4 papers
Higgs Inflation: Particle Factory
Tammi Chowdhury, Leah Jenks, Edward W. Kolb +1
We study cosmological gravitational particle production (CGPP) in Higgs inflation, wherein the inflaton is a scalar field with quartic self-coupling and a nonminimal coupling t…
Superheavy Dark Matter from the String Theory Axiverse
Siyang Ling, Andrew J. Long, Evan McDonough +1
We propose heavy axions as a natural superheavy dark matter candidate in string theory, with the relic density of dark matter originating in quantum fluctuations during cosmic infl…
Wave Interference in Self-Interacting Fuzzy Dark Matter
Christian Capanelli, Wayne Hu, Evan McDonough
In the Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) scenario, the dark matter is composed of an ultra-light scalar field with coherence length and wave interference on astrophysical scales. Scalar fiel…
Do Observations Prefer Thawing Quintessence?
Guillaume Payeur, Evan McDonough, Robert Brandenberger
In light of recent observations by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), we study evidence for thawing quintessence over a cosmological constant as dark energy, with emp…