Detection of early-universe gravitational-wave signatures and fundamental physics

R Caldwell, Y Cui, HK Guo, V Mandic, A Mariotti… - General relativity and …, 2022 - Springer
Detection of a gravitational-wave signal of non-astrophysical origin would be a landmark
discovery, potentially providing a significant clue to some of our most basic, big-picture …

Astrophysics with continuous gravitational waves

B Haskell, M Bejger - Nature Astronomy, 2023 - nature.com
Direct detection of gravitational waves has become a powerful new tool of multi-messenger
astrophysics. Apart from short-duration (transient) events, such as the inspirals and mergers …

Irreducible axion background

K Langhoff, NJ Outmezguine, NL Rodd - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Searches for dark matter decaying into photons constrain its lifetime to be many orders of
magnitude larger than the age of the Universe. A corollary statement is that the abundance …

Unveiling dark matter free streaming at the smallest scales with the high redshift Lyman-alpha forest

V Iršič, M Viel, MG Haehnelt, JS Bolton, M Molaro… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
This study introduces novel constraints on the free streaming of thermal relic warm dark
matter (WDM) from Lyman-α forest flux power spectra. Our analysis utilizes a high resolution …

The Future of US Particle Physics--The Snowmass 2021 Energy Frontier Report

M Narain, L Reina, A Tricoli, M Begel, A Belloni… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This report, as part of the 2021 Snowmass Process, summarizes the current status of collider
physics at the Energy Frontier, the broad and exciting future prospects identified for the …

Can LIGO Detect Nonannihilating Dark Matter?

S Bhattacharya, B Dasgupta, R Laha, A Ray - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
Dark matter (DM) from the galactic halo can accumulate in neutron stars and transmute them
into sub-2.5 M⊙ black holes if the dark matter particles are heavy, stable, and have …

Gravitational waves from stochastic scalar fluctuations

R Ebadi, S Kumar, A McCune, H Tai, LT Wang - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We present a novel mechanism for gravitational wave generation in the early Universe. Light
spectator scalar fields during inflation can acquire a blue-tilted power spectrum due to …

Closing the window on fuzzy dark matter with the 21-cm signal

J Flitter, ED Kovetz - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a well-motivated candidate for dark matter (DM) as its tiny mass
and large de-Broglie wavelength suppress small-scale matter fluctuations, thereby solving …

Celestial objects as strongly-interacting nonannihilating dark matter detectors

A Ray - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Nonannihilating dark matter particles, owing to their interactions with ordinary baryonic
matter, can efficiently accumulate inside celestial objects. For heavy mass, they gravitate …

Dark matter annihilation inside large-volume neutrino detectors

D McKeen, DE Morrissey, M Pospelov, H Ramani… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
New particles in theories beyond the standard model can manifest as stable relics that
interact strongly with visible matter and make up a small fraction of the total dark matter …