Below you can find some of my recent and selected publications. The complete list of my publications can be found on InspireHep or via my CV.

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Black Holes

 

• Loop Quantum Gravity

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• S. Rastgoo, S. Das, Probing the Interior of the Schwarzschild Black Hole Using Congruences: LQG vs. GUP, Universe 8 (2022) 349, arXiv:2205.03799 [gr-qc].

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• K. Blanchette, S. Das, S. Rastgoo, Effective GUP-modified Raychaudhuri equation and black hole singularity: four models, JHEP 2021, 62 (2021), arXiv:2105.11511 [gr-qc].

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• K. Blanchette, S. Das, S. Hergott, S. Rastgoo, Black hole singularity resolution via the modified Raychaudhuri equation in loop quantum gravity, Phys. Rev. D 103 (2021) 8, 084038, arXiv:2011.11815 [gr-qc].

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• H. A. Morales-Técotl, S. Rastgoo, J. C. Ruelas, Effective dynamics of the Schwarzschild black hole interior with inverse triad corrections, Ann. Phys. 426C (2021) 168401, arXiv:1806.05795 [gr-qc].

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• A. Corichi, J. Olmedo, S. Rastgoo, Callan-Giddings-Harvey-Strominger vacuum in loop quantum gravity and singularity resolution, Phys. Rev. D 94, 084050 (2016), arXiv:1608.06246 [gr-qc].

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• R. Gambini, J. Pullin and S. Rastgoo, Quantum scalar field in quantum gravity: the vacuum in the spherically symmetric case, Class. Quantum Grav. 26 215011 (2009), arXiv:0906.1774 [gr-qc].

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• Deformed Algebra, Generalized Uncertainty Principle

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• F. Fragomeno, D. M. Gingrich, S. Hergott, S Rastgoo, E. Vienneau, A generalized uncertainty-inspired quantum black hole, Phys. Rev. D 111 (2025) 2, 024048, arXiv:2406.03909 [gr-qc].

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• P. Bosso, O. Obregón, S. Rastgoo, W. Yupanqui, Black hole interior quantization: a minimal uncertainty approach, Class. Quantum Grav. 41 (2024) 135011, arXiv:2310.04600 [gr-qc].

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• Model-Independent

 

• S. Hergott, V. Husain, S. Rastgoo, Model metrics for quantum black hole evolution: Gravitational collapse, singularity resolution, and transient horizons, Phys. Rev. D 106 (2022) 4, 046012, arXiv:2206.06425 [gr-qc].

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Fundamentals of Quantum Gravity/Spacetime

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• Theory

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• A. Garcia-Chung, J. B. Mertens, S. Rastgoo, Y. Tavakoli, P. Vargas Moniz, Propagation of quantum gravity-modified gravitational waves on a classical FLRW spacetime, Phys. Rev. D 103 (2021) 8, 084053, arXiv:2012.09366 [gr-qc].

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• R. Gambini, S. Rastgoo, J. Pullin, Gravitation in terms of observables 2: the algebra of fundamental observables, Class. Quantum Grav. 37 145013 (2020), arXiv:2003.01589 [gr-qc].

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• S. Rastgoo, M. Requardt, Emergent Space-Time via a Geometric Renormalization Method, Phys. Rev. D. 94, 124019 (2016), arXiv:1606.08073 [gr-qc].

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• R. Gambini, J. Pullin, S. Rastgoo, Small Lorentz violations in quantum gravity: do they lead to unacceptably large effects?, Class. Quantum Grav. 28 155005 (2011), arXiv:1106.1417 [gr-qc].

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• Phenomenology

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• A. Garcia-Chung, M. F. Carney, J. B. Mertens, A. Parvizi, S. Rastgoo, Y. Tavakoli, Constraining the quantum gravity polymer scale using LIGO data, To appear in Class. Quantum Grav., arXiv:2305.18192 [gr-qc].

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• A. Garcia-Chung, M. F. Carney, J. B. Mertens, A. Parvizi, S. Rastgoo, Y. Tavakoli, What do gravitational wave detectors say about polymer quantum effects?, JCAP 11 (2022) 054, arXiv:2208.09739 [gr-qc].

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Gravitational Waves/Dark Matter/GRBs

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• D. Montalvo, A. Smith-Orlik, S. Rastgoo, L. Sagunski, N. Becker, H. Khan, Post-Newtonian Effects in Compact Binaries with a Dark Matter Spike: A Lagrangian Approach, Universe 10 (2024) 11, 427, arXiv:2401.06084 [gr-qc].

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• N. Becker, L. Sagunski, L. Prinz, S. Rastgoo, Circularization versus eccentrification in intermediate mass ratio inspirals inside dark matter spikes, Phys. Rev. D 105 (2022) 6, 063029, arXiv:2112.09586 [gr-qc].

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• Y. Bonder, A. Garcia-Chung, S. Rastgoo, Bounds on the Polymer Scale from Gamma Ray Bursts, Phys. Rev. D 96, 106021 (2017), arXiv:1704.08750 [gr-qc].