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Universe, Volume 9, Issue 7

2023 July - 47 articles

Cover Story: What if dark matter interacted non-locally with gravity? We investigate this possibility by exploiting fractional calculus, i.e., the branch of mathematics that deals with the differentiation and integration of non-integer order, and specifically by considering a modified Poisson equation with fractional derivatives. We recently showed that such a framework can accurately reproduce the kinematics of disk-dominated galaxies, especially dwarfs. We now further test fractional gravity in the largest structures of the cosmos: galaxy clusters. All in all, we pinpoint the strength of non-locality over six orders of magnitude in dark matter mass. The resulting trend implies that fractional gravity can substantially alleviate the small-scale issues of the standard dark matter paradigm while retaining its successes on large cosmological scales. View this paper
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Articles (47)

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,983 Views
41 Pages

BL Lac objects are active galactic nuclei notable for a beamed nonthermal radiation, which is generated in one of the relativistic jets forming a small angle to the observer’s line-of-sight. The broadband spectra of BL Lacs show a two-component...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Gamma Ray Astrophysics and Future Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,327 Views
18 Pages

Newtonian Cosmology and Evolution of κ-Deformed Universe

  • E. Harikumar,
  • Harsha Sreekumar and
  • Suman Kumar Panja

Considering space-time to be non-commutative, we study the evolution of the universe employing the approach of Newtonian cosmology. Generalizing the conservation of energy and the first law of thermodynamics to κ-deformed space-time, we derive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime and Its Implications for Cosmology, Blackholes and Quantum Gravity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,784 Views
13 Pages

The squared momentum transfer spectra of η and η0, produced in high-energy photon–proton (γp) →η(η0)+p processes in electron–proton (ep) collisions performed at CEBAF, NINA, CEA, SLAC, DESY, and WLS are analyzed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Collectivity in High-Energy Proton-Proton and Heavy-Ion Collisions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,039 Views
16 Pages

We investigate the class of helical hypersurfaces parametrized by x=x(u,v,w), characterized by a light-like axis in Minkowski spacetime L4. We determine the matrices that represent the fundamental forms, Gauss map, and shape operator of x. Furthermor...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Physics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,866 Views
32 Pages

The non-linear dynamics of scalar fields coupled to matter and gravity can lead to remarkable density-dependent screening effects. In this short review, we present the main classes of screening mechanisms, and discuss their tests in laboratory and as...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cosmological Constant)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,676 Views
16 Pages

Stability Analysis of a Self-Gravitating Fluid within EIT Theory

  • J. Félix Salazar,
  • A. L. García-Perciante,
  • A. R. Méndez and
  • G. Chacón-Acosta

In this article, we apply the formalism of (classical) Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics (EIT) to the dynamics of density fluctuations for a self-gravitating fluid in a static Universe, considering only bulk viscosity. The problem is characterized...

(This article belongs to the Section Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,582 Views
10 Pages

Excited States of Maximal Warm Holes

  • Yuan Yue and
  • Yong-Qiang Wang

Recently, the Einstein–Maxwell–scalar model with a non-minimal coupling between the scalar and Maxwell fields was explored. As a result, a new class of black hole solutions with scalar hair was discovered. By fixing the mass of a black ho...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,970 Views
86 Pages

This is a non-standard exposition of the main notions of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, including recent results. It is based on the algebraic approach in which the starting point is a star-algebra and on the geometric approach in which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: Feature Papers 2023—Field Theory)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,793 Views
12 Pages

The PHENIX experiment measured two-particle Bose–Einstein quantum-statistical correlations of charged kaons in Au+Au collisions at sNN = 200 GeV. The correlation functions are parametrized assuming that the source emitting the particles has a L...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Zimányi School – Heavy Ion Physics)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,530 Views
12 Pages

In 2018, in preparation for the Beam Energy Scan II, the STAR detector was upgraded with the Event Plane Detector (EPD). The instrument enhanced STAR’s capabilities in centrality determination for fluctuation measurements, event plane resolutio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Zimányi School – Heavy Ion Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,885 Views
12 Pages

Estimates of the Surface Magnetic Field Strength of Radio Pulsars

  • Vitaliy Kim,
  • Adel Umirbayeva and
  • Yerlan Aimuratov

We investigate the geometry of the magnetic field of rotation-powered pulsars. A new method for calculating an angle (β) between the spin and magnetic dipole axes of a neutron star (NS) in the ejector stage is considered within the frame of the magne...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remo Ruffini Festschrift)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,668 Views
13 Pages

De Sitter-Invariant Black Holes

  • Diego F. López,
  • Salman Abarghouei Nejad and
  • José G. Pereira

In the de Sitter-invariant approach to gravitation, all solutions to the gravitational field equations are spacetimes that reduce locally to de Sitter. Consequently, besides including a Schwarzschild event horizon, the de Sitter-invariant black hole...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,100 Views
12 Pages

Neutron Star Binaries Produced by Binary-Driven Hypernovae, Their Mergers, and the Link between Long and Short GRBs

  • Laura M. Becerra,
  • Chris Fryer,
  • Jose F. Rodriguez,
  • Jorge A. Rueda and
  • Remo. Ruffini

The binary-driven hypernova (BdHN) model explains long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) associated with supernovae (SNe) Ic through physical episodes that occur in a binary composed of a carbon-oxygen (CO) star and a neutron star (NS) companion in close orbit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remo Ruffini Festschrift)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,907 Views
15 Pages

Characterizing Low-Energy Charged Particles in the Magnetosphere with the LEM CubeSat Spectrometer Project: Detector Concept and Hardware Characterisation

  • Riccardo Nicolaidis,
  • Francesco Nozzoli,
  • Giancarlo Pepponi,
  • Pierluigi Bellutti and ,
  • Evgeny Demenev,
  • Francesco Maria Follega,
  • Roberto Iuppa and
  • Veronica Vilona
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

An accurate flux measurement of low-energy charged particles trapped in the magnetosphere is necessary for space weather characterization and to study the coupling between the lithosphere and magnetosphere, which allows for the investigation of the c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Universe (ECU 2023))
  • Communication
  • Open Access
79 Citations
5,471 Views
12 Pages

Blinkverse: A Database of Fast Radio Bursts

  • Jiaying Xu,
  • Yi Feng,
  • Di Li,
  • Pei Wang and ,
  • Yongkun Zhang,
  • Jintao Xie,
  • Huaxi Chen,
  • Han Wang,
  • Zhixuan Kang and
  • Dengke Zhou
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

The volume of research on fast radio bursts (FRBs) observation have been seeing a dramatic growth. To facilitate the systematic analysis of the FRB population, we established a database platform, Blinkverse, as a central inventory of FRBs from variou...

(This article belongs to the Section Space Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,940 Views
17 Pages

Dark Matter in Fractional Gravity II: Tests in Galaxy Clusters

  • Francesco Benetti,
  • Andrea Lapi,
  • Giovanni Gandolfi,
  • Balakrishna Sandeep Haridasu and
  • Luigi Danese

Recently, in Benetti et al. (Astrophys. J. 2023, 949, 65), we suggested that the dark matter (DM) component in galaxies may originate fractional gravity. In such a framework, the DM component exists, but the gravitational potential associated to its...

(This article belongs to the Section Galaxies and Clusters)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,006 Views
11 Pages

In the study of femtoscopic correlations in high-energy physics, besides Bose–Einstein correlations, one has to take final-state interactions into account. Amongst them, Coulomb interactions play a prominent role in the case of charged particle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Zimányi School – Heavy Ion Physics)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,724 Views
6 Pages

A Simple, Exact Formulation of Number Counts in the Geodesic-Light-Cone Gauge

  • Giuseppe Fanizza,
  • Maurizio Gasperini and
  • Giovanni Marozzi

In this article, we compare different formulations of the number count prescription using the convenient formalism of the Geodesic-Light-Cone gauge. We then find a simple, exact, and very general expression of such a prescription which is suitable fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: Feature Papers 2023—Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,520 Views
14 Pages

Neutrino astronomy has opened a new window to the extreme Universe, entering into a fruitful era built upon the success of neutrino telescopes, which have already given a new step forward in this novel and growing field by the first observation of st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Double Beta Decay Investigations: In Honor of Prof. Sabin Stoica at His 70th Anniversary)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,724 Views
10 Pages

Within the framework of dispersion theory, we study the the processes e+e−→ϕ(2170)→ϕππ(KK¯). The strong pion–pion final-state interactions, especially the KK¯ coupled channel in the S wave, are taken in...

(This article belongs to the Section High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,654 Views
45 Pages

In this review, we discuss and extend the study of the inclusive production of vector quarkonia, J/ψ and Υ, emitted with large transverse momenta and rapidities at the LHC. We adopt the novel ZCW19+ determination of fragmentation function...

(This article belongs to the Section High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,133 Views
10 Pages

A new (improved) model of inflation and primordial black hole (PBH) formation is proposed by combining the Starobinsky model of inflation, Appleby–Battye–Starobinsky (ABS) model of dark energy, and a quantum correction in the modified F(R...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Friedmann Cosmology: A Century Later)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,101 Views
14 Pages

J/ψ, a charmonium bound state made of a charm and an anti-charm quark, was discovered in the 1970s and confirmed the quark model. Because the mass of charm quarks is significantly above the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) scale ΛQCD, charmoni...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Zimányi School – Heavy Ion Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,356 Views
10 Pages

First Experimental Survey of a Whole Class of Non-Commutative Quantum Gravity Models in the VIP-2 Lead Underground Experiment

  • Kristian Piscicchia,
  • Antonino Marcianò,
  • Andrea Addazi,
  • Diana Laura Sirghi and ,
  • Massimiliano Bazzi,
  • Nicola Bortolotti,
  • Mario Bragadireanu,
  • Michael Cargnelli,
  • Alberto Clozza and
  • Catalina Curceanu
  • + 21 authors+ 16 authors

This study is aimed to set severe constraints on a whole class of non-commutative space-times scenarios as a class of universality for several quantum gravity models. To this end, slight violations of the Pauli exclusion principle—predicted by...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: Feature Papers 2023—Gravitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,433 Views
15 Pages

Based on the five-dimensional Einstein–Maxwell theory, Bah et al. constructed a singularity-free topology star/black hole [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 151101 (2021)]. After performing the Kaluza–Klein reduction, i.e., integrating the extra spac...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,173 Views
32 Pages

The discovery of diffuse radio emission in galaxy clusters proved the existence of energetic cosmic-ray electrons and cosmic magnetic fields on Mpc-scales in the Universe. Furthermore, both magnetic fields and cosmic-ray electrons are predicted to ex...

(This article belongs to the Section Galaxies and Clusters)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,067 Views
14 Pages

The measurement of two-particle Bose–Einstein momentum correlation functions are presented using sNN=5.02 TeV PbPb collision data, recorded by the CMS experiment in 2018. The measured correlation functions are discussed in terms of Lévy-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Zimányi School – Heavy Ion Physics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,473 Views
36 Pages

We study the role of short-range correlations, as well as pion and rho loops governing long-range RPA correlations, in nuclear matter properties and response functions. We use an adapted formulation of the Brueckner G-matrix approach to generate a pa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Many Body Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,812 Views
39 Pages

We investigate the evolution of gravitational waves through discontinuous evolution (transition) of the Hubble expansion rate H(z) at a sudden cosmological singularity, which may be due to a transition of the value of the gravitational constant. We f...

(This article belongs to the Section Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,215 Views
41 Pages

Cosmological Fluctuations in Delta Gravity

  • Jorge Alfaro,
  • Carlos Rubio and
  • Marco San Martín

About 70% of the Universe is Dark Energy, but the physics community still does not know what it is. Delta gravity (DG) is an alternative theory of gravitation that could solve this cosmological problem. Previously, we studied the Universe’s acc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: Feature Papers 2023—Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,632 Views
12 Pages

In this work, we study the parameter space of neutrino-emitting BL Lacs under the framework of the one-zone lepto-hadronic model. We show that constraints on the model come from various aspects of observations such as the variability timescale of bla...

(This article belongs to the Section Space Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
2,829 Views
12 Pages

In recent decades, there has been growing interest in the quantization of black holes using techniques developed in loop quantum cosmology. Due to the quantum geometry effect, the resulting quantum-corrected black hole provides non-singular models. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,823 Views
16 Pages

Studying the Spectral Energy Distributions Emanating from Regular Galactic XRBs

  • Theodora Papavasileiou,
  • Odysseas Kosmas and
  • Ioannis Sinatkas

X-ray binary systems (XRBs) exhibit similar dynamics and multimessenger emission mechanisms to active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with the benefit of shorter time scaling. Those systems produce rich spectral energy distributions (SEDs) ranging from the ra...

(This article belongs to the Section Compact Objects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,399 Views
14 Pages

Fab-Four Cosmography to Tackle the Hubble Tension

  • Celia Escamilla-Rivera,
  • José María de Albornoz-Caratozzolo and
  • Sebastián Nájera

In the context of the Fab-Four theory of gravity in a Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker background, in this work we use the cosmography approach to study a particular self-tuning filter solution focused on a zero-curvature fixed point to stud...

(This article belongs to the Collection Modified Theories of Gravity and Cosmological Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,168 Views
9 Pages

In a recent article we showed that the vacuum energy density in two spacetime dimensions for a wide variety of integrable quantum field theories has the form ρvac=−m2/2g where m is a physical mass and g is a generalized coupling, where in t...

(This article belongs to the Section Cosmology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,466 Views
48 Pages

A Short Survey of Matter-Antimatter Evolution in the Primordial Universe

  • Johann Rafelski,
  • Jeremiah Birrell,
  • Andrew Steinmetz and
  • Cheng Tao Yang

We offer a survey of the matter-antimatter evolution within the primordial Universe. While the origin of the tiny matter-antimatter asymmetry has remained one of the big questions in modern cosmology, antimatter itself has played a large role for muc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remo Ruffini Festschrift)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,500 Views
7 Pages

In high-energy collisions of small systems, by high-enough final-state multiplicities, a collective behaviour is present that is similar to the flow patterns observed in heavy-ion collisions. Recent studies connect this collectivity to semi-soft vacu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Zimányi School – Heavy Ion Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,208 Views
12 Pages

Constraining Dark Boson Decay Using Neutron Stars

  • Wasif Husain,
  • Dipan Sengupta and
  • A. W. Thomas

Inspired by the well-known anomaly in the lifetime of the neutron, we investigated its consequences inside neutron stars. We first assessed the viability of the neutron decay hypothesis suggested by Fornal and Grinstein within neutron stars, in terms...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neutron Lifetime)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,775 Views
15 Pages

With the introduction of CFJ correction term, Chiral correction term, and aether-like correction term, based on Lorentz breaking, WKB approximate, and quantum tunneling radiation theory of black holes, the modified fermion dynamics equation is studie...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,724 Views
15 Pages

We investigated within the Darmois–Israel thin-shell formalism the match of neutral and asymptotically flat, slowly rotating spacetimes (up to second order in the rotation parameter) when their boundaries are dynamic. It has several important a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: Feature Papers 2023—Gravitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,488 Views
14 Pages

The perspectives of detecting the general relativistic gravitomagnetic Lense–Thirring effect on the orbits of the Galilean moons of Jupiter induced by the angular momentum S of the latter are preliminarily investigated. Numerical integrations o...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,627 Views
13 Pages

Recent work has shown that local supersymmetry on a spacetime boundary in N-extended AdS supergravity in chiral variables implies coupling to a boundary OSp(N|2)C super Chern–Simons theory. Consequently there has been a proposal to define and c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Loop Quantum Gravity: A Themed Issue in Honor of Prof. Abhay Ashtekar)
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,774 Views
69 Pages

Cosmological Probes of Structure Growth and Tests of Gravity

  • Jiamin Hou,
  • Julian Bautista,
  • Maria Berti,
  • Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro and ,
  • César Hernández-Aguayo,
  • Tilman Tröster and
  • Jinglan Zheng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The current standard cosmological model is constructed within the framework of general relativity with a cosmological constant Λ, which is often associated with dark energy, and phenomenologically explains the accelerated cosmic expansion. Und...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cosmological Constant)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,235 Views
25 Pages

Higgs Field-Induced Triboluminescence in Binary Black Hole Mergers

  • Mariam Chitishvili,
  • Merab Gogberashvili,
  • Rostislav Konoplich and
  • Alexander S. Sakharov

We conjecture that the Higgs potential can be significantly modified when it is in close proximity to the horizon of an astrophysical black hole, leading to the destabilization of the electroweak vacuum. In this situation, the black hole should be en...

(This article belongs to the Section High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,958 Views
11 Pages

Femtoscopy has the capacity to probe the space-time geometry of the particle-emitting source in heavy-ion collisions. In particular, femtoscopy of like-sign kaon pairs may shed light on the origin of non-Gaussianity of the spatial emission probabilit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Zimányi School – Heavy Ion Physics)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,925 Views
9 Pages

Quantum Phenomena Inside a Black Hole: Quantization of the Scalar Field Iniside Horizon in Schwarzschild Spacetime

  • Pawel Gusin,
  • Andrzej Radosz,
  • Andy T. Augousti,
  • Janos Polonyi and ,
  • Oleg B. Zaslavskii and
  • Romuald J. Ściborski
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

We discuss the problem of the quantization and dynamic evolution of a scalar free field in the interior of a Schwarzschild black hole. A unitary approach to the dynamics of the quantized field is proposed: a time-dependent Hamiltonian governing the H...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Elementary Particles in Astrophysics and Cosmology)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
12 Citations
1,902 Views
10 Pages

Measuring quantum-statistical, femtoscopic (including final state interactions) momentum correlations with final state interactions in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions reveal the space-time structure of the particle-emitting source created. In...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Zimányi School – Heavy Ion Physics)
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