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Universe, Volume 5, Issue 10

October 2019 - 12 articles

Cover Story: The idea of a multiverse dates from ancient Greece, and it has taken different incarnations along history. The motivations for multiverse scenarios in contemporary physics put different fundamental issues on the table, and these have provoked a sometimes-heated debate about the scientific status of multiverse theories and the necessity (or not) to appeal to them to solve open problems in cosmology. We argue that the evaluation of a possible change of paradigm from a single universe to a multiverse scenario should therefore start at a fundamental conceptual level. We describe different relevant positions within the philosophy of science concerning scientific progress and apply these to the multiverse debate. We then summarize some fundamental concepts and future challenges for a testable and solid physical multiverse scenario. View this paper.
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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,062 Views
15 Pages

Cosmological Constant in SUGRA Models with Degenerate Vacua

  • Colin Froggatt,
  • Holger Nielsen,
  • Roman Nevzorov and
  • Anthony Thomas

22 October 2019

The extrapolation of couplings up to the Planck scale within the standard model (SM) indicates that the Higgs effective potential can have two almost degenerate vacua, which were predicted by the multiple point principle (MPP). The application of the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
5,251 Views
36 Pages

An Introduction to Particle Dark Matter

  • Stefano Profumo,
  • Leonardo Giani and
  • Oliver F. Piattella

17 October 2019

We review the features of Dark Matter as a particle, presenting some old and new instructive models, and looking for their physical implications in the early universe and in the process of structure formation. We also present a schematic of Dark Matt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,010 Views
21 Pages

10 October 2019

The current debate about a possible change of paradigm from a single universe to a multiverse scenario could have deep implications on our view of cosmology and of science in general. These implications therefore deserve to be analyzed from a fundame...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,134 Views
8 Pages

9 October 2019

Forward neutrons are studied in proton-lead collisions at the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. They provide information on the centrality and event plane of collisions and provide an opportunity to study nuclear breakup. At the CMS experiment they are...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,490 Views
33 Pages

Tripartite Entanglement: Foundations and Applications

  • Márcio M. Cunha,
  • Alejandro Fonseca and
  • Edilberto O. Silva

9 October 2019

We review some current ideas of tripartite entanglement. In particular, we consider the case representing the next level of complexity beyond the simplest (though far from trivial) one, namely the bipartite case. This kind of entanglement plays an es...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,392 Views
23 Pages

8 October 2019

The temperature (T) dependence of the axion mass is predicted for T ′ s up to ∼ 2.3 × the chiral restoration temperature of QCD. The axion is related to the U A ( 1 ) anomaly. The squared axion mass m a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,731 Views
17 Pages

Driving Interactions Efficiently in a Composite Few-Body System

  • Alan Kahan,
  • Thomás Fogarty,
  • Jing Li and
  • Thomas Busch

7 October 2019

We study how to efficiently control an interacting few-body system consisting of three harmonically trapped bosons. Specifically, we investigate the process of modulating the inter-particle interactions to drive an initially non-interacting state to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,625 Views
14 Pages

27 September 2019

We study the dynamics of electromagnetic fields of regular rotating electrically charged black holes and solitons replacing naked singularities in nonlinear electrodynamics minimally coupled to gravity (NED-GR). They are related by electromagnetic an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,679 Views
22 Pages

27 September 2019

This article is a review of what could be considered the basic mathematics of Einstein–Cartan theory. We discuss the formalism of principal bundles, principal connections, curvature forms, gauge fields, torsion form, and Bianchi identities, and...

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