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Dark photon vortex formation and dynamics
William E. East, Junwu Huang
We study the formation and evolution of vortices in dark photon dark matter and dark photon clouds that arise through black hole superradiance. We show how the production of…
Vortex String Formation in Black Hole Superradiance of a Dark Photon with the Higgs Mechanism
William E. East
Black hole superradiance, which only relies on gravitational interactions, can provide a powerful probe of the existence of ultralight bosons that are weakly coupled to ordinary ma…
Dark Matter In Extreme Astrophysical Environments
Masha Baryakhtar, Regina Caputo, Djuna Croon +37
Exploring dark matter via observations of extreme astrophysical environments -- defined here as heavy compact objects such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes, as well…
Spacetime Dynamics of a Higgs Vacuum Instability During Inflation
William E. East, John Kearney, Bibhushan Shakya +2
A remarkable prediction of the Standard Model is that, in the absence of corrections lifting the energy density, the Higgs potential becomes negative at large field values. If the…