Dark matter from axion strings with adaptive mesh refinement.

Buschmann, Malte; Foster, Joshua W; Hook, Anson; Peterson, Adam; Willcox, Don E; Zhang, Weiqun; Safdi, Benjamin R

Buschmann, Malte; Foster, Joshua W; Hook, Anson; Peterson, Adam; Willcox, Don E; Zhang, Weiqun; Safdi, Benjamin R.

Afiliación

Buschmann M; Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA. msab@princeton.edu.
Foster JW; Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA. jwfoster@mit.edu.
Hook A; Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA. jwfoster@mit.edu.
Peterson A; Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA. jwfoster@mit.edu.
Willcox DE; Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
Zhang W; Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Safdi BR; Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.

Nat Commun ; 13(1): 1049, 2022 Feb 25.

Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35217674

RESUMEN

Axions are hypothetical particles that may explain the observed dark matter density and the non-observation of a neutron electric dipole moment. An increasing number of axion laboratory searches are underway worldwide, but these efforts are made difficult by the fact that the axion mass is largely unconstrained. If the axion is generated after inflation there is a unique mass that gives rise to the observed dark matter abundance; due to nonlinearities and topological defects known as strings, computing this mass accurately has been a challenge for four decades. Recent works, making use of large static lattice simulations, have led to largely disparate predictions for the axion mass, spanning the range from 25 microelectronvolts to over 500 microelectronvolts. In this work we show that adaptive mesh refinement simulations are better suited for axion cosmology than the previously-used static lattice simulations because only the string cores require high spatial resolution. Using dedicated adaptive mesh refinement simulations we obtain an over three order of magnitude leap in dynamic range and provide evidence that axion strings radiate their energy with a scale-invariant spectrum, to within ~5% precision, leading to a mass prediction in the range (40,180) microelectronvolts.

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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: Nat Commun Asunto de la revista: BIOLOGIA / CIENCIA Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Estados Unidos Pais de publicación: Reino Unido

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