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Universe, Volume 4, Issue 11

November 2018 - 21 articles

Cover Story: Quantum gravity provides a concrete mechanism to describe the final stage of black-hole life, allowing for a stable remnant of Planck mass. We consider the possibility that dark matter could be composed by black-hole remnants formed before the big bang in a bouncing cosmology. This scenario yields two interesting features. First, if black holes constitute the dominating component during the contracting phase, the resulting power spectrum can be almost scale-invariant, without the necessity of an inflationary phase. In the absence of inflation, remnants do not become diluted and they can be sufficiently dense to saturate dark matter. Second, the internal volume of the remnants accommodates a large number of microstates: the early-universe low entropy would then be a property due to observations made with no access to remnant interiors, not a general property of the geometry of the universe. View this paper.
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Articles (21)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,085 Views
8 Pages

9 November 2018

I present theoretical calculations for Higgs-boson and top-quark production, including high-order soft-gluon corrections. I discuss charged-Higgs production in association with a top quark or a W boson, as well as single-top and top-antitop productio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,679 Views
9 Pages

8 November 2018

The QCD Lagrangian is based on quark and gluonic fields—not squarks nor gluinos. However, one can show that its hadronic eigensolutions conform to a representation of superconformal algebra, reflecting the underlying conformal symmetry of chira...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,141 Views
14 Pages

Solar Neutrinos Spectroscopy with Borexino Phase-II

  • Lino Miramonti,
  • Matteo Agostini,
  • Konrad Altenmueller,
  • Simon Appel,
  • Victor Atroshchenko,
  • Zara Bagdasarian,
  • Davide Basilico,
  • Gianpaolo Bellini,
  • Jay Benziger and
  • Daniel Bick
  • + 100 authors

7 November 2018

Solar neutrinos have played a central role in the discovery of the neutrino oscillation mechanism. They still are proving to be a unique tool to help investigate the fusion reactions that power stars and further probe basic neutrino properties. The B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,264 Views
10 Pages

Search for Exotic Particles at the NA62 Experiment

  • Maria Brigida Brunetti,
  • Francesco Gonnella,
  • Lorenza Iacobuzio and
  • On behalf of the NA62 Collaboration

7 November 2018

The NA62 experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is currently taking data to measure the ultra-rare decay K + → π + ν ν ¯ . The high-intensity setup, trigger flexibility, detector performance and high-efficiency vetoes make...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,311 Views
12 Pages

Parameter Estimation of Wormholes beyond the Heisenberg Limit

  • Carlos Sanchidrián-Vaca and
  • Carlos Sabín

6 November 2018

We propose to exploit the quantum properties of nonlinear media to estimate the parameters of massless wormholes. The spacetime curvature produces a change in length with respect to Minkowski spacetime that can be estimated in principle with an inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
99 Citations
6,741 Views
12 Pages

First Model Independent Results from DAMA/LIBRA–Phase2

  • Rita Bernabei,
  • Pierluigi Belli,
  • Andrea Bussolotti,
  • Fabio Cappella,
  • Vincenzo Caracciolo,
  • Riccardo Cerulli,
  • Chang-Jiang Dai,
  • Annelisa D’Angelo,
  • Alessandro Di Marco and
  • Hui-Lin He
  • + 7 authors

6 November 2018

The first results obtained by the DAMA/LIBRA–phase2 experiment are presented. The data have been collected over six independent annual cycles corresponding to a total exposure of 1.13 ton × year, deep underground at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,817 Views
23 Pages

5 November 2018

In this paper we give a brief account of the relations between non-projected supermanifolds and projectivity in supergeometry. Following the general results (L. Sergio et al., 2018), we study an explicit example of non-projected and non-projective su...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,521 Views
12 Pages

Linear Potentials in Galaxy Halos by Asymmetric Wormholes

  • Sebastian Bahamonde,
  • David Benisty and
  • Eduardo I. Guendelman

29 October 2018

A spherically symmetric space-time solution for a diffusive two measures theory is studied. An asymmetric wormhole geometry is obtained where the metric coefficients has a linear term for galactic distances and the analysis of Mannheim and collaborat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,551 Views
20 Pages

29 October 2018

Recently, Ciufolini and coworkers announced the forthcoming launch of a new cannonball geodetic satellite in 2019. It should be injected in an essentially circular path with the same semimajor axis a of LAGEOS (Laser Geodynamics Satellite), in orbit...

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