1159 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 presents a theoretical study of azimuthal decorrelation and transverse momentum imbalance in LHC dijet production using the recoil-free winner-take-all scheme, deriving factorization formulae in soft-collinear effective theory to perform high-precision resummation of global and non-global logarithms while demonstrating the observables' robustness against non-perturbative effects.
This paper demonstrates that kaon-decay-at-rest (KDAR) neutrinos enable coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering measurements to extend beyond the strict coherent limit into the diffractive regime, offering a competitive and complementary method to electron scattering for precisely probing neutron skin thickness in various nuclei.
This lattice simulation study demonstrates that weak acceleration in gluodynamics transforms the standard finite-temperature confinement-deconfinement phase transition into a spatial crossover, allowing coexisting phases that follow the Tolman-Ehrenfest law and suggesting similar phenomena may occur near black hole horizons.
The authors propose a universal empirical formula for proton-nucleus total inelastic cross-sections, valid from 15 MeV to 1 TeV, which is parameterized using experimental data for Carbon and Aluminium and validated against a wide range of target nuclei and existing models like GEANT4.
This paper argues that while Lorentz-boosted tau neutrinos at ultra-high energies ( eV) offer significantly greater detectability than muon neutrinos due to extended tau decay ranges, their observation remains rare, whereas lower-energy tau neutrino interactions (– eV) are predicted to occur more frequently in cubic-kilometer detectors.
This paper introduces a novel non-Hermitian chiral random matrix model that successfully demonstrates relativistic Cooper pairing and reproduces key features of color superconductivity, such as color-flavor locking and specific symmetry breaking patterns, within the microscopic large- limit.
This paper applies a generalized quantum mechanical formalism of multiple internal reflections to pycnonuclear reactions in compact stars, revealing that a complete analysis of quantum fluxes reduces reaction rates by 1.8 times and highlights the significance of new, more probable quasibound states over zero-point vibration states, thereby necessitating a revision of nuclear reaction rate estimations in stellar environments.
Using an improved Multi-Phase Transport model, this study demonstrates that the nuclear geometry and potential alpha clustering in O significantly influence anisotropic flows in O+O collisions at GeV, with the model successfully reproducing STAR data and establishing a baseline for future nuclear-structure investigations.
This paper derives second-order dissipative relativistic spin hydrodynamic equations from quantum kinetic theory using an inverse-Reynolds dominance resummation scheme, identifying eleven governing equations for spin potential and a dissipative tensor while explicitly computing their transport coefficients.
By analyzing helium abundance constraints in the kilonova AT2017gfo, this study infers that the binary neutron star merger remnant collapsed into a black hole within 20–30 ms, thereby ruling out numerous nuclear equation of state models and establishing tight upper limits on neutron star radii and maximum mass.