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She-Sheng Xue

Publications and source records attributed to She-Sheng Xue.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources

arXiv2026

Scalar QED effective action in dS: implications for primordial magnetogenesis and the running of coupling constants

Particles creation and vacuum polarization under the influence of both an electromagnetic field and a de~Sitter (dS) spacetime nonperturbatively probes quantum electrodynamics (QED) and quantum gravitational effects. By applying the gamma-function regularization to the in-out formulation, we find the exact one-loop effective action in the proper-time integral representation for a charged scalar field in a uniform electric field and a parallel magnetic field in a dS spacetime. It reduces to the one-loop scalar QED Weisskopf-Schwinger effective action in the limit of Minkowski spacetime and the one-loop effective action in the pure dS spacetime. After carefully considering the different limiting cases, a striking result concerns the effective strengths of the coupling constants in the pure strong electric field limit. Our study provides further evidence for evolution of Newton's gravitational constant under the influence of the external fields. Remarkably, the analysis of the effective potential shows that the leading order contributions to the vacuum polarization amplitude, depending on the nonminimal coupling threshold, give a nonzero vacuum expectation value of the magnetic field. This mechanism generates a large magnetic field in the early dS stage of the expansion that may imply primordial magnetogenesis.

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arXiv2026

An Intertwined Short and Long GRB with 4-minute Separation

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most energetic transients in the Universe, are traditionally classified into long-duration ($T_{90}>2$ s) and short-duration ($T_{90}<2$ s) events, associated with the core collapse of massive stars (Type II) and the merger of compact binary systems (Type I), respectively. The two classes exhibit distinct observational properties that serve as key diagnostic criteria for classification. Here we report GRB 160425A, a peculiar event comprising two sub-bursts separated by four minutes: a short-duration burst ($G_1$) and a long-duration burst ($G_2$). Nearly all standard prompt-emission diagnostics, including pulse morphology, duration, hardness ratio, minimum variability timescale, spectral properties, and established empirical correlations, consistently categorize $G_1$ as a short-like (Type I, merger-origin) and $G_2$ as a long-like (Type II, collapsar-origin) GRB. The coexistence of merger and collapsar signatures in a single event challenges existing progenitor frameworks and calls for a re-evaluation of GRB classification schemes and progenitor scenarios.

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arXiv2026

Particle-antiparticle perturbation superhorizon crossing: baryogenesis, leptogenesis, magnetogenesis and darkogenesis

During the reheating epoch, gravitationally produced superheavy particle-antiparticle pairs undergo quantum oscillations. Perturbations in their relative densities cross out the horizon, leading to an asymmetry of particles and antiparticles inside the horizon. Massive particles decay into light baryons and leptons, thereby explaining baryogenesis and leptogenesis, whose charged components must generate a nontrivial electric current, thereby producing a primordial magnetic field (magnetogenesis). As a result, the baryon (lepton) number-to-entropy ratio and the primordial magnetic field bound are consistent with observational data. We also discuss darkogenesis, the origin of dark matter and anti-dark matter asymmetry.

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arXiv2025

Trapped fireshell (halo) of photons and pairs around black-hole horizon: source for ultra-high-energy particles

We study the Compton-rocket effect of strong radiation force accelerating electrons in an opaque fireshell (or fire spot) of dense photons and electron-positron pairs, whose temperature is spatially inhomogeneous and exceeds the electron mass. We find the possibility of the charged-particle acceleration and the avalanche runaway process, leading to a non-trivial probability of ultra-high-energy (UHE) electrons and protons, which subsequently produce very-high-energy (VHE) photons and neutrinos. In a simplified one-dimensional model, we qualitatively show such peculiar dynamics using the fireball, Gamma-Ray Burst central engine, whose inner part inflows and forms a gravitationally trapped fireshell (halo) around the horizon of a black hole. The fireshell is metastable, cooling via UHE particle emissions and blackbody radiation. We calculate the UHE particle luminosity varying in time, and discuss the peculiar features of such produced UHE particles, which lead to VHE particles, in connection with possible numerical simulations, observations and experiments.

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arXiv2025

Spacetime foam correlation renders the cosmological constant (dark energy)

Wheeler's spacetime foams (wormholes) at the Planck length undergo quantum nucleation, oscillation and annihilation. Their collective excitations over foamy spacetime interact with field operators at large distances. We describe such collective excitation and interaction using an effective ``foamon'' field coupled with field operators. The Wilson renormalisation group approach shows that the foamon field theory evolves from an infrared scaling invariant domain to an ultraviolet one, when numerous particles are present. In these domains, the foamon field induces an effective action of field operators, and its correlation length sets a natural scale. Applying this to cosmology, we obtain the effective Einstein action for the Ricci scalar and the cosmological constant (dark energy), including its equation of state and interaction with matter.

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arXiv2024

Generation of the CMB cosmic Birefringence through Axion-like particles, Sterile and Active neutrinos

The cosmic birefringence (CB) angle refers to the rotation of the linear polarization plane of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiations when parity-violating theories are considered. We analyzed the Quantum Boltzmann equation for an ensemble of CMB photons interacting with the right-handed sterile neutrino dark matter (DM) and axion-like particles (ALPs) DM in the presence of the scalar metric perturbation. We used the birefringence angle of CMB to study those probable candidates of DM. It is shown that the CB angle contribution of sterile neutrino is much less that two other sources considered here. Next, we combined the results of the cosmic neutrinos' contribution and the contribution of the ALPs to producing the CMB birefringence and discussed the uncertainty on the parameter space of axions caused by the share of CMB-cosmic neutrino interaction in generating this effect. Finally, we plotted the EB power spectrum of the CMB and showed that this spectrum behaves differently in the presence of cosmic neutrinos and ALPs interactions in small $l$. Hence, future observed data for $C^{l}_{EB}$, will help us to distinguish the CB angle value due to the various sources of its production.

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arXiv2024

Muon anomalous magnetic moment and Right handed sterile neutrino

The muon's magnetic moment is a fundamental quantity in particle physics and the deviation of its value from quantum electrodynamics (QED), motivates research beyond the standard models (SM). In this study, we utilize the effective coupling of right-handed sterile neutrinos with SM gauge bosons to calculate the muon anomalous magnetic moment ($\boldsymbol{\mu}$AMM) at one-loop level. The contribution of the sterile neutrino interactions on the $\boldsymbol{\mu}$AMM is calculated by considering the standard and non-standard neutrino interactions. Our results show that the standard sterile neutrino interactions give a negligible contribution to $\Delta a_{\boldsymbol{\mu}}$ while the non-standard neutrino interactions can play a significant role in explaining the muon $(g-2)$ anomaly. In the context of the non-standard neutrino interaction, our calculation shows that a Dirac mass scale $M_D$ around $100\,\text{GeV}$ could explain the muon anomaly if the right handed sterile neutrino's coupling with SM particles is about $\mathcal{G}_R\approx 10^{-3}$. We have also plotted the allowed region of the model parameters that satisfy the experimental data on $\Delta a_{{\boldsymbol{\mu}}}^{SN}$ and discuss the percentage of the ${\boldsymbol{\mu}}$ anomaly compensation in terms of the coupling constant $\mathcal{G}_R$.

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arXiv2024

Collimated and spinning fireballs for ultra-relativistic jets: long vs short Gamma-ray bursts by angular momentum and mass ratio

In this study, we investigate the gravitational collapses of rotating stellar systems accounting for Gamma-Ray Burst jet progenitors. Based on the virial theorem of hadron collisional relaxations and Newtonian slow-rotating approximation, we analyze the conversion of gravitational binding energy into kinetic energy of hadrons, whose collisions produce photons and electron-positron pairs forming fireballs. Our qualitative analysis implies that rotation effects collimated and spinning fireballs with nontrivial angular momenta along the propagating direction, thus making ultra-relativistic jets. Results reveal the possible trends that the fireball becomes more collimated and the jet angle decreases as the total angular momentum and mass ratio $J/M$ of the slow-rotating collapsing core increases. Discussing the extrapolation of these trends to fast-rotating collapsing systems, we speculate that the ratio $J/M$ should be a key quantity for differentiating long bursts (massive core collapses) from short bursts (binary coalescence). We derive the intrinsic correlations of collimated fireball quantities that should be imprinted on a large sample of observed GRB data as empirical correlations.

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arXiv2024

Holographic massive plasma state in Friedman Universe: cosmological fine-tuning and coincidence problems

Massive particle and antiparticle pair production and oscillation on the horizon form a holographic and massive pair plasma state in the Friedman Universe. Via this state, the Einstein cosmology term (dark energy) interacts with matter and radiation and is time-varying $\tildeΛ$ in the Universe's evolution. It is determined by a close set of ordinary differential equations for dark energy, matter, and radiation energy densities. The solutions are unique, provided the initial conditions given by observations. In inflation and reheating, dark energy density decreases from the inflation scale, converting to matter and radiation energy densities. In standard cosmology, matter and radiation energy densities convert to dark energy density, reaching the present Universe. By comparing with $Λ$CDM, quintessence and dark energy interacting models, we show that these results can be the possible solutions for cosmological fine-tuning and coincidence problems.

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arXiv2024

Dark energy and matter interacting scenario to relieve $H_0$ and $S_8$ tensions

We consider a new cosmological model (called $\tildeΛ$CDM) in which the vacuum energy interacts with matter and radiation, and test this model using the current cosmological observations. Using the CMB+BAO+SN (CBS) dataset to constrain the model, we find that $H_0$ and $S_8$ tensions are relieved to $2.87σ$ and $2.77σ$, respectively. However, in this case, the $\tildeΛ$CDM model is not favored by the data, compared with $Λ$CDM. We find that when the $H_0$ and $S_8$ data are added to the data combination, the situation is significantly improved. In the CBS+$H_0$ case, the model relieves the $H_0$ tension to $0.47σ$, and the model is favored over $Λ$CDM. In the CBS+$H_0$+$S_8$ case, we obtain a synthetically best situation, in which the $H_0$ and $S_8$ tensions are relieved to $0.72σ$ and $2.11σ$, respectively. In this case, the model is most favored by the data. Therefore, this cosmological model can greatly relieve the $H_0$ tension and simultaneously effectively alleviate the $S_8$ tension.

astro-ph.CO↗

arXiv2023

Searching for exclusive leptoquarks with the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio composite model at the LHC and HL-LHC

We present a detailed study concerning a new physics scenario involving four fermion operators of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio type characterized by a strong-coupling ultraviolet fixed point where composite particles are formed as bound states of elementary fermions at the scale $\Lambda ={\cal O}(\text{TeV})$. After implementing the model in the Universal FeynRules Output format, we focus on the phenomenology of the scalar leptoquarks at the LHC and the High-Luminosity option. Leptoquark particles have undergone extensive scrutiny in the literature and experimental searches, primarily relying on pair production and, more recently, incorporating single, t-channel, and lepton-induced processes. This study marks, for the first time, the examination of these production modes at varying jet multiplicities. Novel mechanisms emerge, enhancing the total production cross-section, especially for leptoquarks couplings to higher fermion generations. A global strategy is devised to capture all final state particles produced in association with leptoquarks or originating from their decay, which we termed ``exclusive'', in an analogy to the nomenclature used in nuclear reactions. The assessment of the significance in current and future LHC runs, focusing on the case of leptoquark coupling to a muon - $\textit{c}$ quark pair, reveals superior sensitivity compared to ongoing searches. Given this heightened discovery potential, we advocate the incorporation of exclusive leptoquark searches in future investigations at the LHC.

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arXiv2023

Constraints on NJL four-fermion effective interactions from neutrinoless double beta decay

We study the contribution of a heavy right-handed Majorana neutrino to neutrinoless double beta decay ($0νββ$) via four-fermion effective interactions of Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) type. In this physical scenario, the sterile neutrino contributes to the nuclear transition through gauge, contact, and mixed interactions. Using the lower limit on the half-life of $0νββ$ from the KamLAND-Zen experiment, we then constrain the effective right-handed coupling between the sterile neutrino and the $W$ boson: $\mathcal{G}^{W}_{R}$. Eventually, we show that the obtained bounds are compatible with those found in the literature, which highlights the complementarity of this type of phenomenological study with high-energy experiments.

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arXiv2023

Massive particle pair production and oscillation in Friedman Universe: reheating energy and entropy, and cold dark matter

Suppose that the early Universe starts with a cosmological $Λ$-term originating from quantum spacetime at the Planck scale. Dark energy drives inflation and reheating by reducing its value for massive particle-antiparticle pairs production and oscillation, resulting in a holographic and massive pair plasma state. The back-and-forth reaction of dark energy and massive pairs slows inflation to its end and starts reheating by rapidly producing stable and unstable pairs. We introduce the Boltzmann-type rate equation describing the back-and-forth reaction. It forms a close set with Friedman equations and reheating equations for unstable pairs decay to relativistic particles. The numerical solutions show preheating, massive pairs dominated and genuine reheating episodes. We obtain the reheating temperature and entropy in terms of the tensor-to-scalar ratio $0 < r < 0.047$ consistently with observations. Stable massive pairs represent cold dark matter particles and weakly interact with dark energy. The resultant cold dark matter abundance $Ω_c\sim 10^{-1}$ is about a constant in time.

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arXiv2023

Higgs boson origin from a gauge symmetric theory of massive composite particles and massless $W^\pm$ and $Z^0$ bosons at the TeV scale

The ultraviolet completion is the Standard Model (SM) gauge-symmetric four-fermion couplings at the high-energy cutoff. Composite particles appear in the gauge symmetric phase in contrast with SM particles in the spontaneous symmetry-breaking phase. The critical point between the two phases is a weak first-order transition. It relates to an ultraviolet fixed point for an SM gauge symmetric theory of composite particles in the strong coupling regime. The low-energy SM realizes at an infrared fixed point in the weak coupling regime. Composite bosons dissolve into SM particles at the phase transition, and in the top-quark channel, they become a composite SM Higgs boson and three Goldstone bosons. Extrapolation of SM renormalization-group solutions to high energies implies that the gauge-symmetric theory of composite particles has a characteristic scale of about $5.1$ TeV. We discuss the phenomenological implications of composite SM Higgs boson in the gauge symmetry-breaking phase and massive composite bosons coupling to massless $W^\pm$ and $Z^0$ gauge bosons in the gauge symmetric phase.

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arXiv2023

Massive particle pair production and oscillation in Friedman Universe: its effect on inflation

We study the classical Friedman equations for the time-varying cosmological term $\tildeΛ$ and Hubble function $H$, together with quantised field equations for the production of massive $M\gg H$ particles, namely, the $\tildeΛ$CDM scenario of dark energy and matter interactions. Classical slow components ${\mathcal O}(H^{-1})$ are separated from quantum fast components ${\mathcal O}(M^{-1})$. The former obeys the Friedman equations, and the latter obeys a set of nonlinear differential equations. Numerically solving equations for quantum fast components, we find the production and oscillation of massive particle-antiparticle pairs in microscopic time scale ${\mathcal O}(M^{-1})$. Their density and pressure averages over microscopic time do not vanish. It implies the formation of a massive pair plasma state in macroscopic time scale ${\mathcal O}(H^{-1})$, whose effective density and pressure contribute to the Friedman equations. Considering the inflation driven by the time-varying cosmological term and slowed down by the massive pair plasma state, we obtain the relation of spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio in agreement with recent observations. We discuss the singularity-free pre-inflation, the CMB large-scale anomaly, and dark-matter density perturbations imprinting on power spectra.

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arXiv2022

$W$ boson mass tension caused by its right-handed gauge coupling at high energies?

The CDF collaboration's recent high-precision measurement of the $W$mass is in $7.0~σ$ disagreement with the Standard Model expectation. This tension will be relieved if the $W$ boson has a non-trivial right-handed gauge coupling at high energies. At TeV scales, the SM gauge symmetric four-fermion interactions induce a right-handed gauge coupling, and SM fermions compose massive composite particles. We investigate the top-quark mass produced by spontaneous symmetry breaking and compute the $W$ and $Z$ boson propagators and decays. The right-handed coupling corrections to their masses and widths are consistent with experimental measurements. We discuss how SM gauge bosons and composite particles can restore parity-preserving gauge symmetries at TeV scales.

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arXiv2022

Relativistic Effects and GRB Polarization in Power-Law Evolution

Despite decades of polarization observations and high-significance polarized $γ$-ray, X-ray, optical, and radio emissions in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been accumulating in dozens of cases, people have yet to find a consistent scenario for understanding the globally observed timing properties of GRB polarization to date. Here, we report that the observed properties of GRB polarization exhibit a four-segment timing evolution at the cosmological distance: (I) an initial hump early on (within the first few seconds); (II) a later on power-law decay (from $\sim$10$^{1}$ to $\sim$10$^{4}$ s), which takes the form of $π_{\rm obs} \propto t^{-0.50 \pm 0.02}$; (III) afterwards a late-time rebrightening hump (from $\sim$10$^{4}$ to $\sim$10$^{5}$ s); and (IV) finally a flatting power-law decay (from $\sim$ 10$^{5}$ to $\sim$ 10$^{7}$ s), with the the form of $π_{\rm obs} \propto t^{-0.21 \pm 0.08}$. These findings may present a challenge to the mainstream of polarization models that assume the polarization time evolution change in different emission regions. We show that these results can be explained by relativistic and geometric effects of a highly relativistic and magnetized jet generated by the central engine, and "magnetic patches" distributed as a globally random but locally coherent form. Our analysis suggests that there is a single dominant mechanism that might account for the global observational properties of GRB polarization, and other emission mechanisms and effects might play a role in spatially local and temporally short effects on GRB polarization.

astro-ph.HE↗

arXiv2022

Spontaneous Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking renders sterile neutrino, axion and $χ$boson to be candidates for dark matter particles

We study the Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry of the sterile right-handed neutrino sector and the gauge symmetries of the Standard Model. Due to four-fermion interactions, spontaneous breaking of these symmetries at the electroweak scale generates top-quark Dirac mass and sterile-neutrino Majorana mass. The top quark channel yields massive Higgs, $W^\pm$ and $Z^0$ bosons. The sterile neutrino channel yields the heaviest sterile neutrino Majorana mass, sterile Nambu-Goldstone axion (or majoron) and massive scalar $χ$boson. Four-fermion operators effectively induce their tiny couplings to SM particles. We show that a sterile QCD axion is the PQ solution to the strong CP problem. The lightest and heaviest sterile neutrinos ($m_N^e\sim 10^2$ keV and $m_N^τ\sim 10^2$ GeV), a sterile QCD axion ($m_a< 10^{-8}$ eV, $g_{aγ}< 10^{-13} {\rm GeV}^{-1}$) and a Higgs-like $χ$boson ($m_χ\sim 10^2$ GeV) can be dark matter particle candidates, for the constraints of their tiny couplings and long lifetimes inferred from the $W$-boson decay width, Xenon1T and precision fine-structure-constant experiments. The axion and $χ$boson couplings to SM particles are below the values reached by current laboratory experiments and astrophysical observations for directly or indirectly detecting dark matter particles.

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