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SCIPOST PHYSICS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SCIPOST FOUNDATION
DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.11.1.001
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [438947057]
- Cluster of Excellence Precision Physics, Fundamental Interactions, and Structure of Matter (PRISMA+ EXC 2118/1) - German Research Foundation (DFG) within the German Excellence Strategy [39083149]
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This study presents a lattice study of an axion-dark photon system in the early Universe and predicts the GW background spectrum. The study finds that the GW spectrum has more power at high momenta and that the degree of polarization depends on the coupling size. The relic abundance of ALP may be significantly suppressed.
In this work, we present a lattice study of an axion-dark photon system in the early Universe and show that the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background produced by this system may be probed by future GW experiments across a vast range of frequencies. The numerical simulation on the lattice allows us to take into account non-linear backreaction effects and enables us to accurately predict the final relic abundance of the axion or axion-like particle (ALP) as well as its inhomogeneities, and gives a more precise prediction of the GW spectrum. Importantly, we find that the GW spectrum has more power at high momenta due to 2 -> 1 processes. Furthermore, we find the degree of polarization of the peak of the GW spectrum depends on the ALP-dark photon coupling and that the polarization can be washed out or even flipped for large values thereof. In line with recent results in the literature, we find the ALP relic abundance may be suppressed by two orders of magnitude and discuss possible extensions of the model that expand the viable parameter space. Finally, we discuss the possibility to probe ultralight ALP dark matter via spectral distortions of the CMB.
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