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Spin-dependent neutrino oscillations in torsion backgrounds: A quantum-field-theoretic analysis
Raoul Serao, Giuseppe De Maria, Simone Monda +2
We study neutrino mixing in a background with spacetime torsion within the quantum-field-theoretic formulation of flavor oscillations. Working in the Einstein--Cartan framework and…
The X17 Anomaly: Experimental Evidence and Theoretical Interpretations
Raoul Serao, Aniello Quaranta, Antonio Capolupo
This review summarizes the experimental evidence for the hypothetical X17 particle, examines the theoretical frameworks in which it can be accommodated, and discusses its potential…
Addressing Standard Model Tensions via X17 Vector Boson
Raoul Serao, Aniello Quaranta, Antonio Capolupo
We investigate the effects of introducing a new vector boson on existing discrepancies within the Standard Model. Our analysis highlights the potential of this particle to alleviat…
Particle Physics in Curved Spacetime and Dark Matter
Antonio Capolupo, Salvatore Capozziello, Gabriele Pisacane +1
We review recent results showing that, within the framework of quantum field theory in curved spacetime, the semiclassical energy-momentum tensor of the neutrino flavor vacuum fulf…
Formation and relaxation of halos in the context of wave DM particles evolving on a background of neutrino condensate
A. Capolupo, I. De Martino, S. Monda +2
We investigate the formation and relaxation of dark matter halos in the context of wave dark matter particles evolving on a background of neutrino condensate. To this aim, we solve…
Quantum interferometric probe of neutron--hidden neutron oscillations
Antonio Capolupo, Gabriele Pisacane, Aniello Quaranta +1
The nature of dark matter remains an outstanding problem in particle physics and cosmology. Hidden-sector extensions of the Standard Model predict a neutral partner of the neutron,…
Particle mixing and quantum reference frames
Antonio Capolupo, Gabriele Pisacane, Aniello Quaranta
We discuss the role of quantum reference frames in providing a viable definition of rest frame for mixed particles. We then analyze the related concept of frame-dependent entanglem…
Vector-field spontaneous baryogenesis with Lorentz invariance violation
Mattia Dubbini, Orlando Luongo, Aniello Quaranta
We extend spontaneous baryogenesis by considering the spontaneous breaking of through a complex vector field. This field interacts with baryons and leptons via a vector-cu…
Quantized Dirac Fields in torsionful gravity: cosmological implications and links with the dark universe
Antonio Capolupo, Sante Carloni, Luca Fabbri +3
We consider a classical field in square torsion theory as a source of torsion for a quantum fermion field in FLRW metric. In the framework of QFT, we obtain vacuum contributions to…
Impact of flavor condensate dark matter on accretion disk luminosity in spherical spacetimes
Antonio Capolupo, Orlando Luongo, Aniello Quaranta
We investigate the impact of dark matter condensates on the emission and thermodynamic properties of accretion disks, in a spherically-symmetric and static background. We focus on…
A Breakdown Case Study of the Lindblad Approach via Entanglement and Purity
Raoul Serao, Aniello Quaranta, Antonio Capolupo +2
The Lindblad master equation is widely used to describe the reduced dynamics of open quantum systems under Markovian assumptions. Here, we investigate its ability to reproduce the…
Single arm interferometry to probe the scalar field dark matter
Antonio Capolupo, Gabriele Pisacane, Aniello Quaranta +1
We analyse the interaction of photons with a scalar dark matter field ϕand we propose to use a single arm interferometer to reveal this interaction and constrain the parameters of…
Dark matter induced by neutrino mixing and flavor vacuum condensate probed by neutrino capture on tritium
Antonio Capolupo, Simone Monda, Gabriele Pisacane +2
We show that experiments designed to capture low energy neutrinos, like PTOLEMY are sensitive to the specific neutrino model. In particular, they might show a signature of the cond…
Searching for mirror neutrons and dark matter with cold neutron interferometry
Antonio Capolupo, Gabriele Pisacane, Aniello Quaranta +1
We report a novel neutron interferometry scheme aimed at probing the potential existence of mirror neutrons, which have been proposed as viable dark matter candidates. Our theoreti…
Exploring X17 and dark charges in the context of Standard Model tensions
Antonio Capolupo, Aniello Quaranta, Raoul Serao
We report on recent results, according to which the hyphothetical X17 boson could affect the muon g-2 anomaly and the Lamb Shift. Moreover by considering the kinetic mixing between…
Quantum reference frames and particle mixing
Antonio Capolupo, Aniello Quaranta
We discuss the necessity and the emergence of quantum reference frames when attempting to define a rest frame for mixed particles. We analyze the corresponding concept of frame dep…
Missing matter in galaxies as a neutrino mixing effect
Antonio Capolupo, Salvatore Capozziello, Gabriele Pisacane +1
We show that, in the framework of quantum field theory in curved spacetime, the semiclassical energy-momentum tensor of the neutrino flavor vacuum fulfills the equation of state of…
The impact of the X17 boson on particle physics anomalies: muon anomalous magnetic moment, Lamb shift, W mass and dark charges
Antonio Capolupo, Aniello Quaranta, Raoul Serao
We show that the X17 vector boson, introduced to explain the ^8 Be anomalous decay, could play a crucial role in the explanation of the muon's (electron's) anomalous magnetic momen…
Probing Mirror Neutrons and Dark Matter through Cold Neutron Interferometry
Antonio Capolupo, Gabriele Pisacane, Aniello Quaranta +1
We propose a novel neutron interferometry setup to explore the potential existence of mirror neutrons, a candidate for dark matter. Our work demonstrates that if mirror neutrons ex…
Condensed vacuum generated by spin-spin interaction as a source of axial current
Antonio Capolupo, Aniello Quaranta
We reveal the presence of a new source of axial current due to the condensed vacuum generated by the spin-spin interaction. To show this, we consider a quartic Dirac Lagrangian con…
Quantum Field Theory of neutrino mixing in spacetimes with torsion
Antonio Capolupo, Giuseppe De Maria, Simone Monda +2
In the framework of quantum field theory, we analyze the neutrino oscillations in the presence of a torsion background. We consider the Einstein-Cartan theory and we study the case…
Phenomenological implications of nonlocal quantum electrodynamics
Antonio Capolupo, Aniello Quaranta, Raoul Serao
We analyze several phenomenological implications of a nonlocal generalization of quantum electrodynamics (QED). We compute the nonlocal corrections to the photon propagator up to o…
Axion like particles, fifth force and neutron interferometry
Antonio Capolupo, Salvatore Marco Giampaolo, Aniello Quaranta
We report on recent result according to which the fermion-fermion interaction mediated by axions and axion-like particles can be revealed by means of neutron interferometry. We ass…
Fermion mixing in curved spacetime
Antonio Capolupo, Gaetano Lambiase, Aniello Quaranta
We develop the quantum field theory of fermion mixing in curved spacetime and discuss the role of unitarily inequivalent representations in the particle interpretation of the theor…