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Professor PAUL SAFFIN's Outputs (4)

Ensemble fermions for electroweak dynamics and the fermion preheating temperature (2013)
Journal Article
Mou, Z.-G., Tranberg, A., & Saffin, P. M. (2013). Ensemble fermions for electroweak dynamics and the fermion preheating temperature. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013(11), https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11%282013%29097

We refine the implementation of ensemble fermions for the electroweak sector of the Standard Model, introduced previously. We consider the behavior of different observables as the size of the ensemble is increased and show that the dynamics converges... Read More about Ensemble fermions for electroweak dynamics and the fermion preheating temperature.

Gravitational waves from oscillon preheating (2013)
Journal Article
Zhou, S.-Y., Copeland, E. J., Easther, R., Finkel, H., Mou, Z.-G., & Saffin, P. M. (2013). Gravitational waves from oscillon preheating. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013, Article 26. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10%282013%29026

Oscillons are long-lived, localized excitations of nonlinear scalar fields which may be copiously produced during preheating after inflation, leading to a possible oscillon-dominated phase in the early Universe. For example, this can happen after axi... Read More about Gravitational waves from oscillon preheating.

Adiabatic and isocurvature perturbation projections in multi-field inflation (2013)
Journal Article
Gordon, C., & Saffin, P. M. (2013). Adiabatic and isocurvature perturbation projections in multi-field inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2013(8), Article 021. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2013/08/021

Current data are in good agreement with the predictions of single field inflation. However, the hemispherical asymmetry seen in the cosmic microwave background data, may hint at a potential problem. Generalizing to multi-field models may provide one... Read More about Adiabatic and isocurvature perturbation projections in multi-field inflation.

Duality and decay of macroscopic F-strings (2013)
Journal Article
Skliros, D. P., Copeland, E. J., & Saffin, P. M. (2013). Duality and decay of macroscopic F-strings. Physical Review Letters, 111(4), Article 041601. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.041601

We study the decay of fundamental string loops of arbitrary size L/min(n,m)≫√α′, labeled by (n, m; λn, ¯λm), where n, m correspond to left- and right-mover harmonics and λn, ¯λm to polarization tensors, and find that a description in terms of the rec... Read More about Duality and decay of macroscopic F-strings.