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Inflationary theory and pulsar timing investigations of primordial black holes and gravitational waves
Nicholas Orlofsky, Aaron Pierce, James D. Wells
The gravitational waves measured at LIGO are presumed here to come from merging primordial black holes. We ask how these primordial black holes could arise through inflationary mod…
boson mediated dark matter beyond the effective theory
John Kearney, Nicholas Orlofsky, Aaron Pierce
Direct detection bounds are beginning to constrain a very simple model of weakly interacting dark matter---a Majorana fermion with a coupling to the boson. In a particularly st…
High-Scale Axions without Isocurvature from Inflationary Dynamics
John Kearney, Nicholas Orlofsky, Aaron Pierce
Observable primordial tensor modes in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) would point to a high scale of inflation . If the scale of Peccei-Quinn (PQ) breaking is gr…