[HTML][HTML] Advances in QED with intense background fields

A Fedotov, A Ilderton, F Karbstein, B King, D Seipt… - Physics Reports, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Upcoming and planned experiments combining increasingly intense lasers and energetic
particle beams will access new regimes of nonlinear, relativistic, quantum effects. This …

[HTML][HTML] The gravitational eikonal: from particle, string and brane collisions to black-hole encounters

P Di Vecchia, C Heissenberg, R Russo, G Veneziano - Physics reports, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Motivated by conceptual problems in quantum theories of gravity, the gravitational eikonal
approach, inspired by its electromagnetic predecessor, has been successfully applied to the …

Population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3

R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams… - Physical Review X, 2023‏ - APS
We report on the population properties of compact binary mergers inferred from gravitational-
wave observations of these systems during the first three LIGO-Virgo observing runs. The …

GWTC-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run

R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams… - Physical Review D, 2024‏ - APS
The second Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog, GWTC-2, reported on 39 compact binary
coalescences observed by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors between 1 …

A horizon study for cosmic explorer: science, observatories, and community

M Evans, RX Adhikari, C Afle, SW Ballmer… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021‏ - arxiv.org
This Horizon Study describes a next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave
observatory: Cosmic Explorer. With ten times the sensitivity of Advanced LIGO, Cosmic …

GWTC-2: compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical Review X, 2021‏ - APS
We report on gravitational-wave discoveries from compact binary coalescences detected by
Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in the first half of the third observing run (O3a) between …

Nested sampling for physical scientists

G Ashton, N Bernstein, J Buchner, X Chen… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Abstract This Primer examines Skilling's nested sampling algorithm for Bayesian inference
and, more broadly, multidimensional integration. The principles of nested sampling are …

Primordial black holes as dark matter: recent developments

B Carr, F Kühnel - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
Although the dark matter is usually assumed to be made up of some form of elementary
particle, primordial black holes (PBHs) could also provide some of it. However, various …

Concepts and status of Chinese space gravitational wave detection projects

Y Gong, J Luo, B Wang - Nature Astronomy, 2021‏ - nature.com
Gravitational wave (GW) detection in space probes the GW spectrum that is inaccessible
from the Earth. In addition to the LISA project led by the European Space Agency, and the …

Constraints on primordial black holes

B Carr, K Kohri, Y Sendouda… - Reports on Progress in …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We update the constraints on the fraction of the Universe that may have gone into primordial
black holes (PBHs) over the mass range 10− 5 to 10 50 g. Those smaller than∼ 10 15 g …