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JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2005/07/002
关键词
dark matter; axions
Observations of the cosmological large-scale structure provide well-established neutrino mass limits. We extend this argument to thermal relic axions. We calculate the axion thermal freeze-out temperature and thus their cosmological abundance on the basis of their interaction with pions. For hadronic axions we find a new mass limit m(a) < 1.05 eV (95% CL), corresponding to a limit on the axion decay constant of f(a) > 5.7 x 10(6) GeV. For other models this constraint is significantly weakened only if the axion - pion coupling is strongly suppressed. For comparison we note that the same approach leads to Sigma m(nu) < 0.65 eV ( 95% CL) for neutrinos.
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