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Niamat Ullah

Publications and source records attributed to Niamat Ullah.

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arXiv2026

Finite-duration non-slow-roll effects in inflationary production of ultralight vector dark matter

Inflationary production of ultralight vector dark matter can be amplified by a brief non-slow-roll phase, yet instantaneous mass transitions generate ultraviolet ringing and leave finite-time predictions unresolved. We replace the sharp transition with a smooth profile and derive the momentum-response kernel of the longitudinal mode. Finite duration preserves the infrared enhancement, suppresses modes that resolve the transition, and introduces a profile-dependent correction to the relic abundance. After fixing the dark matter abundance, the induced gravitational-wave signal retains an independent transverse-traceless source dependence, so abundance rescaling alone leaves residual profile information. Numerical mode evolution and radiation-era tensor integration support the finite-width treatment. Transition duration therefore links microscopic inflationary dynamics to ultralight vector abundance and its low-frequency gravitational-wave signal.

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arXiv2026

Conformal dark matter and MHz gravitational waves

A localized enhancement of the primordial curvature spectrum can leave two distinct relics: gravitationally produced conformal-fermion dark matter and a scalar-induced stochastic gravitational-wave background. We show that the dark-matter abundance fixes the scalar normalization through the cubic moment of the curvature spectrum, while the induced tensor signal probes its quadratic convolution. This closes the usual normalization freedom in scalar-induced gravitational-wave templates and ties the MHz signal directly to the dark-matter mass, peak scale, and spectral width. A concrete single-field realization demonstrates this mechanism: a Mukhanov--Sasaki evolution produces a broad MHz background that sits safely below the Gaussian primordial-black-hole threshold. In this construction, a null high-frequency search becomes a lower bound on the conformal-fermion mass, while a detection has to reproduce the relic abundance, peak frequency, amplitude, and width from one primordial feature. The result is a testable link between small-scale inflationary structure, superheavy dark matter, and laboratory MHz gravitational-wave searches

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arXiv2026

Parametric Resonance of Higgsed Vector Dark Matter: Inflationary Initial Conditions and Sourced Displacements

Parametric resonance in a Higgsed Abelian sector provides an efficient mechanism for producing vector dark matter, but its viability depends crucially on the origin of the initial dark-Higgs displacement that seeds the resonance. In this work, we investigate this initial-condition problem in a weakly coupled Abelian-Higgs theory with potential $V=\lambda_4(\phi^2-v^2)^2/4$, using the calibrated nonlinear broad-resonance relic map together with a stochastic inflationary analysis of the dark-Higgs condensate. We show that a minimal light-spectator realization fails under standard inflationary duration: while broad resonance and isocurvature constraints require $ \phi_0/H_I \gtrsim 3.3\times10^4, $ the stochastic equilibrium and finite-duration random walk produce only $ \phi/H_I=\mathcal O(1). $ This large displacement mismatch is robust against order-of-magnitude variations in the resonance efficiency and broadness threshold, establishing a model-independent obstruction to the stochastic branch. We then identify a distinct classically sourced branch, generated by a negative Hubble-induced mass, in which the condensate tracks a time-dependent minimum, $ \phi_0=\kappa H_*/\sqrt{\lambda_4}, $ and the radial fluctuation remains heavy during inflation. In this case, the fixed-$e/\lambda_D$ relic scaling shifts from $ m_X\propto \lambda_4^{5/8}H_I^{-3/2} $ to $ m_X\propto \kappa^{-3/2}\lambda_4 H_*^{-3/2}. $ We derive the simultaneous consistency conditions for this sourced branch, including broad resonance, adiabatic tracking, perturbativity, sub-Planckian displacement, thermal non-erasure, spectator backreaction, and control of inflationary vector fluctuations. Our results establish that Higgsed-vector resonance is not merely a dark-matter production mechanism, but a sensitive probe of the inflationary and reheating dynamics that determine its initial conditions.

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arXiv2011

An Overview of IEEE 802.15.6 Standard

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) has emerged as a key technology to provide real-time health monitoring of a patient and diagnose many life threatening diseases. WBAN operates in close vicinity to, on, or inside a human body and supports a variety of medical and non-medical applications. IEEE 802 has established a Task Group called IEEE 802.15.6 for the standardization of WBAN. The purpose of the group is to establish a communication standard optimized for low-power in-body/on-body nodes to serve a variety of medical and non-medical applications. This paper explains the most important features of the new IEEE 802.15.6 standard. The standard defines a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer supporting several Physical (PHY) layers. We briefly overview the PHY and MAC layers specifications together with the bandwidth efficiency of IEEE 802.15.6 standard. We also discuss the security paradigm of the standard.

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arXiv2010

A Review of Wireless Body Area Networks for Medical Applications

Recent advances in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology, integrated circuits, and wireless communication have allowed the realization of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). WBANs promise unobtrusive ambulatory health monitoring for a long period of time and provide real-time updates of the patient's status to the physician. They are widely used for ubiquitous healthcare, entertainment, and military applications. This paper reviews the key aspects of WBANs for numerous applications. We present a WBAN infrastructure that provides solutions to on-demand, emergency, and normal traffic. We further discuss in-body antenna design and low-power MAC protocol for WBAN. In addition, we briefly outline some of the WBAN applications with examples. Our discussion realizes a need for new power-efficient solutions towards in-body and on-body sensor networks.

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