Volume 94, Issue 10

15 November 2016

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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First detection of cosmic microwave background lensing and Lyman- $α$ forest bispectrum

Cyrille Doux, Emmanuel Schaan, Eric Aubourg, Ken Ganga, Khee-Gan Lee, David N. Spergel, and Julien Tréguer

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103506 (2016) - Published 9 November, 2016

A correlation between the cosmic microwave background and hydrogen absorption lines may reveal a connection between dark matter and intergalactic gas clouds.

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Towards generating a new supernova equation of state: A systematic analysis of cold hybrid stars

Oliver Heinimann, Matthias Hempel, and Friedrich-Karl Thielemann

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103008 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

In this paper, cold hybrid stars have been analyzed to develop a new hybrid supernova equation of state. The authors find promising cases where the hadron quark phase transition in core collapse supernovae (CCSN) can support the observational $2$ solar mass neutron star mass constraint and yet trigger explosions in the CCSN.

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Matter-neutrino resonance transitions above a neutron star merger remnant

Y. L. Zhu (朱勇霖), A. Perego, and G. C. McLaughlin

Phys. Rev. D 94, 105006 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

This paper performs a study of the matter neutrino resonance (MNR) phenomenon in neutron star mergers based on a model employing three dimensional merger simulations. MNRs alter the neutrino flavor content, potentially influencing the neutrino dynamics and electromagnetic emission from the remnants, and could have broad ramifications in diverse fields, including high energy astrophysics.

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Remarks on the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model

Juan Maldacena and Douglas Stanford

Phys. Rev. D 94, 106002 (2016) - Published 4 November, 2016

The authors study in detail the quantum mechanical model of $N$ Majorana fermions with random interactions of a few fermions at a time (Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model) in the large $N$ limit. At low energies, the system is strongly interacting and an emergent conformal symmetry develops. Performing technical calculations, the authors elucidate a number of properties of the model near the conformal point.

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Evolution of segmented strings

Steven S. Gubser

Phys. Rev. D 94, 106007 (2016) - Published 14 November, 2016

The author derives (algebraic) evolution laws for segmented strings in flat and hyperbolic (AdS) spaces in terms of discrete hops which do not require a continuum spacetime, reflecting a certain discreteness as suggested by the finite entropy across a unit spacetime area. In such a discrete setting the firewall paradox of black holes is avoided by a curious mechanism.

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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Critical geometry of a thermal big bang

Niayesh Afshordi and João Magueijo

Phys. Rev. D 94, 101301(R) (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

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Do triaxial supramassive compact stars exist?

Kōji Uryū, Antonios Tsokaros, Luca Baiotti, Filippo Galeazzi, Noriyuki Sugiyama, Keisuke Taniguchi, and Shin’ichirou Yoshida

Phys. Rev. D 94, 101302(R) (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

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Testing Einstein’s weak equivalence principle with a 0.4-nanosecond giant pulse of the Crab pulsar

Yuan-Pei Yang and Bing Zhang

Phys. Rev. D 94, 101501(R) (2016) - Published 28 November, 2016

ARTICLES

First targeted search for gravitational-wave bursts from core-collapse supernovae in data of first-generation laser interferometer detectors

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. D 94, 102001 (2016) - Published 15 November, 2016

Results of the deepest all-sky survey for continuous gravitational waves on LIGO S6 data running on the Einstein@Home volunteer distributed computing project

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. D 94, 102002 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

Hot third family of compact stars and the possibility of core-collapse supernova explosions

Matthias Hempel, Oliver Heinimann, Andrey Yudin, Igor Iosilevskiy, Matthias Liebendörfer, and Friedrich-Karl Thielemann

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103001 (2016) - Published 7 November, 2016

Positron excess in the center of the Milky Way from short-lived $β^{+}$ emitting isotopes

M. S. Pshirkov

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103002 (2016) - Published 9 November, 2016

Gamma-ray triangles: A possible signature of asymmetric dark matter in indirect searches

Alejandro Ibarra, Sergio Lopez-Gehler, Emiliano Molinaro, and Miguel Pato

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103003 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

Axion star collisions with neutron stars and fast radio bursts

Stuart Raby

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103004 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

Study of the very high energy gamma-ray spectrum from the Galactic Center and future prospects

Alexander V. Belikov, Emmanuel Moulin, and Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103005 (2016) - Published 11 November, 2016

Constraining high-energy cosmic neutrino sources: Implications and prospects

Kohta Murase and Eli Waxman

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103006 (2016) - Published 14 November, 2016

Obscured flat spectrum radio active galactic nuclei as sources of high-energy neutrinos

G. Maggi, S. Buitink, P. Correa, K. D. de Vries, G. Gentile, J. León Tavares, O. Scholten, N. van Eijndhoven, M. Vereecken, and T. Winchen

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103007 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

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Towards generating a new supernova equation of state: A systematic analysis of cold hybrid stars

Oliver Heinimann, Matthias Hempel, and Friedrich-Karl Thielemann

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103008 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

Supernova neutrino physics with xenon dark matter detectors: A timely perspective

Rafael F. Lang, Christopher McCabe, Shayne Reichard, Marco Selvi, and Irene Tamborra

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103009 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Measurement of the circular polarization in radio emission from extensive air showers confirms emission mechanisms

O. Scholten, T. N. G. Trinh, A. Bonardi, S. Buitink, P. Correa, A. Corstanje, Q. Dorosti Hasankiadeh, H. Falcke, J. R. Hörandel, P. Mitra, K. Mulrey, A. Nelles, J. P. Rachen, L. Rossetto, P. Schellart, S. Thoudam, S. ter Veen, K. D. de Vries, and T. Winchen

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103010 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Synthetic model of the gravitational wave background from evolving binary compact objects

Irina Dvorkin, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Elisabeth Vangioni, and Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103011 (2016) - Published 29 November, 2016

Impact of the tidal $p − g$ instability on the gravitational wave signal from coalescing binary neutron stars

Reed Essick, Salvatore Vitale, and Nevin N. Weinberg

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103012 (2016) - Published 28 November, 2016

High-energy tail of the Galactic Center gamma-ray excess

Tim Linden, Nicholas L. Rodd, Benjamin R. Safdi, and Tracy R. Slatyer

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103013 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

CMB lensing beyond the power spectrum: Cosmological constraints from the one-point probability distribution function and peak counts

Jia Liu, J. Colin Hill, Blake D. Sherwin, Andrea Petri, Vanessa Böhm, and Zoltán Haiman

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103501 (2016) - Published 2 November, 2016

Search for gamma-ray line features from Milky Way satellites with Fermi LAT Pass 8 data

Yun-Feng Liang, Zi-Qing Xia, Zhao-Qiang Shen, Xiang Li, Wei Jiang, Qiang Yuan, Yi-Zhong Fan, Lei Feng, En-Wei Liang, and Jin Chang

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103502 (2016) - Published 3 November, 2016

Randall-Sundrum braneworld in modified gravity

Hiroshi Nakada and Sergei V. Ketov

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103503 (2016) - Published 3 November, 2016

Non-Gaussianity in multiple three-form field inflation

K. Sravan Kumar, David J. Mulryne, Nelson J. Nunes, João Marto, and Paulo Vargas Moniz

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103504 (2016) - Published 7 November, 2016

Time-dependent scalar fields as candidates for dark matter

B. Malakolkalami and A. Mahmoodzadeh

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103505 (2016) - Published 7 November, 2016

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First detection of cosmic microwave background lensing and Lyman- $α$ forest bispectrum

Cyrille Doux, Emmanuel Schaan, Eric Aubourg, Ken Ganga, Khee-Gan Lee, David N. Spergel, and Julien Tréguer

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103506 (2016) - Published 9 November, 2016

A correlation between the cosmic microwave background and hydrogen absorption lines may reveal a connection between dark matter and intergalactic gas clouds.

Considerations on the thermal equilibrium between matter and the cosmic horizon

José Pedro Mimoso and Diego Pavón

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103507 (2016) - Published 9 November, 2016

Corrections to $n_{s}$ and $n_{t}$ from high scale physics

Benedict J. Broy

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103508 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

Higgs vacuum metastability in primordial inflation, preheating, and reheating

Kazunori Kohri and Hiroki Matsui

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103509 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

Smooth magnetogenesis

L. Campanelli and A. Marrone

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103510 (2016) - Published 11 November, 2016

Power law cosmology model comparison with CMB scale information

Isaac Tutusaus, Brahim Lamine, Alain Blanchard, Arnaud Dupays, Yves Zolnierowski, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Anne Ealet, Stéphanie Escoffier, Olivier Le Fèvre, Stéphane Ilić, Alice Pisani, Stéphane Plaszczynski, Ziad Sakr, Valentina Salvatelli, Thomas Schücker, André Tilquin, and Jean-Marc Virey

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103511 (2016) - Published 11 November, 2016

Testing cosmological models with large-scale power modulation using microwave background polarization observations

Emory F. Bunn, Qingyang Xue, and Haoxuan Zheng

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103512 (2016) - Published 14 November, 2016

General relativistic polytropes with a repulsive cosmological constant

Zdeněk Stuchlík, Stanislav Hledík, and Jan Novotný

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103513 (2016) - Published 14 November, 2016

Asymptotically safe gravity and nonsingular inflationary big bang with vacuum birth

Georgios Kofinas and Vasilios Zarikas

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103514 (2016) - Published 15 November, 2016

Ultra slow-roll $G$ inflation

Shin’ichi Hirano, Tsutomu Kobayashi, and Shuichiro Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103515 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

Primordial ${}^{4}{He}$ constraints on inelastic macro dark matter revisited

David M. Jacobs, Gwyneth Allwright, Mpho Mafune, Samyukta Manikumar, and Amanda Weltman

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103516 (2016) - Published 17 November, 2016

Probing a panoply of curvaton-decay scenarios using CMB data

Tristan L. Smith and Daniel Grin

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103517 (2016) - Published 17 November, 2016

Dynamics of neutrino lumps in growing neutrino quintessence

Santiago Casas, Valeria Pettorino, and Christof Wetterich

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103518 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

Hearing the signal of dark sectors with gravitational wave detectors

Joerg Jaeckel, Valentin V. Khoze, and Michael Spannowsky

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103519 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

Cosmological constraints from $μ E$ cross correlations

Atsuhisa Ota

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103520 (2016) - Published 21 November, 2016

Kähler moduli inflation in type IIB compactifications: A random tumble through the Calabi-Yau landscape

Richard Galvez

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103521 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Supermassive black holes formed by direct collapse of inflationary perturbations

Tomohiro Nakama, Teruaki Suyama, and Jun’ichi Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103522 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Dark energy at early times, the Hubble parameter, and the string axiverse

Tanvi Karwal and Marc Kamionkowski

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103523 (2016) - Published 28 November, 2016

Testing the imprint of nonstandard cosmologies on void profiles using Monte Carlo random walks

Ixandra Achitouv

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103524 (2016) - Published 28 November, 2016

Ruling out the light weakly interacting massive particle explanation of the Galactic 511 keV line

Ryan J. Wilkinson, Aaron C. Vincent, Céline Bœhm, and Christopher McCabe

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103525 (2016) - Published 28 November, 2016

Quantum field theory of interacting dark matter and dark energy: Dark monodromies

Guido D’Amico, Teresa Hamill, and Nemanja Kaloper

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103526 (2016) - Published 28 November, 2016

Nonminimal coupling and inflationary attractors

Zhu Yi (易竹) and Yungui Gong (龚云贵)

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103527 (2016) - Published 29 November, 2016

Anomaly-driven inverse cascade and inhomogeneities in a magnetized chiral plasma in the early Universe

E. V. Gorbar, I. Rudenok, I. A. Shovkovy, and S. Vilchinskii

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103528 (2016) - Published 28 November, 2016

Suppressing structure formation at dwarf galaxy scales and below: Late kinetic decoupling as a compelling alternative to warm dark matter

Torsten Bringmann, Håvard Tveit Ihle, Jörn Kersten, and Parampreet Walia

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103529 (2016) - Published 29 November, 2016

Reducing the two-loop large-scale structure power spectrum to low-dimensional, radial integrals

Marcel Schmittfull and Zvonimir Vlah

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103530 (2016) - Published 28 November, 2016

Consistency of warm $k$ -inflation

Zhi-Peng Peng, Jia-Ning Yu, Jian-Yang Zhu, and Xiao-Min Zhang

Phys. Rev. D 94, 103531 (2016) - Published 29 November, 2016

Positivity constraints for pseudolinear massive spin-2 and vector Galileons

James Bonifacio, Kurt Hinterbichler, and Rachel A. Rosen

Phys. Rev. D 94, 104001 (2016) - Published 1 November, 2016

Volume inside old black holes

Marios Christodoulou and Tommaso De Lorenzo

Phys. Rev. D 94, 104002 (2016) - Published 2 November, 2016

Simpler way of imposing simplicity constraints

Andrzej Banburski and Lin-Qing Chen

Phys. Rev. D 94, 104003 (2016) - Published 2 November, 2016

Mass-loss of an isolated gravitating system due to energy carried away by gravitational waves with a cosmological constant

Vee-Liem Saw

Phys. Rev. D 94, 104004 (2016) - Published 2 November, 2016

Can galaxy clusters, type Ia supernovae, and the cosmic microwave background rule out a class of modified gravity theories?

R. F. L. Holanda and S. H. Pereira

Phys. Rev. D 94, 104037 (2016) - Published 14 November, 2016

Effect of cosmological evolution on Solar System constraints and on the scalarization of neutron stars in massless scalar-tensor theories

David Anderson, Nicolás Yunes, and Enrico Barausse

Phys. Rev. D 94, 104064 (2016) - Published 28 November, 2016

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Stueckelberg massive electromagnetism in de Sitter and anti–de Sitter spacetimes: Two-point functions and renormalized stress-energy tensors

Andrei Belokogne, Antoine Folacci, and Julien Queva

Phys. Rev. D 94, 105028 (2016) - Published 29 November, 2016

Classification of the sign of the critical Casimir force in two-dimensional systems at asymptotically large separations

M. A. Rajabpour

Phys. Rev. D 94, 105029 (2016) - Published 29 November, 2016

Shear viscosity in holography and effective theory of transport without translational symmetry

Piyabut Burikham and Napat Poovuttikul

Phys. Rev. D 94, 106001 (2016) - Published 2 November, 2016

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COMMENTS

Comment on “Chaotic orbits for spinning particles in Schwarzschild spacetime”

Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

Phys. Rev. D 94, 108501 (2016) - Published 15 November, 2016

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Corrections to $n_{s}$ and $n_{t}$ from high scale physics [Phys. Rev. D 94, 103508 (2016)]

Benedict J. Broy

Phys. Rev. D 94, 109901 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016