We argue for the existence of bounds on the tensions of $\textit{p}$-branes in de Sitter space in terms of the Hubble rate and the strength of a class of Chern-Simons-like couplings. The world-volume couplings involve Abelian 1-form gauge fields in the bulk and possibly field strengths intrinsic to the brane. In many cases these couplings are the D-brane Chern-Simons terms present in string theory, while in other cases they are the interactions of axion domain walls with U(1) fields. Our arguments use the same logic and assumptions as the recent Festina Lente proposal (thus utilizing the properties of Nariai de Sitter black holes) and generalize it to extended objects, thereby providing a bottom-up set of constraints independent of any particular UV completion. We compare these bounds to the properties of (wrapped) D-branes in Type II string theory in the weak coupling limit, under the assumption that these properties are not modified significantly in de Sitter constructions. We find that all constraints are satisfied by D-branes, providing further evidence for the Festina Lente conjecture. For the particular case of 2-branes with Chern-Simons interactions we obtain a bound, which however can be evaded if the theory contains a light axion. Similarly, we find the bounds do not apply to axion domain walls due to the presence of the axion.

United Kingdom

Saquib Hassan

Georges Obied

John March-Russell

De Sitter space constraints on brane tensions and couplings

We develop the pole-skipping structure in de Sitter (dS) spacetime and find that their leading frequencies satisfy the relation <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>ω</mi><mrow><mi>d</mi><mi>S</mi></mrow></msub><mo>=</mo><mi>i</mi><mn>2</mn><mi>π</mi><msub><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>d</mi><mi>S</mi></mrow></msub><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>−</mo><mi>s</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math>, where <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>T</mi><mrow><mi>d</mi><mi>S</mi></mrow></msub><mo>=</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>/</mo><mn>2</mn><mi>π</mi><mi>L</mi></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>s</mi></math> denotes spin. In the two-dimensional dS spacetime, the pole-skipping points near the cosmic horizon <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>r</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>L</mi></math> for the scalar field of spin 0 and the fermionic field of spin <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mfrac><mn>1</mn><mn>2</mn></mfrac></math> correspond one to one with those in the classical limit as <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>λ</mi><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><mn>0</mn></math> in double-scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model when the temperature is infinite (<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mrow><mi>DSSYK</mi></mrow><mi>∞</mi></msub></math>). This provides a numerical correspondence between quantum gravity in the static patch of two-dimensional dS spacetime and a one-dimensional quantum system, which we consider as a realization of the DS/dS correspondence.

China

Haiming Yuan

Xian-Hui Ge

South Korea

Keun-Young Kim

Pole skipping in two-dimensional de Sitter spacetime and double-scaled SYK model

We explore a centaur geometry in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, which is an asymptotically anti–de Sitter (AdS) spacetime but in the IR admits a de Sitter (dS) bubble, with another AdS geometry in the deep IR. Thus, this geometry admits a holographic dual in the sense that it is asymptotically AdS. In an attempt to understand this geometry, we calculate the density of states of the putative boundary dual for such mixed geometries by evaluating the on-shell action. We compute the density of states analytically in the classical limit. The resultant density of states suggests that the degrees of freedom in the IR are reduced in such a putative boundary theory due to the IR modification corresponding to the dS bubble.

Japan

Taiwan

Norihiro Iizuka

Sunil Kumar Sake

Note on a centaur geometry: Probing IR de Sitter spacetime holography

Assuming that (1) the Universe underwent a postinflationary accelerated expansion phase driven by a fluid with equation of state <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mi>P</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>w</mi><mi>ρ</mi></mrow></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>&lt;</mo><mi>w</mi><mo>&lt;</mo><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>/</mo><mn>3</mn></math>, that (2) the cosmic horizon in an accelerating, quasi–de Sitter Universe has a temperature inversely proportional to the proper size of the horizon, and that (3) we are static observers, we calculate the frozen-in density of a stable particle of mass <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>m</mi></math> produced by the cosmic horizon that does not undergo any number-changing processes in the late Universe. We find that, as a function of the equation of state and the temperature when radiation domination starts and the quasi–de Sitter phase ends, the mass of the dark matter producing the observed cosmological abundance via this mechanism ranges from 10 keV up to close to the Planck scale.

United States

Stefano Profumo

Dark matter from quasi–de Sitter horizons

It is well known that the area of the de Sitter cosmological horizon is related to the entropy of the bulk spacetime. Recent work has however shown that the horizon encodes more information about the bulk spacetime than just the entropy. In this work, we show that the horizon contains all of the gauge invariant (diffeomorphism and U(1)) information about (static albeit unstable) configurations of charged and rotating objects placed deep inside the de Sitter spacetime. We study highly symmetric objects, such as dipoles and cubes, built of objects with electric charge and angular momentum at their vertices. We show how these configurations affect the geometry of the cosmological horizon and imprint detailed information about the objects in the bulk onto the cosmological horizon.

Willy Fischler

Hare Krishna

Sarah Racz

There is more to the de Sitter horizon than just the area

We propose a new formula for the entropy of a dynamical cosmological event horizon, which is valid to leading order for perturbations of a stationary asymptotically de Sitter spacetime. By introducing a nontrivial correction term, we generalize Gibbons and Hawking’s first law of event horizons to non-stationary eras. We also develop the non-stationary physical process first law between two arbitrary horizon cross-sections for the cosmological event horizon.

Jinan Zhao

The entropy of dynamical de Sitter horizons

I demonstrate that soft graviton modes in de Sitter spacetimes are the Goldstone modes of the spontaneously broken asymptotic symmetry group of de Sitter space. I then show that any local measurement, including the effects of the environment, will collapse the symmetric state onto the broken state in the large volume limit. In any discussion involving observers, de Sitter spacetimes are, therefore, best described globally by the broken phase, while local observers, in the small volume limit, can not discriminate between different degenerate global vacuum states and are therefore best described by the symmetric state. As a consequence, a small Hubbled-sized local region initially in the symmetric state will, after a time-scale corresponding to the Page time of de Sitter space, have expanded to a large region in the broken state. This illuminates the physical nature of soft graviton modes in de Sitter spacetimes.

Denmark

Martin S. Sloth

Soft gravitons as Goldstone modes of spontaneously broken asymptotic symmetries in de Sitter spacetimes

We study the causal structure of Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS), including shock wave perturbations, in $\textit{D >}$ 3 using reflected null ray trajectories, either through the interior black hole or the exterior de Sitter region. Specifically, we compute the quasinormal mode frequencies in the eikonal, high-frequency, limit, by identifying the ‘critical time’, for arbitrary values of the black hole mass. We emphasize the important role of the static sphere proper time normalization and related boundary conditions. The computed critical times indicate the presence of singularities in the late-time, large mass, scalar field correlator in SdS, which should be resolved by introducing complex geodesics consistent with interior black hole and exterior de Sitter effective thermofield double states. In addition we relate the critical time to a diverging holographic complexity observable and compute the ‘switchback’ delay by adding a pair of shock wave perturbations for arbitrary values of the mass of the black hole.

Canada

Mir Faruk

Netherlands

Facundo Rost

Jan Schaar

Quasinormal modes and the switchback effect in Schwarzschild-de Sitter

Utilizing 4.5 $ \text{fb}^{-1} $ of $ e^+e^- $ annihilation data collected at center-of-mass energies ranging from 4599.53 MeV to 4698.82 MeV by the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider, we searched for singly Cabibbo-suppressed hadronic decays $ \Lambda_{c}^{+}\to\Sigma^{0} K^{+}\pi^{0} $ and $ \Lambda_{c}^{+}\to\Sigma^{0}K^{+} \pi^+ \pi^- $ with a single-tag method. No significant signals were observed for both decays. The upper limits on the branching fractions at the 90% confidence level were determined to be $ 5.0\times 10^{-4} $ for $ \Lambda_{c}^{+}\to\Sigma^{0} K^{+}\pi^{0} $ and $ 6.5\times 10^{-4} $ for $ \Lambda_c^{+}\to\Sigma^0K^{+}\pi^{+}\pi^{-} $ .

M. Ablikim

Russia

M.N. Achasov

Sweden

P. Adlarson

X.C. Ai

Germany

R. Aliberti

Italy

A. Amoroso

Q. An

Y. Bai

O. Bakina

Y. Ban

H.R. Bao

Poland

V. Batozskaya

Mongolia

K. Begzsuren

N. Berger

M. Berlowski

M. Bertani

D. Bettoni

F. Bianchi

E. Bianco

A. Bortone

I. Boyko

R.A. Briere

A. Brueggemann

H. Cai

M.H. Cai

X. Cai

A. Calcaterra

G.F. Cao

N. Cao

Türkiye

S.A. Cetin

X.Y. Chai

J.F. Chang

G.R. Che

Y.Z. Che

G. Chelkov

C. Chen

C.H. Chen

Chao Chen

G. Chen

H.S. Chen

H.Y. Chen

M.L. Chen

S.J. Chen

S.L. Chen

S.M. Chen

T. Chen

X.R. Chen

X.T. Chen

Y.B. Chen

Y.Q. Chen

Z.J. Chen

Z.K. Chen

S.K. Choi

X. Chu

G. Cibinetto

F. Cossio

J.J. Cui

H.L. Dai

J.P. Dai

A. Dbeyssi

R.E. de Boer

D. Dedovich

C.Q. Deng

Z.Y. Deng

A. Denig

I. Denysenko

M. Destefanis

F. De Mori

B. Ding

X.X. Ding

Y. Ding

Y.X. Ding

J. Dong

L.Y. Dong

M.Y. Dong

X. Dong

M.C. Du

S.X. Du

Y.Y. Duan

Z.H. Duan

P. Egorov

G.F. Fan

J.J. Fan

Y.H. Fan

J. Fang

S.S. Fang

W.X. Fang

Y.Q. Fang

R. Farinelli

L. Fava

F. Feldbauer

G. Felici

C.Q. Feng

J.H. Feng

Y.T. Feng

M. Fritsch

C.D. Fu

J.L. Fu

Search for Cabibbo-suppressed decays ${\boldsymbol\Lambda_{\boldsymbol c}^{\bf +} }$ → Σ$^{0}$ $\textit{K}$ $^{+}$ $\textit{π}$ $^{0}$ and $ {\boldsymbol\Lambda_{\boldsymbol c}^{\bf +} }$ → Σ$^{0}$ $\textit{K}$ $^{+}$ $\textit{π}$ $^{+}$ $\textit{π}$ $^{−}$ * This study has been supported in part by National Key R&D Program of China (2020YFA0406300, 2020YFA0406400, 2023YFA1606000); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (12205141, 11635010, 11735014, 11935015, 11935016, 11935018, 12025502, 12035009, 12035013, 12061131003, 12192260, 12192261, 12192262, 12192263, 12192264, 12192265, 12221005, 12225509, 12235017, 12361141819); Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (2024JJ2044); the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Large-Scale Scientific Facility Program; the CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics (CCEPP); Joint Large-Scale Scientific Facility Funds of the NSFC and CAS (U1832207); 100 Talents Program of CAS; The Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPAC) and Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology; German Research Foundation DFG (FOR5327); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (2021.0174, 2021.0299); Ministry of Development of Turkey (DPT2006K-120470); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2022R1A2C1092335); National Science and Technology fund of Mongolia; National Science Research and Innovation Fund (NSRF) via the Program Management Unit for Human Resources & Institutional Development, Research and Innovation of Thailand (B16F640076, B50G670107); Polish National Science Centre (2019/35/O/ST2/02907); Swedish Research Council (2019.04595); The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (CH2018-7756); and U. S. Department of Energy (DE-FG02-05ER41374)

Radiative capture cross section strongly depends on the electromagnetic de-excitation probability, hence on the so-called photon strength function (PSF) and nuclear level density (NLD). Microscopic models for both PSF and NLD have been developed for the past decades but remain affected by fundamental assumptions, like the independent particle approximation for NLD and the assumption that the de-excitation PSF is equal to the photoabsorption PSF. The present study goes beyond the existing models by providing a common framework based on QRPA estimates of nuclear excitations that are used to derive NLD by coupling QRPA bosons as well as the de-excitation PSF by calculating all possible transition probabilities between QRPA states. The present framework is found to reproduce experimental data related to both NLD and PSF accurately, provided QRPA excitation energies are globally reduced by an energy-dependent shift. More specifically, the resulting NLDs, also extended to odd- <italic>A</italic> and odd-odd nuclei, are shown to be in good agreement with experimental s-wave resonance spacings and the photoabsorption PSF with photodata.

Belgium

S. Goriely

France

S. Péru

S. Hilaire

QRPA prediction of the nuclear level densities and de-excitation photon strength functions