• Black hole spectroscopy in the next decade 

      Cabero, Miriam; Westerweck, Julian; Capano, Collin D.; Kumar, Sumit; Nielsen, Alex Bentley; Krishnan, Badri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Gravitational wave observations of the ringdown of the remnant black hole in a binary black hole coalescence provide a unique opportunity of confronting the black hole no-hair theorem in general relativity with observational ...
    • Chemical equilibration in weakly coupled QCD 

      Kurkela, Aleksi; Mazeliauskas, Aleksas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      We study thermalization, hydrodynamization, and chemical equilibration in out-of-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma starting from various initial conditions using QCD effective kinetic theory, valid at weak coupling. In ...
    • Chiral density wave versus pion condensation at finite density and zero temperature 

      Andersen, Jens Oluf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-04)
      The quark-meson model is often used as a low-energy effective model for QCD to study the chiral transition at finite temperature T, baryon chemical potential μB, and isospin chemical potential μI. We determine the parameters ...
    • Cold quark matter at N3LO: Soft contributions 

      Gorda, Tyler; Kurkela, Eero Aleksi; Paatelainen, Risto; Säppi, Saga; Vuorinen, Aleksi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      High-order perturbative calculations for thermodynamic quantities in QCD are complicated by the physics of dynamical screening that affects the soft, long-wavelength modes of the system. Here, we provide details for the ...
    • Collider phenomenology of a unified leptoquark model 

      Faber, T.; Liu, Y.; Porod, W.; Hudec, M.; Malinsky, M.; Staub, F.; Kolesova, Helena (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-05)
      We demonstrate that in a recently proposed unified leptoquark model based on the gauge group SU(4)C×SU(2)L×U(1) R significant deviations from the Standard Model values of R K and R K ∗ can be accommodated without any need ...
    • Correlating confinement to topological fluctuations near the crossover transition in QCD 

      Larsen, Rasmus Normann; Sharma, Sayantan; Shuryak, Edward (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We show the existence of strong (anti)correlations between the topological hot spots and the local values of the trace of the Polyakov loop in 2+1 flavor QCD with physical quark mass, in the vicinity of the crossover ...
    • Firewall black holes and echoes from an action principle 

      Abedi, Jahed (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      It is often said that there is no gravity theory based on local action principles giving rise to firewall black hole solutions. Additionally, Guo and Mathur [Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 31, 2242009 (2022).] have cast doubt on the ...
    • Flavor structure of GUTs and uncertainties in proton lifetime estimates 

      Kolesova, Helena; Malinsky, Michal (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      We study the flavor aspects of proton lifetime estimates in simple grand-unified models, paying particular attention to their inherent fragility due to the notorious lack of control of some of the key parameters governing ...
    • Geometric surfaces: An invariant characterization of spherically symmetric black hole horizons and wormhole throats 

      McNutt, David Duncan; Julius, William; Gorban, Matthew; Mattingly, Brandon; Brown, Patrick; Cleaver, Gerald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      We consider a spherically symmetric line element which admits either a black hole geometry or a wormhole geometry and show that in both cases the apparent horizon or the wormhole throat is partially characterized by the ...
    • Gravitational imprints from heavy Kaluza-Klein resonances 

      Megías, Eugenio; Nardini, Germano; Quirós, Mariano (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      We systematically study the holographic phase transition of the radion field in a five-dimensional warped model which includes a scalar potential with a powerlike behavior. We consider Kaluza-Klein (KK) resonances with ...
    • Highly occupied gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions: A self-similar attractor 

      Boguslavski, K; Kurkela, Aleksi; Lappi, T; Peuron, J (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-11)
      Motivated by the boost-invariant Glasma state in the initial stages in heavy-ion collisions, we perform classical-statistical simulations of SU(2) gauge theory in 2+1 dimensional space-time both with and without a scalar ...
    • Improved Gauss law model and in-medium heavy quarkonium at finite density and velocity 

      Lafferty, David; Rothkopf, Alexander Karl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03)
      We explore the in-medium properties of heavy-quarkonium states at finite baryochemical potential and finite transverse momentum based on a modern complex-valued potential model. Our starting point is a novel, rigorous ...
    • Inhomogeneous chiral condensate in the quark-meson model 

      Adhikari, Prabal; Andersen, Jens Oluf; Kneschke, Patrick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-07-24)
    • Inhomogeneous chiral condensate in the quark-meson model 

      Adhikari, Prabal; Andersen, Jens Oluf; Kneschke, Patrick (Journal article, 2017)
      The two-flavor quark-meson model is used as a low-energy effective model for QCD to study inhomogeneous chiral condensates at finite baryon chemical potential μ B. The parameters of the model are determined by matching the ...
    • On-shell parameter fixing in the quark-meson model 

      Adhikari, Prabal; Andersen, Jens Oluf; Kneschke, Patrick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-02)
      The quark-meson model is often used as an effective low-energy model for QCD to study the chiral transition at finite temperature T and baryon chemical potential μB. The parameters in the quark-meson model can be found by ...
    • Pion condensation and phase diagram in the Polyakov-loop quark-meson model 

      Adhikari, Prabal; Andersen, Jens Oluf; Kneschke, Patrick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-10)
      We use the Polyakov-loop extended two-flavor quark-meson model as a low-energy effective model for QCD to study the phase diagram in the μI–T planewhere μI is the isospin chemical potential. In particular, we focus on the ...
    • Pulsar timing array stochastic background from light Kaluza-Klein resonances 

      Megías, Eugenio; Nardini, Germano; Quirós, Mariano (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-11)
      We investigate the potential of the warped extradimension framework as an explanation for the recently observed stochastic gravitational background at nHz frequencies in pulsar timing arrays (PTA). Our analysis reveals ...
    • Soft photon propagation in a hot and dense medium to next-to-leading order 

      Gorda, Tyler; Kurkela, Eero Aleksi; Österman, Juuso; Paatelainen, Risto; Säppi, Saga; Schicho, Philipp; Seppänen, Kaapo; Vuorinen, Aleksi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      We present the first complete calculation of the soft photon self-energy to the next-to-leading order in a hot and/or dense ultrarelativistic plasma in QED. The calculation is performed within the real-time formalism ...
    • Spectroscopy for asymmetric binary black hole mergers 

      Abedi, Jahed; Capano, Collin D.; Kastha, Shilpa; Nitz, Alexander H.; Wang, Yi-Fan; Westerweck, Julian; Nielsen, Alex Bentley; Krishnan, Badri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Black hole spectroscopy is the proposal to observe multiple quasinormal modes in the ringdown of a binary black hole merger. In addition to the fundamental quadrupolar mode, overtones and higher harmonics may be present ...
    • Spontaneous momentum dissipation and coexistence of phases in holographic Horndeski theory 

      Filios, Georgios; Gonzalez, P. A.; Kuang, Xiao-Mei; Papantonopoulos, Eleftherios; Vasquez, Yerko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      We discuss the possible phases dual to the AdS hairy black holes in Horndeski theory. In the probe limit breaking the translational invariance, we study the conductivity and we find a nontrivial structure indicating a ...