Decay of ultralight axion condensates

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2018)066MaRDI QIDQ1745484zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joshua Eby, Michael Ma, Peter Suranyi, L. C. R. Wijewardhana

Publication date 17 April 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05385

zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravitycosmology of theories beyond the SMFuzzy Dark Matter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: Axion particles can form macroscopic condensates, whose size can be galactic in scale for models with very small axion masses $msim10^{-22}$ eV, and which are sometimes referred to under the name of Fuzzy Dark Matter. Many analyses of these condensates are done in the non-interacting limit, due to the weakness of the self-interaction coupling of axions. We investigate here how certain results change upon inclusion of these interactions, finding a decreased maximum mass and a modified mass-radius relationship. Further, these condensates are, in general, unstable to decay through number-changing interactions. We analyze the stability of galaxy-sized condensates of axion-like particles, and sketch the parameter space of stable configurations as a function of a binding energy parameter. We find a strong lower bound on the size of Fuzzy Dark Matter condensates which are stable to decay, with lifetimes longer than the age of the universe.

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