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most citedThe QCD Axion Window and Low Scale Inflation

162 citations · 2.1k across the 70 of their papers we have counts for

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71 papers

hep-ph2026

A PQ-Symmetric High-Scale SUSY Interpretation of the LZ High-Energy Recoil

Wen Yin

The 248-keV nuclear-recoil-like event reported by LZ can be interpreted as near-threshold upscattering of 1.08-TeV thermal Higgsino dark matter. A neutral-Higgsino splitting of ord…

hep-ph2026

Why 4D? Spontaneous Dimensional Selection from Gauge Criticality

Wen Yin

Noting that the Yang--Mills coupling is relevant below four dimensions, marginal in four dimensions, and irrelevant above four dimensions, I propose that this criticality can lead…

hep-ph2023

QCD Axion Hybrid Inflation

Yuma Narita, Fuminobu Takahashi, Wen Yin

When the inflaton is coupled to the gluon Chern-Simons term for successful reheating, mixing between the inflaton and the QCD axion is generally expected given the solution of the…

hep-ph2023

Role of QCD in moduli stabilization during inflation and axion dark matter

Ryuichiro Kitano, Motoo Suzuki, Wen Yin

Ignorance of the initial condition for the axion dynamics in the early Universe has led us to consider an valued initial amplitude, and that prefers the decay constant, $F_a…

astro-ph.CO2023

Can baryon asymmetry be explained by a large initial value before inflation?

Kai Murai, Fuminobu Takahashi, Masaki Yamada +1

We show that the baryon asymmetry of the Universe cannot be explained by a large initial value before inflation because it inevitably predicts correlated baryon isocurvature pertur…

hep-ph2023

A Novel Probe of Supersymmetry in Light of Nanohertz Gravitational Waves

Kai Murai, Wen Yin

A new era of exploring the early Universe may have begun with the recent strong evidence for the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background from the data reported by NANOGrav, E…

hep-ph2023★ 22 cited

Gravitational Waves from Domain Wall Collapse, and Application to Nanohertz Signals with QCD-coupled Axions

Naoya Kitajima, Junseok Lee, Kai Murai +2

We study for the first time the gravitational waves generated during the collapse of domain walls, incorporating the potential bias in the lattice simulations. The final stages of…

astro-ph.CO2023

Indirect Detection of Decaying Dark Matter with High Angular Resolution: Case for axion search by IRCS at Subaru Telescope

Wen Yin, Kohei Hayashi

Recent advances in cosmic-ray detectors have provided exceptional sensitivities of dark matter with high angular resolution. Motivated by this, we present a comprehensive study of…

hep-ph2023★ 18 cited

The QCD Axion: A Unique Player in the Axiverse with Mixings

Kai Murai, Fuminobu Takahashi, Wen Yin

In an axiverse with numerous axions, the cosmological moduli problem poses a significant challenge because the abundance of axions can easily exceed that of dark matter. The well-e…

hep-ph2023★ 17 cited

Thermal production of cold "hot dark matter" around eV

Wen Yin

A very simple production mechanism of feebly interacting dark matter (DM) that rarely annihilates is thermal production, which predicts the DM mass around eV. This has been widely…

hep-ph2023★ 1 cited

Hadrophobic Axion from GUT

Fuminobu Takahashi, Wen Yin

We propose a new kind of axion model derived from the Grand Unified Theory (GUT) based on . We demonstrate that, given a certain charge assignment and po…

hep-ph2022★ 60 cited

Stability of domain wall network with initial inflationary fluctuations, and its implications for cosmic birefringence

Diego Gonzalez, Naoya Kitajima, Fuminobu Takahashi +1

We study the formation and evolution of domain walls with initial inflationary fluctuations by numerical lattice calculations that, for the first time, correctly take into account…

hep-ph2022★ 2 cited

Weak-Scale Higgs Inflation

Wen Yin

The present measurement of the standard model (SM) parameters suggests that the Higgs effective potential has a maximum at the intermediate scale, and the electroweak (EW) vacuum i…

hep-ph2022★ 56 cited

Axion dark matter from first-order phase transition, and very high energy photons from GRB 221009A

Shota Nakagawa, Fuminobu Takahashi, Masaki Yamada +1

We study an axion-like particle (ALP) that experiences the first-order phase transition with respect to its mass or potential minimum. This can be realized if the ALP obtains a pot…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 17 cited

Early dark energy by dark Higgs, and axion-induced non-thermal trapping

Shota Nakagawa, Fuminobu Takahashi, Wen Yin

We propose a new scenario of early dark energy (EDE) with a dark Higgs trapped at the origin. To keep this dark Higgs trapped until around the matter-radiation equality, we use dar…

hep-ph2022★ 13 cited

Probing a light dark sector at future lepton colliders via invisible decays of the SM-like and dark Higgs bosons

Gholamhossein Haghighat, Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi, Kodai Sakurai +1

A renormalizable UV model for Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) or hidden photons, that may explain the dark matter usually involves a dark Higgs field which is a singlet under the stand…

hep-ph2022★ 24 cited

Indirect Detection of eV Dark Matter via Infrared Spectroscopy

Taiki Bessho, Yuji Ikeda, Wen Yin

Infrared spectroscopy has been developed significantly. In particular, infrared photons can be measured with high spectral and angular resolution in state-of-art spectrographs. The…

hep-ph2022★ 64 cited

Ultra-relativistic bubbles from the simplest Higgs portal and their cosmological consequences

Aleksandr Azatov, Giulio Barni, Sabyasachi Chakraborty +2

We analyze the phase transitions in the minimal extension of the SM with a real singlet scalar field. The novelty of our study is that we identify and analyze in details the region…

hep-ph2022★ 17 cited

High Energy Sphalerons for Baryogenesis at Low Temperatures

Joerg Jaeckel, Wen Yin

We discuss baryogenesis in scenarios where the Universe is reheated to temperatures GeV by the decay of long-lived massive particles into energetic SM particles. Be…

hep-ph2022★ 10 cited

Instability of the Electroweak Vacuum in Starobinsky Inflation

Qiang Li, Takeo Moroi, Kazunori Nakayama +1

We study the stability of the electroweak vacuum during and after the Starobinsky inflation, assuming the existence of the non-minimal Higgs coupling to the Ricci scalar. In the St…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 44 cited

Power spectrum of domain-wall network and its implications for isotropic and anisotropic cosmic birefringence

Naoya Kitajima, Fumiaki Kozai, Fuminobu Takahashi +1

Recently, based on a novel analysis of the Planck satellite data, a hint of a uniform rotation of the polarization of cosmic microwave background photons, called isotropic cosmic b…

hep-ph2022★ 35 cited

Anisotropic cosmic optical background bound for decaying dark matter in light of the LORRI anomaly

Kazunori Nakayama, Wen Yin

Recently anomalous flux in the cosmic optical background (COB) has been reported by the New Horizon observations. The COB flux is , at the LO…

hep-ph2022★ 54 cited

Singlet extensions and W boson mass in the light of the CDF II result

Kodai Sakurai, Fuminobu Takahashi, Wen Yin

Recently, the CDF collaboration has reported the precise measurement of the W boson mass, MeV, based on fb of TeV c…

hep-ph2022★ 9 cited

Suppression of Higgs Mixing by Quantum Zeno Effect

Kodai Sakurai, Wen Yin

The Higgs portal interaction to a singlet sector of the standard model (SM) gauge group is widely-studied. In this Letter, we show that a quantum effect is important if the Higgs f…