#paperOfTheDay is "Lips: p-adic and singular phase space" from 2023. This article is quite different from the ones I usually read, in that it is not about a computation, but rather it describes a software. It is normal for research projects in theoretical
#physics to involve large amounts of programming and computer use. Almost all of these operations rely on purpose-built
#scientificSoftware , and there is a great number of open source libraries for all kinds of specialist physics computations.
The present article describes the package "Lips" (short for "Lorentz invariant phase space"), whose primary purpose is to generate valid sets of momenta for scattering amplitudes: A scattering amplitude is a function of masses and momenta of a set of particles, and it usually implies various constraints to these (e.g. masses should be positive, momenta should be conserved, individual momenta should square to given values, etc.). This makes it a non-trivial task to produce concrete numerical values of momenta that satisfy these constraints. Beyond that, one might also require specific types of numbers (rational, complex, p-adic, etc), or represent the momenta as spinors. The package can also do further calculations that arise in this context, such as evaluating spin-helicity expressions.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14075