Kavli Affiliate: Wayne Hu | First 5 Authors: Samuel Passaglia, Wayne Hu, Andrew J. Long, David Zegeye, | Summary: We study the role of the Standard Model Higgs condensate, formed during cosmological inflation, in the epoch of reheating that follows. We focus on the scenario where the inflaton decays slowly and perturbatively, so that there […]
Kavli Affiliate: Andrey V. Kravtsov | First 5 Authors: Vadim A. Semenov, Andrey V. Kravtsov, Benedikt Diemer, , | Summary: We compare the performance of energy-based and entropy-conservative schemes for modeling nonthermal energy components, such as unresolved turbulence and cosmic rays, using idealized fluid dynamics tests and isolated galaxy simulations. While both methods are aimed […]
Kavli Affiliate: Albert Stebbins | First 5 Authors: Gabriela Barenboim, Nikita Blinov, Albert Stebbins, , | Summary: The evolution of the universe prior to Big Bang Nucleosynthesis could have gone through a phase of early matter domination (EMD) which enhanced the growth of small-scale dark matter structure. If EMD was long enough, self-gravitating objects formed […]
Kavli Affiliate: Gordan Krnjaic | First 5 Authors: Ian Holst, Dan Hooper, Gordan Krnjaic, , | Summary: The long-standing $4.2 , sigma$ muon $g-2$ anomaly may be the result of a new particle species which could also couple to dark matter and mediate its annihilations in the early universe. In models where both muons and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jeffrey J. McMahon | First 5 Authors: Sumit Dahal, John W. Appel, Rahul Datta, Michael K. Brewer, Aamir Ali | Summary: The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) observes the polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) over the angular scales of 1$^circ lesssim theta leq$ 90$^circ$ with the aim of characterizing primordial gravitational waves […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jonathan L. Rosner | First 5 Authors: Marek Karliner, Jonathan L. Rosner, , , | Summary: The BESIII Collaboration has observed a candidate for a $c bar c s bar u$ tetraquark $Z_{cs}$ at $(3982.5^{+1.8}_{-2.6} pm 2.1)$ MeV and width $(12.8^{+5.3}_{-4.4} pm 3.0)$ MeV, while the LHCb Collaboration has observed a $Z_{cs}$ candidate […]
Kavli Affiliate: Paolo Privitera | First 5 Authors: Toshihiro Fujii, Justin Albury, Jose Bellido, Ladislav Chytka, John Farmer | Summary: The origin and nature of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) remain an open question in astroparticle physics. Motivated by the need for an unprecedented aperture for further advancements, the Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes (FAST) […]
Kavli Affiliate: Wendy L. Freedman | First 5 Authors: Ilaria Lonoce, Anja Feldmeier-Krause, Wendy L. Freedman, , | Summary: The complexity of constraining the stellar initial mass function (IMF) in early-type galaxies cannot be overstated, given the necessity of both very high signal-to-noise (S/N) data and the difficulty of breaking the strong degeneracies that occur […]
Kavli Affiliate: Marcela Carena | First 5 Authors: Marcela Carena, Henry Lamm, Ying-Ying Li, Wanqiang Liu, | Summary: With advances in quantum computing, new opportunities arise to tackle challenging calculations in quantum field theory. We show that trotterized time-evolution operators can be related by analytic continuation to the Euclidean transfer matrix on an anisotropic lattice. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Angela V. Olinto | First 5 Authors: Mary Hall Reno, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Atri Bhattacharya, Austin Cummings, Johannes Eser | Summary: Recent theoretical work has explored dark matter accumulation in the Earth and its drift towards the center of the Earth that, for the current age of the Earth, does not necessarily result […]