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astro-ph.CO2026

Reviving the Affleck-Dine Curvaton Scenario with Compensated Isocurvature Perturbations

Masahiro Kawasaki, Shunsuke Neda

We revisit the Affleck-Dine curvaton scenario in the framework of supersymmetry, taking Q-ball formation into account. In this scenario, a scalar field carrying baryon number, name…

astro-ph.CO2026

Lattice study of primordial black hole formation in bumpy axion inflation

Masahiro Kawasaki, Kai Murai, Shunsuke Tsuchida

We study primordial black hole (PBH) formation in axion inflation using lattice simulations. In axion inflation with a bumpy potential, the curvature perturbations ca…

astro-ph.CO2026

Merger rate of initially clustered primordial black holes for the two-body channel

Kentaro Kasai, Masahiro Kawasaki, Kai Murai +1

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may form an initially clustered population depending on their production mechanism. Motivated by binary black-hole merger events observed by gravitati…

astro-ph.CO2026

Microlensing events and primordial black holes in the axionlike curvaton model

Kentaro Kasai, Masahiro Kawasaki, Kai Murai +1

Recently, Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) observations found 12 candidates for microlensing events. These events can be explained by primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses of $10…

hep-ph2025

Resonant production of sterile neutrino dark matter with a refined numerical scheme

Kentaro Kasai, Masahiro Kawasaki, Kai Murai

The existence of a large primordial neutrino asymmetry is an intriguing possibility, both observationally and theoretically. Such an asymmetry can lead to the resonant production o…

astro-ph.GA2025

EMPRESS. XV. A New Determination of the Primordial Helium Abundance Suggesting a Moderately Low Value

Hiroto Yanagisawa, Masami Ouchi, Akinori Matsumoto +18

We present a new constraint on the primordial helium abundance, , based on Subaru observations. A major source of uncertainty in previous determination…

hep-ph2025★ 3 cited

Q-balls Under Spontaneously Broken U(1) Symmetry

Masahiro Kawasaki, Kai Murai, Fuminobu Takahashi

We study the evolution of Q-balls under a spontaneously broken global symmetry. Q-balls are stabilized by the conservation of charge, but when the symmetry is spontan…

astro-ph.GA2024

EMPRESS. X. Spatially resolved mass-metallicity relation in extremely metal-poor galaxies: evidence of episodic star-formation fueled by a metal-poor gas infall

Kimihiko Nakajima, Masami Ouchi, Yuki Isobe +47

Using the Subaru/FOCAS IFU capability, we examine the spatially resolved relationships between gas-phase metallicity, stellar mass, and star-formation rate surface densities (Sigma…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Supermassive black hole formation from Affleck-Dine mechanism with suppressed clustering on large scales

Kentaro Kasai, Masahiro Kawasaki, Kai Murai +1

We study a primordial black hole (PBH) formation model based on the framework of the inhomogeneous Affleck-Dine (AD) mechanism, which can explain the seeds of supermassive black ho…

hep-ph2024

Affleck-Dine leptogenesis scenario for resonant production of sterile neutrino dark matter

Kentaro Kasai, Masahiro Kawasaki, Kai Murai

Sterile neutrino is a fascinating candidate for dark matter. In this paper, we examine the Affleck-Dine (AD) leptogenesis scenario generating a large lepton asymmetry, which can in…

astro-ph.GA2022

EMPRESS. IX. Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxies are Very Gas-Rich Dispersion-Dominated Systems: Will JWST Witness Gaseous Turbulent High-z Primordial Galaxies?

Yuki Isobe, Masami Ouchi, Kimihiko Nakajima +49

We present kinematics of 6 local extremely metal-poor galaxies (EMPGs) with low metallicities () and low stellar masses (). Tak…