10 papers
Solar capture and annihilation of fermionic and scalar dark matter motivated by the LUX-ZEPLIN high-recoil candidate
Antonio Capolupo, Gabriele Pisacane, Raoul Serao
Motivated by the LUX-ZEPLIN high-energy nuclear-recoil candidate, we ask whether solar evolution can distinguish dark-matter models that are degenerate in their leading xenon recoi…
Geometric Phases as Probes of Dark Sectors
Antonio Capolupo, Gabriele Pisacane, Raoul Serao
We review recent interferometric schemes designed to probe physics beyond the Standard Model through the detection of geometric phases. We discuss how interactions with hidden-sect…
Particle Physics in Curved Spacetime and Dark Matter
Antonio Capolupo, Salvatore Capozziello, Gabriele Pisacane +1
We review recent results showing that, within the framework of quantum field theory in curved spacetime, the semiclassical energy-momentum tensor of the neutrino flavor vacuum fulf…
Quantum interferometric probe of neutron--hidden neutron oscillations
Antonio Capolupo, Gabriele Pisacane, Aniello Quaranta +1
The nature of dark matter remains an outstanding problem in particle physics and cosmology. Hidden-sector extensions of the Standard Model predict a neutral partner of the neutron,…
Particle mixing and quantum reference frames
Antonio Capolupo, Gabriele Pisacane, Aniello Quaranta
We discuss the role of quantum reference frames in providing a viable definition of rest frame for mixed particles. We then analyze the related concept of frame-dependent entanglem…
Single arm interferometry to probe the scalar field dark matter
Antonio Capolupo, Gabriele Pisacane, Aniello Quaranta +1
We analyse the interaction of photons with a scalar dark matter field ϕand we propose to use a single arm interferometer to reveal this interaction and constrain the parameters of…
Dark matter induced by neutrino mixing and flavor vacuum condensate probed by neutrino capture on tritium
Antonio Capolupo, Simone Monda, Gabriele Pisacane +2
We show that experiments designed to capture low energy neutrinos, like PTOLEMY are sensitive to the specific neutrino model. In particular, they might show a signature of the cond…
Searching for mirror neutrons and dark matter with cold neutron interferometry
Antonio Capolupo, Gabriele Pisacane, Aniello Quaranta +1
We report a novel neutron interferometry scheme aimed at probing the potential existence of mirror neutrons, which have been proposed as viable dark matter candidates. Our theoreti…
Missing matter in galaxies as a neutrino mixing effect
Antonio Capolupo, Salvatore Capozziello, Gabriele Pisacane +1
We show that, in the framework of quantum field theory in curved spacetime, the semiclassical energy-momentum tensor of the neutrino flavor vacuum fulfills the equation of state of…
Probing Mirror Neutrons and Dark Matter through Cold Neutron Interferometry
Antonio Capolupo, Gabriele Pisacane, Aniello Quaranta +1
We propose a novel neutron interferometry setup to explore the potential existence of mirror neutrons, a candidate for dark matter. Our work demonstrates that if mirror neutrons ex…