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Heuristic Estimation of the Vacuum Energy Density of the Universe: Part I—Analysis Based on Time Domain Electromagnetic Radiation

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

In this paper, an inequality satisfied by the vacuum energy density of the universe is derived using an indirect and heuristic procedure. The derivation is based on a proposed thought experiment, according to which an electron is accelerated to a constant ...

2023

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: final emission line galaxy target selection

Yi Wang, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Anand Stéphane Raichoor, David Schlegel, Timothée Guy Olivier Delubac, Arjun Dey, Claudio Gorgoni

We describe the algorithm used to select the emission line galaxy (ELG) sample at z similar to 0.85 for the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV, using photometric data from the DECam Legacy Survey. Our select ...

Oxford Univ Press2017

Towards 3-D Distributed Odor Source Localization: An Extended Graph-Based Formation Control Algorithm for Plume Tracking

Alcherio Martinoli, Ali Marjovi, Jorge Miguel Dias Almeida Rodrigues Soares, Jonathan Giezendanner, Anil Augustin Kodiyan

The large number of potential applications for robotic odor source localization has motivated the development of a variety of plume tracking algorithms, the majority of which work in restricted two-dimensional scenarios. In this paper, we introduce a distr ...

IEEE2016

Cosmological constraints on Lorentz violating dark energy

Julien Lesgourgues, Sergey Sibiryakov, Diego Blas Temino, Benjamin Audren

The role of Lorentz invariance as a fundamental symmetry of nature has been lately reconsidered in different approaches to quantum gravity. It is thus natural to study whether other puzzles of physics may be solved within these proposals. This may be the c ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Metastable spontaneous breaking of N=2 supersymmetry

Claudio Scrucca, Paul Smyth

We show that contrary to the common lore it is possible to spontaneously break N = 2 supersymmetry even in simple theories without constant Fayet-Iliopoulos terms. We consider the most general N = 2 supersymmetric theory with one hypermultiplet and one vec ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Simple metastable de Sitter vacua in N=2 gauged supergravity

Claudio Scrucca, Paul Smyth

We construct a simple class of N=2 gauged supergravity theories that admit metastable de Sitter vacua, generalizing the recent work done in the context of rigid supersymmetry. The setup involves one hypermultiplet and one vector multiplet spanning suitably ...

Springer Nature2013

A naturally light dilaton

Riccardo Rattazzi, Duccio Pappadopulo, Lorenzo Vitale, Paolo Lodone

Goldstone's theorem does not apply straightforwardly to the case of spontaneously broken scale invariance. We elucidate under what conditions a light scalar degree of freedom, identifiable with the dilaton, can naturally arise. Our construction can be cons ...

Springer Nature2013

Tackling the Supersymmetric Flavour Problem in String Models

Christopher John Andrey

In this work we address one of the phenomenological issues of beyond the Standard Model scenarios which embed Supersymmetry, namely the Supersymmetric Flavour Problem, in the context of String Theory. Indeed, the addition of new interactions to the Standar ...

EPFL2011

Mildly sequestered supergravity models and their realization in string theory

Claudio Scrucca, Christopher John Andrey

We elaborate on the idea that five-dimensional models where sequestering is spoiled due to contact interactions induced by vector multiplets may still be mildly sequestered if a global version of the gauge symmetry associated to the latter survives in the ...

2010

Quantum scale invariance, cosmological constant and hierarchy problem

Mikhail Chapochnikov, Daniel Zenhäusern

We construct a class of theories which are scale-invariant on quantum level in all orders of perturbation theory. In a subclass of these models scale invariance is spontaneously broken, leading to the existence of a massless dilaton. The applications of th ...

2009

No metastable de Sitter vacua in N=2 supergravity with only hypermultiplets

Claudio Scrucca

We study the stability of vacua with spontaneously broken supersymmetry in N = 2 supergravity theories with only hypermultiplets. Focusing on the projection of the scalar mass matrix along the sGoldstino directions, we are able to derive a universal upper ...

Springer Nature2009

Metastable supergravity vacua with F and D supersymmetry breaking

Claudio Scrucca

We study the conditions under which a generic supergravity model involving chiral and vector multiplets can admit viable metastable vacua with spontaneously broken supersymmetry and realistic cosmological constant. To do so, we impose that on the vacuum th ...

Springer Nature2007

Vacuum decay on a brane world

Sylvain Bréchet

The bubble nucleation rate for a first order phase transition occurring on a brane world is calculated. Both the Coleman-de Luccia thin wall instanton and the Hawking-Moss instanton are considered. The results are compared with the corresponding nucleation ...

American Physical Society2005

Brane-worlds and theta-vacua

Mikhail Chapochnikov

Reductions from odd to even dimensionalities (5 → 4 or 3 → 2), for which the effective low-energy theory contains chiral fermions, present us with a mismatch between ultraviolet and infrared anomalies. This applies to both local (gauge) and global currents ...

American Physical Society2005

Topological defects and gravity in theories with extra dimensions

Ewald Rössl

Recent proposals of large and infinite extra dimensions triggered a strong research activity in theories in which our universe is considered as a sub-manifold of some higher-dimensional space-time, a so-called 3-brane. In this context, it is generally assu ...

EPFL2004