.
This paper provides an analytical expression and a hydrodynamic numerical study for the previously unmeasured in-plane transverse polarization () in heavy-ion collisions, offering a new prediction that can be experimentally tested to complete the understanding of spin phenomena.
This paper reviews how density-dependent optical potentials can fit -hypernuclear binding energies using an attractive interaction and a repulsive interaction, the latter of which provides a strength consistent with resolving the hyperon puzzle.
This paper investigates the sensitivity of multi-particle symmetric and asymmetric cumulants to shear and bulk viscosities, resonance decays, and hadronic interactions in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV using a hybrid hydrodynamic-transport model.
This study demonstrates that multi-particle azimuthal correlations and rapidity-even dipolar flow in collisions serve as sensitive probes for distinguishing -clustering nuclear geometries from standard Woods–Saxon configurations within a viscous hydrodynamic framework.
This paper proposes a resource-efficient method for simulating 1+1D quantum chromodynamics by encoding three qubits—representing quark color—within the electronic, nuclear, and motional states of individual ytterbium-171 atoms.
Researchers demonstrated the ability to simulate the ground-state energies of oxygen, calcium, and nickel isotopes on a trapped-ion quantum computer using a specialized nuclear shell model approach, achieving sub-percent error compared to noise-free simulations.
This study investigates how non-extensive statistics and hadronic composition influence the drag, diffusion, and relaxation properties of hadrons in a thermal bath, revealing that increasing the non-extensivity parameter and mass cutoffs enhances momentum transport while decreasing spatial diffusion.