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20172025
most citedMirror QCD phase transition as the origin of the nanohertz Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

46 citations · 279 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Exploring sub-GeV Dark Matter Physics with Cosmic Ray and Future Telescopes

Guansen Wang, Bing-Yu Su, Lei Zu +1

If sub-GeV Dark matter(DM) annihilates to the charged particles such as , , or , it generates an additional source of electrons and positrons in the cosm…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 12 cited

Constraining primordial black holes as dark matter using AMS-02 data

Bing-Yu Su, Xu Pan, Guan-Sen Wang +3

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are the plausible candidates for the cosmological dark matter. Theoretically, PBHs with masses in the range of $4\times10^{14}\sim 10^{1…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

Weak Lensing Constraints on Dark Matter-Baryon Interactions with -Body Simulations and Machine Learning

Chi Zhang, Lei Zu, Hou-Zun Chen +2

We investigate the elastic scattering cross section between dark matter and protons using the DES Year 3 weak lensing data. This scattering induces a dark acoustic oscillation stru…

gr-qc2024★ 14 cited

Prospects of constraining gravity with the third-generation gravitational-wave detectors

Ran Chen, Yi-Ying Wang, Lei Zu +1

Mergers of binary compact objects, accompanied with electromagnetic (EM) counterparts, offer excellent opportunities to explore varied cosmological models, since gravitational wave…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

Exploring the Dark Energy Equation of State with JWST

Pei Wang, Bing-Yu Su, Lei Zu +2

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have unveiled several galaxies with stellar masses at redshifts . The…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 46 cited

Mirror QCD phase transition as the origin of the nanohertz Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

Lei Zu, Chi Zhang, Yao-Yu Li +3

Several Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations have recently provided strong evidence for a nHz Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background (SGWB). Here we investigate the implicati…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 23 cited

Black holes as the source of dark energy: a stringent test with high-redshift JWST AGNs

Lei Lei, Lei Zu, Guan-Wen Yuan +12

Studies have proposed that there is evidence for cosmological coupling of black holes (BHs) with an index of ; hence, BHs serve as the astrophysical source of dark ener…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 16 cited

Exploring Mirror Twin Higgs Cosmology with Present and Future Weak Lensing Surveys

Lei Zu, Chi Zhang, Hou-Zun Chen +5

We explore the potential of precision cosmological data to study non-minimal dark sectors by updating the cosmological constraint on the mirror twin Higgs model (MTH). The MTH mode…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

SKA sensitivity for possible radio emission from dark matter in Omega Centauri

Guan-Sen Wang, Zhan-Fang Chen, Lei Zu +3

Omega Centauri, the largest known globular cluster in the Milky Way, is believed to be the remains of a dwarf galaxy's core. Giving its potential abundance of dark matter (DM), it…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

Multi-frequency test of dark matter annihilation into long-lived particles in Sirius

Yu-Xuan Chen, Lei Zu, Zi-Qing Xia +2

New long-lived particles produced at the colliders may escape from conventional particle detectors. Using satellites or ground telescopes, we can detect the photons generated from…

astro-ph.EP2022

The Possibility of Mirror Planet as Planet Nine in Solar System

Pei Wang, Yu Chen Tang, Lei Zu +2

A series of dynamical anomalies in the orbits of distant trans-Neptunian objects points to a new celestial body (usually named Planet Nine) in the solar system. In this draft, we p…

hep-ph2022★ 17 cited

Is the -boson mass enhanced by the axion-like particle, dark photon, or chameleon dark energy?

Guan-Wen Yuan, Lei Zu, Lei Feng +2

The -boson mass () measured by the Collider Detector at Fermilab collaboration is greater than the standard model (SM) prediction at a con…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 6 cited

Explanation of nearby SNRs for primary electron excess and proton spectral bump

Tian-Peng Tang, Zi-Qing Xia, Zhao-Qiang Shen +5

Several groups have reported a possible excess of primary electrons at high energies with the joint fit of the positron fraction and total electron/positron spectra. With the lates…

hep-ph2020★ 9 cited

Plasma dark matter and electronic recoil events in XENON1T

Lei Zu, R. Foot, Yi-Zhong Fan +1

Dark matter might be in the form of a dark plasma in the Milky Way halo. Specifically, we consider here a hidden sector consisting of a light `dark electron' and a much heavier `da…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 12 cited

Stringent constraints on the light boson model with supermassive black hole spin measurements

Lei Zu, Lei Feng, Qiang Yuan +1

Massive bosons, such as light scalars and vector bosons, can lead to instabilities of rotating black holes by the superradiance effect, which extracts energy and angular momentum f…

hep-ph2020★ 27 cited

Mirror Dark Matter and Electronic Recoil Events in XENON1T

Lei Zu, Guan-Wen Yuan, Lei Feng +1

Recently, the XENON1T experiment has reported the possible detection of an excess in the electronic recoil spectrum. Such an excess may indicate the presence of new physics. In thi…

hep-ph2017★ 18 cited

Scalar dark matter explanation of the DAMPE data in the minimal Left-Right symmetric model

Junjie Cao, Xiaofei Guo, Liangliang Shang +3

Left-Right symmetric model (LRSM) has been an attractive extension of the Standard Model (SM) which can address the origin of parity violation in the SM electroweak (EW) interactio…

hep-ph2017★ 34 cited

Explaining the DAMPE data with scalar dark matter and gauged interaction

Junjie Cao, Lei Feng, Xiaofei Guo +4

Inspired by the peak structure observed by recent DAMPE experiment in cosmic-ray spectrum, we consider a scalar dark matter (DM) model with gauged symmetr…

hep-ph2017★ 25 cited

Constraints on box-shaped cosmic ray electron feature from dark matter annihilation with the AMS-02 and DAMPE data

Lei Zu, Cun Zhang, Lei Feng +2

Precise measurements of spectra of cosmic ray electrons and positrons can effectively probe the nature of dark matter (DM) particles. In a class of models where DM particles initia…