Testing the Froggatt-Nielsen Mechanism with Lepton Violation

Kavli Affiliate: Gordan Krnjaic | First 5 Authors: Claudia Cornella, David Curtin, Gordan Krnjaic, Micah Mellors, | Summary: The Froggatt-Nielsen (FN) mechanism offers an elegant explanation for the observed masses and mixings of Standard Model fermions. In this work, we systematically study FN models in the lepton sector, identifying a broad range of charge assignments […]


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Higher-Dimensional Black Holes and Effective Field Theory

Kavli Affiliate: Austin Joyce | First 5 Authors: Daniel Glazer, Austin Joyce, Maria J. Rodriguez, Luca Santoni, Adam R. Solomon | Summary: We study the scalar tidal responses of spinning higher-dimensional black holes, and their effective field theory description. After constructing the effective field theory of a spinning point particle in general dimension, we apply […]


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Flavor Physics at CEPC: a General Perspective

Kavli Affiliate: Jonathan L. Rosner | First 5 Authors: Xiaocong Ai, Wolfgang Altmannshofer, Peter Athron, Xiaozhi Bai, Lorenzo Calibbi | Summary: We discuss the landscape of flavor physics at the Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC), based on the nominal luminosity outlined in its Technical Design Report. The CEPC is designed to operate in multiple modes to […]


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The effects of different cooling and heating function models on a simulated analog of NGC300

Kavli Affiliate: Nickolay Y. Gnedin | First 5 Authors: David Robinson, Camille Avestruz, Nickolay Y. Gnedin, Vadim A. Semenov, | Summary: Gas cooling and heating rates are vital components of hydrodynamic simulations. However, they are computationally expensive to evaluate exactly with chemical networks or photoionization codes. We compare two different approximation schemes for gas cooling […]


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Accurate method for ultralight axion CMB and matter power spectra

Kavli Affiliate: Wayne Hu | First 5 Authors: Rayne Liu, Wayne Hu, Daniel Grin, , | Summary: Ultralight axions (ULAs) with masses $10^{-33} lesssim m/{rm eV} lesssim 10^{-12}$ are well motivated in string-inspired models and can be part or all of the dark energy or the dark matter in this range. Since the ULA field […]


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Baryogenesis from Primordial CP Violation

Kavli Affiliate: Edward W. Kolb | First 5 Authors: Venus Keus, Edward W. Kolb, , , | Summary: We present a novel Baryogenesis mechanism in which an asymmetry of scalars in a three-Higgs doublet model produced exiting a CP-violating inflationary set-up is translated into an asymmetry of baryons through electroweak instantons. | Search Query: ArXiv […]


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Real-Time Simulation of Asymmetry Generation in Fermion-Bubble Collisions

Kavli Affiliate: Marcela Carena | First 5 Authors: Marcela Carena, Ying-Ying Li, Tong Ou, Hersh Singh, | Summary: We perform real-time simulation of fermion-bubble scattering during a first order phase transition by which the fermions become massive. This out-of-equilibrium dynamics can generate a CP asymmetry, which is a crucial ingredient for baryon asymmetry generation in […]


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SZ-X-ray Surface Brightness Fluctuations in the SPT-XMM clusters

Kavli Affiliate: Lindsey E. Bleem | First 5 Authors: Charles Romero, Massimo Gaspari, Gerrit Schellenberger, Bradford A. Benson, Lindsey E. Bleem | Summary: The hot plasma in galaxy clusters, the intracluster medium (ICM), is expected to be shaped by subsonic turbulent motions, which are key for heating, cooling, and transport mechanisms. The turbulent motions contribute […]


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Uniting the Observed Dynamical Dark Energy Preference with the Discrepancies in $Ω_m$ and $H_0$ Across Cosmological Probes

Kavli Affiliate: Chihway Chang | First 5 Authors: Xianzhe TZ Tang, Dillon Brout, Tanvi Karwal, Chihway Chang, Vivian Miranda | Summary: Recent results from Type Ia Supernovae (SNe), baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) indicate 1) potentially discrepant measurements of the matter density $Omega_m$ and Hubble constant $ H_0 $ in […]


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Clustering and Runaway Merging in a Primordial Black Hole Dominated Universe

Kavli Affiliate: Gordan Krnjaic | First 5 Authors: Ian Holst, Gordan Krnjaic, Huangyu Xiao, , | Summary: If primordial black holes (PBH) are present in the early universe, their contribution to the energy budget grows relative to that of radiation and generically becomes dominant unless the initial abundance is exponentially small. This black hole domination […]


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