Journal
ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume 65, Issue -, Pages 101-107Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2014.12.007
Keywords
Dark matter; Axions; Structure formation
Funding
- Lyon Institute of Origins [ANR-10-LABX-66]
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The axion is a motivated dark matter candidate, so it would be interesting to find features in Large Scale Structures specific to axion dark matter. Such features were proposed for a Bose Einstein condensate of axions, leading to confusion in the literature (to which I contributed) about whether axions condense due to their gravitational interactions. This note argues that the Bose Einstein condensation of axions is a red herring: the axion dark matter produced by the misalignment mechanism is already a classical field, which has the distinctive features attributed to the axion condensate (BE condensates are described as classical fields). This note also estimates that the rate at which axion particles condense to the field, or the field evaporates to particles, is negligible. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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