Helena Kolesova

Researcher

Helena Kolesova

Contact

Telephone: 51832803

Email: helena.kolesova@uis.no

Room: KE C-255

Department

Faculty of Science and Technology

Department of Mathematics and Physics

About me

I completed my PhD in 2017 at the Czech Technical University in Prague, followed by a short postdoc position at the Charles University in Prague. I was working as a postdoc at the University of Stavanger in the period of 2018-2023 and held another postdoc position in Bern in years 2023-2024. Since autumn 2024 I am back at the University of Stavanger, working on the project Uncovering the nature of dark matter in the multi-messenger era funded by the Research Council of Norway.

My research

I am working in particle physics phenomenology, in particular, I am interested in following topics:

  • Dark matter and physics beyond Standard Model
  • Gravitational waves from phase transitions in the early Universe
  • Physics of strong interactions

Currently, I am focusing on strongly coupled dark matter and possible signatures for gravitational-wave experiments as well as on further possibilities how to probe the nature of dark matter. In the past, I was trying to describe the state of matter that might appear in the cores of neutron stars: extremely dense matter in a strong magnetic field or I was studying the so-called grand-unified theories where the strong and electroweak interactions are unified to single force.

Follow me online

List of publications at Inspire portal Popular-science article on dark matter (in Norwegian) Popular-science article on gravitational waves (in English)

Publications

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Kolesova, Helena; Laine, M.

(2024)

Update on gravitational wave signals from post-inflationary phase transitions.

Physics Letters B.

ISSN 0370-2693.

Volum 851.

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2024.138553

Biondini, Simone; Kolesova, Helena; Procacci, Simona

(2024)

Smooth reheating and dark matter via non-Abelian gauge theory.

Physics Letters B.

ISSN 0370-2693.

Volum 857.

s.1-8.

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2024.138995

Alvey, James; Bringmann, Torsten; Kolesova, Helena

(2023)

No room to hide: implications of cosmic-ray upscattering for GeV-scale dark matter.

Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP).

ISSN 1126-6708.

Volum 2023:123.

s.1-43.

DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2023)123

Brauner, Tomas; Kolesova, Helena

(2023)

Chiral soliton lattice at next-to-leading order.

Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP).

ISSN 1126-6708.

Volum 2023.

Hefte 7.

DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2023)163

Brauner, Tomáš; Kolešová, Helena; Yamamoto, Naoki

(2021)

Chiral soliton lattice phase in warm QCD.

Physics Letters B.

ISSN 0370-2693.

Volum 823.

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136767

Faber, T.; Liu, Y.; Porod, W.; Hudec, M.; Malinsky, M.; Staub, F.; Kolesova, Helena

(2020)

Collider phenomenology of a unified leptoquark model.

Physical Review D.

ISSN 2470-0010.

Volum 101.

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.095024

Barausse, Enrico; Berti, Emanuele; Hertog, Thomas; Hughes, Scott A.; Jetzer, Philippe; Pani, Paolo; Hervik, Sigbjørn; Kolesova, Helena; Marcoccia, Paolo; Nardini, Germano; Nielsen, Alex Bentley; Sotiriou, Thomas P.; Tamanini, Nicola; Witek, Helvi; Yagi, Kent; Yunes, Nicolás; Abdelsahin, T.; Achucarro, A.; van Aelst, K.; Afshordi, N.; Akcay, S.; Annulli, L.; Arun, K.G.; Ayuso, I.; Baibhav, V.; Baker, T.; Bantilan, H.; Barreiro, T.; Barrera-Hinojosa, C.; Bartolo, N.; Baumann, D.; Belgacem, E.; Bellini, E.; Bellomo, N.; Ben-Dayan, I.; Bena, I.; Benkel, R.; Bergshoefs, E.; Bernard, L.; Bernuzzi, S.; Bertacca, D.; Besancon, M.; Beutler, F.; Beyer, F.; Bhagwat, S.; Bicak, J.; Biondini, S.; Bize, S.; Blas, D.; Boehmer, C.

(2020)

Prospects for fundamental physics with LISA.

General Relativity and Gravitation.

ISSN 0001-7701.

Volum 52.

DOI: 10.1007/s10714-020-02691-1

Brauner, Tomas; Kolesova, Helena

(2019)

Gauged Wess-Zumino terms for a general coset space.

Nuclear Physics B.

ISSN 0550-3213.

Volum 945.

DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2019.114676

Brauner, Tomas; Filios, Georgios; Kolesova, Helena

(2019)

Anomaly-Induced Inhomogeneous Phase in Quark Matter without the Sign Problem.

Physical Review Letters.

ISSN 0031-9007.

Volum 123.

Hefte 1.

s.012001-1-012001-6.

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.012001

Kolesova, Helena; Malinsky, Michal

(2019)

Flavor structure of GUTs and uncertainties in proton lifetime estimates.

Physical Review D.

ISSN 2470-0010.

Volum 99.

Hefte 3.

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.035005

Brauner, Tomas; Filios, Georgios; Kolesova, Helena

(2019)

Chiral soliton lattice in QCD-like theories .

Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP).

ISSN 1126-6708.

Volum 2019.

Hefte 12.

s.1-26.

DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2019)029

Kolesova, Helena

(2018)

Wess-Zumino-Witten term in QCD-like theories.

Proceedings of Science (PoS).

ISSN 1824-8039.

Volum 336:209.

DOI: 10.22323/1.336.0209

Formidling

Kolesova, Helena; Biondini, Simone; Procacci, Simona

(2024)

Dark matter and reheating via dark glueballs.

ICHEP 2024;

2024-07-17 - 2024-07-24.

Krichevskiy, Daniil; Kolesova, Helena

(2024)

Gravitational waves from strongly interacting dark matter.

4th Meeting on Gravitational Wave Science in Denmark-Norway;

2024-05-23 - 2024-05-24.

Krichevskiy, Daniil; Kolesova, Helena

(2024)

Strongly interacting dark matter at next-to-leading order.

2024 Annual NPACT Meeting;

2024-06-19 - 2024-06-21.

Kolesova, Helena; Monroe, Gailyn; Diurba, Richie

(2024)

Cosmic-ray-boosted dark matter in direct detection and neutrino experiments.

ICHEP 2024;

2024-07-17 - 2024-07-24.

Kolesova, Helena

(2024)

Gravitational waves from non-Abelian dark sectors coupled to inflation.

Quarkonia meet dark matter;

2024-03-18 - 2024-03-22.

Kolesova, Helena

(2024)

The Big Bang Theory.

Visit of a high school;

2024-06-03.

Kolesova, Helena

(2024)

The Big Bang Theory.

Visit of a high school;

2024-05-21.

Kolesova, Helena

(2024)

The Big Bang Theory.

Visit of a high school;

2024-06-04.

Kolesova, Helena

(2024)

Non-Abelian dark sectors: gravitational waves vs dark matter.

Seminar at the University of Helsinki ;

2024-02-22.

Kolesova, Helena

(2024)

Reheating and dark matter through dark glueballs.

Seminar at the University of Bern;

2024-07-30.

Kolesova, Helena

(2024)

Reheating and dark matter through dark glueballs.

Seminar at Czech Technical University of Prague;

2024-08-06.

Kolesova, Helena

(2024)

Gravitational waves from a non-abelian dark sector coupled to axion inflation.

4th Meeting on Gravitational Wave Science in Denmark-Norway;

2024-05-23 - 2024-05-24.

Kolesova, Helena

(2024)

Reheating and dark matter through dark glueballs.

2024 Annual NPACT Meeting;

2024-06-19 - 2024-06-21.

Kolesova, Helena

(2024)

Phase transitions: in our kitchen or shortly after the Big Bang.

Pint of Science;

2024-05-14.

Kolesova, Helena; Sandvin Vangen, Liva

(2023)

«Dette eksperimentet vil åpne et helt nytt vindu for å lære om det tidlige universet».

Forskning.no.

ISSN 1891-635X.

Kolesova, Helena

(2023)

Non-Abelian dark sectors: gravitational waves vs dark matter.

Seminar at UiO;

2023-11-29.

Kolesova, Helena

(2022)

Attenuation of Cosmic-Ray Up-Scattered Dark Matter.

PLANCK 2022;

2022-05-30 - 2022-06-03.

Kolesova, Helena

(2022)

Attenuation of Cosmic-Ray Up-Scattered Dark Matter.

Identification of Dark Matter 2022;

2022-07-18 - 2022-07-22.

Kolesova, Helena

(2019)

Dense QCD(-like) matter in strong magnetic fields.

Moriond 2019 - Gravitation session;

2019-03-23 - 2019-03-30.

Kolesova, Helena

(2018)

Planck-scale induced uncertainties in proton lifetime estimates and flavour structure of GUTs.

Planck 2018;

2018-05-21 - 2018-05-25.

Kolesova, Helena

(2018)

Wess-Zumino-Witten term in QCD-like theories.

Strong and Electroweak Matter 2018;

2018-06-25 - 2018-06-29.

Kolesova, Helena

(2018)

QCD-like theories in strong magnetic fields.

XIIIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum;

2018-07-31 - 2018-08-06.