68 citations · 72 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
2 papers
hep-ph2023★ 4 cited
Heavy neutron stars from light scalars
Reuven Balkin, Javi Serra, Konstantin Springmann +2
We study how light scalar fields can change the stellar landscape by triggering a new phase of nuclear matter. Scalars coupled to nucleons can develop a non-trivial expectation val…
hep-th2014★ 68 cited
Inflation from Broken Scale Invariance
Csaba Csaki, Nemanja Kaloper, Javi Serra +1
We construct a model of inflation based on a low-energy effective theory of spontaneously broken global scale invariance. This provides a shift symmetry that protects the inflaton…