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Fileviez Perez, P.; Murgui, C.; Plascencia, A.D. |
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Axion dark matter, proton decay and unification |
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2020 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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01 |
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1 |
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091 - 18pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; GUT |
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We discuss the possibility to predict the QCD axion mass in the context of grand unified theories. We investigate the implementation of the DFSZ mechanism in the context of renormalizable SU(5) theories. In the simplest theory, the axion mass can be predicted with good precision in the range m(a) = (2-16) neV, and there is a strong correlation between the predictions for the axion mass and proton decay rates. In this context, we predict an upper bound for the proton decay channels with antineutrinos, tau(p -> K+(nu) over bar) less than or similar to 4 x 10(37) yr and tau(p -> pi(+)(nu) over bar) less than or similar to 2 x 10(36) yr. This theory can be considered as the minimal realistic grand unified theory with the DFSZ mechanism and it can be fully tested by proton decay and axion experiments. |
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[Fileviez Perez, Pavel; Plascencia, Alexis D.] Case Western Reserve Univ, Phys Dept, Cleveland, OH 44106 USA, Email: pxf112@case.edu; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Escudero, M.; Lopez-Pavon, J.; Rius, N.; Sandner, S. |
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Relaxing cosmological neutrino mass bounds with unstable neutrinos |
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2020 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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12 |
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12 |
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119 - 44pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Neutrino Physics |
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At present, cosmological observations set the most stringent bound on the neutrino mass scale. Within the standard cosmological model (Lambda CDM), the Planck collaboration reports Sigma m(v)< 0.12 eV at 95 % CL. This bound, taken at face value, excludes many neutrino mass models. However, unstable neutrinos, with lifetimes shorter than the age of the universe <tau>(nu) less than or similar to t(U), represent a particle physics avenue to relax this constraint. Motivated by this fact, we present a taxonomy of neutrino decay modes, categorizing them in terms of particle content and final decay products. Taking into account the relevant phenomenological bounds, our analysis shows that 2-body decaying neutrinos into BSM particles are a promising option to relax cosmological neutrino mass bounds. We then build a simple extension of the type I seesaw scenario by adding one sterile state nu (4) and a Goldstone boson phi, in which nu (i)-> nu (4)phi decays can loosen the neutrino mass bounds up to Sigma m(v) similar to 1 eV, without spoiling the light neutrino mass generation mechanism. Remarkably, this is possible for a large range of the right-handed neutrino masses, from the electroweak up to the GUT scale. We successfully implement this idea in the context of minimal neutrino mass models based on a U(1)(mu-tau) flavor symmetry, which are otherwise in tension with the current bound on Sigma m(v). |
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[Escudero, Miguel] Kings Coll London, Dept Phys, Theoret Particle Phys & Cosmol Grp, London WC2R 2LS, England, Email: miguel.escudero@kcl.ac.uk; |
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WOS:000601400500005 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Bloch, I.M.; Caputo, A.; Essig, R.; Redigolo, D.; Sholapurkar, M.; Volansky, T. |
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Exploring new physics with O(keV) electron recoils in direct detection experiments |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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01 |
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1 |
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178 - 63pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM |
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Motivated by the recent XENON1T results, we explore various new physics models that can be discovered through searches for electron recoils in O(keV)-threshold direct-detection experiments. First, we consider the absorption of axion-like particles, dark photons, and scalars, either as dark matter relics or being produced directly in the Sun. In the latter case, we find that keV mass bosons produced in the Sun provide an adequate fit to the data but are excluded by stellar cooling constraints. We address this tension by introducing a novel Chameleon-like axion model, which can explain the excess while evading the stellar bounds. We find that absorption of bosonic dark matter provides a viable explanation for the excess only if the dark matter is a dark photon or an axion. In the latter case, photophobic axion couplings are necessary to avoid X-ray constraints. Second, we analyze models of dark matter-electron scattering to determine which models might explain the excess. Standard scattering of dark matter with electrons is generically in conflict with data from lower-threshold experiments. Momentum-dependent interactions with a heavy mediator can fit the data with dark matter mass heavier than a GeV but are generically in tension with collider constraints. Next, we consider dark matter consisting of two (or more) states that have a small mass splitting. The exothermic (down)scattering of the heavier state to the lighter state can fit the data for keV mass splittings. Finally, we consider a subcomponent of dark matter that is accelerated by scattering off cosmic rays, finding that dark matter interacting though an O(100 keV)-mass mediator can fit the data. The cross sections required in this scenario are, however, typically challenged by complementary probes of the light mediator. Throughout our study, we implement an unbinned Monte Carlo analysis and use an improved energy reconstruction of the XENON1T events. |
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[Bloch, Itay M.; Volansky, Tomer] Tel Aviv Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel, Email: itay.bloch.m@gmail.com; |
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WOS:000616257000001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4713 |
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Bernal, N.; Donini, A.; Folgado, M.G.; Rius, N. |
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FIMP Dark Matter in Clockwork/Linear Dilaton extra-dimensions |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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04 |
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4 |
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061 - 29pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Large Extra Dimensions |
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We study the possibility that Dark Matter (DM) is made of Feebly Interacting Massive Particles (FIMP) interacting just gravitationally with the Standard Model particles in the framework of a Clockwork/Linear Dilaton (CW/LD) model. We restrict here to the case in which the DM particles are scalar fields. This paper extends our previous study of FIMP's in Randall-Sundrum (RS) warped extra-dimensions. As it was the case in the RS scenario, also in the CW/LD model we find a significant region of the parameter space in which the observed DM relic abundance can be reproduced with scalar DM mass in the MeV range, with a reheating temperature varying from 10 GeV to 10(9) GeV. We comment on the similarities of the results in both extra-dimensional models. |
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[Bernal, Nicolas] Univ Antonio Narino, Ctr Invest, Carrera 3 Este 47A-15, Bogota, Colombia, Email: nicolas.bernal@uan.edu.co; |
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WOS:000639271100001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4792 |
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Cosme, C.; Dutra, M.; Godfrey, S.; Gray, T. |
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Testing freeze-in with axial and vector Z ' bosons |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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09 |
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9 |
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056 - 27pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM |
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The freeze-in production of Feebly Interacting Massive Particle (FIMP) dark matter in the early universe is an appealing alternative to the well-known – and constrained – Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) paradigm. Although challenging, the phenomenology of FIMP dark matter has been receiving growing attention and is possible in a few scenarios. In this work, we contribute to this endeavor by considering a Z ' portal to fermionic dark matter, with the Z ' having both vector and axial couplings and a mass ranging from MeV up to PeV. We evaluate the bounds on both freeze-in and freeze-out from direct detection, atomic parity violation, leptonic anomalous magnetic moments, neutrino-electron scattering, collider, and beam dump experiments. We show that FIMPs can already be tested by most of these experiments in a complementary way, whereas WIMPs are especially viable in the Z ' low mass regime, in addition to the Z ' resonance region. We also discuss the role of the axial couplings of Z ' in our results. We therefore hope to motivate specific realizations of this model in the context of FIMPs, as well as searches for these elusive dark matter candidates. |
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[Cosme, Catarina; Dutra, Maira; Godfrey, Stephen; Gray, Taylor] Carleton Univ, Ottawa Carleton Inst Phys, 1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada, Email: catarina.cosme@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000695081900001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4962 |
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Barenboim, G.; Blinov, N.; Stebbins, A. |
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Smallest remnants of early matter domination |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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12 |
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12 |
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026 - 50pp |
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cosmology of theories beyond the SM; physics of the early universe; cosmological perturbation theory |
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The evolution of the universe prior to Big Bang Nucleosynthesis could have gone through a phase of early matter domination which enhanced the growth of small-scale dark matter structure. If this period was long enough, self-gravitating objects formed prior to reheating. We study the evolution of these dense early halos through reheating. At the end of early matter domination, the early halos undergo rapid expansion and eventually eject their matter. We find that this process washes out structure on scales much larger than naively expected from the size of the original halos. We compute the density profiles of the early halo remnants and use them to construct late-time power spectra that include these non-linear effects. We evolve the resulting power spectrum to estimate the properties of microhalos that would form after matter-radiation equality. Surprisingly, cosmologies with a short period of early matter domination lead to an earlier onset of microhalo formation compared to those with a long period. In either case, dark matter structure formation begins much earlier than in the standard cosmology, with most dark matter bound in microhalos in the late universe. |
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[Barenboim, Gabriela] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: Gabriela.Barenboim@uv.es; |
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WOS:000734341100008 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5060 |
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Garani, R.; Gasparotto, F.; Mastrolia, P.; Munch, H.J.; Palomares-Ruiz, S.; Primo, A. |
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Two-photon exchange in leptophilic dark matter scenarios |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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12 |
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12 |
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212 - 42pp |
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Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Effective Field Theories; Integrable Hierarchies |
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In leptophilic scenarios, dark matter interactions with nuclei, relevant for direct detection experiments and for the capture by celestial objects, could only occur via loop-induced processes. If the mediator is a scalar or pseudo-scalar particle, which only couples to leptons, the dominant contribution to dark matter-nucleus scattering would take place via two-photon exchange with a lepton triangle loop. The corresponding diagrams have been estimated in the literature under different approximations. Here, we present new analytical calculations for one-body two-loop and two-body one-loop interactions. The two-loop form factors are presented in closed analytical form in terms of generalized polylogarithms up to weight four. In both cases, we consider the exact dependence on all the involved scales, and study the dependence on the momentum transfer. We show that some previous approximations fail to correctly predict the scattering cross section by several orders of magnitude. Moreover, we quantitatively show that form factors in the range of momentum transfer relevant for local galactic dark matter, can be significantly smaller than their value at zero momentum transfer, which is the approach usually considered. |
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[Garani, Raghuveer] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, Via G Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, Email: garani@fi.infn.it; |
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WOS:000736468500004 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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D'Eramo, F.; Di Valentino, E.; Giare, W.; Hajkarim, F.; Melchiorri, A.; Mena, O.; Renzi, F.; Yun, S. |
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Cosmological bound on the QCD axion mass, redux |
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2022 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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09 |
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9 |
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022 - 35pp |
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axions; cosmology of theories beyond the SM; cosmological neutrinos; neutrino masses from cosmology |
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We revisit the joint constraints in the mixed hot dark matter scenario in which both thermally produced QCD axions and relic neutrinos are present. Upon recomputing the cosmological axion abundance via recent advances in the literature, we improve the state-of-the-art analyses and provide updated bounds on axion and neutrino masses. By avoiding approximate methods, such as the instantaneous decoupling approximation, and limitations due to the limited validity of the perturbative approach in QCD that forced to artificially divide the constraints from the axion-pion and the axion-gluon production channels, we find robust and self-consistent limits. We investigate the two most popular axion frameworks: KSVZ and DFSZ. From Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) light element abundances data we find for the KSVZ axion Delta N-eff < 0.31 and an axion mass bound m(a) < 0.53 eV (i.e., a bound on the axion decay constant f(a) > 1.07 x 10(7) GeV) both at 95% CL. These BBN bounds are improved to Delta N-eff < 0.14 and m(a) < 0.16 eV (f(a) > 3.56 x 10(7) GeV) if a prior on the baryon energy density from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data is assumed. When instead considering cosmological observations from the CMB temperature, polarization and lensing from the Planck satellite combined with large scale structure data we find Delta N-eff < 0.23, m(a) < 0.28 eV (f(a) > 2.02 x 10(7) GeV) and Sigma m(nu) < 0.16 eV at 95% CL. This corresponds approximately to a factor of 5 improvement in the axion mass bound with respect to the existing limits. Very similar results are obtained for the DFSZ axion. We also forecast upcoming observations from future CMB and galaxy surveys, showing that they could reach percent level errors for m(a) similar to 1 eV. |
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[D'Eramo, Francesco; Hajkarim, Fazlollah; Yun, Seokhoon] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padua, Italy, Email: francesco.deramo@pd.infn.it; |
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WOS:000863296000010 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Maji, R.; Park, W.I. |
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Supersymmetric U(1)B-L flat direction and NANOGrav 15 year data |
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2024 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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01 |
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1 |
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015 - 19pp |
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Cosmic strings; domain walls; monopoles; cosmological phase transitions; cosmology of theories beyond the SM; gravitational waves / sources |
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We show that, when connected with monopoles, the flat D-flat direction breaking the local U(1)B-L symmetry as an extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model can be responsible for the signal of a stochastic gravitational wave background recently reported by NANOGrav collaborations, while naturally satisfying constraints at high frequency band. Thanks to the flatness of the direction, a phase of thermal inflation arises naturally. The reheating temperature is quite low, and suppresses signals at frequencies higher than the characteristic frequency set by the reheating temperature. Notably, forthcoming spaced based experiments such as LISA can probe the cutoff frequency, providing an indirect clue of the scale of soft SUSY-breaking mass parameter. |
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[Maji, Rinku] Jeonbuk Natl Univ, Dept Phys, Lab Symmetry & Struct Universe, Jeonju 54896, South Korea, Email: rinkumaji9792@gmail.com; |
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WOS:001147733000001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Barenboim, G.; Panotopoulos, G. |
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Gravitino dark matter in the constrained next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model with neutralino next-to-lightest superpartner |
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2010 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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011 - 20pp |
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Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Supersymmetric Standard Model |
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The viability of a possible cosmological scenario is investigated. The theoretical framework is the constrained next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model (cNMSSM), with a gravitino playing the role of the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) and a neutralino acting as the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP). All the necessary constraints from colliders and cosmology have been taken into account. For gravitino we have considered the two usual production mechanisms, namely out-of equillibrium decay from the NLSP, and scattering processes from the thermal bath. The maximum allowed reheating temperature after inflation, as well as the maximum allowed gravitino mass are determined. |
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[Barenboim, Gabriela] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, E-46100 Valencia, Spain, Email: gabriela.barenboim@uv.es |
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