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Author Consiglio, R.; de Salas, P.F.; Mangano, G.; Miele, G.; Pastor, S.; Pisanti, O.
Title PArthENoPE reloaded Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication (up) Computer Physics Communications Abbreviated Journal Comput. Phys. Commun.
Volume 233 Issue Pages 237-242
Keywords Primordial nucleosynthesis; Cosmology; Neutrino physics
Abstract We describe the main features of a new and updated version of the program PArthENoPE, which computes the abundances of light elements produced during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. As the previous first release in 2008, the new one, PArthENoPE2.0, is publicly available and distributed from the code site, http://parthenope.na.infn.it . Apart from minor changes, which will be also detailed, the main improvements are as follows. The powerful, but not freely accessible, NAG routines have been substituted by ODEPACK libraries, without any significant loss in precision. Moreover, we have developed a Graphical User Interface (GUI) which allows a friendly use of the code and a simpler implementation of running for grids of input parameters. New Version program summary Program Title: PArthENoPE2.0 Program Files doi : http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/wvgr7d8yt9.1 Licensing provisions: GPLv3 Programming language: Fortran 77 and Python Supplementary material: User Manual available on the web page http://parthenope.na.infn.it Journal reference of previous version: Comput. Phys. Commun. 178 (2008) 956 971 Does the new version supersede the previous version?: Yes Reasons for the new version: Make the code more versatile and user friendly Summary of revisions: (1) Publicly available libraries (2) GUI for configuration Nature of problem: Computation of yields of light elements synthesized in the primordial universe Solution method: Livermore Solver for Ordinary Differential Equations (LSODE) for stiff and nonstiff systems
Address [Consiglio, R.; Miele, G.; Pisanti, O.] Univ Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento Fis E Pancini, Via Cintia, I-80126 Naples, Italy, Email: pisanti@na.infn.it
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Publisher Elsevier Science Bv Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0010-4655 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000444667100020 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3729
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Author Gariazzo, S.; de Salas, P.F.; Pisanti, O.; Consiglio, R.
Title PArthENoPE revolutions Type Journal Article
Year 2022 Publication (up) Computer Physics Communications Abbreviated Journal Comput. Phys. Commun.
Volume 271 Issue Pages 108205 - 13pp
Keywords Primordial nucleosynthesis; Cosmology; Neutrino physics
Abstract This paper presents the main features of a new and updated version of the program PArthENoPE, which the community has been using for many years for computing the abundances of light elements produced during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. This is the third release of the PArthENoPE code, after the 2008 and the 2018 ones, and will be distributed from the code's website, http://parthenope.na.infn.it. Apart from minor changes, the main improvements in this new version include a revisited implementation of the nuclear rates for the most important reactions of deuterium destruction, H-2(p,gamma) He-3, H-2(d, n)He-3 and H-2(d, p)H-3, and a re-designed GUI, which extends the functionality of the previous one. The new GUI, in particular, supersedes the previous tools for running over grids of parameters with a better management of parallel runs, and it offers a brand-new set of functions for plotting the results. Program summary Program title: PArthENoPE 3.0 CPC Library link to program files: https://doi.org/10.17632/wygr7d8yt9.2 Developer's repository link: http://parthenope.na.infn.it Licensing provisions: GPLv3 Programming language: Fortran 77 and Python Nature of problem: Computation of yields of light elements synthesized in the primordial universe Solution method: Livermore Solver for Ordinary Differential Equations (LSODE) for stiff and nonstiff systems, Python GUI for running and plotting Journal reference of previous version: Comput. Phys. Commun. 233 (2018) 237-242 Does the new version supersede the previous version?: Yes Reasons for the new version: Update of the physics and improvements in the GUI Summary of revisions: Update of the physics implemented in the Fortran code and improvements in the GUI functionalities, in particular new plotting functions.
Address [Gariazzo, S.] INFN, Sez Torino, Via P Giuria 1, I-10125 Turin, Italy, Email: pisanti@na.infn.it
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0010-4655 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000720461800020 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5027
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Author Villanueva-Domingo, P.; Mena, O.; Palomares-Ruiz, S.
Title A Brief Review on Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Type Journal Article
Year 2021 Publication (up) Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences Abbreviated Journal Front. Astron. Space Sci.
Volume 8 Issue Pages 681084 - 10pp
Keywords primordial black holes; dark matter; cosmology; accretion; 21 cm cosmology; gravitational waves; cosmic microwave background; microlensing
Abstract Primordial black holes (PBHs) represent a natural candidate for one of the components of the dark matter (DM) in the Universe. In this review, we shall discuss the basics of their formation, abundance and signatures. Some of their characteristic signals are examined, such as the emission of particles due to Hawking evaporation and the accretion of the surrounding matter, effects which could leave an impact in the evolution of the Universe and the formation of structures. The most relevant probes capable of constraining their masses and population are discussed.
Address [Villanueva-Domingo, Pablo; Mena, Olga; Palomares-Ruiz, Sergio] CSIC Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular IFIC, Paterna, Spain, Email: pablo.villanueva.domingo@gmail.com
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Publisher Frontiers Media Sa Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 2296-987x ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000660081700001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration no
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4852
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Author Panotopoulos, G.
Title A dynamical dark energy model with a given luminosity distance Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication (up) General Relativity and Gravitation Abbreviated Journal Gen. Relativ. Gravit.
Volume 43 Issue 11 Pages 3191-3199
Keywords Dark energy; Observational cosmology; Particle-theory
Abstract It is assumed that the current cosmic acceleration is driven by a scalar field, the Lagrangian of which is a function of the kinetic term only, and that the luminosity distance is a given function of the red-shift. Upon comparison with baryon acoustic oscillations and cosmic microwave background data the parameters of the models are determined, and then the time evolution of the scalar field is determined by the dynamics using the cosmological equations. We find that the solution is very different than the corresponding solution when the non-relativistic matter is ignored, and that the universe enters the acceleration era at larger red-shift compared to the standard I > CDM model.
Address [Panotopoulos, G] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: Grigoris.Panotopoulos@uv.es
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Publisher Springer/Plenum Publishers Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0001-7701 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000295982800015 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration no
Call Number IFIC @ elepoucu @ Serial 782
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Author Bordes, J.; Chan, H.M.; Tsou, S.T.
Title A vacuum transition in the FSM with a possible new take on the horizon problem in cosmology Type Journal Article
Year 2023 Publication (up) International Journal of Modern Physics A Abbreviated Journal Int. J. Mod. Phys. A
Volume 38 Issue 25 Pages 2350124 - 32pp
Keywords Framed standard model; phase transition; early Universe; cosmology
Abstract The framed standard model (FSM), constructed to explain the empirical mass and mixing patterns (including CP phases) of quarks and leptons, in which it has done quite well, gives otherwise the same result as the standard model (SM) in almost all areas in particle physics where the SM has been successfully applied, except for a few specified deviations such as the W mass and the g-2 of muons, that is, just where experiment is showing departures from what SM predicts. It predicts further the existence of a hidden sector of particles some of which may function as dark matter. In this paper, we first note that the above results involve, surprisingly, the FSM undergoing a vacuum transition (VTR1) at a scale of around 17MeV, where the vacuum expectation values of the colour framons (framed vectors promoted into fields) which are all nonzero above that scale acquire some vanishing components below it. This implies that the metric pertaining to these vanishing components would vanish also. Important consequences should then ensue, but these occur mostly in the unknown hidden sector where empirical confirmation is hard at present to come by, but they give small reflections in the standard sector, some of which may have already been seen. However, one notes that if, going off at a tangent, one imagines colour to be embedded, Kaluza-Klein (KK) fashion, into a higher-dimensional space-time, then this VTR1 would cause 2 of the compactified dimensions to collapse. This might mean then that when the universe cooled to the corresponding temperature of 1011 K when it was about 10-3 s old, this VTR1 collapse would cause the three spatial dimensions of the universe to expand to compensate. The resultant expansion is estimated, using FSM parameters previously determined from particle physics, to be capable, when extrapolated backwards in time, of bringing the present universe back inside the then horizon, solving thus formally the horizon problem. Besides, VTR1 being a global phenomenon in the FSM, it would switch on and off automatically and simultaneously over all space, thus requiring seemingly no additional strategy for a graceful exit. However, this scenario has not been checked for consistency with other properties of the universe and is to be taken thus not as a candidate solution of the horizon problem but only as an observation from particle physics which might be of interest to cosmologists and experts in the early universe. For particle physicists also, it might serve as an indicator for how relevant this VTR1 can be, even if the KK assumption is not made.
Address [Bordes, Jose] Univ Valencia, Ctr Mixto CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, Calle Dr Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain, Email: jose.m.bordes@uv.es;
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Publisher World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0217-751x ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:001099552500002 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5803
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Author Jimenez, R.; Kitching, T.; Pena-Garay, C.; Verde, L.
Title Can we measure the neutrino mass hierarchy in the sky? Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication (up) Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Abbreviated Journal J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
Volume 05 Issue 5 Pages 035 - 14pp
Keywords cosmological neutrinos; neutrino masses from cosmology; power spectrum; gravitational lensing
Abstract Cosmological probes are steadily reducing the total neutrino mass window, resulting in constraints on the neutrino-mass degeneracy as the most significant outcome. In this work we explore the discovery potential of cosmological probes to constrain the neutrino hierarchy, and point out some subtleties that could yield spurious claims of detection. This has an important implication for next generation of double beta decay experiments, that will be able to achieve a positive signal in the case of degenerate or inverted hierarchy of Majorana neutrinos. We find that cosmological experiments that nearly cover the whole sky could in principle distinguish the neutrino hierarchy by yielding 'substantial' evidence for one scenario over the another, via precise measurements of the shape of the matter power spectrum from large scale structure and weak gravitational lensing.
Address [Jimenez, Raul; Verde, Licia] Univ Barcelona, ICREA, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain, Email: raul.jimenez@icc.ub.edu
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1475-7516 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes ISI:000279490800005 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ elepoucu @ Serial 418
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Author Boubekeur, L.; Choi, K.Y.; Ruiz de Austri, R.; Vives, O.
Title The degenerate gravitino scenario Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication (up) Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Abbreviated Journal J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
Volume 04 Issue 4 Pages 005 - 26pp
Keywords dark matter theory; leptogenesis; supersymmetry and cosmology; cosmology of theories beyond the SM
Abstract In this work, we explore the “degenerate gravitino” scenario where the mass difference between the gravitino and the lightest MSSM particle is much smaller than the gravitino mass itself. In this case, the energy released in the decay of the next to lightest sypersymmetric particle (NLSP) is reduced. Consequently the cosmological and astrophysical constraints on the gravitino abundance, and hence on the reheating temperature, become softer than in the usual case. On the other hand, such small mass splittings generically imply a much longer lifetime for the NLSP. We find that, in the constrained MSSM (CMSSM), for neutralino LSP or NLSP, reheating temperatures compatible with thermal leptogenesis are reached for small splittings of order 10(-2) GeV. While for stau NLSP, temperatures of T-RH similar or equal to 4 x 10(9) GeV can be obtained even for splittings of order of tens of GeVs. This “degenerate gravitino” scenario offers a possible way out to the gravitino problem for thermal leptogenesis in supersymmetric theories.
Address [Boubekeur, Lotfi; Vives, Oscar] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: lotfi.boubekeur@uv.es
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1475-7516 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes ISI:000277684600028 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ elepoucu @ Serial 453
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Author Jackson, C.B.; Servant, G.; Shaughnessy, G.; Tait, T.M.P.; Taoso, M.
Title Higgs in space! Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication (up) Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Abbreviated Journal J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
Volume 04 Issue 4 Pages 004 - 29pp
Keywords dark matter theory; dark matter experiments; gamma ray experiments; cosmology of theories beyond the SM
Abstract We consider the possibility that the Higgs can be produced in dark matter annihilations, appearing as a line in the spectrum of gamma rays at an energy determined by the masses of the WIMP and the Higgs itself. We argue that this phenomenon occurs generally in models in which the the dark sector has large couplings to the most massive states of the SM and provide a simple example inspired by the Randall-Sundrum vision of dark matter, whose 4d dual corresponds to electroweak symmetry-breaking by strong dynamics which respect global symmetries that guarantee a stable WIMP. The dark matter is a Dirac fermion that couples to a Z' acting as a portal to the Standard Model through its strong coupling to top quarks. Annihilation into light standard model degrees of freedom is suppressed and generates a feeble continuum spectrum of gamma rays. Loops of top quarks mediate annihilation into gamma Z, gamma h, and gamma Z', providing a forest of lines in the spectrum. Such models can be probed by the Fermi/GLAST satellite and ground-based Air Cherenkov telescopes.
Address [Jackson, C. B.; Shaughnessy, Gabe; Tait, Tim M. P.] Argonne Natl Lab, HEP Div, Argonne, IL 60439 USA, Email: jackson@hep.anl.gov
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Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1475-7516 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes ISI:000277684600029 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ elepoucu @ Serial 454
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Author Choi, K.Y.; Lopez-Fogliani, D.E.; Muñoz, C.; Ruiz de Austri, R.
Title Gamma-ray detection from gravitino dark matter decay in the μnu SSM Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication (up) Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Abbreviated Journal J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
Volume 03 Issue 3 Pages 028 - 14pp
Keywords dark matter theory; supersymmetry and cosmology; gamma ray experiments
Abstract The μnu SSM provides a solution to the mu-problem of the MSSM and explains the origin of neutrino masses by simply using right-handed neutrino superfields. Given that R-parity is broken in this model, the gravitino is a natural candidate for dark matter since its lifetime becomes much longer than the age of the Universe. We consider the implications of gravitino dark matter in the μnu SSM, analyzing in particular the prospects for detecting gamma rays from decaying gravitinos. If the gravitino explains the whole dark matter component, a gravitino mass larger than 20 GeV is disfavored by the isotropic diffuse photon background measurements. On the other hand, a gravitino with a mass range between 0.1 – 20 GeV gives rise to a signal that might be observed by the FERMI satellite. In this way important regions of the parameter space of the μnu SSM can be checked.
Address [Choi, Ki-Young; Munoz, Carlos] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Fis Teor, E-28049 Madrid, Spain, Email: kiyoung.choi@pusan.ac.kr
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1475-7516 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes ISI:000276103000006 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ elepoucu @ Serial 464
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Author Reid, B.A.; Verde, L.; Jimenez, R.; Mena, O.
Title Robust neutrino constraints by combining low redshift observations with the CMB Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication (up) Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Abbreviated Journal J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.
Volume 01 Issue 1 Pages 003 - 21pp
Keywords cluster counts; cosmological parameters from LSS; neutrino masses from cosmology; cosmological parameters from CMBR
Abstract We illustrate how recently improved low-redshift cosmological measurements can tighten constraints on neutrino properties. In particular we examine the impact of the assumed cosmological model on the constraints. We first consider the new HST H-0 = 74.2 +/- 3.6 measurement by Riess et al. (2009) and the sigma(8)(Omega(m)/0.25)(0.41) = 0.832 +/- 0.033 constraint from Rozo et al. (2009) derived from the SDSS maxBCG Cluster Catalog. In a ACDM model and when combined with WMAP5 constraints, these low-redshift measurements constrain Sigma m(v) < 0.4 eV at the 95% confidence level. This bound does not relax when allowing for the running of the spectral index or for primordial tensor perturbations. When adding also Supernovae and BAO constraints, we obtain a 95% upper limit of Sigma m(v) < 0.3eV. We test the sensitivity of the neutrino mass constraint to the assumed expansion history by both allowing a dark energy equation of state parameter w not equal -1 and by studying a model with coupling between dark energy and dark matter, which allows for variation in w, Omega(k), and dark coupling strength xi. When combining CMB, H-0 and the SDSS LRG halo power spectrum from Reid et al. 2009, we find that in this very general model, Sigma m(v) < 0.51 eV with 95% confidence. If we allow the number of relativistic species N-rel to vary in a ACDM model with Sigma m(v) = 0, we find N-rel = 3.76(-0.68)(+0.63)(+1.38 -1.21) for the 68% and 95% confidence intervals. We also report prior-independent constraints, which are in excellent agreement with the Bayesian constraints.
Address [Reid, Beth A.] Univ Barcelona, Inst Sci Cosmos ICC, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain, Email: beth.ann.reid@gmail.com
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Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1475-7516 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes ISI:000273314600008 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ elepoucu @ Serial 511
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