• 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 ...
    • Bubble nucleation and quantum initial conditions in classical statistical simulations 

      Tranberg, Anders; Ungersbäck, Gerhard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Classical-statistical lattice simulations provide a useful approximation to outof-equilibrium quantum field theory, but only for systems exhibiting large occupation numbers, and only for phenomena that are not intrinsically ...
    • Chemical equilibration in hadronic collisions 

      Kurkela, Aleksi; Mazeliauskas, Aleksas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      We study chemical equilibration in out-of-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma using the first principles method of QCD effective kinetic theory, accurate at weak coupling. In longitudinally expanding systems—relevant for ...
    • 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 ...
    • Connecting the Dots: Numerical Randomized Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with State-Dependent Event Rates 

      Kleppe, Tore Selland (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Numerical generalized randomized Hamiltonian Monte Carlo is introduced, as a robust, easy to use and computationally fast alternative to conventional Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for continuous target distributions. A ...
    • 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 ...
    • Cosmology with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna 

      Auclair, Pierre; Bacon, David; Baker, Tessa; Barreiro, Tiago; Bartolo, Nicola; Belgacem, Enis; Bellomo, Nicola; Ben-Dayan, Ido; Bertacca, Daniele; Besancon, Marc; Blanco-Pillado, Jose J.; Blas, Diego; Boileau, Guillaume; Calcagni, Gianluca; Caldwell, Robert; Caprini, Chiara; Carbone, Carmelita; Chang, Chia-Feng; Chen, Hsin-Yu; Christensen, Nelson; Clesse, Sebastien; Comelli, Denis; Congedo, Giuseppe; Contaldi, Carlo; Crisostomi, Marco; Croon, Djuna; Cui, Yanou; Cusin, Giulia; Cutting, Daniel; Dalang, Charles; De Luca, Valerio; Pozzo, Walter Del; Desjacques, Vincent; Dimastrogiovanni, Emanuela; Dorsch, Glauber C.; Ezquiaga, Jose Maria; Fasiello, Matteo; Figueroa, Daniel G.; Flauger, Raphael; Franciolini, Gabriele; Frusciante, Noemi; Fumagalli, Jacopo; García-Bellido, Juan; Gould, Oliver; Holz, Daniel; Iacconi, Laura; Jain, Rajeev Kumar; Jenkins, Alexander C.; Jinno, Ryusuke; Joana, Cristian; Karnesis, Nikolaos; Konstandin, Thomas; Koyama, Kazuya; Kozaczuk, Jonathan; Kuroyanagi, Sachiko; Laghi, Danny; Lewicki, Marek; Lombriser, Lucas; Madge, Eric; Maggiore, Michele; Malhotra, Ameek; Mancarella, Michele; Mandic, Vuk; Mangiagli, Alberto; Matarrese, Sabino; Mazumdar, Anupam; Mukherjee, Suvodip; Musco, Ilia; Nardini, Germano; No, Jose Miguel; Papanikolaou, Theodoros; Peloso, Marco; Pieroni, Mauro; Pilo, Luigi; Raccanelli, Alvise; Renaux-Petel, Sébastien; Renzini, Arianna I.; Ricciardone, Angelo; Riotto, Antonio; Romano, Joseph D.; Rollo, Rocco; Pol, Alberto Roper; Morales, Ester Ruiz; Sakellariadou, Mairi; Saltas, Ippocratis D.; Scalisi, Marco; Schmitz, Kai; Schwaller, Pedro; Sergijenko, Olga; Servant, Geraldine; Simakachorn, Peera; Sorbo, Lorenzo; Sousa, Lara; Speri, Lorenzo; Steer, Danièle A.; Tamanini, Nicola; Tasinato, Gianmassimo; Torrado, Jesús; Unal, Caner; Vennin, Vincent; Vernieri, Daniele; Vernizzi, Filippo; Volonteri, Marta; Wachter, Jeremy M.; Wands, David; Witkowski, Lukas T.; Zumalacárregui, Miguel; Annis, James; Ares, Fëanor Reuben; Avelino, Pedro P.; Avgoustidis, Anastasios; Barausse, Enrico; Bonilla, Alexander; Bonvin, Camille; Bosso, Pasquale; Calabrese, Matteo; Çalışkan, Mesut; Cembranos, Jose A. R.; Chala, Mikael; Chernoff, David; Clough, Katy; Criswell, Alexander; Das, Saurya; Silva, Antonio da; Dayal, Pratika; Domcke, Valerie; Durrer, Ruth; Easther, Richard; Escoffier, Stephanie; Ferrans, Sandrine; Fryer, Chris; Gair, Jonathan; Gordon, Chris; Hendry, Martin; Hindmarsh, Mark; Hooper, Deanna C.; Kajfasz, Eric; Kopp, Joachim; Koushiappas, Savvas M.; Kumar, Utkarsh; Kunz, Martin; Lagos, Macarena; Lilley, Marc; Lizarraga, Joanes; Lobo, Francisco S. N.; Maleknejad, Azadeh; Martins, Carlos Jose Amaro Parente; Meerburg, P. Daniel; Meyer, Renate; Mimoso, José Pedro; Nesseris, Savvas; Nunes, Nelson; Oikonomou, Vasilis; Orlando, Giorgio; Özsoy, Ogan; Pacucci, Fabio; Palmese, Antonella; Petiteau, Antoine; Pinol, Lucas; Zwart, Simon Portegies; Pratten, Geraint; Prokopec, Tomislav; Quenby, John; Rastgoo, Saeed; Roest, Diederik; Rummukainen, Kari; Schimd, Carlo; Secroun, Aurélia; Sesana, Alberto; Sopuerta, Carlos F.; Tereno, Ismael; Tolley, Andrew; Urrestilla, Jon; Vagenas, Elias C.; van de Vis, Jorinde; van de Weygaert, Rien; Wardell, Barry; Weir, David J.; White, Graham; Świeżewska, Bogumiła; Zhdanov, Valery I. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has two scientific objectives of cosmological focus: to probe the expansion rate of the universe, and to understand stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds and their implications ...
    • Crystal field effects in the zig-zag chain compound SrTm2O4 

      Quintero Castro, Diana Lucia; Bhat Kademane, Abhijit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The single ion properties of the zig-zag chain compound SrTm2O4 have been investigated using heat capacity, magnetic susceptibility, magnetization, inelastic neutron scattering, and polarized muon spectroscopy. Two crystal ...
    • Effective kinetic description of event-by-event pre-equilibrium dynamics in high-energy heavy-ion collisions 

      Kurkela, Aleksi; Mazeliauskas, Aleksas; Paquet, Jean-Francois; Schlichting, Sören; Teaney, Derek (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      We develop a macroscopic description of the space-time evolution of the energy-momentum tensor during the pre-equilibrium stage of a high-energy heavy-ion collision. Based on a weak coupling effective kinetic description ...
    • Exceptional nonrelativistic effective field theories with enhanced symmetries 

      Brauner, Tomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      We initiate the classification of nonrelativistic effective field theories (EFTs) for Nambu-Goldstone (NG) bosons, possessing a set of redundant, coordinate-dependent symmetries. Similarly to the relativistic case, such ...
    • Families of Proper Holomorphic Embeddings and Carleman-Type Theorem with parameters 

      Domenico Di Salvo, Giovanni; Ritter, Tyson; Wold, Erlend Fornæss (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      We solve the problem of simultaneously embedding properly holomorphically into C2 a whole family of n-connected domains Omega_r in P1 such that none of the components of P1 \ Omega_r reduces to a point, by constructing a ...
    • Field theories with higher-group symmetry from composite currents 

      Brauner, Tomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Higher-form symmetries are associated with transformations that only act on extended objects, not on point particles. Typically, higher-form symmetries live alongside ordinary, point-particle (0-form), symmetries and they ...
    • 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 ...
    • Flow in AA and pA as an interplay of fluid-like and non-fluid like excitations 

      Kurkela, Aleksi; Wiedemann, Urs Achim; Wu, Bin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      To study the microscopic structure of quark–gluon plasma, data from hadronic collisions must be confronted with models that go beyond fluid dynamics. Here, we study a simple kinetic theory model that encompasses fluid ...
    • 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 ...
    • A GIT construction of degenerations of Hilbert schemes of points 

      Gulbrandsen, Martin G; Halle, Lars H.; Hulek, Klaus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      We present a Geometric Invariant Theory (GIT) construction which allows us to construct good projective degenerations of Hilbert schemes of points for simple degenerations. A comparison with the construction of Li and Wu ...
    • Heavy quarkonium in extreme conditions 

      Rothkopf, Alexander Karl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      In this report we review recent progress achieved in the understanding of heavy quarkonium under extreme conditions from a theory perspective. Its focus lies both on quarkonium properties in thermal equilibrium, as well ...
    • Importance Sampling-based Transport Map Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Bayesian Hierarchical Models 

      Osmundsen, Kjartan Kloster; Kleppe, Tore Selland; Liesenfeld, Roman (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06)
      We propose an importance sampling (IS)-based transport map Hamiltonian Monte Carlo procedure for performing a Bayesian analysis in nonlinear high-dimensional hierarchical models. Using IS techniques to construct a transport ...
    • Improved background subtraction and a fresh look at jet sub-structure in JEWEL 

      Milhano, José Guilherme; Zapp, Korinna Christine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Interactions of hard partons in the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) created with relativistic heavy ion collisions lead to characteristic modifications of the internal structure of reconstructed jets. A large part of the observed ...
    • 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 ...