Gravitational effects on oscillon lifetimes

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/03/102zbMATH Open1504.83048arXiv2011.11720OpenAlexW3108539405MaRDI QIDQ5099166FDOQ5099166

Hongyi Zhang

Publication date: 31 August 2022

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

Abstract: Many scalar field theories with attractive self-interactions support exceptionally long-lived, spatially localized and time-periodic field configurations called oscillons. A detailed study of their longevity is important for understanding their applications in cosmology. In this paper, we study gravitational effects on the decay rate and lifetime of dense oscillons, where self-interactions are more or at least equally important compared with gravitational interactions. As examples, we consider the $alpha$-attractor T-model of inflation and the axion monodromy model, where the potentials become flatter than quadratic at large field values beyond some characteristic field distance $F$ from the minimum. For oscillons with field amplitudes of $mathcalO(F)$ and for $Fll0.1M_{m}athrmpl$, we find that their evolution is almost identical to cases where gravity is ignored. For $Fsim0.1M_{m}athrmpl$, however, including gravitational interactions reduces the lifetime slightly.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11720

zbMATH Keywords

domain wallsmonopolescosmic stringsdark matter theoryphysics of the early universeaxions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Monodromy on manifolds (58K10) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations (81V60)

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