Cosmological abundance of the QCD axion coupled to hidden photons

Cosmological abundance of the QCD axion coupled to hidden photons

We study the cosmological evolution of the QCD axion coupled to hidden photons. For a moderately strong coupling, the motion of the axion field leads to an explosive production of hidden photons by tachyonic instability. We use lattice simulations to evaluate the cosmological abundance of the QCD ax...

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Main Authors: Naoya Kitajima, Toyokazu Sekiguchi, Fuminobu Takahashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-06-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269318303083

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