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We consider the gravity assist maneuver, that is, a correction of spacecraft motion at its passing near a planet, as a tool for evaluating the Eddington post-Newtonian parameters $\beta$ and $\gamma$, characterizing vacuum spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 S. V. Bolokhov , K. A. Bronnikov , M. V. Skvortsova

Binary pulsars allow us to carry out precision tests of gravity and have placed stringent bounds on a broad class of theories beyond general relativity. Current and future radio telescopes, such as FAST, SKA, and MeerKAT, may find a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-24 Brian C. Seymour , Kent Yagi

Constraints on the Yukawa-type corrections to Newton's gravitational law and on the coupling constant of axionlike particles to nucleons obtained from different laboratory experiments are reviewed and compared. The constraints on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-11 V. M. Mostepanenko , G. L. Klimchitskaya

A dedicated run of a future electron-positron collider (FCC-ee) at a center-of-mass energy equal to the Higgs boson mass would enable a direct measurement of the electron Yukawa coupling. However, it poses substantial experimental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-04 Barbara Anna Erdelyi , Ramona Gröber , Nudzeim Selimovic

Four zero neutrino Yukawa textures in a specified weak basis, combined with $\mu\tau$ symmetry and type-I seesaw, yield a highly constrained and predictive scheme. Two alternately viable $3\times3$ light neutrino Majorana mass matrices…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Biswajit Adhikary , Ambar Ghosal , Probir Roy

We present ClearPotential, a data-driven, three-dimensional measurement of the gravitational potential of the local Milky Way using unsupervised machine learning, without the symmetry assumptions, specific functional forms, and binning…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-20 Eric Putney , David Shih , Sung Hak Lim , Matthew R. Buckley

Deviations from the gravitational inverse-square law would imprint scale-dependent features on the power spectrum of mass density fluctuations. We model such deviations as a Yukawa-like contribution to the gravitational potential and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Sereno , J. A. Peacock

We consider the growth of cosmological perturbations in modified gravity models where a scalar field mediates a non-universal Yukawa force between different matter species. The growth of the density contrast is altered for scales below the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Philippe Brax , Carsten van de Bruck , Anne-Christine Davis , Douglas Shaw

An accurate knowledge of the dark matter distribution in the Milky Way is of crucial importance for galaxy formation studies and current searches for particle dark matter. In this paper we set new dynamical constraints on the Galactic dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-03 Miguel Pato , Fabio Iocco , Gianfranco Bertone

EGRET gamma-ray archival data used with GALPROP software show two ringlike structures in Milky Way Plane which roughly tally with distribution of stars ([1] & references therein). To understand fully the implications of this and similar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-10 Dilip G. Banhatti

A new approach to vacuum decay in quantum field theory, based on a simple variational formulation in field space using a tunneling potential, is ideally suited to study the effects of gravity on such decays. The method allows to prove in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-05 J. R. Espinosa

In a previous paper by the author was proposed a new metric for the gravitational field of a thin rotating disk physically different from the Kerr metric. The metric is admissible for any angular momentum of the disk. As demonstrated in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-26 V. A. Golovko

We discuss models for the cosmological dark sector in which the energy density of a scalar field approximates Einstein's cosmological constant and the scalar field value determines the dark matter particle mass by a Yukawa coupling. A model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Glennys R. Farrar , P. J. E. Peebles

Mapping the dark matter distribution across our Galaxy represents a central challenge for the near future as a new generation of space-borne and ground-based astronomical surveys swiftly comes online. Here we present a synopsis of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-19 Miguel Pato , Fabio Iocco

The light scalar field with a coupling to standard model particles provide a possible source of the dark matter, long-range Yukawa forces or violation of the weak equivalence principle, which can be potentially explored by precision gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 ChengGang Qin , XiaoYu Lu , BingChen Zhao , Jun Ke , AnBin Du , Jie Luo , YuJie Tan , ChengGang Shao

We discuss the Palatini formulation of modified gravity including a Yukawa-like term. It is shown that in this formulation, the Yukawa term offers an explanation for the current exponential accelerated expansion of the universe and reduces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 K. Atazadeh , H. R. Sepangi

We discuss astrophysical implications of the modified gravity model in which the two matter components, ordinary and dark, couple to separate gravitational fields that mix to each other through small mass terms. There are two spin-2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-09 Zurab Berezhiani , Luigi Pilo , Nicola Rossi

We consider quantum mechanical effects of the modified Newtonian potential in the presence of extra compactified dimensions. We develop a method to solve the resulting Schroedinger equation and determine the energy shifts caused by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-27 E. G. Floratos , G. K. Leontaris , N. D. Vlachos

We present a novel experimental approach to detect dark matter by probing Yukawa interactions, commonly referred to as a fifth force, between dark matter and baryonic matter. Our method involves optically levitating nanoparticles within a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-30 Iftekher S. Chowdhury , Binay Prakash Akhouri , Shah Haque , Martin H. Bacci , Eric Howard

Thanks to their interpretation as first order correction of General Relativity at high energies, quadratic theories of gravity gained much attention in recent times. Particular attention has been drawn to the Einstein-Weyl theory, where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-17 Samuele Silveravalle , Alessandro Zuccotti