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Recrudescence of massive fermion production by oscillons (2017)
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We bring together the physics of preheating, following a period of inflation, and the dynamics of non-topological solitons, namely oscillons. We show that the oscillating condensate that makes up an oscillon can be an efficient engine for producing h... Read More about Recrudescence of massive fermion production by oscillons.

Simulations of “tunnelling of the 3rd kind” (2017)
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We consider the phenomenon of ``tunnelling of the 3rd kind" \cite{third}, whereby a magnetic field may traverse a classically impenetrable barrier by pair creation of unimpeded quantum fermions. These propagate through the barrier and generate a magn... Read More about Simulations of “tunnelling of the 3rd kind”.

Simulations of Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis: finding the optimal quench time (2017)
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We revisit the numerical computation of the baryon asymmetry from Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis given the physical Higgs mass. We investigate the dependence of the asymmetry on the speed at which electroweak symmetry breaking takes place. The maximu... Read More about Simulations of Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis: finding the optimal quench time.

Simulations of Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis: hypercharge U(1) and the creation of helical magnetic fields (2017)
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We perform numerical simulations of Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis, including for the first time in the Bosonic sector the full electroweak gauge group SU(2)×U(1) and CP-violation. We find that the maximum generated baryon asymmetry is reduced by a fa... Read More about Simulations of Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis: hypercharge U(1) and the creation of helical magnetic fields.

Highly excited strings I: Generating function (2017)
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This is the first of a series of detailed papers on string amplitudes with highly excited strings (HES). In the present paper we construct a generating function for string amplitudes with generic HES vertex operators using a fixed-loop momentum forma... Read More about Highly excited strings I: Generating function.