A next-generation liquid xenon observatory for dark matter and neutrino physics

J Aalbers, SS AbdusSalam, K Abe… - Journal of Physics G …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in
contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the …

Critical reflections on asymptotically safe gravity

A Bonanno, A Eichhorn, H Gies, JM Pawlowski… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Asymptotic safety is a theoretical proposal for the ultraviolet completion of quantum field
theories, in particular for quantum gravity. Significant progress on this program has led to a …

An asymptotically safe guide to quantum gravity and matter

A Eichhorn - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Asymptotic safety generalizes asymptotic freedom and could contribute to understanding
physics beyond the Standard Model. It is a candidate scenario to provide an ultraviolet …

Quadratic gravity

A Salvio - Frontiers in Physics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Adding the terms quadratic in the curvature to the Einstein-Hilbert action renders gravity
renormalizable. This property is preserved in the presence of the most general …

Submicrometer perovskite plasmonic lasers at room temperature

S Cho, Y Yang, M Soljačić, SH Yun - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Plasmonic lasers attracted interest for their ability to generate coherent light in mode volume
smaller than the diffraction limit of photonic lasers. While nanoscale devices in one or two …

TeV-scale thermal WIMPs: unitarity and its consequences

J Smirnov, JF Beacom - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
We reexamine unitarity bounds on the annihilation cross section of thermal weakly
interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter. For high-mass pointlike dark matter, it is …

Model building from asymptotic safety with Higgs and flavor portals

G Hiller, C Hormigos-Feliu, DF Litim, T Steudtner - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We perform a comprehensive search for Standard Model extensions inspired by asymptotic
safety. Our models feature a singlet matrix scalar field, three generations of vectorlike …

Thermal squeezeout of dark matter

P Asadi, ED Kramer, E Kuflik, GW Ridgway, TR Slatyer… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We carry out a detailed study of the confinement phase transition in a dark sector with an SU
(N) gauge group and a single generation of a dark heavy quark. We focus on heavy enough …

Gravitational waves from Pati-Salam dynamics

WC Huang, F Sannino, ZW Wang - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We show that it is possible to use gravitational wave detectors to observe the occurrence of
a first order phase transition in Pati-Salam extensions of the Standard Model. We show that …

Dimensional transmutation in gravity and cosmology

A Salvio - International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2021 - World Scientific
We review (and extend) the analysis of general theories of all interactions (gravity included)
where the mass scales are due to dimensional transmutation. Quantum consistency requires …