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Giare, W.; Renzi, F.; Melchiorri, A.; Mena, O.; Di Valentino, E. |
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Cosmological forecasts on thermal axions, relic neutrinos, and light elements |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2022 |
Publication |
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
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Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. |
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511 |
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1 |
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1373-1382 |
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cosmic background radiation; cosmological parameters; dark matter; early Universe; cosmology: observations |
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One of the targets of future cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillation measurements is to improve the current accuracy in the neutrino sector and reach a much better sensitivity on extra dark radiation in the early Universe. In this paper, we study how these improvements can be translated into constraining power for well-motivated extensions of the standard model of elementary particles that involve axions thermalized before the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase transition by scatterings with gluons. Assuming a fiducial Lambda cold dark matter cosmological model, we simulate future data for Stage-IV CMB-like and Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)-like surveys and analyse a mixed scenario of axion and neutrino hot dark matter. We further account also for the effects of these QCD axions on the light element abundances predicted by big bang nucleosynthesis. The most constraining forecasted limits on the hot relic masses are m(a) less than or similar to 0.92 eV and n-ary sumation m(nu) less than or similar to 0.12 eV at 95 per cent Confidence Level, showing that future cosmic observations can substantially improve the current bounds, supporting multimessenger analyses of axion, neutrino, and primordial light element properties. |
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[Giare, William; Melchiorri, Alessandro] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Phys Dept, Ple Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy, Email: william.giare@gmail.com |
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Oxford Univ Press |
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0035-8711 |
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WOS:000770034000012 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5192 |
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Aoki, M.; Toma, T.; Vicente, A. |
Title |
Non-thermal production of minimal dark matter via right-handed neutrino decay |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2015 |
Publication |
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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09 |
Issue |
9 |
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063 - 19pp |
Keywords |
dark matter theory; gamma ray theory; particle physics – cosmology connection; physics of the early universe |
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Minimal Dark Matter (MDM) stands as one of the simplest dark matter scenarios. In MDM models, annihilation and co-annihilation processes among the members of the MDM multiplet are usually very efficient, pushing the dark matter mass above O(10) TeV in order to reproduce the observed dark matter relic density. Motivated by this little drawback, in this paper we consider an extension of the MDM scenario by three right-handed neutrinos. Two specific choices for the MDM multiplet are studied: a fermionic SU(2)(L) quintuplet and a scalar SU(2)(L) septuplet. The lightest right-handed neutrino, with tiny Yukawa couplings, never reaches thermal equilibrium in the early universe and is produced by freeze-in. This creates a link between dark matter and neutrino physics: dark matter can be non-thermally produced by the decay of the lightest right-handed neutrino after freeze-out, allowing to lower significantly the dark matter mass. We discuss the phenomenology of the non-thermally produced MDM and, taking into account significant Sommerfeld corrections, we find that the dark matter mass must have some specific values in order not to be in conflict with the current bounds from gamma-ray observations. |
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[Aoki, Mayumi] Kanazawa Univ, Inst Theoret Phys, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 9201192, Japan, Email: mayumi@hep.s.kanazawa-u.ac.jp; |
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Iop Publishing Ltd |
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1475-7516 |
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WOS:000365690000063 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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2479 |
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Ghoshal, A.; Gouttenoire, Y.; Heurtier, L.; Simakachorn, P. |
Title |
Primordial black hole archaeology with gravitational waves from cosmic strings |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2023 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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08 |
Issue |
8 |
Pages |
196 - 43pp |
Keywords |
Cosmology of Theories BSM; Early Universe Particle Physics; Phase Transitions in the Early Universe; Specific BSM Phenomenology |
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Light primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses smaller than 10(9) g (10(-24) M-circle dot) evaporate before the onset of Big-Bang nucleosynthesis, rendering their detection rather challenging. If efficiently produced, they may have dominated the universe energy density. We study how such an early matter-dominated era can be probed successfully using gravitational waves (GW) emitted by local and global cosmic strings. While previous studies showed that a matter era generates a single-step suppression of the GW spectrum, we instead find a double-step suppression for local-string GW whose spectral shape provides information on the duration of the matter era. The presence of the two steps in the GW spectrum originates from GW being produced through two events separated in time: loop formation and loop decay, taking place either before or after the matter era. The second step – called the knee – is a novel feature which is universal to any early matter-dominated era and is not only specific to PBHs. Detecting GWs from cosmic strings with LISA, ET, or BBO would set constraints on PBHs with masses between 10(6) and 10(9) g for local strings with tension G μ= 10(-11), and PBHs masses between 10(4) and 10(9) g for global strings with symmetry-breaking scale eta = 10(15) GeV. Effects from the spin of PBHs are discussed. |
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[Ghoshal, Anish] Univ Warsaw, Inst Theoret Phys, Fac Phys, Ul Pasteura 5, PL-02093 Warsaw, Poland, Email: anish.ghoshal@fuw.edu.pl; |
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Springer |
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1029-8479 |
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WOS:001188227600001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5994 |
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Domcke, V.; Garcia-Cely, C.; Lee, S.M.; Rodd, N.L. |
Title |
Symmetries and selection rules: optimising axion haloscopes for Gravitational Wave searches |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2024 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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03 |
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3 |
Pages |
128 - 51pp |
Keywords |
Axions and ALPs; Early Universe Particle Physics |
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In the presence of electromagnetic fields, both axions and gravitational waves (GWs) induce oscillating magnetic fields: a potentially detectable fingerprint of their presence. We demonstrate that the response is largely dictated by the symmetries of the instruments used to search for it. Focussing on low mass axion haloscopes, we derive selection rules that determine the parametric sensitivity of different detector geometries to axions and GWs, and which further reveal how to optimise the experimental geometry to maximise both signals. The formalism allows us to forecast the optimal sensitivity to GWs in the range of 100 kHz to 100 MHz for instruments such as ABRACADABRA, BASE, ADMX SLIC, SHAFT, WISPLC, and DMRadio. |
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[Domcke, Valerie; Lee, Sung Mook; Rodd, Nicholas L.] CERN, Theoret Phys Dept, 1 Esplanade Particules, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland, Email: valerie.domcke@cern.ch; |
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WOS:001189228700003 |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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6049 |
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Gariazzo, S.; de Salas, P.F.; Pastor, S. |
Title |
Thermalisation of sterile neutrinos in the early universe in the 3+1 scheme with full mixing matrix |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2019 |
Publication |
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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07 |
Issue |
7 |
Pages |
014 - 30pp |
Keywords |
cosmological neutrinos; neutrino properties; particle physics – cosmology connection; physics of the early universe |
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In the framework of a 3+1 scheme with an additional inert state, we consider the thermalisation of sterile neutrinos in the early Universe taking into account the full 4 x 4 mixing matrix. The evolution of the neutrino energy distributions is found solving the momentum-dependent kinetic equations with full diagonal collision terms, as in previous analyses of flavour neutrino decoupling in the standard case. The degree of thermalisation of the sterile state is shown in terms of the effective number of neutrinos, N-eff, and its dependence on the three additional mixing angles (theta(14), theta(24), theta(34)) and on the squared mass difference Delta m(41)(2) is discussed. Our results are relevant for fixing the contribution of a fourth light neutrino species to the cosmological energy density, whose value is very well constrained by the final Planck analysis. For the preferred region of active-sterile mixing parameters from short-baseline neutrino experiments, we find that the fourth state is fully thermalised (N-eff similar or equal to 4). |
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[Gariazzo, S.; Pastor, S.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Valencia, Spain, Email: gariazzo@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000474782100001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4076 |
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