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 …

What is the source of the PTA GW signal?

J Ellis, M Fairbairn, G Franciolini, G Hütsi, A Iovino… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The most conservative interpretation of the nHz stochastic gravitational wave background
(SGWB) discovered by NANOGrav and other pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations is …

Constraints on Einstein-dilation-Gauss-Bonnet gravity from black hole-neutron star gravitational wave events

Z Lyu, N Jiang, K Yagi - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Recent gravitational wave observations allow us to probe gravity in the strong and
dynamical field regime. In this paper, we focus on testing Einstein-dilation Gauss-Bonnet …

Long Range Plan: Dense matter theory for heavy-ion collisions and neutron stars

A Lovato, T Dore, RD Pisarski, B Schenke… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Since the release of the 2015 Long Range Plan in Nuclear Physics, major events have
occurred that reshaped our understanding of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and nuclear …

Binary boson stars: Merger dynamics and formation of rotating remnant stars

N Siemonsen, WE East - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Scalar boson stars have attracted attention as simple models for exploring the nonlinear
dynamics of a large class of ultracompact and black hole mimicking objects. Here, we study …

Multimessenger constraints on radiatively decaying axions from GW170817

M Diamond, D Fiorillo, G Marques-Tavares… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The metastable hypermassive neutron star produced in the coalescence of two neutron stars
can copiously produce axions that radiatively decay into O (100) MeV photons. These …

Dark matter in extreme astrophysical environments

M Baryakhtar, R Caputo, D Croon, K Perez… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Exploring dark matter via observations of extreme astrophysical environments--defined here
as heavy compact objects such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes, as well as …

Constraining light QCD axions with isolated neutron star cooling

A Gómez-Bañón, K Bartnick, K Springmann, JA Pons - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The existence of light QCD axions, whose mass depends on an additional free parameter,
can lead to a new ground state of matter, where the sourced axion field reduces the nucleon …

Worldline effective field theory of inspiralling black hole binaries in presence of dark photon and axionic dark matter

A Bhattacharyya, S Ghosh, S Pal - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We investigate the correction to the potential that gives rise to the bound orbits and
radiation from non-spinning inspiralling binary black holes in a dark matter environment …

Quadratic coupling of the axion to photons

C Beadle, SAR Ellis, J Quevillon, PNH Vuong - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We show that the QCD axion couples to the electromagnetic kinetic term at one loop. The
result is that if axions make up dark matter, they induce temporal variation of the fine …