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Newsletter October 2024

Europe/Rome
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This is October’s edition of the newsletter of the COST action. The aim is to keep you updated on recent and upcoming conferences and postdoc positions on subjects related to WISPs.

 

Cosmic Wispers preprints

Minimally coupled β-exponential inflation with an R term in the Palatini formulation

Nilay Bostan, Rafid H. Dejrah

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10398

We focus on the inflationary predictions of β-exponential potential models, in which the inflaton is a representation of the field delineating the size of extra-dimension. Since it offers a well-motivated starting point for the study of physics at very high energies, we incorporate an R2 term in the Palatini gravity. In addition, afterward the inflation, the inflaton oscillates about the minimum of the inflation potential, and reheats the universe. This occurs during the reheating phase, at which the inflaton decays into the standard model particles, which fill the universe. We extend our examination by considering the reheating effects on inflationary observables by employing the different scenarios of the reheat temperature. Supposing the standard thermal history after inflation, we display the inflationary predictions, ns, r, d ns/d lnk of  β-exponential potential with minimal coupling in Palatini R2 gravity. Also, different kinds of constraints from a variety of observations, such as BICEP/Keck, Planck 2018, as well as future possible detectable sensitivities that might be reached by CMB experiments: CMB-S4 and LiteBIRD are taken into account in this work. We indicate that our results are consistent with both the latest data and the future sensitivity forecasts of LiteBIRD/Planck and CMB-S4. Finally, the results in this study highlight the viability of our model even in the case of the existence of more stringent constraints expected from future achievable confidence level limits.

 

We encourage participants in the COST action to send us a small summary, typically smaller than the abstract, of their own articles that will appear in the arXiv (after they appear, with their arXiv numbers). The summary will be disseminated in the newsletter.

Send email to 

Alessandro Lella alessandro.lella@ba.infn.it

Damiano Fiorillo damianofg@gmail.com

with subject: preprint summary for Cosmic WISPers newsletter.

 

 

PhD/Postdoc/Junior Positions

  • October:

    • Postdoc in astroparticle phenomenology, Dark Matter physics and cosmology, Seoul, link

    • Two Postdoctoral Fellows in Axion Searches with metamaterials, Stockholm U. link

    • Postdoc in experimental dark matter physics, Virginia Tech. link

    • Postdoc in the Neutrino group, Cracow, INP link

    • Postdoctoral position in theoretical High-Energy physics, LPTHE, Paris link

    • Postdoctoral Scholar Position - Dark Matter Detection Group, Stanford U. link

    • Postdoc position in particle physics phenomenology, Vilnius U. link

    • Astroparticle phenomenology, Dark Matter physics and Cosmology, CQUeST, Seoul link

 

  • November:

    • Postdoctoral Fellow on high-energy neutrino observations with IceCube and future experiments, Kingston link

    • Postdoc position, Potsdam U. link

    • Theory and Phenomenology of elementary particles and astroparticles, Frascati link

    • Theory and phenomenology of elementary particles and astroparticles, Frascati link

    • Postdoctoral Fellow on high-energy neutrino observations with IceCube and future experiments, Queen’s U. Kingston link

    • Two postdoctoral fellows in axion searches with metamaterials, OKC, Stockholm link

    • Research positions in Astrophysics, Lisbon, IST, link

    • Postdoc job position in Experimental Neutrino Physics, Louisiana State University link

    • 20 positions for Post-Doctoral senior level in Experimental Physics, INFN link

    • 15 positions for Post-Doctoral senior level in Theoretical Physics, INFN link

    • ICTP Postdoc positions, Trieste link

 

  • December:

    • Postdoctoral positions at the Albert Einstein Center link

    • Postdoctoral positions in Astroparticle Physics and Dark Matter Phenomenology, LPTHE, Paris link

    • Postdoc in the MPP Theory Department, Max Planck Inst. Garching link

    • Postdoctoral research scientist position in XENONnT, Shenzhen link

    • Postdoc on dark matter direct detection, Westlake University, link

    • Postdoctoral Positions, IFAE, Barcelona link



 

Conferences

  • November

    • 3rd Workshop on New Physics from Galaxy Clustering link

    • 9th IBS-IFT-MultiDark Workshop: Dark World to Swampland 2024 link

 

  • December

    • International conference on Neutrinos and Dark Matter (NuDM-2024) link

    • Particle Physics and Cosmology in the Himalayas (BCVSPIN 2024) link

 

  • January

    • 21st Rencontres du Vietnam: Theory meeting experiment: Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (TMEX 2025) link

 

  • February

    • CERN Neutrino Platform Pheno Week 2025 link

 

  • April

    • My Favourite Dark Matter Model link

 

  • May

    • Dark matter and neutrinos link

 

  • June

    • Dark Matter 2025: From the Smallest to the Largest Scales (DM2025) link

 

  • September

    • Invisibles25 Workshop link
    • 3rd General Meeting of the COST Action: Cosmic WISPers (CA21106) link
    • 3rd Training School of the COST Action: Cosmic WISPers (CA21106) link