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Universe, Volume 7, Issue 2

February 2021 - 25 articles

Cover Story: Gravity must obey quantum theory, as do all other interactions. The effects of fluctuations in quantum gravity have important consequences for cosmology. They determine the shape of the effective potential for scalar fields, which in turn are the crucial ingredients for the inflationary universe and for dynamical dark energy. Functional renormalisation permits a quantitative computation of the effects of fluctuations of the metric. If quantum gravity is a complete theory, valid for infinitely short distances, effective scalar potentials become flat for large field values. Inflation and dynamical dark energy arise in a natural way. The same computation also substantiates the successful quantum gravity prediction for the mass of the Higgs boson. View this paper
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Articles (25)

  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
3,588 Views
23 Pages

4 February 2021

Apart from the familiar structure firmly-rooted in the general relativistic field equations where the energy–momentum tensor has a null divergence i.e., it conserves, there exists a considerable number of extended theories of gravity allowing departu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,908 Views
13 Pages

3 February 2021

Since 1969, Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) data have been collected by various observatories and analysed by different analysis groups. In the recent years, observations with bigger telescopes (APOLLO) and at infra-red wavelength (OCA) are carried out, re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,140 Views
16 Pages

Possibilities of Detecting Light Dark Matter Produced via Drell-Yan Channel in a Fixed Target Experiment

  • Eduard Ursov,
  • Anna Anokhina,
  • Emil Khalikov,
  • Ivan Vidulin and
  • Tatiana Roganova

1 February 2021

This work presents the complete modeling scheme of production and detection of two types of light dark matter (LDM)—Dirac fermionic and scalar particles—in a fixed target experiment using SHiP experiment as an example. The Drell-Yan process was chose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,191 Views
20 Pages

31 January 2021

The neutralino sector of the semi-constrained next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model is explored under recent experimental constraints, with special attention to dark matter (DM) limits. The effects of the upper and lower bounds of dark matter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,066 Views
40 Pages

31 January 2021

Quaternions are a natural framework of 4D space-time, where the unit element relates to time, and three others relate to 3D space. We define a quaternion set of differential torsion operators (shifts with rotations) that act to the energy-momentum te...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,264 Views
9 Pages

Quantization of Gravitationally Bound Systems

  • Michael Fil’chenkov and
  • Yuri Laptev

30 January 2021

Some of the approaches to quantization in gravity theory concerning gravitationally bound systems are considered. Grades of quantization applicable to these systems have been classified in terms of quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and quantum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,113 Views
35 Pages

29 January 2021

We present a geometrical derivation of the relativistic dynamics of the superfluid inner crust of a neutron star. The resulting model is analogous to the Hall-Vinen-Bekarevich-Khalatnikov hydrodynamics for a single-component superfluid at finite temp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,836 Views
18 Pages

29 January 2021

One of the most important effects of ionospheric modification by high power, high frequency (HF) waves is the generation of ultra low frequency/extremely low frequency/very low frequency (ULF/ELF/VLF) waves by modulated heating. This paper reviews th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,769 Views
23 Pages

Superfluid Neutron Matter with a Twist

  • Georgios Palkanoglou and
  • Alexandros Gezerlis

26 January 2021

Superfluid neutron matter is a key ingredient in the composition of neutron stars. The physics of the inner crust are largely dependent on those of its S-wave neutron superfluid, which has made its presence known through pulsar glitches and modificat...

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