Hydrogen axion star: metallic hydrogen bound to a QCD axion BEC

Bai, Yang; Barger, Vernon; Berger, Joshua

doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2016)127

Title: Hydrogen axion star: metallic hydrogen bound to a QCD axion BEC

Journal Article · Fri Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2016)127· OSTI ID:1368035

Bai, Yang ^[1]; Barger, Vernon ^[1]; Berger, Joshua ^[1]

Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Physics

As a cold dark matter candidate, the QCD axion may form Bose-Einstein condensates, called axion stars, with masses around 10^-11M⊙ . In this paper, we point out that a brand new astrophysical object, a Hydrogen Axion Star (HAS), may well be formed by ordinary baryonic matter becoming gravitationally bound to an axion star. Here, we study the properties of the HAS and nd that the hydrogen cloud has a high pressure and temperature in the center and is likely in the liquid metallic hydrogen state. Because of the high particle number densities for both the axion star and the hydrogen cloud, the feeble interaction between axion and hydrogen can still generate enough internal power, around 10¹³W (m_a/=5 meV)⁴, to make these objects luminous point sources. Furthermore, high resolution ultraviolet, optical and infrared telescopes can discover HAS via black-body radiation.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-95ER40896

OSTI ID:: 1368035

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2016, Issue 12; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer BerlinCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Citation Metrics:

Cited by: 25 works

Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (61)

A Comprehensive Maximum Likelihood Analysis of the Structural Properties of Faint Milky Way Satellites Martin, Nicolas F.; de Jong, Jelte T. A.; Rix, Hans‐Walter The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 684, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1086/590336	journal	September 2008
Capture of dark Matter by the Solar System Khriplovich, I. B.; Shepelyansky, D. L. International Journal of Modern Physics D, Vol. 18, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271809015758	journal	November 2009
Cold Bose stars Breit, J. D.; Gupta, S.; Zaks, A. Physics Letters B, Vol. 140, Issue 5-6 https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(84)90764-0	journal	June 1984
Dark Matter Detectors as Dark Photon Helioscopes An, Haipeng; Pospelov, Maxim; Pradler, Josef Physical Review Letters, Vol. 111, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.041302	journal	July 2013
CAST constraints on the axion-electron coupling Barth, K.; Belov, A.; Beltran, B. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2013, Issue 05 https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2013/05/010	journal	May 2013
Revisiting the SN1987A gamma-ray limit on ultralight axion-like particles Payez, Alexandre; Evoli, Carmelo; Fischer, Tobias Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2015, Issue 02 https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/02/006	journal	February 2015
Topological susceptibility at high temperature on the lattice Frison, J.; Kitano, R.; Matsufuru, H. Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2016)021	journal	September 2016
Experimental Tests of the "Invisible" Axion Sikivie, P. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 51, Issue 16 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.51.1415	journal	October 1983
Review of Particle Physics Olive, K. A. Chinese Physics C, Vol. 38, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1137/38/9/090001	journal	August 2014
WISPy cold dark matter Arias, Paola; Cadamuro, Davide; Goodsell, Mark Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2012, Issue 06 https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2012/06/013	journal	June 2012
Detecting superlight dark matter with Fermi-degenerate materials Hochberg, Yonit; Pyle, Matt; Zhao, Yue Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2016)057	journal	August 2016
Can confinement ensure natural CP invariance of strong interactions? Shifman, M. A.; Vainshtein, A. I.; Zakharov, V. I. Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 166, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(80)90209-6	journal	April 1980
Problem of Strong $P$ and $T$ Invariance in the Presence of Instantons Wilczek, F. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 40, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.40.279	journal	January 1978
A simple solution to the strong CP problem with a harmless axion Dine, Michael; Fischler, Willy; Srednicki, Mark Physics Letters B, Vol. 104, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(81)90590-6	journal	August 1981
Resonantly Detecting Axion-Mediated Forces with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Arvanitaki, Asimina; Geraci, Andrew A. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 113, Issue 16 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.161801	journal	October 2014
Opening the axion window Kaplan, David B. Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 260, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(85)90319-0	journal	October 1985
Proposal for a Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr) Budker, Dmitry; Graham, Peter W.; Ledbetter, Micah Physical Review X, Vol. 4, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.021030	journal	May 2014
The properties of hydrogen and helium under extreme conditions McMahon, Jeffrey M.; Morales, Miguel A.; Pierleoni, Carlo Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 84, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.84.1607	journal	November 2012
On the cosmological domain wall problem for the minimally extended supersymmetric standard model Abel, S. A.; Sarkar, S.; White, P. L. Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 454, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(95)00483-9	journal	November 1995
Capture of dark Matter by the Solar System: Simple Estimates Khriplovich, I. B. International Journal of Modern Physics D, Vol. 20, Issue 01 https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271811018640	journal	January 2011
New exclusion limits on scalar and pseudoscalar axionlike particles from light shining through a wall Ballou, R.; Deferne, G.; Finger, M. Physical Review D, Vol. 92, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.092002	journal	November 2015
Axion Research at CAPP/IBS Youn, SungWoo International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 43 https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010194516601939	journal	January 2016
Evidence for a first-order liquid-liquid transition in high-pressure hydrogen from ab initio simulations Morales, M. A.; Pierleoni, C.; Schwegler, E. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 107, Issue 29 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1007309107	journal	June 2010
Broadband and Resonant Approaches to Axion Dark Matter Detection Kahn, Yonatan; Safdi, Benjamin R.; Thaler, Jesse Physical Review Letters, Vol. 117, Issue 14 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.141801	journal	September 2016
$CP$ Conservation in the Presence of Pseudoparticles Peccei, R. D.; Quinn, Helen R. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 38, Issue 25 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.38.1440	journal	June 1977
Gravitational diffusion of solar system WIMPs Gould, Andrew The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 368 https://doi.org/10.1086/169726	journal	February 1991
In the beginning: the first sources of light and the reionization of the universe Barkana, Rennan; Loeb, Abraham Physics Reports, Vol. 349, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-1573(01)00019-9	journal	July 2001
The lifetime of axion stars Eby, Joshua; Suranyi, Peter; Wijewardhana, L. C. R. Modern Physics Letters A, Vol. 31, Issue 15 https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732316500905	journal	May 2016
Weak-Interaction Singlet and Strong $CP$ Invariance Kim, Jihn E. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 43, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.103	journal	July 1979
The Kinematics of the Ultra‐faint Milky Way Satellites: Solving the Missing Satellite Problem Simon, Joshua D.; Geha, Marla The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 670, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1086/521816	journal	November 2007
Effects of nearly massless, spin-zero particles on light propagation in a magnetic field Maiani, L.; Petronzio, R.; Zavattini, E. Physics Letters B, Vol. 175, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(86)90869-5	journal	August 1986
Optical Properties of Fluid Hydrogen at the Transition to a Conducting State McWilliams, R. Stewart; Dalton, D. Allen; Mahmood, Mohammad F. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 116, Issue 25 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.255501	journal	June 2016
SQUID-Based Microwave Cavity Search for Dark-Matter Axions Asztalos, S. J.; Carosi, G.; Hagmann, C. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 104, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.041301	journal	January 2010
Axion stars in the infrared limit Eby, Joshua; Suranyi, Peter; Vaz, Cenalo Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2015)080	journal	March 2015
Dense Axion Stars Braaten, Eric; Mohapatra, Abhishek; Zhang, Hong Physical Review Letters, Vol. 117, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.121801	journal	September 2016
Cosmic strings Hindmarsh, M. B.; Kibble, T. W. B. Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 58, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/58/5/001	journal	May 1995
Dark matter and background light Overduin, J. M.; Wesson, P. S. Physics Reports, Vol. 402, Issue 5-6 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2004.07.006	journal	November 2004
Experimental Searches for the Axion and Axion-Like Particles Graham, Peter W.; Irastorza, Igor G.; Lamoreaux, Steven K. Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, Vol. 65, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-nucl-102014-022120	journal	October 2015
Boson stars from self-interacting dark matter Eby, Joshua; Kouvaris, Chris; Nielsen, Niklas Grønlund Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2016)028	journal	February 2016
Axion miniclusters and Bose stars Kolb, Edward W.; Tkachev, Igor I. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 71, Issue 19 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.3051	journal	November 1993
Earth-mass dark-matter haloes as the first structures in the early Universe Diemand, J.; Moore, B.; Stadel, J. Nature, Vol. 433, Issue 7024 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03270	journal	January 2005
QCD and instantons at finite temperature Gross, David J.; Pisarski, Robert D.; Yaffe, Laurence G. Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 53, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.53.43	journal	January 1981
Astrophysical methods to constrain axions and other novel particle phenomena Raffelt, Georg G. Physics Reports, Vol. 198, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-1573(90)90054-6	journal	December 1990
Star Formation Efficiencies and Lifetimes of Giant Molecular Clouds in the Milky way Murray, Norman The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 729, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/729/2/133	journal	February 2011
Axion Cosmology Sikivie, Pierre Lecture Notes in Physics https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73518-2_2	book	January 2008
Measuring the Interplanetary Medium with a Solar sail Nieto, Michael Martin; Turyshev, Slava G. International Journal of Modern Physics D, Vol. 13, Issue 05 https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271804004955	journal	May 2004
Bose-Einstein Condensation of Dark Matter Axions Sikivie, P.; Yang, Q. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.111301	journal	September 2009
Windows on the axion Turner, Michael S. Physics Reports, Vol. 197, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-1573(90)90172-X	journal	December 1990
Constraints on seismic velocities in the Earth from traveltimes Kennett, B. L. N.; Engdahl, E. R.; Buland, R. Geophysical Journal International, Vol. 122, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1995.tb03540.x	journal	July 1995
Earth's surface heat flux Davies, J. H.; Davies, D. R. Solid Earth, Vol. 1, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.5194/se-1-5-2010	journal	January 2010
Quantum and classical behavior in interacting bosonic systems Hertzberg, Mark P. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/11/037	journal	November 2016
Axion miniclusters Hogan, C. J.; Rees, M. J. Physics Letters B, Vol. 205, Issue 2-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(88)91655-3	journal	April 1988
Anomalous Solutions to the Strong $C P$ Problem Hook, Anson Physical Review Letters, Vol. 114, Issue 14 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.141801	journal	April 2015
Diffuse Background Radiation Henry, Richard C. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 516, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1086/312003	journal	May 1999
Preliminary reference Earth model Dziewonski, Adam M.; Anderson, Don L. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Vol. 25, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9201(81)90046-7	journal	June 1981
Collapse of axion stars Eby, Joshua; Leembruggen, Madelyn; Suranyi, Peter Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2016)066	journal	December 2016
Electrodynamics of Solids Dressel, Martin; Grüner, George Cambridge University Press https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511606168	book	January 2010
A New Light Boson? Weinberg, Steven Physical Review Letters, Vol. 40, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.40.223	journal	January 1978
Topology in QCD and the axion abundance Kitano, Ryuichiro; Yamada, Norikazu Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2015)136	journal	October 2015
Any light particle search II — Technical Design Report Bähre, R.; Döbrich, B.; Dreyling-Eschweiler, J. Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 8, Issue 09 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/8/09/T09001	journal	September 2013
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Haynes, W. M.; Lide, David R.; Bruno, Thomas J. CRC press https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315380476	book	June 2016

Cited By (6)

Femtolensing by dark matter revisited Katz, Andrey; Kopp, Joachim; Sibiryakov, Sergey Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2018, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2018/12/005	journal	December 2018
Acoustic modes of pulsating axion stars: Nonradial oscillations Panotopoulos, Grigoris; Lopes, Ilídio International Journal of Modern Physics D, Vol. 28, Issue 09 https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271819501116	journal	July 2019
Structure Formation and Microlensing with Axion Miniclusters Fairbairn, Malcolm; Marsh, David J. E.; Quevillon, Jérémie arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1707.03310	text	January 2017
Phase transitions between dilute and dense axion stars Chavanis, Pierre-Henri arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1710.06268	text	January 2017
Axion Cosmology with Early Matter Domination Nelson, Ann E.; Xiao, Huangyu arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1807.07176	text	January 2018
Axion Miniclusters in Modified Cosmological Histories Visinelli, Luca; Redondo, Javier arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1808.01879	text	January 2018

Similar Records

Formation of Primordial Stars in a Lambda-CDM Universe

Conference · Fri Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2006 · OSTI ID:1368035

Yoshida, Naoki; Omukai, Kazuyuki; Hernquist, Lars; +1 more

Phenomenology and Astrophysics of Gravitationally-Bound Condensates of Axion-Like Particles

Thesis/Dissertation · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2017 · OSTI ID:1368035

Eby, Joshua Armstrong

Relaxation times for Bose-Einstein condensation in axion miniclusters

Journal Article · Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 2020 · Physical Review D · OSTI ID:1368035

Kirkpatrick, Kay; Mirasola, Anthony E.; Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
Beyond Standard Model
Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

Title: Hydrogen axion star: metallic hydrogen bound to a QCD axion BEC

Citation Formats

References (61)

Cited By (6)

Similar Records

Related Subjects