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- Title
QCD Axion Kinetic Misalignment without Prejudice.
- Authors
Barman, Basabendu; Bernal, Nicolás; Ramberg, Nicklas; Visinelli, Luca
- Abstract
The axion field, the angular direction of the complex scalar field associated with the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the Peccei–Quinn (PQ) symmetry, could have originated with initial non-zero velocity. The presence of a non-zero angular velocity resulting from additional terms in the potential that explicitly break the PQ symmetry has important phenomenological consequences such as a modification of the axion mass with respect to the conventional PQ framework or an explanation for the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry. We elaborate further on the consequences of the "kinetic misalignment" mechanism, assuming that axions form the entirety of the dark matter abundance. The kinetic misalignment mechanism possesses a weak limit in which the axion field starts to oscillate at the same temperature as in the conventional PQ framework, and a strong limit corresponding to large initial velocities which effectively delay the onset of oscillations. Following a UV-agnostic approach, we show how this scenario impacts the formation of axion miniclusters, and we sketch the details of these substructures along with potential detecting signatures.
- Subjects
AXIONS; QUANTUM chromodynamics; ANGULAR velocity; SCALAR field theory; ANTIMATTER; DARK matter; SYMMETRY breaking
- Publication
Universe (2218-1997), 2022, Vol 8, Issue 12, p634
- ISSN
2218-1997
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/universe8120634