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A Peptide–Nucleic Acid Replicator Origin for Life (2020)
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Evolution requires self-replication. But, what was the very first self-replicator directly ancestral to all life? The currently favoured RNA World theory assigns this role to RNA alone but suffers from a number of seemingly intractable problems. Inst... Read More about A Peptide–Nucleic Acid Replicator Origin for Life.

Connecting the Higgs potential and primordial black holes (2020)
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It was recently demonstrated that small black holes can act as seeds for nucleating decay of the metastable Higgs vacuum, dramatically increasing the tunneling probability. Any primordial black hole lighter than 4.5 × 1014 g at formation would have e... Read More about Connecting the Higgs potential and primordial black holes.

Are “Superentropic” black holes superentropic? (2020)
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We study a critical limit in which asymptotically-AdS black holes develop maximal conical deficits and their horizons become non-compact. When applied to stationary rotating black holes this limit coincides with the “ultraspinning limit” and yields t... Read More about Are “Superentropic” black holes superentropic?.

Superconformal surfaces in four dimensions (2020)
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We study the constraints of superconformal symmetry on codimension two defects in four-dimensional superconformal field theories. We show that the one-point function of the stress tensor and the two-point function of the displacement operator are rel... Read More about Superconformal surfaces in four dimensions.

The superconformal index of class $ \mathcal{S} $ theories of type D (2014)
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N = 2 central charge bounds from 2d chiral algebras (2016)
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Bootstrapping the (A1, A2) Argyres-Douglas theory (2018)
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We apply bootstrap techniques in order to constrain the CFT data of the (A1, A2) Argyres-Douglas theory, which is arguably the simplest of the Argyres-Douglas models. We study the four-point function of its single Coulomb branch chiral ring generator... Read More about Bootstrapping the (A1, A2) Argyres-Douglas theory.

Universality at large transverse spin in defect CFT (2018)
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We study the spectrum of local operators living on a defect in a generic conformal field theory, and their coupling to the local bulk operators. We establish the existence of universal accumulation points in the spectrum at large s, s being the charg... Read More about Universality at large transverse spin in defect CFT.

Precision SMEFT bounds from the VBF Higgs at high transverse momentum (2021)
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We study the production of Higgs bosons at high transverse momenta via vector-boson fusion (VBF) in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We find that contributions from four independent operator combinations dominate in this limit. Thes... Read More about Precision SMEFT bounds from the VBF Higgs at high transverse momentum.

Discovery potential of FASERν with contained vertex and through-going events (2021)
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FASERν is a newly proposed detector whose main mission is to detect the neutrino flux from the collision of the proton beams at the ATLAS Interaction Point (IP) during the run III of the LHC in 2022–2024. We show that this detector can also test cert... Read More about Discovery potential of FASERν with contained vertex and through-going events.

Plahte diagrams for string scattering amplitudes (2021)
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Plahte identities are monodromy relations between open string scattering amplitudes at tree level derived from the Koba-Nielsen formula. We represent these identities by polygons in the complex plane. These diagrams make manifest the appearance of si... Read More about Plahte diagrams for string scattering amplitudes.

Power meets Precision to explore the Symmetric Higgs Portal (2020)
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We perform a comprehensive study of collider aspects of a Higgs portal scenario that is protected by an unbroken symmetry. If the mass of the Higgs portal scalar is larger than half the Higgs mass, this scenario becomes very difficult to detect. We p... Read More about Power meets Precision to explore the Symmetric Higgs Portal.

Topological zero modes at nonzero chemical potential (2013)
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Strings from domain walls in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and adjoint QCD (2015)
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Grand Canonical Ensembles, Multiparticle Wave Functions, Scattering Data, and Lattice Field Theories (2015)
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Aspects of perturbation theory in quantum mechanics: The BenderWu Mathematica ® package (2018)
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Walls, anomalies, and deconfinement in quantum antiferromagnets (2018)
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Anomaly and global inconsistency matching: θ angles, SU(3)/U(1)2 nonlinear sigma model, SU(3) chains, and generalizations (2018)
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Detecting gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions with LISA: an update (2020)
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We investigate the potential for observing gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions with LISA in light of recent theoretical and experimental developments. Our analysis is based on current state-of-the-art simulations of sound waves in... Read More about Detecting gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions with LISA: an update.

Herwig 7.2 release note (2020)
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A new release of the Monte Carlo event generator Herwig (version 7.2) is now available. This version introduces a number of improvements over the major version 7.0, notably: multi-jet merging with the dipole shower at LO and NLO QCD; spin correlation... Read More about Herwig 7.2 release note.