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Author Sanchis-Gual, N.; del Rio, A.
Title Precessing binary black holes as engines of electromagnetic helicity Type Journal Article
Year 2023 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. D
Volume 108 Issue Pages 044052 - 11pp
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Abstract (down) We show that binary black hole mergers with precessing evolution can potentially excite photons from the quantum vacuum in such a way that total helicity is not preserved in the process. Helicity violation is allowed by quantum fluctuations that spoil the electric-magnetic duality symmetry of the classical Maxwell theory without charges. We show here that precessing binary black hole systems in astrophysics generate a flux of circularly polarized gravitational waves which, in turn, provides the required helical background that triggers this quantum effect. Solving the fully nonlinear Einstein’s equations with numerical relativity we explore the parameter space of binary systems and extract the detailed dependence of the quantum effect with the spins of the two black holes. We also introduce a set of diagrammatic techniques that allows us to predict when a binary black hole merger can or cannot emit circularly polarized gravitational radiation, based on mirror-symmetry considerations. This framework allows to understand and to interpret correctly the numerical results, and to predict the outcomes in potentially interesting astrophysical systems.
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Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 6092
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Author Peinado, E.; Reig, M.; Srivastava, R.; Valle, J.W.F.
Title Dirac neutrinos from Peccei-Quinn symmetry: A fresh look at the axion Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Modern Physics Letters A Abbreviated Journal Mod. Phys. Lett. A
Volume 35 Issue 21 Pages 2050176 - 9pp
Keywords Peccei-Quinn symmetry; axion; neutrinos
Abstract (down) We show that a very simple solution to the strong CP problem naturally leads to Dirac neutrinos. Small effective neutrino masses emerge from a type-I Dirac seesaw mechanism. Neutrino mass limits probe the axion parameters in regions currently inaccessible to conventional searches.
Address [Peinado, Eduardo] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Fis, AP 20-364, Ciudad De Mexico 01000, Mexico, Email: epeinado@fisica.unam.mx;
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Publisher World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
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ISSN 0217-7323 ISBN Medium
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Notes WOS:000550796000006 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4467
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Author Baamara, Y.; Gessner, M.; Sinatra, A.
Title Quantum-enhanced multiparameter estimation and compressed sensing of a field Type Journal Article
Year 2023 Publication Scipost Physics Abbreviated Journal SciPost Phys.
Volume 14 Issue 3 Pages 050 - 18pp
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Abstract (down) We show that a significant quantum gain corresponding to squeezed or over-squeezed spin states can be obtained in multiparameter estimation by measuring the Hadamard coefficients of a 1D or 2D signal. The physical platform we consider consists of twolevel atoms in an optical lattice in a squeezed-Mott configuration, or more generally by correlated spins distributed in spatially separated modes. Our protocol requires the possibility to locally flip the spins, but relies on collective measurements. We give examples of applications to scalar or vector field mapping and compressed sensing.
Address [Baamara, Youcef; Sinatra, Alice] Univ PSL, Univ Sorbonne, ENS, Lab Kastler Brossel,CNRS, 24 Rue Lhomond, F-75231 Paris, France, Email: alice.sinatra@lkb.ens.fr
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Publisher Scipost Foundation Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 2542-4653 ISBN Medium
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Notes WOS:000974981200008 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5519
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Author Reig, M.
Title On the high-scale instanton interference effect: axion models without domain wall problem Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.
Volume 08 Issue 8 Pages 167 - 13pp
Keywords Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Beyond Standard Model; Gauge Symmetry
Abstract (down) We show that a new chiral, confining interaction can be used to break Peccei-Quinn symmetry dynamically and solve the domain wall problem, simultaneously. The resulting theory is an invisible QCD axion model without domain walls. No dangerous heavy relics appear.
Address [Reig, Mario] Univ Valencia, AHEP Grp, Inst Fis Corpuscular, CSIC, Parc Cient Paterna,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: mario.reig@ific.uv.es
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 1029-8479 ISBN Medium
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Notes WOS:000483916900002 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration no
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4137
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Author Bruschini, R.; Gonzalez, R.
Title A plausible explanation of Upsilon(10860) Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication Physics Letters B Abbreviated Journal Phys. Lett. B
Volume 791 Issue Pages 409-413
Keywords Quark; Meson; Potential
Abstract (down) We show that a good description of the Upsilon(10860) properties, in particular the mass, the e(+) e(-) leptonic widths and the pi(+) pi(-) Upsilon(ns) (n = 1, 2, 3) production rates, can be obtained under the assumption that Upsilon(10860) is a mixing of the conventional Upsilon(5s) quark model state with the lowest P-wave hybrid state.
Address [Bruschini, R.; Gonzalez, R.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, IFIC, Dept Fis Teor, Carrer Dr Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain, Email: roberto.bruschini@ific.uv.es;
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Publisher Elsevier Science Bv Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 0370-2693 ISBN Medium
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Notes WOS:000462321800059 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration no
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3959
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Author Delhom, A.; Miralles, V.; Peñuelas, A.
Title Effective interactions in Ricci-Based Gravity below the non-metricity scale Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication European Physical Journal C Abbreviated Journal Eur. Phys. J. C
Volume 80 Issue 4 Pages 340 - 14pp
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Abstract (down) We show how minimally-coupled matter fields of arbitrary spin, when coupled to Ricci-based gravity theories, develop non-trivial effective interactions that can be treated perturbatively only below a characteristic high-energy scale . We then use this interactions to set bounds on the high-energy scale that controls departures of Ricci-Based Gravity theories from General Relativity. Particularly, for Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity we obtain the strong bound vertical bar kappa vertical bar<10(-26)m(5)kg(-1)s(-2).
Address [Delhom, Adria] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Ctr Mixto Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, Valencia 46100, Spain, Email: adria.delhom@uv.es
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN 1434-6044 ISBN Medium
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Notes WOS:000530369100001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration no
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4387
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Author Huang, F.; Sanz, V.; Shu, J.; Xue, X.
Title LIGO as a probe of dark sectors Type Journal Article
Year 2021 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. D
Volume 104 Issue 10 Pages 095001 - 9pp
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Abstract (down) We show how current LIGO data is able to probe interesting theories beyond the Standard Model, particularly dark sectors where a dark Higgs boson triggers symmetry breaking via a first-order phase transition. We use publicly available LIGO O2 data to illustrate how these sectors, even if disconnected from the Standard Model, can be probed by gravitational wave detectors. We link the LIGO measurements with the model content and mass scale of the dark sector, finding that current O2 data are testing a broad set of scenarios that can be mapped into many different types of dark-sector models where the breaking of SU(N) theories with Nf fermions is triggered by a dark Higgs boson at scales ? similar or equal to 108-109 GeV with reasonable parameters for the scalar potential.
Address [Huang, Fei; Shu, Jing; Xue, Xiao] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Theoret Phys, CAS Key Lab Theoret Phys, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China, Email: huangf4@uci.edu;
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Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN 2470-0010 ISBN Medium
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Notes WOS:000716446500001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5021
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Author Caputo, A.; Esposito, A.; Polosa, A.D.
Title Sub-MeV dark matter and the Goldstone modes of superfluid helium Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. D
Volume 100 Issue 11 Pages 116007 - 6pp
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Abstract (down) We show how a relativistic effective field theory for the superfluid phase of 4 He can replace the standard methods used to compute the production rates of low-momentum excitations due to the interaction with an external probe. This is done by studying the scattering problem of a light dark matter particle in the superfluid and comparing to some existing results. We show that the rate of emission of two phonons, the Goldstone modes of the effective theory, gets strongly suppressed for sub-MeV dark matter particles due to a fine cancellation between two different tree-level diagrams in the limit of small exchanged momenta. This phenomenon is found to be a consequence of the particular choice of the potential felt by the dark matter particle in helium. The predicted rates can vary by orders of magnitude if this potential is changed. We prove that the dominant contribution to the total emission rate is provided by excitations in the phonon branch. Finally, we analyze the angular distributions for the emissions of one and two phonons and discuss how they can be used to measure the mass of the hypothetical dark matter particle hitting the helium target.
Address [Caputo, Andrea] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Edificio Inst Invest,Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, Paterna 46980, Spain
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Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
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Notes WOS:000501488800008 Approved no
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Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4222
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Author Brandao, P.C.S.; Song, J.; Abreu, L.M.; Oset, E.
Title B+ decay to K+ ηη with (ηη) from the D bar-D(3720) bound state Type Journal Article
Year 2023 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. D
Volume 108 Issue 5 Pages 054004 - 6pp
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Abstract (down) We search for a B decay mode where one can find a peak for a DD bound state predicted in effective theories and in lattice QCD calculations, which has also been claimed from some reactions that show an accumulated strength in D D over bar production at threshold. We find a good candidate in the B+-> K+eta eta reaction, by looking at the eta eta mass distribution. The reaction proceeds via a first step in which one has the B+-> D*+ D-0 reaction followed by D*(+) (s) decay to (DK+)-K-0 and a posterior fusion of D-0 over bar D-0 to eta eta, implemented through a triangle diagram that allows the D-0 over bar D-0 to be virtual and to produce the bound state. The choice of eta eta to see the peak is based on results of calculations that find the eta eta among the light pseudoscalar channels with stronger coupling to the D D over bar bound state. We find a neat peak around the predicted mass of that state in the eta eta mass distribution, with an integrated branching ratio for B+-> K+ (D D, bound); (D D, bound) -> eta eta of the order of 1.5 x 10(-4), a large number for hadronic B decays, which should motivate its experimental search.
Address [Brandao, Pedro C. S.; Abreu, Luciano M.; Oset, E.] Univ Fed Bahia, Inst Fis, Campus Ondina, BR-40170115 Salvador, BA, Brazil, Email: pedro.brandao@ufba.br;
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Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 2470-0010 ISBN Medium
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Notes WOS:001085561600001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5765
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Author Barenboim, G.; Chen, J.Z.; Hannestad, S.; Oldengott, I.M.; Tram, T.; Wong, Y.Y.Y.
Title Invisible neutrino decay in precision cosmology Type Journal Article
Year 2021 Publication Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Abbreviated Journal J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
Volume 03 Issue 3 Pages 087 - 53pp
Keywords cosmological neutrinos; neutrino properties; CMBR theory; cosmological parameters from CMBR
Abstract (down) We revisit the topic of invisible neutrino decay in the precision cosmological context, via a first-principles approach to understanding the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure phenomenology of such a non-standard physics scenario. Assuming an effective Lagrangian in which a heavier standard-model neutrino nu(H) couples to a lighter one nu(l) and a massless scalar particle phi via a Yukawa interaction, we derive from first principles the complete set of Boltzmann equations, at both the spatially homogeneous and the firstorder inhomogeneous levels, for the phase space densities of nu(H), nu(l), and phi in the presence of the relevant decay and inverse decay processes. With this set of equations in hand, we perform a critical survey of recent works on cosmological invisible neutrino decay in both limits of decay while nu(H) is ultra-relativistic and non-relativistic. Our two main findings are: (i) in the non-relativistic limit, the effective equations of motion used to describe perturbations in the neutrino-scalar system in the existing literature formally violate momentum conservation and gauge invariance, and (ii) in the ultra-relativistic limit, exponential damping of the anisotropic stress does not occur at the commonly-used rate Gamma(T) = (1/tau(0))( m(nu H)/E-nu H)(3), but at a rate similar to (1/ tau(0))(m(nu H)/E-nu H)(5). Both results are model-independent. The impact of the former finding on the cosmology of invisible neutrino decay is likely small. The latter, however, implies a significant revision of the cosmological limit on the neutrino lifetime tau(0) from tau(old)(0) greater than or similar to 1.2 x 10(9) s (m(nu H)/50 meV)(3) to tau(0) greater than or similar to (4 x 10(5) -> 4 x 10(6)) s (m(nu H)/50 meV)(5).
Address [Barenboim, Gabriela; Oldengott, Isabel M.] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, Burjassot 46100, Spain, Email: gabriela.barenboim@uv.es;
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Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 1475-7516 ISBN Medium
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Notes WOS:000636717400082 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4782
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