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Gradient-Produced Neutrinos
Erwin H. Tanin, Yikun Wang
Sufficiently strong electric fields can produce charged-particle pairs via the Schwinger effect. We argue that steep matter-density gradients, as can arise in neutron star interior…
Detecting gravitational signatures of dark matter with atom gradiometers
Leonardo Badurina, Yufeng Du, Vincent S. H. Lee +2
We study the purely gravitational signatures of dark matter from the ultralight to the ultraheavy mass range in proposed long-baseline atom gradiometers, focusing on terrestrial de…
Signatures of linearized gravity in atom interferometers: A simplified computational framework
Leonardo Badurina, Yufeng Du, Vincent S. H. Lee +2
We develop a general framework for calculating the leading-order, general relativistic contributions to the gravitational phase shift in single-photon atom interferometers within t…
Contrast Loss from Astrophysical Backgrounds in Space-Based Matter-Wave Interferometers
Yufeng Du, Clara Murgui, Kris Pardo +2
Atom and matter interferometers are precise quantum sensing experiments that can probe differential forces along separated spacetime paths. Various atom and matter interferometer e…
Macroscopic Dark Matter Detection with Gravitational Wave Experiments
Yufeng Du, Vincent S. H. Lee, Yikun Wang +1
We study signatures of macroscopic dark matter (DM) in current and future gravitational wave (GW) experiments. Transiting DM with a mass of kg that saturates the…
Axion Detection with Optomechanical Cavities
Clara Murgui, Yikun Wang, Kathryn M. Zurek
We propose a novel technique to search for axions with an optomechanical cavity filled with a material such as superfluid helium. Axion absorption converts a pump laser photon to a…
Report of the Topical Group on Physics Beyond the Standard Model at Energy Frontier for Snowmass 2021
Tulika Bose, Antonio Boveia, Caterina Doglioni +318
This is the Snowmass2021 Energy Frontier (EF) Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) report. It combines the EF topical group reports of EF08 (Model-specific explorations), EF09 (More gen…
Anatomy of the Electroweak Phase Transition for Dark Sector induced Baryogenesis
Marcela Carena, Ying-Ying Li, Tong Ou +1
We investigate the electroweak phase transition patterns for a recently proposed baryogenesis model with CP violation originated in the dark sector. The model includes a complex sc…
Atom Interferometer Tests of Dark Matter
Yufeng Du, Clara Murgui, Kris Pardo +2
Direct detection experiments for dark matter are increasingly ruling out large parameter spaces. However, light dark matter models with particle masses GeV are still largely un…
Probing the Electroweak Phase Transition with Exotic Higgs Decays
Marcela Carena, Jonathan Kozaczuk, Zhen Liu +5
An essential goal of the Higgs physics program at the LHC and beyond is to explore the nature of the Higgs potential and shed light on the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breakin…
A New Approach to Electroweak Symmetry Non-Restoration
Marcela Carena, Claudius Krause, Zhen Liu +1
Electroweak symmetry non-restoration up to high temperatures well above the electroweak scale offers new alternatives for baryogenesis. We propose a new approach for electroweak sy…
Nucleation is More than Critical -- A Case Study of the Electroweak Phase Transition in the NMSSM
Sebastian Baum, Marcela Carena, Nausheen R. Shah +2
Electroweak baryogenesis is an attractive mechanism to generate the baryon asymmetry of the Universe via a strong first order electroweak phase transition. We compare the phase tra…
Towards an all-orders calculation of the electroweak bubble wall velocity
Stefan Hoeche, Jonathan Kozaczuk, Andrew J. Long +2
We analyze Higgs condensate bubble expansion during a first-order electroweak phase transition in the early Universe. The interaction of particles with the bubble wall can be accom…
Electroweak phase transition with spontaneous -breaking
Marcela Carena, Zhen Liu, Yikun Wang
This work investigates a simple, representative extension of the Standard Model with a real scalar singlet and spontaneous breaking, which allows for a strongly first-order p…
Commutators of lepton mass matrices associated with seesaw and leptogenesis
Yikun Wang, Zhi-zhong Xing
The origin of tiny neutrino masses and the baryon number asymmetry of the Universe are naturally interpreted by the canonical seesaw and leptogenesis mechanisms, in which there are…