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20072023
most citedThe Dawn of FIMP Dark Matter: A Review of Models and Constraints

532 citations · 3.8k across the 78 of their papers we have counts for

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78 papers

hep-ph2023★ 13 cited

Revisiting signatures of thermal axions in nonstandard cosmologies

Paola Arias, Nicolás Bernal, Jacek K. Osiński +2

We revisit the formation of a thermal population of hadronic axions in nonstandard cosmologies, in light of the recent developments in obtaining continuous and smooth interaction r…

hep-ph2023

The flavor of a light charged Higgs

Nicolás Bernal, Marta Losada, Yosef Nir +1

The ATLAS Collaboration has recently reported a search for light-charged Higgs in decay, with . An excess with a local significance of approximately $3…

hep-ph2023

Neutrinos from GRB 221009A: producing ALPs and explaining LHAASO anomalous event

Nicolás Bernal, Yasaman Farzan, Alexei Yu. Smirnov

We propose a novel explanation for the 18 TeV gamma ray from GRB 221009A observed by LHAASO. High-energy neutrinos are converted into axion-like particles (ALPs) via their interact…

hep-ph2023★ 45 cited

From WIMPs to FIMPs with Low Reheating Temperatures

Javier Silva-Malpartida, Nicolás Bernal, Joel Jones-Pérez +1

Weakly- and Feebly-Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs and FIMPs) are among the best-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates. In this paper, we investigate the production of DM thro…

hep-ph2023

Bremsstrahlung-induced Gravitational Waves in Monomial Potentials during Reheating

Basabendu Barman, Nicolás Bernal, Yong Xu +1

We discuss the production of primordial gravitational waves (GW) from radiative inflaton decay during the period of reheating, assuming perturbative decay of the inflaton either in…

hep-ph2023★ 54 cited

Gravitational Wave from Graviton Bremsstrahlung during Reheating

Basabendu Barman, Nicolás Bernal, Yong Xu +1

We revisit graviton production via Bremsstrahlung from the decay of the inflaton during inflationary reheating. Using two complementary computational techniques, we first show that…