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Comments on the CKN Bound
Tom Banks, Patrick Draper
Cohen, Kaplan, and Nelson (CKN) conjectured that the UV and IR cutoffs of effective quantum field theories coupled to gravity are not independent, but are connected by the physics…
Imprints of the Early Universe on Axion Dark Matter Substructure
Nikita Blinov, Matthew J. Dolan, Patrick Draper
Despite considerable experimental progress large parts of the axion-like particle (ALP) parameter space remain difficult to probe in terrestrial experiments. In some cases, however…
Transplanckian Censorship and the Local Swampland Distance Conjecture
Patrick Draper, Szilard Farkas
The swampland distance conjecture (SDC) addresses the ability of effective field theory to describe distant points in moduli space. It is natural to ask whether there is a local ve…
Schottky Anomaly of deSitter Black Holes
Jack Dinsmore, Patrick Draper, David Kastor +2
The interplay of black hole and cosmological horizons introduces distinctive thermodynamic behavior for deSitter black holes, including well-known upper bounds for the mass and ent…
Dark Matter Targets for Axion-like Particle Searches
Nikita Blinov, Matthew J. Dolan, Patrick Draper +1
Many existing and proposed experiments targeting QCD axion dark matter (DM) can also search for a broad class of axion-like particles (ALPs). We analyze the experimental sensitivit…
Gravitational Instabilities and Censorship of Large Scalar Field Excursions
Patrick Draper, Szilard Farkas
Large, localized variations of light scalar fields tend to collapse into black holes, dynamically "censoring" distant points in field space. We show that in some cases, large scala…