The topological susceptibility in finite temperature QCD and axion cosmology

Petreczky, Peter; Schadler, Hans-Peter; Sharma, Sayantan

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.09.063

Title: The topological susceptibility in finite temperature QCD and axion cosmology

Journal Article · Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physics Letters. B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.09.063· OSTI ID:1328256

Petreczky, Peter; Schadler, Hans-Peter; Sharma, Sayantan

We study the topological susceptibility in 2+1 flavor QCD above the chiral crossover transition temperature using Highly Improved Staggered Quark action and several lattice spacings corresponding to temporal extent of the lattice, N_τ=6,8,10 and 12. We observe very distinct temperature dependences of the topological susceptibility in the ranges above and below 250MeV. While for temperatures above 250MeV, the dependence is found to be consistent with dilute instanton gas approximation, at lower temperatures the fall-off of topological susceptibility is milder. We discuss the consequence of our results for cosmology wherein we estimate the bounds on the axion decay constant and the oscillation temperature if indeed the QCD axion is a possible dark matter candidate.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1328256

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1376101

Report Number(s):: BNL-113932-2017-JA; S0370269316305718; PII: S0370269316305718

Journal Information:: Physics Letters. B, Journal Name: Physics Letters. B Vol. 762 Journal Issue: C; ISSN 0370-2693

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