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Inelastic Dark Matter As An Efficient Fuel For Compact Stars
Dan Hooper, Douglas Spolyar, Alberto Vallinotto +1
Dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles is predicted to become gravitationally captured and accumulate in stars. While the subsequent annihilations of such…
Cascade Events at IceCube+DeepCore as a Definitive Constraint on the Dark Matter Interpretation of the PAMELA and Fermi Anomalies
Sourav K. Mandal, Matthew R. Buckley, Katherine Freese +2
Dark matter decaying or annihilating into mu+mu- or tau+tau- has been proposed as an explanation for the e+e- anomalies reported by PAMELA and Fermi. Recent analyses show that IceC…
Devaluation: a dynamical mechanism for a naturally small cosmological constant
Katherine Freese, James T. Liu, Douglas Spolyar
We propose a natural solution to the cosmological constant problem consistent with the standard cosmology and successful over a broad range of energies. This solution is based on t…
Inflating with the QCD Axion
Katherine Freese, James T. Liu, Douglas Spolyar
We show that the QCD axion can drive inflation via a series of tunneling events. For axion models with a softly broken symmetry, the axion potential has a series of local…
Chain Inflation in the Landscape: "Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble"
Katherine Freese, Douglas Spolyar
In the model of Chain Inflation, a sequential chain of coupled scalar fields drives inflation. We consider a multidimensional potential with a large number of bowls, or local minim…