▪ Abstract We provide an up-to-date account of progress toward understanding the origin of
the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe. We provide a pedagogical introduction to …

Contrary to naive cosmological expectations, all evidence suggests that the universe
contains an abundance of matter over antimatter. This article reviews the currently popular …

We study the formation of a mass gap, or effective gluon mass (and consequent
dimensionful parameters such as the string tension, glueball mass,< Tr G μ ν 2>, correlation …

This review is devoted to open strings, and in particular to the often surprising features of
their spectra. It follows and summarizes developments that took place mainly at the …

We show that domains are formed in a homogeneous SU (2) color magnetic field. Due to
quantum fluctuations the domains have fluid properties. It is then argued that, quantum …

These introductory notes are about functional renormalization group equations and some of
their applications. It is emphasised that the applicability of this method extends well beyond …

In the presence of internal magnetic fields, a D9 brane can acquire a D5 (or anti-D5) RR
charge, and can therefore contribute to the corresponding tadpole. In the resulting vacua …

I study the spontaneous breakdown of supersymmetry when higher-dimensional Yang-Mills
or the type-I $ SO (32) $ string theory are compactified on magnetized tori. Because of the …

A bstract Based on the recent success of the Angantyr model in describing multiplicity
distributions of the hadronic final state in high energy heavy ion collisions, we investigate …

It is shown that a quantum state consisting of a condensate of color magnetic flux tubes is
formed in QCD for a rather weak coupling g 2/4π= 0.37. This result is obtained in a …