Constraints on axionic fuzzy dark matter from light bending and Shapiro time delay

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/09/041MaRDI QIDQ5061985zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tanmay Kumar Poddar

Publication date 14 March 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09772

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational lensinggravitydark matter theoryaxions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Other fundamental interactions in quantum theory (81V19) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56) Particle decays (81U90)

Abstract: Ultralight axion like particles (ALPs) of mass $m_{a}in(10^{-21}meV-10^{-22}meV)$ with axion decay constant $f_{a}sim10^{17}mGeV$ can be candidates for fuzzy dark matter (FDM). If celestial bodies like Earth and Sun are immersed in a low mass axionic FDM potential and if the ALPs have coupling with nucleons then the coherent oscillation of the axionic field results a long range axion hair outside of the celestial bodies. The range of the axion mediated Yukawa type fifth force is determined by the distance between the Earth and the Sun which fixes the upper bound of the mass of axion as $m_{a}lesssim10^{-18}meV$. The long range axionic Yukawa potential between the Earth and Sun changes the gravitational potential between them and contribute to the light bending and the Shapiro time delay. From the observational uncertainties of those experiments, we put an upper bound on the axion decay constant as $f_{a}lesssim9.85imes10^{6}mGeV$, which is the stronger bound obtained from Shapiro time delay. This implies if ALPs are FDM, then they do not couple to nucleons.

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