Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena

External reference: https://openalex.org/T11090

  1. Different interferometer combinations vary in axion dark matter sensitivity
    Explore how space-based gravitational wave detectors can detect axion-like dark matter using different time-delay interferometry combinations, achieving sensitivity across a broad mass range.
  2. Review compares methods for simulating fuzzy dark matter
    Review of numerical simulation methods for fuzzy dark matter, examining wave-based and fluid-based algorithms for resolving ultralight boson dynamics on galactic scales.
  3. VSDM release supports dark matter scattering calculations
    VSDM version 0.3 provides Julia and Python tools for computing dark matter scattering rates in anisotropic detector materials through partial rate matrix calculations.
  4. Python and Julia tools for dark matter detection calculations
    New software implementations accelerate calculations for directional dark matter detection using anisotropic crystal targets, enabling faster signal-background discrimination.
  5. Axion interaction Lagrangian includes WZW terms and meson decays
    Complete Lagrangian for axion interactions with mesons incorporating Wess-Zumino-Witten terms and instanton effects, enabling consistent predictions for axion decay widths.
  6. Atomic hydrogen test agrees with Standard Model prediction
    Ultra-precise measurement of hydrogen's 2S-6P transition resolves conflicting proton radius values and tests quantum electrodynamics to 0.7 parts per trillion, validating the Standard Model.
  7. Ze counting framework yields a Minkowski-like metric
    A derivation of Minkowski spacetime geometry from combinatorial dynamics of a binary event counter, with speed of light emerging as structural impedance.
  8. Semi-classical simulation reconciles two photon-scattering descriptions
    Reconciliation of Pryce-Ward and Klein-Nishina cross sections for Compton scattering of entangled positronium annihilation photons via modified semi-classical simulation framework.
  9. Cored stellar systems can remain stable in cuspy dark matter halos
    Simulations demonstrate that cored stellar systems remain stable within cuspy dark matter halos over Hubble timescales, refuting recent claims that such configurations would falsify cold dark matter.
  10. Review compares numerical tools for electroweak phase transition analysis
    Explore computational tools for analyzing electroweak phase transitions, including effective potential construction, nucleation rates, and thermodynamic parameters essential for gravitational wave.
  11. Dark matter halo alters black hole optics and thermodynamics
    Exact black hole solution in cored Plummer dark matter halo showing modified photon dynamics, shadows, lensing, quasinormal modes, and novel phase transitions absent in Schwarzschild spacetime.