4 papers
Insights from Binary Pulsars and Laboratories into Baryon Number Violation: Implications for GeV Dark Matter
Rouzbeh Allahverdi, Adrian Thompson, Mohammadreza Zakeri
Rare processes in laboratory and within astrophysical environments can be highly sensitive probes of baryon-number violating interactions at the TeV scale. We demonstrate the power…
Does the Sun have a Dark Disk?
Gustavo F. S. Alves, Susan Gardner, Pedro Machado +1
The Sun is not quite a perfect sphere, and its oblateness, thought to be induced through its rotation, has been measured using optical observations of its radius. Its gravitational…
Probing Dark Sectors with Neutron Stars
Susan Gardner, Mohammadreza Zakeri
Tensions in the measurements of neutron and kaon weak decays, such as of the neutron lifetime, may speak to the existence of new particles and dynamics not present in the Standard…
Pulsar Timing Anomalies: A Window into Baryon Number Violation
Mohammadreza Zakeri
We investigate the influence of a specific class of slow Baryon Number Violation (BNV) -- one that induces quasi-equilibrium evolution -- on pulsar spin characteristics. This work…