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Table of Contents (Print) PHYSICAL REVIEW D PERIODICALS For editorial and subscription correspondence, Postmaster send address changes to: please see inside front cover (ISSN: 1550-7998) APS Subscription Services P.O. Box 41 Annapolis Junction, MD 20701 THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 97, NUMBER 6 CONTENTS D15 MARCH 2018 The Table of Contents is a total listing of Parts A and B. Part A consists of articles 061301–064030, and Part B articles 064031–068303(C) PART A RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Spectator electric fields, de Sitter spacetime, and the Schwinger effect (5 pages) .............................................. 061301(R) Massimo Giovannini Explaining the DAMPE eþe− excess using the Higgs triplet model with a vector dark matter (5 pages) ................. 061302(R) Chuan-Hung Chen, Cheng-Wei Chiang, and Takaaki Nomura Scalar-tensor theories and modified gravity in the wake of GW170817 (6 pages) ............................................. 061501(R) David Langlois, Ryo Saito, Daisuke Yamauchi, and Karim Noui Linearized stability of extreme black holes (5 pages) ............................................................................... 061502(R) Lior M. Burko and Gaurav Khanna Scale anomaly of a Lifshitz scalar: A universal quantum phase transition to discrete scale invariance (6 pages) ......... 061701(R) Daniel K. Brattan, Omrie Ovdat, and Eric Akkermans Holographic model for the anomalous scalings of the cuprates (6 pages) ....................................................... 061901(R) Erin Blauvelt, Sera Cremonini, Anthony Hoover, Li Li, and Steven Waskie Windings of twisted strings (6 pages) .................................................................................................. 061902(R) Eduardo Casali and Piotr Tourkine ARTICLES Observation of cosmic-ray anisotropy in the decade below 1 PeV with a pentagon array (10 pages) ...................... 062001 S. Mortazavi Moghaddam and M. Bahmanabadi Search for deviations from the inverse square law of gravity at nm range using a pulsed neutron beam (9 pages) ...... 062002 Christopher C. Haddock, Noriko Oi, Katsuya Hirota, Takashi Ino, Masaaki Kitaguchi, Satoru Matsumoto, Kenji Mishima, Tatsushi Shima, Hirohiko M. Shimizu, W. Michael Snow, and Tamaki Yoshioka Impact of infrasound atmospheric noise on gravity detectors used for astrophysical and geophysical applications (14 pages) 062003 Donatella Fiorucci, Jan Harms, Matteo Barsuglia, Irene Fiori, and Federico Paoletti Characterizing the velocity of a wandering black hole and properties of the surrounding medium using convolutional neural networks (6 pages) ............................................................................................................. 063001 J. A. González and F. S. Guzmán Prospects for indirect detection of frozen-in dark matter (7 pages) ............................................................... 063002 Matti Heikinheimo, Tommi Tenkanen, and Kimmo Tuominen Searching for spectral oscillations due to photon-axionlike particle conversion using the Fermi-LAT observations of bright supernova remnants (8 pages) ........................................................................................................ 063003 Zi-Qing Xia, Cun Zhang, Yun-Feng Liang, Lei Feng, Qiang Yuan, Yi-Zhong Fan, and Jian Wu Copyright 2018 American Physical Society (Continued) 2470-0010(20180315)97:6;1-8 This paper was highlighted in the APS publication Physics (physics.aps.org). By suggesting a few manuscripts each week, we hope to promote reading across fields. Please see our Announcement Phys. Rev. D 90, 020001 (2014). CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW D THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 97, NUMBER 6 D15 MARCH 2018 Very low scale Coleman-Weinberg inflation with nonminimal coupling (8 pages) ............................................. 063004 Kunio Kaneta, Osamu Seto, and Ryo Takahashi Mapping extragalactic dark matter annihilation with galaxy surveys: A systematic study of stacked group searches (23 pages) ............................................................................................................................... 063005 Mariangela Lisanti, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Nicholas L. Rodd, Benjamin R. Safdi, and Risa H. Wechsler Effects of a neutrino-dark energy coupling on oscillations of high-energy neutrinos (12 pages) ............................ 063006 Niki Klop and Shin’ichiro Ando The Sun as a sub-GeV dark matter accelerator (5 pages) ........................................................................... 063007 Timon Emken, Chris Kouvaris, and Niklas Grønlund Nielsen Understanding the spectral hardenings and radial distribution of Galactic cosmic rays and Fermi diffuse γ rays with spatially-dependent propagation (8 pages) ......................................................................................... 063008 Yi-Qing Guo and Qiang Yuan New bounds on axionlike particles from the Fermi Large Area Telescope observation of PKS 2155 − 304 (6 pages) 063009 Cun Zhang, Yun-Feng Liang, Shang Li, Neng-Hui Liao, Lei Feng, Qiang Yuan, Yi-Zhong Fan, and Zhong-Zhou Ren Acceleration of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays in starburst superwinds (8 pages) ............................................... 063010 Luis Alfredo Anchordoqui Cosmic ray signatures of a 2–3 Myr old local supernova (10 pages) ............................................................. 063011 M. Kachelrieß, A. Neronov, and D. V. Semikoz Profiles of boson stars with self-interactions (13 pages) ............................................................................ 063012 Felix Kling and Arvind Rajaraman Constraint on the velocity dependent dark matter annihilation cross section from gamma-ray and kinematic observations of ultrafaint dwarf galaxies (10 pages) ................................................................................................. 063013 Yi Zhao, Xiao-Jun Bi, Peng-Fei Yin, and Xinmin Zhang Towards a complete reconstruction of supernova neutrino spectra in future large liquid-scintillator detectors (13 pages) 063014 Hui-Ling Li, Yu-Feng Li, Meng Wang, Liang-Jian Wen, and Shun Zhou Axion dark matter in a 3 − 3 − 1 model (12 pages) ................................................................................. 063015 J. C. Montero, Ana R. Romero Castellanos, and B. L. Sánchez-Vega Scalar dark matter explanation of the DAMPE data in the minimal left-right symmetric model (14 pages) ............... 063016 Junjie Cao, Xiaofei Guo, Liangliang Shang, Fei Wang, Peiwen Wu, and Lei Zu Constructing an entangled state in the Heisenberg picture for inflationary cosmology (10 pages) .......................... 063501 Abasalt Rostami and Javad T. Firouzjaee Squeezing of scalar and tensor primordial perturbations generated by modified dispersion relations (6 pages) ........... 063502 Giulia Gubitosi and João Magueijo Constraining the dark energy models with HðzÞ data: An approach independent of H0 (11 pages) ........................ 063503 Fotios K. Anagnostopoulos and Spyros Basilakos Closing in on the large-scale CMB power asymmetry (6 pages) .................................................................. 063504 D. Contreras, J. Hutchinson, A. Moss, D. Scott, and J. P. Zibin Constraints on patchy reionization from Planck CMB temperature trispectrum (8 pages) .................................... 063505 Toshiya Namikawa Updated tomographic analysis of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect and implications for dark energy (23 pages) ....... 063506 Benjamin Stölzner, Alessandro Cuoco, Julien Lesgourgues, and Maciej Bilicki Tidal disruption of fuzzy dark matter subhalo cores (10 pages) ................................................................... 063507 Xiaolong Du, Bodo Schwabe, Jens C. Niemeyer, and David Bürger Impact of Sommerfeld enhancement on helium reionization via WIMP dark matter (10 pages) ............................. 063508 Bidisha Bandyopadhyay and Dominik R. G. Schleicher Primordial standing waves (6 pages) ................................................................................................... 063509 Giulia Gubitosi and João Magueijo Two-field warm inflation and its scalar perturbations on large scales (11 pages) ............................................... 063510 Yang-Yang Wang, Jian-Yang Zhu, and Xiao-Min Zhang (Continued) This paper was highlighted in the APS publication Physics (physics.aps.org). By suggesting a few manuscripts each week, we hope to promote reading across fields. Please see our Announcement Phys. Rev. D 90, 020001 (2014). CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW D THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 97, NUMBER 6 D15 MARCH 2018 Finding structure in the dark: Coupled dark energy, weak lensing, and the mildly nonlinear regime (19 pages) ......... 063511 Vinicius Miranda, Mariana Carrillo González, Elisabeth Krause, and Mark Trodden Gravitational redshifts of clusters and voids (15 pages) ............................................................................. 063512 Daiki Sakuma, Ayumu Terukina, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, and Chiaki Hikage Adiabatic regularization of the power spectrum in nonminimally coupled general single-field inflation (11 pages) ...... 063513 Allan L. Alinea and Takahiro Kubota Measurement of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect around cosmic voids (12 pages) .................................... 063514 David Alonso, J. Colin Hill, Ren´ee Hložek, and David N. Spergel Probing dark energy in the scope of a Bianchi type I spacetime (9 pages) ...................................................... 063515 Hassan Amirhashchi Gravitational waves from warm inflation (12 pages) ...............................................................................
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