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 study utilizes large-volume lattice QCD simulations at the flavor-symmetric SU(3) point to identify bound states corresponding to the , , and resonances, subsequently employing Unitary Chiral Perturbation Theory to trace their pole trajectories to the physical point.
This paper proposes three sample-efficient classical shadow protocols for lattice gauge theory that leverage gauge symmetry to achieve exponential improvements in sample complexity over symmetry-agnostic methods, offering a blueprint for simulating more general lattice gauge models.
This paper establishes a new universal relation linking the electric dipole polarizability of finite nuclei to the compactness of neutron stars, enabling the use of nuclear experimental data to constrain the neutron star radius and the slope of the symmetry energy in an equation-of-state independent manner.
This paper presents a robust, CNN-based online trigger system using compact particle histograms and a lightweight C++ inference package to effectively select quark-gluon plasma events in real-time high-rate experiments, demonstrating high accuracy and model-transfer stability across different simulation frameworks despite reconstruction effects.
This review synthesizes current knowledge of how nuclear physics governs the dynamics and multimessenger observables of binary neutron star mergers, connecting microscopic dense-matter properties to macroscopic signals like gravitational waves and kilonovae while highlighting constraints from recent observations and identifying future research directions.
This paper reviews the physical mechanisms and bottlenecks of muon-catalyzed fusion, proposes a synergistic four-step scheme to overcome alpha-sticking and achieve energy gain, and outlines a conceptual fusion-fission hybrid reactor design for breeding plutonium.
This paper presents a simple analytic estimate for the onset time of neutron star crust formation during the late post-convective cooling phase, deriving closed-form expressions that predict the first solid phase typically appears between 100 and 500 seconds after birth, with specific dependence on the protoneutron star's mass, radius, and composition.
This study demonstrates that the directed flow () of charm quarks in asymmetric Cu+Au collisions is significantly enhanced compared to light hadrons and serves as a sensitive probe for both the initial spatial distribution of heavy quarks and temperature-dependent medium transport coefficients.
This paper derives and demonstrates that exclusive quasi-elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering exhibits a parity-violating azimuthal asymmetry in the outgoing nucleon distribution, which is sensitive to nuclear modeling and potentially observable with current-generation detectors to improve neutrino energy reconstruction.
This paper introduces a temperature-resolved Monte Carlo approach to demonstrate that pair-instability supernova nucleosynthesis, specifically Ni production, is most sensitive to variations in the triple- and C(,)O reaction rates at approximately K, where these rates exert opposite influences on the pre-carbon-burning C/O composition.