[HTML][HTML] String cosmology: from the early universe to today

M Cicoli, JP Conlon, A Maharana, S Parameswaran… - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
We review applications of string theory to cosmology, from primordial times to the present-
day accelerated expansion. Starting with a brief overview of cosmology and string …

The swampland: introduction and review

E Palti - Fortschritte der Physik, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Swampland program aims to distinguish effective theories which can be completed into
quantum gravity in the ultraviolet from those which cannot. This article forms an introduction …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in the physics of axions and axion-like particles

K Choi, SH Im, CS Shin - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The axion is a light pseudoscalar particle postulated to solve issues with the Standard
Model, including the strong CP problem and the origin of dark matter. In recent years, there …

Superradiance in string theory

VM Mehta, M Demirtas, C Long… - … of Cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We perform an extensive analysis of the statistics of axion masses and interactions in
compactifications of type IIB string theory, and we show that black hole superradiance …

[图书][B] Inflation and string theory

D Baumann, L McAllister - 2015 - books.google.com
The past two decades have seen transformative advances in cosmology and string theory.
Observations of the cosmic microwave background have revealed strong evidence for …

De Sitter vs quintessence in string theory

M Cicoli, S De Alwis, A Maharana, F Muia… - Fortschritte der …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
De Sitter solutions have been recently conjectured to be incompatible with quantum gravity.
In this paper we critically assess the progress and challenges of different mechanisms to …

Small cosmological constants in string theory

M Demirtas, M Kim, L McAllister, J Moritz… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We construct supersymmetric AdS 4 vacua of type IIB string theory in
compactifications on orientifolds of Calabi-Yau threefold hypersurfaces. We first find explicit …

Light sterile neutrinos: a white paper

KN Abazajian, MA Acero, SK Agarwalla… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2012 - arxiv.org
arXiv:1204.5379v1 [hep-ph] 18 Apr 2012 Page 1 Light Sterile Neutrinos: A White Paper KN
Abazajiana,1 MA Acero,2 SK Agarwalla,3 AA Aguilar-Arevalo,2 CH Albright,4, 5 S. Antusch,6 …

[图书][B] The standard model and beyond

P Langacker - 2017 - library.oapen.org
This new edition of The Standard Model and Beyond presents an advanced introduction to
the physics and formalism of the standard model and other non-abelian gauge theories. It …

Quantum gravity effects on dark matter and gravitational waves

SF King, R Roshan, X Wang, G White, M Yamazaki - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We explore how quantum gravity effects, manifested through the breaking of discrete
symmetry responsible for both dark matter and domain walls, can have observational effects …