The inert Higgs-doublet model provides a simple framework to accommodate a viable Higgs portal scalar dark matter candidate, together with other heavier scalars of mass 100 GeV or more. We study the effect of next-to-leading ...

The CKM elements |Vub| and |Vcb| show a discrepancy between the exclusive and inclusive determinations. These determinations are masked with hadronic and other uncertainties, and thus can’t be unambiguously taken as implying ...

We consider two BSM scenarios with scalar leptoquarks (LQ), motivated by neutrino mass, muon (g-2), and anomalies in B-decay ratios. A combination of a singlet and a doublet scalar LQ can generate one-loop Majorana neutrino ...

Any grand unified model is plagued with particles capable of inducing proton decay. Identifying all potential scalar proton decay mediators stemming from different irreducible representations of SO(10), we will show their ...

Trichodesmium plays a key role in the biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean. A complex interplay of physicochemical factors control the growth of Trichodesmium. However, ...

We construct a holographic map that reconstructs massless fields (scalars, Maxwell field, and Fierz-Pauli field) in half-Minkowski spacetime in 𝑑+1 dimensions terms of smeared primary operators in a large-𝑁 factorizable ...

Spicules are the thin hair/grass-like structures that are prominently observed at the chromospheric solar limb. It is believed that fibrils and rapid blueshifted and redshifted excursions (RBEs and RREs; collectively ...

Waves play an important role in the heating of solar atmosphere, however, observations of wave propagation and damping from the solar photosphere to corona through chromosphere and transition region are very rare. Recent ...

We consider a congruence of null geodesics in the presence of a quantized spacetime metric. The coupling to a quantum metric induces fluctuations in the congruence; we calculate the change in the area of a pencil of geodesics ...