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Jonathan J. Heckman, Craig Lawrie, Thomas B. Rochais, Hao Y. Zhang, Gianluca Zoccarato
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Markus Dierigl, Jonathan J. Heckman
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Hui Wang, Suzhen Qi, Xiyan Mu, Lilai Yuan, Yingren Li, Jing Qiu
Summary: This study found that long-term exposure to BPF can lead to liver-gut alteration and metabolic changes in zebrafish. The effects of BPF on liver metabolism were dose-dependent, affecting amino acid, purine, and one carbon metabolism in the 0.5, 5, and 50 mu g/L treatments, respectively. In addition, BPF also caused a shift in intestinal microbiome composition.
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Mirjam Cvetic, Markus Dierigl, Ling Lin, Hao Y. Zhang
Summary: This article discusses a method to classify 8D N=1 string vacua using string and brane junctions, which involves extending the description of ordinary 7-branes to include O7(+) planes and encoding the dynamics of sp(n) gauge algebras. Loop junctions play a central role in revealing the affine symmetries of emergent 9D descriptions at the boundaries of the 8D moduli space.
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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
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Markus Dierigl, Jonathan J. Heckman, Miguel Montero, Ethan Torres
Summary: The swampland cobordism conjecture predicts successfully the supersymmetric spectrum of 7-branes of IIB/F-theory. It also predicts the existence of nonsupersymmetric reflection 7-branes (R7-branes) at strong coupling. R7-branes serve as end of the world branes for 9D theories obtained from type IIB asymmetric orbifold and Dabholkar-Park orientifold backgrounds, and the analysis suggests the presence of a gapless Weyl fermion with the quantum numbers of a goldstino. General arguments imply that different types of branes can end on the R7, and the charge accounting requires exotic localized degrees of freedom, possibly a massless 3-form field on the R7-brane worldvolume. The extension of the standard F-theory formalism to account for reflections is also shown.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Summary: A set of four-dimensional N 1/4 2 superconformal field theories labeled by simply laced Lie groups Gamma and G were studied, being constructed by gauging conformal matter SCFTs. The resulting theories have identical central charges for certain choices of Gamma and G, with Schur indices related to super-Yang-Mills theory. The theories can be seen as a generalization of affine quiver gauge theory obtained from probing singularities of type Gamma.
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Jacques Distler, Monica Jinwoo Kang, Craig Lawrie
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Soo-Min Choi, Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik, Hyun Min Lee, Yann Mambrini, Hitoshi Murayama, Mathias Pierre
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(2017)
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Michael Geller, Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2019)
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David Curtin, Marco Drewes, Matthew McCullough, Patrick Meade, Rabindra N. Mohapatra, Jessie Shelton, Brian Shuve, Elena Accomando, Cristiano Alpigiani, Stefan Antusch, Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velazquez, Brian Batell, Martin Bauer, Nikita Blinov, Karen Salome Caballero-Mora, Jae Hyeok Chang, Eung Jin Chun, Raymond T. Co, Timothy Cohen, Peter Cox, Nathaniel Craig, Csaba Csaki, Yanou Cui, Francesco D'Eramo, Luigi Delle Rose, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Keith R. Dienes, Jeff A. Dror, Rouven Essig, Jared A. Evans, Jason L. Evans, Arturo Fernandez Tellez, Oliver Fischer, Thomas Flacke, Anthony Fradette, Claudia Frugiuele, Elina Fuchs, Tony Gherghetta, Gian F. Giudice, Dmitry Gorbunov, Rick S. Gupta, Claudia Hagedorn, Lawrence J. Hall, Philip Harris, Juan Carlos Helo, Martin Hirsch, Yonit Hochberg, Anson Hook, Alejandro Ibarra, Seyda Ipek, Sunghoon Jung, Simon Knapen, Eric Kuflik, Zhen Liu, Salvator Lombardo, H. J. Lubatti, David McKeen, Emiliano Molinaro, Stefano Moretti, Natsumi Nagata, Matthias Neubert, Jose Miguel No, Emmanuel Olaiya, Gilad Perez, Michael E. Peskin, David Pinner, Maxim Pospelov, Matthew Reece, Dean J. Robinson, Mario Rodriguez Cahuantzi, Rinaldo Santonico, Matthias Schlaffer, Claire H. Shepherd-Themistocleous, Andrew Spray, Daniel Stolarski, Martin A. Subieta Vasquez, Raman Sundrum, Andrea Thamm, Brooks Thomas, Yuhsin Tsai, Brock Tweedie, Stephen M. West, Charles Young, Felix Yu, Bryan Zaldivar, Yongchao Zhang, Kathryn Zurek, Jose Zurita
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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2019)
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(2020)
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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2022)
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Csaba Csaki, Andrew Gomes, Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik, Kevin Langhoff, Hitoshi Murayama
Summary: Super-Resonant Dark Matter is a model of self-interacting dark matter based on the low energy effective theory of supersymmetric QCD. The resonant enhancement of the self-interactions of low energy mesons is used to explain puzzles in small scale structure. The predicted mass of dark matter is around 3-4 MeV, with its abundance determined by freeze-in via a kinetically mixed dark photon.
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