New astrophysical bounds on ultralight axionlike particles
Abstract
Motivated by tension between the predictions of ordinary cold dark matter (CDM) and observations at galactic scales, ultralight axionlike particles (ULALPs) with mass of the order 10-22 eV have been proposed as an alternative CDM candidate. We consider cold and collisionless ULALPs produced in the early Universe by the vacuum realignment mechanism and constituting most of CDM. The ULALP fluid is commonly described by classical field equations. However, we show that, like QCD axions, the ULALPs thermalize by gravitational self-interactions and form a Bose-Einstein condensate, a quantum phenomenon. ULALPs, like QCD axions, explain the observational evidence for caustic rings of dark matter because they thermalize and go to the lowest energy state available to them. This is one of rigid rotation on the turnaround sphere. Here, by studying the heating effect of infalling ULALPs on galactic disk stars and the thickness of the nearby caustic ring as observed from a triangular feature in the infrared astronomical satellite map of our galactic disk, we obtain lower-mass bounds on the ULALP mass of order 10-23 and 10-20 eV, respectively.
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- Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1350514
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1345281
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-17-047; arXiv:1701.04573
Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010; PRVDAQ; 1509351; TRN: US1700849
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359; FG02-97ER41029
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 95; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
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Banik, Nilanjan, Christopherson, Adam J., Sikivie, Pierre, and Todarello, Elisa Maria. New astrophysical bounds on ultralight axionlike particles. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.043542.
Banik, Nilanjan, Christopherson, Adam J., Sikivie, Pierre, & Todarello, Elisa Maria. New astrophysical bounds on ultralight axionlike particles. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.043542
Banik, Nilanjan, Christopherson, Adam J., Sikivie, Pierre, and Todarello, Elisa Maria. Wed .
"New astrophysical bounds on ultralight axionlike particles". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.043542. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1350514.
@article{osti_1350514,
title = {New astrophysical bounds on ultralight axionlike particles},
author = {Banik, Nilanjan and Christopherson, Adam J. and Sikivie, Pierre and Todarello, Elisa Maria},
abstractNote = {Motivated by tension between the predictions of ordinary cold dark matter (CDM) and observations at galactic scales, ultralight axionlike particles (ULALPs) with mass of the order 10-22 eV have been proposed as an alternative CDM candidate. We consider cold and collisionless ULALPs produced in the early Universe by the vacuum realignment mechanism and constituting most of CDM. The ULALP fluid is commonly described by classical field equations. However, we show that, like QCD axions, the ULALPs thermalize by gravitational self-interactions and form a Bose-Einstein condensate, a quantum phenomenon. ULALPs, like QCD axions, explain the observational evidence for caustic rings of dark matter because they thermalize and go to the lowest energy state available to them. This is one of rigid rotation on the turnaround sphere. Here, by studying the heating effect of infalling ULALPs on galactic disk stars and the thickness of the nearby caustic ring as observed from a triangular feature in the infrared astronomical satellite map of our galactic disk, we obtain lower-mass bounds on the ULALP mass of order 10-23 and 10-20 eV, respectively.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.95.043542},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 4,
volume = 95,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Wed Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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