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Universe, Volume 11, Issue 10

October 2025 - 31 articles

Cover Story: We present a freeze-out approach for describing the formation of heavy elements in expanding nuclear matter. Applying concepts used in modeling heavy-ion collisions or ternary fission, we determine the abundances of heavy elements taking into account Pauli blocking and Mott dissolution of nuclei as medium effects in nuclear matter. With this approach, we find the Lagrange parameters related to temperature and chemical potentials of neutrons and protons which correspond to a universal distribution of heavy elements. Our scenario may be of interest in light of massive objects discovered with the James Webb Space Telescope in the early Universe and opens new perspectives on the universality of the measured r-process patterns and the lack of observations of population III stars. View this paper
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Articles (31)

  • Article
  • Open Access
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17 Pages

15 October 2025

We studied the left-right symmetric extension of the standard model (LRSM), featuring a TeV-scale, right-handed (RH) gauge boson WR and three RH neutrinos. This setup naturally realizes the type-II seesaw mechanism for active neutrino masses. We iden...

  • Article
  • Open Access
302 Views
14 Pages

15 October 2025

The 1 June 2025 Forbush decrease in the terrestrial ground-level flux of cosmic ray secondaries was recorded by many cosmic ray systems. This was the deepest such decrease from the quiescent value of the flux, which has been observed over the past tw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
238 Views
12 Pages

15 October 2025

In this paper, we consider massless scalar perturbations minimally coupled to gravity in the background spacetime of charged black holes in Yang–Mills theory with gravity’s rainbow modification. We calculate the corresponding quasinormal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
209 Views
23 Pages

14 October 2025

Based on low-resolution OSIRIS/GTC optical spectra, we assign spectral classes to 38 poorly studied ultracool/brown dwarf candidates from the 2MASS database. For almost all of the targets, this is the first optical spectral classification. For the dw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
176 Views
15 Pages

14 October 2025

We investigate Snyder spacetime and its generalizations, including Yang and Snyder–de Sitter spaces, which constitute manifestly Lorentz-invariant noncommutative geometries. This work initiates a systematic study of gauge theory on such spaces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
319 Views
25 Pages

13 October 2025

Recently, a link between gravitational tension (GT) and energy density via the Kretschmann scalar (KS) was proposed to construct regular black holes (RBHs) in pure Lovelock (PL) gravity. However, including a negative cosmological constant in PL gravi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
332 Views
13 Pages

10 October 2025

In this paper, we study the thermodynamic behavior of charged AdS black holes in higher-dimensional spacetimes within the framework of conformal holographic extended thermodynamics. This formalism is based on a novel AdS/CFT dictionary in which the c...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
337 Views
15 Pages

10 October 2025

In this paper, we analyze the agegraphic dark energy from the entropy of the anti-de Sitter black hole using the age of the universe as the IR cutoff. We constrain its parameter with the Pantheon+ Type Ia supernova sample and observational Hubble par...

  • Article
  • Open Access
220 Views
15 Pages

Secular Evolution of a Two-Planet System of Three Bodies with Variable Masses

  • Alexander Prokopenya,
  • Mukhtar Minglibayev and
  • Aiken Kosherbayeva

10 October 2025

A classical three-body problem with two planets moving around a central star of variable mass on quasi-periodic orbits is considered. The bodies are assumed to attract each other according to Newton’s law of universal gravitation. The star lose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
236 Views
12 Pages

QCD Sum Rule Study of Topped Mesons Within Heavy Quark Effective Theory

  • Shu-Wei Zhang,
  • Xuan Luo,
  • Hui-Min Yang and
  • Hua-Xing Chen

9 October 2025

Motivated by the recent CMS observation of a near-threshold enhancement in top quark pair production, we investigate a novel class of hadronic systems containing a single top quark: the topped mesons (tq¯, with q¯=u¯,d¯,s¯)....

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