4 papers
Direct Detection of Millicharged Particles from Supernovae
Yanou Cui, Fengyi Li, Xiaolin Qi +2
This work proposes a new terrestrial probe for millicharged particles (mCPs) and demonstrates promising discovery prospects. mCPs can be copiously produced in core-collapse superno…
Dedicated Searches for Millicharged Particles at Intensity-Frontier Facilities: SpinQuest and SHiP
Leo Bailloeul, Matthew Citron, Yanou Cui +7
We conduct a dedicated study of searches for millicharged particles (mCPs) utilizing scintillator-based detectors at high-intensity fixed-target experiments, with particular focus…
Gravitational waves from cosmic strings in LISA: reconstruction pipeline and physics interpretation
Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Yanou Cui, Sachiko Kuroyanagi +6
We initiate the LISA template databank for stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds sourced by cosmic strings. We include two templates, an analytical template, which enables more…
The Sound of Dark Sectors in Pulsar Timing Arrays
Amitayus Banik, Yanou Cui, Yu-Dai Tsai +1
A phase transition in the dark sector (DS) presents a promising explanation for the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) signals detected in recent observations by Pulsar Timing Arra…