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 introduces SPARKX, an open-source Python package designed to streamline and enhance the analysis of relativistic kinematics in heavy-ion collision experiments by providing a comprehensive, multi-format toolkit that integrates with major simulation frameworks like SMASH and JETSCAPE.
Using the X-SCAPE event generator coupled with the SMASH afterburner, this study demonstrates that hadronic rescattering significantly modifies jet fragmentation observables even in small systems like collisions, highlighting the critical role of the hadronic phase in jet quenching across different collision environments.
This paper presents a global Bayesian analysis of diffractive photoproduction on proton and lead targets using a color glass condensate framework, revealing that while simultaneous description of HERA and LHC data is challenging, introducing an overall -factor significantly improves the model's ability to fit both datasets.
This study demonstrates that Energy-Momentum Squared Gravity significantly alters the curvature profiles of neutron stars and produces distinct discontinuities at hadron-quark phase transitions, offering potential observational signatures for detecting exotic core phases in modified gravity scenarios.
This paper establishes that the three-body renormalization relation in Short-Range Effective Field Theory universally follows a real Möbius transformation characterized by three regulator-dependent parameters for general separable regulators, thereby extending the understanding of the Efimov effect's RG limit cycle beyond sharp cutoffs.
Using the quark-meson coupling model, this study predicts significant mass reductions of approximately 60 MeV for -wave charmonia () in cold symmetric nuclear matter at normal density, primarily driven by vector-vector loops, while finding no level crossing with the threshold up to three times normal nuclear density.
This study investigates how variations in symmetry energy within nucleonic and hyperonic equations of state affect the global properties and universal relations of hot, isentropic compact stars in both static and maximally rotating configurations, demonstrating that these universal relations remain robust across diverse conditions relevant to binary neutron star mergers and proto-neutron stars.
This study investigates the mass spectra and Mott transitions of neutral mesons () within a three-flavor Polyakov-extended Nambu-Jona-Lasino model at finite temperature and magnetic field, revealing how gluon effects and inverse magnetic catalysis influence chiral symmetry restoration, flavor mixing, and the temperature-dependent behavior of meson masses.
This paper investigates the decay as a probe for vorticity and spin alignment in heavy-ion collisions by deriving the general angular distribution of pions via interaction Lagrangian and helicity formalism, and subsequently calculating spin density matrix elements under local thermal equilibrium and blast wave models across different centrality classes.
This paper introduces finite Gaussian assistance protocols and a multimode conic metric framework to optimize spacelike vacuum entanglement, yielding the highest known lower bound for Gaussian entanglement of assistance and the lowest known upper bound for Gaussian entanglement of formation in free scalar fields.