2 papers
hep-ph2026
Gravitational waves from a dilaton-induced, first-order QCD phase transition
Aleksandr Chatrchyan, M. C. David Marsh, Charalampos Nikolis
We show that a `QCD dilaton' field, whose vacuum expectation value sets the strong coupling, can render the Quantum Chromodynamic (QCD) confinement transition first-order. The QCD…
hep-ph2025
ALP couplings to muons and electrons: a comprehensive analysis of supernova bounds
Ricardo Z. Ferreira, M. C. David Marsh, Eike Ravensburg
We provide a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenology of axion-like particles (ALPs) produced in core-collapse supernovae (ccSNe) through interactions with electrons and muons,…