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Universe, Volume 9, Issue 9

2023 September - 50 articles

Cover Story: The Hubble tension is one of the most important open problems in cosmology, yet we are still very far from a solution. It is often stated that the tension can be solved by introducing “early-time” new physics operating before recombination, the epoch when neutral Hydrogen formed 380,000 years after the Big Bang. This paper presents seven hints suggesting that even the most successful early-time models will fall short of fully solving the tension and that other ingredients, either new physics at late times or on local scales, will always be needed. Additional new physics may also help in solving another conundrum, the S8 tension. These results may pave the way towards resolving one of the most exciting open problems in cosmology, and building a new concordance model beyond ΛCDM. View this paper
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Articles (50)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,099 Views
18 Pages

Model for Origin and Modification of Mass and Coupling Constant

  • Yu-Jie Chen,
  • Shi-Lin Li,
  • Yuan-Yuan Liu,
  • Xin Gu,
  • Wen-Du Li and
  • Wu-Sheng Dai

21 September 2023

We build a model of the origin of physical constants, including masses and coupling constants. We consider the quantum correction of masses and coupling constants. Some exactly solved leading quantum corrections are given. In the model, the physical...

(This article belongs to the Section Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,397 Views
17 Pages

DPQP: A Detection Pipeline for Quasar Pair Candidates Based on QSO Photometric Images and Spectra

  • Yuanbo Liu,
  • Bo Qiu,
  • A-li Luo,
  • Xia Jiang,
  • Lin Yao,
  • Kun Wang and
  • Guiyu Zhao

21 September 2023

Quasars have an important role in the studies of galaxy evolution and star formation. The rare close projection of two quasars in the sky allows us to study the environment and matter exchange around the foreground quasar (QSOfg) and the background q...

(This article belongs to the Section Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,155 Views
11 Pages

21 September 2023

Eicheon properties are discussed. It is shown that the eicheon surface allows setting a boundary condition for the vacuum polarization and obtaining a solution describing the dark matter tail in the Milky Way Galaxy. That is, the dark matter in the M...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Universe (ECU 2023))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,080 Views
10 Pages

20 September 2023

In axiomatic quantum field theory, the postulate of the uniqueness of the vacuum (a pure vacuum state) is independent from the other axioms and equivalent to the cluster decomposition property. The latter, however, implies a Coulomb or Yukawa attenua...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: Feature Papers 2023—Field Theory)
  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,188 Views
26 Pages

The Standard Model Theory of Neutron Beta Decay

  • Mikhail Gorchtein and
  • Chien-Yeah Seng

19 September 2023

We review the status of the Standard Model theory of neutron beta decay. Particular emphasis is put on the recent developments in the electroweak radiative corrections. Given that some existing approaches give slightly different results, we thoroughl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neutron Lifetime)
  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,508 Views
22 Pages

16 September 2023

We review the nonlinear statistics of Primordial Black Holes that form from the collapse of over-densities in a radiation-dominated Universe. We focus on the scenario in which large over-densities are generated by rare and Gaussian curvature perturba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Primordial Black Holes from Inflation)
  • Opinion
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,960 Views
7 Pages

15 September 2023

I very briefly review both the historical and constructive approaches to relativistic quantum mechanics and relativistic quantum field theory, including remarks on the possibility of a non-vanishing photon mass, as well as a foolhardy speculation reg...

(This article belongs to the Section High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,220 Views
12 Pages

14 September 2023

We study the problem of matching interior and exterior solutions to Einstein’s equations along a particular hypersurface. We present the main aspects of the C3 matching approach that involve third-order derivatives of the corresponding metric t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remo Ruffini Festschrift)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,093 Views
10 Pages

Unconventional Mechanisms of Heavy Quark Fragmentation

  • Boris Kopeliovich,
  • Jan Nemchik,
  • Irina Potashnikova and
  • Ivan Schmidt

13 September 2023

Heavy and light quarks produced in high-pT partonic collisions radiate differently. Heavy quarks regenerate their color field, stripped-off in the hard reaction, much faster than the light ones and radiate a significantly smaller fraction of the init...

(This article belongs to the Section High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,122 Views
14 Pages

Starspot Activity without Pulsation in the Binary System KIC 5444392 Revisited

  • Mengqi Jin,
  • Jianning Fu,
  • Jiaxing Wang and
  • Weikai Zong

12 September 2023

We revisited the short-period (∼1.5 days) binary system KIC 5444392, which shows quasi-period modulated light variations. Previous studies indicated that these variations might be caused by stellar pulsations. In our work, we used the PHOEBE prog...

(This article belongs to the Section Solar and Stellar Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,792 Views
19 Pages

11 September 2023

Stellar parameters are estimated through spectra and are crucial in studying both stellar evolution and the history of the galaxy. To extract features from the spectra efficiently, we present ESNet (encoder selection network for spectra), a novel arc...

(This article belongs to the Section Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,958 Views
9 Pages

10 September 2023

The Davis–Chandrasekhar–Fermi (DCF) method is widely used to indirectly estimate the strength of magnetic fields in star-forming regions. However, recent developments in this method have primarily focused on improving the measurement of a...

(This article belongs to the Section Solar and Stellar Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,103 Views
12 Pages

Collisional Broadening within a Hadronic Transport Approach

  • Branislav Balinovic,
  • Renan Hirayama and
  • Hannah Elfner

9 September 2023

We explore the emergence of the collisional broadening of hadrons under the influence of different media using the hadronic transport approach SMASH (Simulating Many Accelerated Strongly interacting Hadrons), which employs vacuum properties and conta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Zimányi School – Heavy Ion Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,939 Views
17 Pages

Suppression of the Multiplicity Fluctuations in Particle Correlations

  • Chong Ye,
  • Hong-Hao Ma,
  • Dan Wen,
  • Philipe Mota,
  • Wei-Liang Qian and
  • Rui-Hong Yue

9 September 2023

Multiplicity fluctuations play a crucial role in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this work, we explore how the multiplicity fluctuations can be effectively suppressed in the measurement of particle correlations. In particular, through proper no...

(This article belongs to the Section High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,885 Views
14 Pages

8 September 2023

An auroral substorm is an important physical process of energy accumulation and explosive release in the Earth’s magnetosphere, and is an important research object of space environment monitoring and space weather warnings. A westward traveling...

(This article belongs to the Section Space Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,641 Views
25 Pages

Phase Transitions in the Interacting Relativistic Boson Systems

  • Dmitry Anchishkin,
  • Volodymyr Gnatovskyy,
  • Denys Zhuravel,
  • Vladyslav Karpenko,
  • Igor Mishustin and
  • Horst Stoecker

7 September 2023

The thermodynamic properties of the interacting particle–antiparticle boson system at high temperatures and densities were investigated within the framework of scalar and thermodynamic mean-field models. We assume isospin (charge) density conse...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Zimányi School – Heavy Ion Physics)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
2,135 Views
7 Pages

Binary Neutron-Star Mergers with a Crossover Transition to Quark Matter

  • Grant J. Mathews,
  • Atul Kedia,
  • Hee Il Kim and
  • In-Saeng Suh

7 September 2023

This paper summarizes recent work on the possible gravitational-wave signal from binary neutron-star mergers in which there is a crossover transition to quark matter. Although this is a small piece of a much more complicated problem, we discuss how t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remo Ruffini Festschrift)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,282 Views
10 Pages

7 September 2023

Various formulations of the exact renormalization group can be compared in the perturbative domain, in which we have reliable expressions for regularization-independent (universal) quantities. We consider the renormalization of the λϕ4 th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: Feature Papers 2023—Field Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,200 Views
16 Pages

Plane Symmetric Cosmological Model with Strange Quark Matter in f(R,T) Gravity

  • Vijay Singh,
  • Siwaphiwe Jokweni and
  • Aroonkumar Beesham

6 September 2023

A plane symmetric Bianchi-I model filled with strange quark matter (SQM) was explored in f(R,T)=R+2λT gravity, where R is the Ricci scalar, T is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, and λ is an arbitrary constant. Three different ty...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Universe (ECU 2023))
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,375 Views
11 Pages

6 September 2023

In the 2030s, a new era of gravitational wave (GW) observations will dawn as multiple space-based GW detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, Taiji, and TianQin, will open the millihertz window for GW astronomy. These detectors are...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,079 Views
14 Pages

5 September 2023

We analyze the phase-space of an alternate scalar field cosmology that aims to combine the concepts of dark energy and the dark sector. The investigation focuses on stationary points within this phase-space, considering different functional forms of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: Feature Papers 2023—Cosmology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,251 Views
15 Pages

4 September 2023

Low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXB) serve as natural laboratories, where the predictions of general relativity can be tested in the strong field regime. The primary object of such sources can be a neutron star (NS) or a black hole (BH), and this object ca...

(This article belongs to the Section Compact Objects)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,388 Views
16 Pages

4 September 2023

Quantum cosmology aims to develop a quantum theory of the universe, attempting to answer open questions of physical cosmology, mainly related to the early epochs of the universe. Such a theory aims to unite relativity theory and quantum theory. Here,...

(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
2,224 Views
15 Pages

Influence of the Surface Temperature Evolution over Organic and Inorganic Compounds on Iapetus

  • Katherine Villavicencio-Valero,
  • Emilio Ramírez-Juidias,
  • Antonio Madueño-Luna,
  • José Miguel Madueño-Luna and
  • Miguel Calixto López-Gordillo

4 September 2023

In this manuscript, there were performed simulations of the evolution of the surface temperature for each of the two hemispheres of Iapetus. This icy moon of Saturn shows the most differentiated albedo dichotomy of the Solar System. The dark leading...

(This article belongs to the Section Planetary Sciences)
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,527 Views
15 Pages

1 September 2023

Based on the expected population of core collapse supernova remnants and the huge number of detected pulsars in the Galaxy, still representing only a fraction of the real population, pulsar wind nebulae are likely to constitute one of the largest cla...

(This article belongs to the Section Solar and Stellar Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,914 Views
13 Pages

31 August 2023

It has been suggested that primordial planets could have formed in the early universe and the missing baryons in the universe could be explained by primordial free-floating planets of solid hydrogen. Many such planets were recently discovered around...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Universe (ECU 2023))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,674 Views
14 Pages

31 August 2023

This paper introduces a comprehensive methodology for examining the stability of dark matter (DM) halos, emphasizing the necessity for non-local inter-particle interactions, whether they are fundamental or effective in nature, to maintain halo stabil...

(This article belongs to the Section Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,375 Views
13 Pages

31 August 2023

The power spectra of the magnetic field at ion kinetic scales have been found to be significantly influenced by Alfvén ion–cyclotron (AIC) waves. Here, we study whether and how this influence of the AIC wave depends on the θVB angl...

(This article belongs to the Section Solar and Stellar Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,742 Views
11 Pages

Hartree–Fock Calculations in Semi-Infinite Matter with Gogny Interactions

  • Dany Davesne,
  • Alessandro Pastore and
  • Jesus Navarro

30 August 2023

Hartree–Fock equations in semi-infinite nuclear matter for finite range Gogny interactions are presented together with a detailed numerical scheme to solve them. The value of the surface energy is then extracted and given for standard Gogny int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Many Body Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,505 Views
13 Pages

30 August 2023

Herein, we investigate scalar–tensor and bi-scalar–tensor modified theories of gravity that can alleviate the H0 tension. In the first class of theories, we show that by choosing particular models with a shift-symmetric friction term we a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modified Gravity Approaches to the Tensions of ΛCDM)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,859 Views
15 Pages

Almost Ricci–Bourguignon Solitons on Doubly Warped Product Manifolds

  • Sameh Shenawy,
  • Nasser Bin Turki,
  • Noha Syied and
  • Carlo Mantica

30 August 2023

This study aims at examining the effects of an almost Ricci–Bourguignon soliton structure on the base and fiber factor manifolds of a doubly warped product manifold. First, a number of preconditions and sufficiency criteria for an almost Ricci&...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,847 Views
17 Pages

Anisotropy of Self-Correlation Level Contours in Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

  • Liping Yang,
  • Jiansen He,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Honghong Wu,
  • Lei Zhang and
  • Xueshang Feng

30 August 2023

MHD turbulence is considered to be anisotropic owing to the presence of a magnetic field, and its self-correlation anisotropy has been unveiled by solar wind observations. Here, based on numerical results of compressible MHD turbulence with a global...

(This article belongs to the Section Solar and Stellar Physics)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,661 Views
5 Pages

30 August 2023

The well-known argument of Page and Wootters demonstrates how to “derive" the usual quantum dynamics of a subsystem in a global state which is an eigenstate of the total Hamiltonian. I show how the same argument can be made in classical physics...

(This article belongs to the Section Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity)
  • Feature Paper
  • Opinion
  • Open Access
391 Citations
16,917 Views
56 Pages

30 August 2023

The Hubble tension has now grown to a level of significance which can no longer be ignored and calls for a solution which, despite a huge number of attempts, has so far eluded us. Significant efforts in the literature have focused on early-time modif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modified Gravity Approaches to the Tensions of ΛCDM)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,584 Views
26 Pages

29 August 2023

Topological states of matter can be classified only in terms of global topological invariants. These global topological invariants are encoded in terms of global observable topological phase factors in the state vectors of electrons. In condensed mat...

(This article belongs to the Section Field Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
2,522 Views
14 Pages

Quasiperiodic Oscillations and Dynamics of Test Particles around Quasi- and Non-Schwarzschild Black Holes

  • Sardor Murodov,
  • Javlon Rayimbaev,
  • Bobomurat Ahmedov and
  • Eldor Karimbaev

29 August 2023

One of the open problems in black hole physics is testing spacetime around black holes through astrophysical observations in the strong field regime. In fact, black holes cannot produce radiation themselves in the electromagnetic spectrum. However, a...

(This article belongs to the Collection Open Questions in Black Hole Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,205 Views
16 Pages

28 August 2023

Radio frequency interference (RFI) represents all unwanted signals detected by radio receivers of a telescope. Unfortunately, the presence of RFI is significantly increasing with the technological development of wireless systems around the world. For...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,698 Views
11 Pages

A First Analysis of the Ensemble of Local Maxima of Maximal Center Gauge

  • Zeinab Dehghan,
  • Rudolf Golubich,
  • Roman Höllwieser and
  • Manfried Faber

28 August 2023

Maximal center gauge (MCG) aims to detect some of the most important vacuum configurations, suggesting thick magnetic flux tubes quantized to non-trivial center elements of the gauge group being responsible for confinement. Due to the NP-hardness of...

(This article belongs to the Section Field Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,138 Views
19 Pages

28 August 2023

The laboratory verification of the existence of gravitational eigenstates and studies of their properties in the Earth’s gravitational field raises the question of whether the prediction of particle behaviour in gravitational wells would be any...

(This article belongs to the Section Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,253 Views
12 Pages

28 August 2023

Muons produced by cosmic rays above the atmosphere provide valuable information on the intensity of cosmic rays and variations in the upper atmosphere. Since 1970, the Nagoya University Cosmic Ray Laboratory has been observing the muon intensity usin...

(This article belongs to the Section Solar and Stellar Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,753 Views
25 Pages

26 August 2023

The stability of astrophysical jets in the linear regime is investigated by presenting a methodology to find the growth rates of the various instabilities. We perturb a cylindrical axisymmetric steady jet, linearize the relativistic ideal magnetohydr...

(This article belongs to the Section Compact Objects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
2,374 Views
20 Pages

26 August 2023

The null conformal boundary I of Minkowski spacetime M plays a special role in scattering theory, as it is the locus where massless particle states are most naturally defined. We construct quantum fields on I, which create these massless states from...

(This article belongs to the Section Field Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,069 Views
21 Pages

Super Riemann Surfaces and Fatgraphs

  • Albert S. Schwarz and
  • Anton M. Zeitlin

26 August 2023

Our goal is to describe superconformal structures on super Riemann surfaces (SRSs) based on data assigned to a fatgraph. We start from the complex structures on punctured (1|1)-supermanifolds, characterizing the corresponding moduli and the deformati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: Feature Papers 2023—Field Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,538 Views
29 Pages

26 August 2023

A promising method for understanding the geometric properties of a spacetime in the vicinity of the horizon of a Kerr-like black hole can be developed by applying the antipodal boundary condition on the two opposite regions in the extended Penrose di...

(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
5 Citations
2,138 Views
12 Pages

25 August 2023

In 1995, Glendenning, Kettner and Weber postulated the existence of a new class of compact stars resembling white dwarfs but containing a small strange quark-matter core surrounded by hadronic layers attaining much higher densities than those found i...

(This article belongs to the Section Compact Objects)
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,661 Views
24 Pages

24 August 2023

In this work, we provide a phenomenological description of the population of galactic TeV pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) based on suitable assumptions for their space and luminosity distribution. We constrain the general features of this population by as...

(This article belongs to the Section Solar and Stellar Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,251 Views
15 Pages

Implications of the DLMA Solution of θ12 for IceCube Data Using Different Astrophysical Sources

  • Monojit Ghosh,
  • Srubabati Goswami,
  • Supriya Pan and
  • Bartol Pavlović

24 August 2023

In this paper, we study the implications of the Dark Large Mixing Angle (DLMA) solutions of θ12 in the context of the IceCube data. We study the consequences in the measurement of the neutrino oscillation parameters, namely the octant of &theta...

(This article belongs to the Section High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,075 Views
19 Pages

Asymptotic States and S-Matrix Operator in de Sitter Ambient Space Formalism

  • Mohammad Vahid Takook,
  • Jean-Pierre Gazeau and
  • Eric Huguet

23 August 2023

Within the de Sitter ambient space framework, the two different bases of the one-particle Hilbert space of the de Sitter group algebra are presented for the scalar case. Using field operator algebra and its Fock space construction in this formalism,...

(This article belongs to the Section Field Theory)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,865 Views
15 Pages

23 August 2023

We consider the Dirac quantization in the first-class formalism to investigate the hypersphere soliton model (HSM) defined on the S3 hypersphere. To do this, we construct the first-class Hamiltonian possessing the Weyl ordering correction. In the HSM...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Physics including Gravity: Highlights and Novelties)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,984 Views
16 Pages

Anisotropic Cosmology in the Local Limit of Nonlocal Gravity

  • Javad Tabatabaei,
  • Abdolali Banihashemi,
  • Shant Baghram and
  • Bahram Mashhoon

23 August 2023

Within the framework of the local limit of nonlocal gravity (NLG), we investigate a class of Bianchi type I spatially homogeneous but anisotropic cosmological models. The modified field equations are presented in this case, and some special solutions...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: Feature Papers 2023—Cosmology)
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