Phenomenology of lepton masses and mixing with discrete flavor symmetries

G Chauhan, PSB Dev, I Dubovyk, B Dziewit… - Progress in Particle and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The observed pattern of fermion masses and mixing is an outstanding puzzle in particle
physics, generally known as the flavor problem. Over the years, guided by precision neutrino …

Theory of nematic charge orders in kagome metals

F Grandi, A Consiglio, MA Sentef, R Thomale… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Kagome metals AV 3 Sb 5 (A= K, Rb, Cs) exhibit an exotic charge order (CO), involving
three order parameters, with broken translation and time-reversal symmetries compatible …

Supercool exit: Gravitational waves from QCD-triggered conformal symmetry breaking

L Sagunski, P Schicho, D Schmitt - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Classically conformal Standard Model extensions predict an intriguing thermal history of the
early Universe. In contrast to the common paradigm, the onset of the electroweak phase …

Gravitational waves from first-order phase transitions in LISA: reconstruction pipeline and physics interpretation

C Caprini, R Jinno, M Lewicki, E Madge… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We develop a tool for the analysis of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds from
cosmological first-order phase transitions with LISA: we initiate a template databank for …

Primordial black hole archaeology with gravitational waves from cosmic strings

A Ghoshal, Y Gouttenoire, L Heurtier… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Light primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses smaller than 10 9 g (10− 24 M⊙)
evaporate before the onset of Big-Bang nucleosynthesis, rendering their detection rather …

Conformal model for gravitational waves and dark matter: a status update

M Kierkla, A Karam, B Świeżewska - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We present an updated analysis of the first-order phase transition associated with
symmetry breaking in the early Universe in a classically scale-invariant model extended with …

Primordial black holes as dark matter: interferometric tests of phase transition origin

I Baldes, MO Olea-Romacho - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We show that primordial black holes—in the observationally allowed mass window
with f PBH= 1—formed from late nucleating patches in a first order phase transition imply …

Gravitational wave signatures of a PBH-generated baryon-dark matter coincidence

B Barman, D Borah, SJ Das, R Roshan - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We propose a new way of probing the nonthermal origin of baryon asymmetry of the
Universe (BAU) and dark matter (DM) from evaporating primordial black holes (PBHs) via …

PBH-infused seesaw origin of matter and unique gravitational waves

D Borah, SJ Das, FR Urban - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract The Standard Model, extended with three right-handed (RH) neutrinos, is the
simplest model that can explain light neutrino masses, the baryon asymmetry of the …

Leptogenesis triggered by a first-order phase transition

P Huang, KP Xie - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We propose a new scenario of leptogenesis, which is triggered by a first-order
phase transition (FOPT). The right-handed neutrinos (RHNs) are massless in the old …