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most citedCoupling Metric-Affine Gravity to a Higgs-Like Scalar Field

49 citations · 79 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Calibration of CMB Polarisation Using Cross-Experiment Correlations

Claire Rigouzzo, Eugene Lim, Susanna Azzoni +1

Parity-violating physics in the Universe can generate correlations between the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) - and -modes, but detecting such signals requires extremely a…

gr-qc2026

Polarisation Singularities of Gravitational Waves

Claire Rigouzzo, Sebastian Golat, Alex J. Vernon +3

Departure from idealised plane waves gives rise to intricate geometric structures in wave fields. One such structure is the polarisation singularity, which emerges when multiple mo…

hep-ph2025

On Non-Minimal Couplings to Gravity and Axion Isocurvature Bounds

Claire Rigouzzo, Sebastian Zell

For axions present during inflation, it has been shown that a non-minimal coupling of the inflaton to gravity worsens isocurvature bounds, while a non-minimal coupling …

hep-ph2025

No Dark Matter Axion During Minimal Higgs Inflation

Claire Rigouzzo, Sebastian Zell

We study minimal versions of Higgs inflation in the presence of a massless QCD axion. While the inflationary energy scale of the metric variant is too high to accommodate isocurvat…

hep-th2024★ 2 cited

PSALTer: Particle Spectrum for Any Tensor Lagrangian

Will Barker, Carlo Marzo, Claire Rigouzzo

We present the PSALTer software for efficiently computing the mass and energy of the particle spectrum for any (e.g. higher-rank) tensor field theory in the Wolfram Language. The u…

physics.optics2023

A decomposition of light's spin angular momentum density

Alex J. Vernon, Sebastian Golat, Claire Rigouzzo +2

Light carries intrinsic spin angular momentum (SAM) when the electric or magnetic field vector rotates over time. A familiar vector equation calculates the direction of light's SAM…

gr-qc2023★ 28 cited

Coupling Metric-Affine Gravity to the Standard Model and Dark Matter Fermions

Claire Rigouzzo, Sebastian Zell

General Relativity (GR) exists in different formulations, which are equivalent in pure gravity. Once matter is included, however, observable predictions generically depend on the v…

hep-th2022★ 49 cited

Coupling Metric-Affine Gravity to a Higgs-Like Scalar Field

Claire Rigouzzo, Sebastian Zell

General Relativity (GR) exists in different formulations. They are equivalent in pure gravity but generically lead to distinct predictions once matter is included. After a brief ov…