7 papers
Localised Horizons and Holographic Thermodynamics: Supercooling in the 1/D Expansion
Prateek Agrawal, Gaurang Ramakant Kane, Vazha Loladze
In holography, four-dimensional confining gauge theories are often modelled by five-dimensional Einstein--scalar gravity by choosing a specific form of the scalar potential. In a l…
Axion Quality Problem: Keep Calm and Baryon
Prateek Agrawal, Anson Hook, Vazha Loladze +1
Axion models generically suffer from a severe quality problem when coupled to gravity. In this article we provide a very simple model with a high quality axion. The axion is a pseu…
The FERMIACC: Agents for Particle Theory
Prateek Agrawal, Nathaniel Craig, Amalia Madden +1
We present the FERMIACC, a scaffolded reasoning model built on OpenAI agents designed to autonomously generate and quantitatively validate theory hypotheses for high energy physics…
Prediction for Maximum Supercooling in SU(N) Confinement Transition
Prateek Agrawal, Gaurang Ramakant Kane, Vazha Loladze +1
The thermal confinement phase transition (PT) in Yang-Mills theory is first-order for , with bounce action scaling as . Remarkably, lattice data for the actio…
Axion couplings in Orbifold GUTs
Prateek Agrawal, Michael Nee, Mario Reig
We consider the coupling of axions to gauge bosons in higher-dimensional Grand Unified Theories (GUT) inspired by string theory constructions with D-branes on orbifold singularitie…
Supercooled Confinement
Prateek Agrawal, Gaurang Ramakant Kane, Vazha Loladze +1
We study general properties of confinement phase transitions in the early universe. An observable gravitational wave signal from such transitions requires significant supercooling.…