During the accretion phase of a core-collapse supernova (SN), dark-photon (DP) cooling can be largest in the gain layer below the stalled shock wave. In this way, it could counter-act the usual shock rejuvenation by neutrino energy deposition and thus prevent the explosion. This peculiar energy-loss profile derives from the resonant nature of DP production. The largest cooling and thus...
The kinetic mixing with dark U(1) gauge can mediate the supersymmetry breaking with significant distortions of the mass spectrum and distinct phenomenology. This talk is based on our recent paper (arXiv: 2412.17777).
We explore the possibility of solving the dark energy and the coincidence problems by postulating the massless sector of closed strings. This sector constitutes the gravitational multiplet of string theory and, when applied to four-dimensional cosmology, predicts that \textit{the expansion of an open Universe defined in string frame is readily accelerating}. We confront the prediction with the...
We discuss an SO(10) model where a dimension five operator induces kinetic mixing between the abelian subgroups at the unification scale. We discuss gauge coupling unification and proton decay in this model, as well as the appearance of superheavy quasistable strings, which can explain the PTA data.
In an era characterized by a wide range of astrophysical and cosmological observations, the synergy of data with sophisticated simulations has enabled us to probe interesting phenomenological paradigms of particulate dark matter (DM). Self-scattering of particulate DM within the dark sector can contribute to the thermalization of the central region of a galactic halo. The self-interaction...
