Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/02/032
Keywords
axions; big bang nucleosynthesis; cosmological neutrinos
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We review the cosmological implications of a relic population of pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons (pNGB) with an anomalous coupling to two photons, often called axion-like particles (ALPs). We establish constraints on the pNGB mass and two-photon coupling by considering big bang nucleosynthesis, the physics of the cosmic microwave background, and the diffuse photon background. The bounds from WMAP7 and other large-scale-structure data on the effective number of neutrino species can be stronger than the traditional bounds from the primordial helitun abundance. These bounds, together with those from primordial deuterium abundance, constitute the most stringent probes of early decays.
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