Comments on axions, domain walls, and cosmic strings

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/11/041MaRDI QIDQ5062295zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Dine, Nicolas Fernandez, Akshay Ghalsasi, Hiren H. Patel

Publication date 15 March 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.13065

zbMATH Keywords

axionscosmic stringsdark matter theorydomain wallsmonopolesparticle physics-cosmology connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations (81V60) Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-10) Black holes (83C57) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Axions have for some time been considered a plausible candidate for dark matter. They can be produced through misalignment, but it has been argued that when inflation occurs before a Peccei-Quinn transition, appreciable production can result from cosmic strings. This has been the subject of extensive simulations. But there are reasons to be skeptical about the possible role of axion strings. We review and elaborate on these questions, and argue that parametrically strings are already accounted for by the assumption of random misalignment angles. We review and elaborate on these questions, and provide several qualitative arguments that parametrically strings are already accounted for by the assumption of random misalignment angles. The arguments are base on considerations of the collective modes of the string solutions, on computations of axion radiation in particular models, and reviews of simulations.

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