Enhanced Rydberg-Atom Superheterodyne Detection of Hidden-Photon Dark Matter on Chips

Kavli Affiliate: Shigeki Matsumoto | Summary:Although hidden-photon dark matter with masses above $10^-4,mathrmeV$ is well motivated by inflationary production, it remains largely unexplored by terrestrial experiments. Through kinetic mixing, hidden photons induce a weak oscillating electric field above $10,mathrmGHz$. We propose to amplify this signal using a compact high-frequency distributed cavity and detect it with […]


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Bosonic SPT and invertible phases and its relation to Steenrod’s problem

Kavli Affiliate: Yuji Tachikawa | Summary:Bosonic invertible and symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases are well-known to be described by ordinary cohomology groups in low dimensions, but `beyond-cohomology’ phases appear in higher dimensions. We make a systematic study of them, and find that the first major non-triviality is a mod-3 phenomenon, and not a mod-2 phenomenon as […]


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Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking from Wormholes in Holography

Kavli Affiliate: Masahito Yamazaki | Summary:We study strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking (SWSSB) at finite temperature and its implications in holography. SWSSB is a novel critical phenomenon that arises only in mixed states. We demonstrate SWSSB with the BTZ black hole and show that, in the bulk, it is realized through wormhole geometries connecting the two […]


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The Environmental Dependence of Halo Intrinsic Alignments: Stronger Signals in Underdense Regions

Kavli Affiliate: Masahiro Takada | Summary:The intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies and the dark matter haloes that host them is one of the leading astrophysical systematics for weak-lensing cosmology, yet how the IA signal depends on the large-scale environment in which haloes reside is not yet fully characterised. We use the high-resolution $N$-body simulations of […]


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Constraints on Annihilating Dark Matter from Gamma-Ray Background-Galaxy Shape Correlations: Model-independent Null Results and Moderate Template-based Signals

Kavli Affiliate: Shunsaku Horiuchi | Summary:We revisit the cross-correlation between the unresolved $γ$-ray background and galaxy shapes to constrain the annihilation cross section of particle dark matter. Our analysis uses $γ$-ray photons from 14 years of observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), together with galaxy shape catalogs from the Dark Energy Survey Year […]


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Minimal Majoron Dark Matter from a Discrete $Z_N$ Gauge Symmetry

Kavli Affiliate: Shigeki Matsumoto | Summary:We investigate majoron dark matter in a minimal setup, where the Standard Model is extended by three right-handed neutrinos and a complex scalar field. The theory is defined by an exact discrete gauge symmetry, $Z_Nsubset U(1)_B-L$, while the global $U(1)_B-L$ symmetry emerges only as an accidental symmetry at low energies. […]


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HETDEX [OII] galaxies at $z le 0.48$: Volume-limited samples and their power spectra

Kavli Affiliate: Eiichiro Komatsu | Summary:The catalog from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) Public Data Release 1 (PDR1) contains half a million emission-line-selected [OII] galaxies spread across $540~mathrmdeg^2$ at $z le 0.48$ from HETDEX’s unprecedented untargeted spectroscopic survey. In this paper, we construct volume-limited samples from PDR1 in three luminosity bins across the […]


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Physics-Informed Neural Embeddings of PDE Solution Families

Kavli Affiliate: David Spergel | Summary:We introduce a physics-informed framework for learning finite-dimensional embeddings of solution families of partial differential equations. The method uses a multihead Physics-Informed Neural Network in which a shared body learns a latent manifold representing the solution space, while linear heads reconstruct individual solutions associated with different initial conditions. A head-orthogonalization […]


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Radiative Breaking of Two-Zero Neutrino Mass Minors: Revisiting the $mathrmU(1)_L_μ-L_τ$ Model

Kavli Affiliate: Satoshi Shirai | Summary:The two-zero minor structure predicted by flavor symmetries is usually discussed as a tree-level relation among low-energy neutrino parameters. We point out that this relation can be significantly modified by radiative corrections even when the two-zero minor structure is enforced by an underlying symmetry at tree level. As a concrete […]


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Articulating Assumptions in AI-Generated Scientific Analyses through Task Decomposition

Kavli Affiliate: Mihoko Nojiri | Summary:Scientific results produced by LLM generated analysis code must be understandable and reproducible. However, uncertainty can arise at different stages of the process, both in the original natural language specification and in the generated implementation. As a result, even executable code may not provide a clear understanding of which quantities […]


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