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Use when targeting Physical Review D (PRD) or deciding whether a particles, fields, gravitation, or cosmology manuscript fits this APS archival venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

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# Physical Review D (physical-review-d)

## Journal positioning

Physical Review D is the APS archival journal of record for high-energy physics, particle astrophysics, gravitation, and cosmology. It covers the theoretical and experimental physics of particles and fields, general relativity, gravitational waves, dark matter and dark energy, early-universe cosmology, astroparticle physics, and the computational/lattice methods serving these communities. PRD is a high-volume, rigorous, archival venue — the physics record for the field rather than a selective highlights journal. A paper does not need to be immediately broadly significant to appear in PRD; it must be correct, complete, and a substantive contribution within its subfield. The peer community of particle physicists, relativists, and cosmologists are the primary readers and referees.

This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the APS site and the Physical Review D submission system.

## When to trigger

- The author is targeting PRD for a high-energy physics, gravitation, or cosmology manuscript.
- A result is being considered for both PRD and `physical-review-letters` and the author needs to determine whether it meets PRL's broad-importance bar or belongs in PRD's archival track.
- A theoretical particle-physics or GR/cosmology paper is being positioned within the APS Physical Review family.
- The author needs to understand PRD's scope boundaries versus Physical Review C (nuclear), Physical Review B (condensed), or Nature-family journals.
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