Publications related to Big Bang nucleosynthesis

White dwarfs as a probe of exceptionally light QCD axions

We study the effects of exceptionally light QCD axions on the stellar configuration of white dwarfs. At finite baryon density, the nonderivative coupling of the axion to nucleons displaces the axion from its invacuum minimum, which implies a reduction of t ...

American Physical Society2024

Euclid: The search for primordial features

Frédéric Courbin, Yiming Li, Georges Meylan, Yi Wang, Richard Massey, Fabio Finelli, Marcello Farina

Primordial features, in particular oscillatory signals, imprinted in the primordial power spectrum of density perturbations represent a clear window of opportunity for detecting new physics at high-energy scales. Future spectroscopic and photometric measur ...

Edp Sciences S A2024

The formation of the faintest galaxies in cosmological simulations: from the impact of primordial magnetic fields to the metal enrichment of present day dwarfs by first stars

Mahsa Sanati

In the theory of the bottom-up assembly of cosmic structures, one of the main challenges is to connect the smallest, most inconspicuous galaxies we observe today to the building blocks of more massive galaxies such as our own, the Milky Way. Do these so-ca ...

EPFL2023

BOSS Correlation Function analysis from the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure

Cheng Zhao

After calibrating the predictions of the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure against several sets of simulations, as well as implementing a new method to assert the scale cut of the theory without the use of any simulation, we analyze the Full ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Effect of Co-Substitution on Hydrogen Absorption and Desorption Reactions of YMgNi4-Based Alloys

Andreas Züttel, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Wen Luo, Heena Yang

YMgNi4-based alloys exhibit reversible hydrogen absorption and desorption reactions at near room temperature. Here, we report that Co-substituted YMgNi4-based alloys exhibited higher hydrogen contents and lower hydrogen absorption and desorption reaction p ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological implications from multitracer BAO analysis with galaxies and voids

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Andrei Variu, Jiaxi Yu, Daniel Felipe Forero Sanchez, Cheng Zhao, Huanyuan Shan, Amélie Tamone

We construct cosmic void catalogues with the DIVE void finder upon SDSS BOSS DR12 and eBOSS DR16 galaxy samples with BAO reconstruction, and perform a joint BAO analysis using different types of galaxies and the corresponding voids. The BAO peak is evident ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

An allowed window for heavy neutral leptons below the kaon mass

Alexey Boyarsky, Kyrylo Bondarenko, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Inar Timiryasov, Juraj Klaric

The extension of the Standard Model with two gauge-singlet Majorana fermions can simultaneously explain two beyond-the-Standard-model phenomena: neutrino masses and oscillations, as well as the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe. The ...

Springer Nature2021

New constraints on the mass of fermionic dark matter from dwarf spheroidal galaxies

Alexey Boyarsky, Diego Blas Temino, Kyrylo Bondarenko

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are excellent systems to probe the nature of fermionic dark matter due to their high observed dark matter phase-space density. In this work, we review, revise, and improve upon previous phase-space considerations to obtain lower b ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021

MeV-scale seesaw and leptogenesis

Marco Drewes, Valerie Fiona Domcke, Michele Lucente

We study the type-I seesaw model with three right-handed neutrinos and Majorana masses below the pion mass. In this mass range, the model parameter space is not only strongly constrained by the requirement to explain the light neutrino masses, but also by ...

Springer Nature2021

BBN constraints on universally-coupled ultralight scalar dark matter

Sergey Sibiryakov

Ultralight scalar dark matter can interact with all massive Standard Model particles through a universal coupling. Such a coupling modifies the Standard Model particle masses and affects the dynamics of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. We model the cosmological e ...

Springer Nature2020

Constraining the primordial magnetic field with dwarf galaxy simulations

Pascale Jablonka, Yves Revaz, Jennifer Waltraud Schober, Mahsa Sanati

Using a set of cosmological hydro-dynamical simulations, we constrained the properties of primordial magnetic fields by studying their impact on the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies. We performed a large set of simulations (8 dark matter only and ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2020

Photometric characterization of multiple populations in star clusters: the impact of the first dredge-up

Carmela Lardo

The existence of star-to-star light-element abundance variations (multiple populations, MPs) in massive Galactic and extragalactic star clusters older than about 2 Gyr is by now well established. Photometry of red giant, branch (RGB) stars has been and sti ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

Sensitivity Enhancements in Lithium Titanates by Incipient Wetness Impregnation DNP NMR

David Lyndon Emsley, Pierrick Berruyer, Pinelopi Moutzouri, Michael Allan Hope, Snaedis Björgvinsdóttir

Solid-state NMR spectroscopy is a widely used method for investigating structural and electronic properties of inorganic materials, but its use is often limited by low sensitivity. Here, we show how solvent-generated dynamic nuclear polarization can be use ...

2020

Constant light element abundances suggest that the extended P1 in NGC 2808 is not a consequence of CNO-cycle nucleosynthesis

Carmela Lardo

Recent photometric results have identified a new population among globular cluster stars. This population, referred to as the 'extended P1', has been suggested to be the manifestation of a new abundance pattern where the initial mass fraction of He changes ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2019

Euclid preparation V. Predicted yield of redshift 7 < z < 9 quasars from the wide survey

Georges Meylan, Yi Wang, Richard Massey

We provide predictions of the yield of 7 < z < 9 quasars from the Euclid wide survey, updating the calculation presented in the Euclid Red Book in several ways. We account for revisions to the Euclid near-infrared filter wavelengths; we adopt steeper rates ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2019

Cosmological Constraints from Multiple Probes in the Dark Energy Survey

Eduardo Sanchez, Jonathan Andrew Blazek, Mingkui Wang, Yi Zhang, Yue Pan

The combination of multiple observational probes has long been advocated as a powerful technique to constrain cosmological parameters, in particular dark energy. The Dark Energy Survey has measured 207 spectroscopically confirmed type Ia supernova light cu ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Chemical inhomogeneities amongst first population stars in globular clusters Evidence for He variations

Carmela Lardo

Spreads in light element abundances among stars (also known as multiple populations) are observed in nearly all globular clusters. One way to map such chemical variations using high-precision photometry is to employ a suitable combination of stellar magnit ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2018

Constraining the microlensing effect on time delays with a new time-delay prediction model in H-0 measurements

Frédéric Courbin, Vivien François Bonvin, Hung-Hsu Chan, Martin Raoul Robert Millon, Karina Alexandra Rojas Olate

Time-delay strong lensing provides a unique way to directly measure the Hubble constant (H-0). The precision of the H-0 measurement depends on the uncertainties in the time-delay measurements, the mass distribution of the main deflector(s), and the mass di ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2018

Measurement of Antiproton Production in p-He Collisions at root S-NN=110 GeV

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Michel De Cian, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Alessio Ferrari, Basile Schäli, Elena Graverini, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Renato Quagliani, Jessica Prisciandaro, Federico Betti, Mark Tobin, Greig Alan Cowan, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Vladislav Balagura, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Pietro Marino, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Mirco Dorigo, Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Sebastiana Gianì, Zhirui Xu, Federico Leo Redi, Maxime Schubiger, Yi Zhang, Guido Andreassi, Lei Zhang, Violaine Bellée, Preema Rennee Pais, Pavol Stefko, Minh Tâm Tran, Tara Nanut, Niko Neufeld, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Properties of helium bubbles in covalent systems at the nanoscale: A combined numerical and experimental study

Cécile Hébert, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander

The properties of nanometric-sized helium bubbles in silicon have been investigated using both spatially resolved electron-energy-loss spectroscopy combined with a recently developed method, and molecular-dynamics simulations. The experiments allowed for a ...

Amer Physical Soc2017