期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 505, 期 2, 页码 2703-2711出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1442
关键词
cosmic background radiation; cosmological parameters; dark matter; early Universe; cosmology: observations
资金
- 'Theoretical Astroparticle Physics' (TAsP), iniziativa specifica INFN
- Addison-Wheeler Fellowship by the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University
- Spanish grants [FPA 2017-85985-P, PROMETEO/2019/083]
- European ITN project HIDDeN [H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019//860881-HIDDeN]
This study examines the production of axions in the early universe through thermal processes and analyzes the most constraining bounds on hot relic masses and total neutrino masses. The results suggest potential implications for future experiments and support multi-messenger searches for axions and neutrino properties.
Axions, if realized in nature, can be copiously produced in the early universe via thermal processes, contributing to the mass-energy density of thermal hot relics. In light of the most recent cosmological observations, we analyse two different thermal processes within a realistic mixed hot dark matter scenario which includes also massive neutrinos. Considering the axion-gluon thermalization channel, we derive our most constraining bounds on the hot relic masses m(a) < 7.46 eV and Sigma m(nu) < 0.114 eV both at 95 percent CL; while studying the axion-pion scattering, without assuming any specific model for the axion-pion interactions, and remaining in the range of validity of the chiral perturbation theory, our most constraining bounds are improved to m(a) < 0.91 eV and Sigma m(nu) < 0.105 eV, both at 95 percent CL. Interestingly, in both cases, the total neutrino mass lies very close to the inverted neutrino mass ordering prediction. If future terrestrial double beta decay and/or long-baseline neutrino experiments find that the nature mass ordering is the inverted one, this could rule out a wide region in the currently allowed thermal axion window. Our results therefore, strongly support multi messenger searches of axions and neutrino properties, together with joint analyses of their expected sensitivities.
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