We present a detailed study of the finite momentum dynamics of the critical point of QCD, which lies in the dynamic universality class of “model G.” The critical scaling of the model is analyzed in multiple dynamical channels. For instance, the finite momentum analysis allows us to precisely ex…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 054037] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>Starting with the polarization dependent Wigner function of vector mesons, we derive an expression for the 00–component () of spin density matrix in terms of the second order gradients of the vector meson distribution functions. We further apply a thermal model to analyze the transverse momentum …
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 054038] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>The single-particle inclusive fragmentation function and the particle multiplicity are observables of fundamental importance in studying properties of quantum chromodynamics at colliders. It is well known that at high energies the multiplicity distribution satisfies Koba-Nielsen-Olesen (KNO) scaling…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 054039] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>We study the renormalization group (RG) running of the nonsinglet tensor operator, for QCD with Wilson fermions in a mixed action setup, with standard Schrödinger functional (SF) boundary conditions for sea quarks and chirally rotated Schrödinger functional () boundary conditions for valence…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 054511] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>One of the methods proposed in recent years for studying nonperturbative gauge theory physics is quantum simulation, where lattice gauge theories are mapped onto quantum devices which can be built in the laboratory, or quantum computers. While being very promising and already showing some experiment…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 054512] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>Neutrons and neutrinos are natural probes for new physics. Since they carry no conserved gauge quantum numbers, both can easily mix with the fermions from hidden sectors. A particularly interesting effect is the oscillation of a neutron or a neutrino into a fermion propagating in large extra dimensi…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 055046] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>We present a calculation of the spin alignment for unflavored vector mesons in thermalized quark-gluon plasma based on the Kubo formula in linear response theory. This is achieved by expanding the system to the first order of the coupling constant and the spatial gradient. The effect strongly relies…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 056025] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>We present results of a follow-up search for continuous gravitational waves (CWs) associated with subthreshold candidates from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) all-sky all-frequency (ASAF) directed radiometer analysis, using Advanced LIGO data from the third observing run (O3). Each ASAF candidate corresp…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 062008] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>We study the gravitational bremsstrahlung owing to collisions mediated by a potential. We combine classical and first order Born approximation results in order to construct an approximate gravitational “Gaunt factor” for the total emitted energy. We also obtain the cross section with an angular …
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063032] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>Chameleon dark energy models are a popular alternative to the standard cosmological constant model. These models consist of a new light degree of freedom, called chameleon, with a density dependent mass and a nontrivial coupling to both matter and photons. Owing to these couplings, chameleons can be…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063033] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>The detectability of light dark matter in direct detection experiments is limited by the small kinetic energy of the recoiling targets. Thus, scenarios where dark matter is boosted to relativistic velocities provide a useful tactic to constrain sub-GeV dark matter particles. Of the possible dark mat…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063034] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>We explore the cosmology of the dark-dimension scenario taking into account perturbations in the linear regime. In the context of the dark-dimension scenario, a natural candidate for dark matter in our Universe is the excitations of a tower of massive spin-2 Kaluza-Klein (KK) gravitons. These dark g…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063540] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>The electromagnetic radiation emitted by an accelerated charged particle can be described theoretically as the interaction of the charge with the so-called Fulling-Davies-Unruh thermal bath in the coordinate frame co-accelerated with the charge. We present a similar analysis on the gravitational rad…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064080] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>Spin-induced quadrupole moments provide an important characterization of compact objects, such as black holes, neutron stars and black hole mimickers inspired by additional fields and/or modified theories of gravity. Black holes in general relativity have a specific spin-induced quadrupole moment, w…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064081] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>In this study, we investigate the real-time dynamics during the spontaneous deformation of an unstable spherical black hole in asymptotically anti–de Sitter (AdS) spacetime. For the initial value, the static solutions with spherical symmetry are obtained numerically, revealing the presence of a spin…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064082] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>The strong cosmic censorship conjecture, which states that the evolution of generic initial data will always produce a globally hyperbolic spacetime, is difficult to test by astronomical observations. In this paper, we study the appearance of the regular black hole without mass inflation, which viol…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064083] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>The black hole no-short hair theorem establishes a universal lower bound on the extension of hairs outside any 4-dimensional spherically symmetric black hole solutions. We generalize this theorem beyond spherical symmetry, specifically for static, axisymmetric hairy black hole solutions and prove th…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064084] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>Ultracold neutrons are great experimental tools to explore the gravitational interaction in the regime of quantized states. From a theoretical perspective, starting from a Dirac equation in curved spacetime, we applied a perturbative scheme to systematically derive the nonrelativistic Schrödinger eq…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064085] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>There may exist stellar-mass binary black holes (BBH) which merge while orbiting nearby a supermassive black hole (SMBH). In such a triple system, the SMBH will modulate the gravitational waveform of the BBH through orbital Doppler shift and de Sitter precession of the angular momentum. Future space…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064086] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>We consider correlation functions in 6D (2,0) theories of two -Bogomol’nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) operators inserted away from a -BPS surface defect. In the large central-charge limit the leading connected contribution corresponds to sums of tree-level Witten diagram in in the presence…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, L061903] Published Wed Mar 27, 2024
]]>Based on the method of solving the complete Salpeter equation, we study the semileptonic decays of a heavy meson to , , or heavy-tensor mesons, . The obtained branching ratio of agrees with the experimental data. We predict
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 053004] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>In this work, we systematically study the electromagnetic properties including the M1 radiative decay widths and the magnetic moments of the isoscalar , , and triple-charm molecular-type pentaquark candidates, where we adopt the constituent quark model and consider both the wa…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 054036] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>We study the effects of taste degeneracy on the continuum scaling of the localization properties of the staggered Dirac operator in high-temperature QCD using numerical simulations on the lattice, focusing in particular on the position of the mobility edge separating localized and delocalized modes …
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 054510] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>The significance of the electroweak phase transition is undeniable, and although initially it was believed that it was second order, it is now believed that it is a first-order transition. However, it is not a strong first-order phase transition in the context of the standard model, and the remedy t…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 055044] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>We study thermal production of dark matter (DM) in a realization of the minimal models of Bonnefoy et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221802 (2023)], where parity is used to solve the strong problem by transforming the entire Standard Model (SM) into a mirror copy. Although the mirror electron is a…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 055045] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>Temporary matter domination and late entropy dilution, injected by a “long-lived” particle in the early Universe, serves as a standard mechanism for yielding the correct dark matter relic density. We recently pointed out the cosmological significance of diluting particle’s partial decay into dark ma…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 056021] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>In an optically active medium, such as a plasma that contains a neutrino background, the left-handed and right-handed polarization photon modes acquire different dispersion relations. We study the propagation of photons in such a medium, which is otherwise isotropic, within the framework of the cova…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 056022] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>We newly develop a renormalization group (RG) improvement for thermally resummed effective potentials. In this method, -functions are consistently defined in resummed perturbation theories, so that order-by-order RG invariance is not spoiled after thermal resummation. With this improvement, scale d…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 056023] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>Using the relativistic complex scalar field model with a repulsive self-interaction, we discuss the ground state structure of charged pion condensation under the coexistence of parallel rotation and magnetic field. Our previous study found that the density distribution profile of the condensates is …
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 056024] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>We present results from a target exposure of two silicon charge-coupled devices (CCDs), each with 24 megapixels and skipper readout, deployed in the DAMIC setup at SNOLAB. With a reduction in pixel readout noise of a factor of 10 relative to the previous detector, we investigate the exc…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 062007] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>For a horizonless Schwarzschild star with a photon sphere, its strong deflection gravitational lensing can generate unique inner relativistic images of pointlike sources, which are absent for a Schwarzschild black hole. In order to understand the signatures of its outer and inner relativistic images…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063030] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>In cosmological -body simulations of warm dark matter, thermal velocities of dark-matter particles are sometimes taken into account by adding random initial velocities to the particles of simulation. However, a particle in the -body system represents a huge collection of dark-matter particles, who…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063031] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>In this paper, we study a possible early universe source for the recent observation of a stochastic gravitational wave background at the NANOGrav pulsar timing array. The source is a tachyonic instability in a dark gauge field induced by an axionlike particle (ALP), a known source for gravitational …
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063537] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>We derive constraints on the injection of free-streaming dark radiation after big bang nucleosynthesis by considering the decay of a massive hidden sector particle into dark radiation. Such a scenario has the potential to alleviate the Hubble tension by introducing a new energy component to the evol…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063538] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>We analyze the spectrum of gravitational waves generated by the induced spectrum of tensor fluctuation during warm natural inflation. In our previous work, it has been demonstrated that an epoch of warm natural inflation can lead to cosmologically relevant dark matter production in the form of primo…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063539] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>In symmetric teleparallel geometry the curvature and torsion tensors are assumed to vanish identically, while the dynamics of gravity is encoded by nonmetricity. Here the spatially homogeneous and isotropic connections that can accompany the flat Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric come in th…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064069] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>The ringdown (RD) phase of gravitational waves is of prime interest for testing general relativity (GR). The modeling of the linear quasinormal modes (QNMs) within the Kerr spectrum—or with agnostic parametrized deviations to that GR spectrum—has become ordinary; however, specific attention has rece…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064075] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>The quintet of Dirac matrices suggests that the fundamental dimension of the internal (spin) space is , instead of the conventional dimension . Then instead of the conventional tetrads (vierbein), gravity is described in terms of the 5-bein (fünfbein or five legs). We discuss the prope…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064076] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>Adiabatic binary inspiral in the small mass ratio limit treats the small body as moving along a geodesic of a large Kerr black hole, with the geodesic slowly evolving due to radiative backreaction. Up to initial conditions, geodesics are typically parameterized in two ways: using the integrals of mo…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064077] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>An interesting idea, dating back to Feynman [Report from Chapel Hill Conference, edited by C. M. DeWitt and D. Rickles (1957)], argues that quantum mechanics may break down for large masses if one entertains the possibility that gravity can be “classical,” thereby leading to predictions different fr…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064078] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>This paper studies the reduced phase space formulation (relational formalism) of gravity coupling to the Brown-Kuchař dust for asymptotic flat spacetimes. A set of boundary conditions for the asymptotic flatness are formulated for Dirac observables on the reduced phase space. The physical Hamiltonia…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064079] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>We derive the dynamics of (isotropic) scalar perturbations from the mean-field hydrodynamics of full Lorentzian quantum gravity, as described by a two-sector (timelike and spacelike) Barrett-Crane group field theory model. The rich causal structure of this model allows us to consistently implement i…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 066021] Published Tue Mar 26, 2024
]]>Study of canonical entropy in electron-proton interactions at is presented. The precision data collected by the H1 experiment at the HERA in different ranges of invariant hadronic mass and the squared four-momentum exchange in electron-proton interactions have been analyzed in t…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 052008] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>We investigate the chemical potential effects of the equation of state and the chiral transition in an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton-scalar system, which is obtained from an improved soft-wall anti–de Sitter/QCD model coupled with an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton system. The equations of state obtained from t…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 054032] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>We compute the pressure from first principles within perturbative QCD at finite baryon density and very high magnetic fields up to two-loops and with physical quark masses. The region of validity for our framework is given by , where is the strange quark mass, is the quark chemical pot…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 054033] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>We calculate the mass spectrum of the S-wave fully heavy tetraquark systems with both normal and exotic C-parities using three different quark potential models (AL1, AP1, BGS). The exotic C-parity systems refer to the ones that cannot be composed of …
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 054034] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>In this paper QCD at large isospin density is studied, which is known to be in the superfluid state with Cooper pairs carrying the same quantum number as pions. The gap equation derived from the perturbation theory up to the next-to-leading-order corrections is solved. The pairing gap at large isosp…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 054035] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>Research on the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram with lattice field theory methods is dominated by the use of rooted staggered fermions, as they are the computationally cheapest discretization available. We show that rooted staggered fermions at a nonzero baryochemical potential predict…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 054509] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>We propose a grand unified theory (GUT) pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) dark matter (DM) model based on gauge symmetry. In the GUT model, the Standard Model (SM) gauge symmetry and the “dark” gauge symmetry are unified, where the symmetry plays an impo…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 055040] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>We investigate the enhancement of dark sector particle production within the scattering dominant regime. These particles typically exhibit a slight mixing with Standard Model particles through various portals, allowing for their generation through in-medium oscillation from Standard Model particle s…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 055041] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>Axionlike particles (ALPs) emerge in many extensions of the Standard Model as pseudo-Goldstone bosons of a spontaneously broken global symmetry. Understanding their phenomenology in high-energy collisions is crucial for optimizing experimental searches and understanding the exploration potential of …
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 055042] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>We construct an example of a safe ultraviolet finite supersymmetric renormalizable SO(10) grand unified theory featuring a supersymmetric dynamical breaking mechanism. Our results constitute a step forward towards an ultraviolet safe extension of the Standard Model enjoying the benefits of grand uni…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 055043] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>In subleading powers of soft-collinear effective theory (SCET), the Lagrangian contains couplings between soft quarks and hard-collinear quarks. Matrix elements of the hard-collinear parts of these couplings are radiative jet functions. In the position-space formulation of SCET, the Lagrangians are …
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 056020] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are prime candidates for gravitational-wave detectors. The analysis of their complex waveforms can potentially provide information on the physical processes operating during the collapse of the iron cores of massive stars. In this work we analyze the early-bounce rap…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063028] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>The measurement of eccentricity would provide strong constraints on the formation channel of stellar-mass binary black holes. However, current ground-based gravitational wave detectors will, in most cases, not be able to measure eccentricity due to orbital circularization. Space-based observatories,…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063029] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>Recent analysis on the stellar kinematics of ultrafaint dwarf (UFD) galaxies has put a stringent upper limit on the self-scattering cross section of dark matter, i.e., at the scattering velocity of . Resonant self-interacting dark matter (rSIDM) is one possibility tha…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063535] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>We forecast the sensitivity of ongoing and future galaxy cluster abundance measurements to detect deviations from the cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm. Concretely, we consider a class of dark sector models that feature an interaction between dark matter and a dark radiation species (IDM-DR). This set…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063536] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>The Penrose process for the decay of electrically charged particles in a Reissner-Nordström-anti–de Sitter black hole spacetime is studied. To extract large quantities of energy one needs to mount a recursive Penrose process where particles are confined and can bounce back to suffer ever again a dec…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064065] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>This paper delves into the exploration of suitable boundary conditions for the asymptotically flat scenario of general relativity presented in terms of Ashtekar-Barbero variables. While the standard parity conditions have been extensively studied by Thiemann [Classical Quantum Gravity 12, 181 (1995)…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064066] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>A triangular solution [Phys. Rev. D 107, 044005 (2023)] has recently been found to the planar circular three-body problem in the parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism, for which they focus on a class of fully conservative theories characterized by the Eddington-Robertson parameters and . Th…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064067] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>Black holes in anti–de Sitter spacetime provide an important testing ground for both gravitational and field-theoretic phenomena. In particular, the study of perturbations can be useful to further our understanding regarding certain physical processes, such as superradiance, or the dynamics of stron…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064068] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>The three-point function of the energy-momentum tensor in a conformal field theory is completely determined by three parameters, called , , . We carry out a holographic calculation of these three parameters in general dimensions from higher curvature gravities up to and including the quartic …
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064070] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>The concept of cracking refers to the tendency of a fluid distribution to “split,” once it abandons the equilibrium. In this manuscript we develop a general formalism to describe the occurrence of cracking within a dissipative fluid distribution, in comoving coordinates. The role of dissipative proc…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064071] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>We explore the new physics phenomena of gravidynamics governed by the inhomogeneous spin gauge symmetry based on the gravitational quantum field theory. Such a gravidynamics enables us to derive the generalized Einstein equation and an equation beyond it. To simplify the analyses, we linearize the d…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064072] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>We investigate the gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect by placing a quantum system in free fall around a gravitating body, e.g., a satellite orbiting the Earth. Since the system is in free fall, by the equivalence principle, the quantum system is local in flat, gravity free space-time—it is screened …
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064073] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>We prove that, as opposed to the familiar charged Reissner-Nordström black-hole spacetime, the spatially regular charged Ayón-Beato-García (ABG) black-hole spacetime can support charged scalar clouds, spatially regular stationary matter configurations which are made of linearized charged massive sca…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064074] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>We consider ()-dimensional dilatonic black hole with two horizons, canonical temperatures of which do not coincide. We show that the presence of quantum fields in such a background leads to a substantial backreaction on the metric: 2D dilatonic analog of the semiclassical Einstein equations are s…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 065026] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>We define generalized Gaussian states for quantum cosmological models based on the algebra, with particular emphasis on its realization in group field theory for a single field mode, and study their semiclassical properties. These states are generalizations of coherent, squeezed, and thermal…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 066022] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>Moduli stabilization is key to obtaining phenomenologically viable string models. Nongeometric compactifications, like -duality orbifolds ( folds), are capable of freezing many moduli. However, in this paper we emphasize that folds, admitting free fermionic descriptions, can be associated with a…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, L051701] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>Based on lattice QCD results of equation of state and baryon number susceptibility at zero baryon chemical potential, and supplemented by machine learning techniques, we construct the analytic form of the holographic black hole metric in the Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton framework for pure gluon, 2-flavo…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, L051902] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>We show that the stress tensor of a real scalar quantum field on Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter spacetime exhibits correlations over macroscopic distances near the Cauchy horizon. These diverge as the Cauchy horizon is approached and are universal, i.e., state independent. This signals a breakdown of …
[Phys. Rev. D 109, L061702] Published Mon Mar 25, 2024
]]>We derive an expression for the local transverse polarization of a boost-invariant expanding system of massive particles, which involves a set of dynamical spin moments. Starting from spin kinetic theory, we obtain a closed set of equations of motion for these spin moments. These equations are valid…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 056019] Published Fri Mar 22, 2024
]]>Astrophysical black holes (BHs) are universally expected to be described by the Kerr metric, a stationary, vacuum solution of general relativity (GR). Indeed, by imaging M87* and Sgr A* and measuring the size of their shadows, we have substantiated this hypothesis through successful null tests. Here…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064064] Published Fri Mar 22, 2024
]]>We revisit the mathematics of exactly solvable Unruh-DeWitt detector models, interacting with massless scalar fields under instantaneous interactions, to construct a relativistic quantum Otto heat engine. By deriving the conditions under which the thermodynamic cycle is closed we study the effects o…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 065025] Published Fri Mar 22, 2024
]]>A novel first-order action principle has been proposed as the possible foundation for a more fundamental theory of general relativity and the Standard Model. It is shown in this article that the proposal consistently incorporates gravity and matter fields, and guides one to a new and robust path tow…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, L061503] Published Fri Mar 22, 2024
]]>We study the decays , , , , , , with , from the perspective of the being a molecular state made from the interaction of the , and components. We consider both the external and internal emission decay mechanisms and fin…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 054030] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>The properties of a phase diagram of strange quark matter in equilibrium with hadronic matter at finite temperature are studied, where the quark phase and hadron phase are treated by a baryon density-dependent quark mass model and hadron resonance gas model with a hard core repulsion factor, respect…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 054031] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>Physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) can be described in a consistent and general way through the Higgs effective field theory (HEFT). Measurements of model-independent HEFT coefficients allow one to constrain the parameter space of BSM models via a matching procedure. In this work, we show that …
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 055037] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>A gauge boson with sub-GeV mass has acquired a significant interest in phenomenology, particularly in view of the muon anomaly and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleon scattering. The latter is challenged by the nuclear recoil energy of a few tens of keV but has been observed by the COHERENT exp…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 055038] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>Kinetic mixing of the dark photon, the gauge boson of a hidden , with the Standard Model (SM) gauge fields to induce an interaction between ordinary matter and dark matter (DM) at 1-loop requires the existence of portal matter (PM) fields having both dark and SM charges. As discussed in earlier…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 055039] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>In this paper we discuss the analytical properties of the binary collision integral for a gas of ultrarelativistic particles interacting via a constant cross section. Starting from a near-equilibrium expansion over a complete basis of irreducible tensors in momentum space we compute the linearized c…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 056018] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>We study graviton-photon conversion in the magnetosphere of a pulsar and explore the possibility of detecting high frequency gravitational waves with pulsar observations. It is shown that conversion of one polarization mode of photons to that of gravitons can be enhanced significantly due to strong …
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063026] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>The AMS-02 experiment has observed new properties of primary cosmic rays (CRs) categorized into two groups: He-C-O-Fe and Ne-Mg-Si-S, which are independent of CR propagation. In this study, we investigate the unexpected properties of these nuclei using a spatial propagation model. All nuclei spectra…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063027] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>Beyond-two-point statistics contain additional information on cosmological as well as astrophysical and observational (systematics) parameters. In this methodology paper we provide an end-to-end simulation-based analysis of a set of Gaussian and non-Gaussian weak lensing statistics using detailed mo…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063534] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>The numerical simulations of binary neutron star mergers is an important, but computationally expensive endeavor. The authors demonstrate that significant computational savings can be realized by adopting a hybrid approach to these simulations by using a fully dynamical spacetime solver initially, but switching to a conformally-flat spacetime solver as the system evolves.
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064061] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>It is well established that the magnetic Penrose process (MPP) could be highly efficient (efficiency can even exceed 100%) for extracting the energy from a Kerr black hole, if it is immersed in a mG order magnetic field. Considering the exact solution of the magnetized Kerr spacetime, here we derive…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064062] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>In this paper, light propagation in a pressure-free nonmagnetized plasma on Kerr spacetime is considered, which is a continuation of our previous study [V. Perlick and O. Y. Tsupko, Light propagation in a plasma on Kerr spacetime: Separation of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and calculation of the sha…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 064063] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>Pointlike systems coupled to quantum fields are often employed as toy models for measurements in quantum field theory. In this paper, we identify the field observables recorded by such models. In the case of detector models that work in the strong coupling regime, we show that the detector’s pointer…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 065024] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>The impact of rotation on the deconfinement phase transition under the Einstein-Maxwell system of the soft and the hard wall models in holographic quantum chromodynamics is studied in this paper. The metric by cylindrical coordinates with rotation is introduced into the system to calculate the Hawki…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 066019] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>The weakly constrained double field theory, in the sense of Hull and Zwiebach, captures the subsector of string theory on toroidal backgrounds that includes gravity, -field, and dilaton together with all of their massive Kaluza-Klein and winding modes, which are encoded in doubled coordinates subje…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 066020] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>General relativity predicts that gravitational waves propagate at the speed of light. Although ground-based gravitational-wave detectors have successfully constrained the velocity of gravitational waves in the high-frequency range, extending this constraint to the lower frequency range remains a cha…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, L061101] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>We demonstrate that existing gravitational wave data from LIGO already places constraints on well-motivated Pati-Salam models that allow the Standard Model to be embedded within grand unified theories. For the first time in these models we also constrain the parameter space by requiring that the pha…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, L061303] Published Thu Mar 21, 2024
]]>We report measurements of radon progeny in liquid argon within the MicroBooNE time projection chamber (LArTPC). The presence of specific radon daughters in MicroBooNE’s 85 metric tons of active liquid argon bulk is probed with newly developed charge-based low-energy reconstruction tools and analysis…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 052007] Published Wed Mar 20, 2024
]]>In this work, the form factor is calculated within the Dyson-Schwinger equations framework using a contact interaction model within the so-called modified rainbow ladder truncation. The present calculation takes into account the pseudovector component in the pion Bethe-Salpeter amplitude (BSA) …
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 054028] Published Wed Mar 20, 2024
]]>We present a recursive quantum mechanical model for the fragmentation of a string stretched between a quark and an antiquark with entangled spin states. The quarks are assumed to be produced in the annihilation process via the exchange of a virtual photon and the correlations between their spin…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 054029] Published Wed Mar 20, 2024
]]>The effective field theory (EFT) framework is a precise approximation procedure when the inherent assumptions of a large-scale separation between the Standard Model (SM) and new interactions alongside perturbativity are realized. Constraints from available data might not automatically guarantee thes…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 055035] Published Wed Mar 20, 2024
]]>In this paper, we put forward a connection between the self-interacting dark matter and the Dirac nature of neutrinos. Our exploration involves a discrete symmetry, wherein the Dirac neutrino mass is produced through a type-I seesaw mechanism. This symmetry not only contributes to the generat…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 055036] Published Wed Mar 20, 2024
]]>We present a significant extension of the quark-mass density-dependent model (QMDDM), initially revised in our prior study [Phys. Rev. D 107, 043025 (2023)], where thermodynamic inconsistencies were addressed. Our current work enriches the QMDDM by incorporating excluded volume effects, as a step to…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063025] Published Wed Mar 20, 2024
]]>Observations of the millimeter sky contain valuable information on a number of signals, including the blackbody cosmic microwave background (CMB), Galactic emissions, and the Compton- distortion due to the thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (tSZ) effect. Extracting new insight into cosmological and astroph…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063530] Published Wed Mar 20, 2024
]]>We compute the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum sourced by the sound waves produced during a first-order phase transition in the radiation-dominated epoch. The correlator of the velocity field perturbations is evaluated in accordance with the sound shell model. In our derivation we include the effec…
[Phys. Rev. D 109, 063531] Published Wed Mar 20, 2024
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