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20132026
most citedThe photo-philic QCD axion

145 citations · 1.3k across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Biased Domain Wall Networks and their Gravitational Waves

Davide Barbini, Alessio Notari, Oriol Pujolàs +2

Cosmic Domain Wall networks are among the most interesting sources of a stochastic Gravitational Wave (GW) background from the early Universe. We present a thorough analysis of the…

astro-ph.CO2025

Stupendously Large Primordial Black Holes from the QCD axion

Miguel Faria, Ricardo Z. Ferreira, Fabrizio Rompineve

The inflationary diffusion of (pseudo-)scalar fields with discrete symmetries can seed the formation of a gas of closed domain walls after inflation, when the distance between dege…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 10 cited

The Spectrum of Gravitational Waves from Annihilating Domain Walls

Alessio Notari, Fabrizio Rompineve, Francisco Torrenti

Networks of cosmic domain walls can form in the early Universe as a consequence of the spontaneous breaking of discrete symmetries. We study the production of a cosmological backgr…

astro-ph.CO2024

Primordial gravitational wave backgrounds from phase transitions with next generation ground based detectors

Chiara Caprini, Oriol Pujolàs, Hippolyte Quelquejay-Leclere +2

Third generation ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors, such as Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer, will operate in the Hz frequency band, with a b…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 7 cited

Reduced Hubble Tension in Dark Radiation Models after DESI 2024

Itamar J. Allali, Alessio Notari, Fabrizio Rompineve

We investigate the presence of extra relativistic degrees of freedom in the early Universe, contributing to the effective number of neutrinos , as $ΔN_\text{eff}\equi…

astro-ph.CO2024

Collapsing Domain Wall Networks: Impact on Pulsar Timing Arrays and Primordial Black Holes

Ricardo Z. Ferreira, Alessio Notari, Oriol Pujolàs +1

Unstable domain wall (DW) networks in the early universe are cosmologically viable and can emit a large amount of gravitational waves (GW) before annihilating. As such, they provid…