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宇宙弦网络产生的轴子暗物质

Axion Dark Matter from Cosmic String Network

Heejoo Kim, Junghyeon Park, Minho Son

AI总结:

通过晶格模拟研究后暴胀宇宙弦辐射轴子暗物质丰度,确认对数标度行为,提出新型弦识别方法并推导轴子质量下限。

摘要:

我们进行了晶格模拟,以估算后暴胀场景中全球宇宙弦辐射的轴子暗物质丰度。我们报告了对最近观测到的每个哈勃体积内弦数量及轴子谱幂律标度谱指数的对数增长的独立数值确认。这些对数标度通过两种不同的初始随机场构型生成方案进行了检验,即fat-string型和热相变型。我们讨论了轴子谱与不同初始条件下弦演化之间可能存在的强相关性,以支持标度行为对不同初始数据的不敏感性,并提供了对其的定性理解。我们讨论了轴子谱幂律、QCD尺度附近的非线性以及弦间平均距离的各种组合对轴子丰度的影响。此外,我们引入了一种基于空间四面体化的新型弦识别方法,该方法保证了弦的连通性,并为指定核心位置提供了便捷途径。最后,我们推导出了轴子质量的下限。

英文摘要:

We perform the lattice simulation to estimate the axion dark matter abundance radiated from the global cosmic strings in the post-inflationary scenario. The independent numerical confirmation on the recently observed logarithmic growth in both the number of strings per Hubble patch and the spectral index of the power law scaling for the axion spectrum is reported. These logarithmic scalings are checked against two different prescriptions for generating initial random field configurations, namely fat-string type and thermal phase transition. We discuss a possible strong correlation between the axion spectrum and the string evolutions with different initial conditions to support the insensitivity of scaling behaviors against different initial data and we provide a qualitative understanding of it. The impact of various combinations of the power law of the axion spectrum, nonlinearities around the QCD scale, and average inter-string distances on the axion abundance is discussed. Additionally, we introduce a new novel string identification method, based on the tetrahedralization of the space, which guarantees the connectedness of the strings and provides a convenient way of assigning the core location. Finally we derive the lower bound on the axion mass.

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