Challenges and opportunities of gravitational-wave searches at MHz to GHz frequencies

N Aggarwal, OD Aguiar, A Bauswein, G Cella… - Living reviews in …, 2021 - Springer
The first direct measurement of gravitational waves by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations
has opened up new avenues to explore our Universe. This white paper outlines the …

The first three seconds: a review of possible expansion histories of the early universe

R Allahverdi, MA Amin, A Berlin, N Bernal… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
It is commonly assumed that the energy density of the Universe was dominated by radiation
between reheating after inflation and the onset of matter domination 54,000 years later …

Oscillating scalar fields and the Hubble tension: a resolution with novel signatures

TL Smith, V Poulin, MA Amin - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We present a detailed investigation of a subdominant oscillating scalar field [“early dark
energy”(EDE)] in the context of resolving the Hubble tension. Consistent with earlier work …

Large-misalignment mechanism for the formation of compact axion structures: Signatures from the QCD axion to fuzzy dark matter

A Arvanitaki, S Dimopoulos, M Galanis, L Lehner… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Axions are some of the best motivated particles beyond the Standard Model. We show how
the attractive self-interactions of dark matter (DM) axions over a broad range of masses, from …

Boson stars and oscillatons: A review

L Visinelli - International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2021 - World Scientific
Compact objects occupy a pivotal role in the exploration of Nature. The interest spans from
the role of compact objects in astrophysics to their detection through various methods …

Inflaton oscillations and post-inflationary reheating

MAG Garcia, K Kaneta, Y Mambrini… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze in detail the perturbative decay of the inflaton oscillating about a generic form of
its potential V (ϕ)= ϕ k, taking into account the effects of non-instantaneous reheating. We …

Reheating and post-inflationary production of dark matter

MAG Garcia, K Kaneta, Y Mambrini, KA Olive - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We perform a systematic analysis of dark matter production during postinflationary
reheating. Following the period of exponential expansion, the inflaton begins a period of …

Rock 'n'roll solutions to the Hubble tension

P Agrawal, FY Cyr-Racine, D Pinner… - Physics of the Dark …, 2023 - Elsevier
Local measurements of the Hubble parameter are increasingly in tension with the value
inferred from a Λ CDM fit to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. In this paper, we …

The gravitational-wave physics II: Progress

L Bian, RG Cai, S Cao, Z Cao, H Gao, ZK Guo… - Science China Physics …, 2021 - Springer
It has been a half-decade since the first direct detection of gravitational waves, which
signifies the coming of the era of the gravitational-wave astronomy and gravitational-wave …

How warm are non-thermal relics? Lyman-α bounds on out-of-equilibrium dark matter

G Ballesteros, MAG Garcia… - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the power spectrum of Non-Cold Dark Matter (NCDM) produced in a state out
of thermal equilibrium. We consider dark matter production from the decay of scalar …