Recipes for oscillon longevity

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/09/015MaRDI QIDQ5061959zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan Ollé, Fabrizio Rompineve, O. Pujolàs

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/2012.13409

zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMdark matter theoryaxionsparticle physics-cosmology connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.) (14D05) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

Abstract: Oscillons are localized states of scalar fields sustained by self interactions. They decay by emitting classical radiation, but their lifetimes are surprisingly large. We revisit the reasons behind their longevity, aiming at how the shape of the scalar potential $V(phi)$ determines the lifetime. The corpuscular picture, where the oscillon is identified with a bound state of a large number of field quanta, allows to understand lifetimes of order of $10^3$ cycles in generic potentials. At the non-perturbative level, two properties of the scalar potential can substantially boost the lifetime: the flattening of $V(phi)$ and the positivity of $V^{″}(phi)$. These properties are realized in the axion monodromy family of potentials. Moreover, this class of models connects continuously with an exceptional potential that admits eternal oscillon solutions. We check these results with a new fast-forward numerical method that allows to evolve in time to stages that cannot be otherwise simulated on a computer. The method exploits the attractor properties of the oscillons and fully accounts for nonlinearities. We find lifetimes up to $10^{14}$ cycles, but larger values are possible. Our work shows that oscillons formed in the early Universe can be stable on cosmological time scales and thus contribute to the abundance of (ultra)light scalar dark matter.

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