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Precision Detection of the Cosmic Neutrino Background
Robert E. Lopez, Scott Dodelson, Andrew Heckler +1
In the standard Big Bang cosmology the canonical value for the ratio of relic neutrinos to CMB photons is 9/11. Within the framework of the Standard Model of particle physics there…
Calculation of the emergent spectrum and observation of primordial black holes
Andrew F. Heckler
We calculate the emergent spectrum of microscopic black holes, which emit copious amounts of thermal ``Hawking'' radiation, taking into account the proposition that (contrary to pr…
On the formation of a Hawking-radiation photosphere around microscopic black holes
Andrew F. Heckler
We show that once a black hole surpasses some critical temperature , the emitted Hawking radiation interacts with itself and forms a nearly thermal photosphere. Using QED…
Modeling Thermal Fluctuations: Phase Mixing and Percolation
Marcelo Gleiser, Andrew F. Heckler, Edward W. Kolb
We consider the nonequilibrium dynamics of a a real scalar field in a degenerate double-well potential. The system is prepared in the lowest free energy state in one of the wells a…
The Effects of Electro-weak Phase Transition Dynamics on Baryogenesis and Primordial Nucleosynthesis
Andrew F. Heckler
The evolution of the electro-weak phase transition, including reheating due to the release of latent heat in shock waves, is calculated for various values of as yet unknown paramet…