Alternative dark matter candidates: Axions
Abstract
The axion is arguably one of the best motivated candidates for dark matter. For a decay constant greater than about 10^9 GeV, axions are dominantly produced non-thermally in the early universe and hence are "cold", their velocity dispersion being small enough to fit to large scale structure. Moreover, such a large decay constant ensures the stability at cosmological time scales and its behaviour as a collisionless fluid at cosmological length scales. Here, we review the state of the art of axion dark matter predictions and of experimental efforts to search for axion dark matter in laboratory experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1612.08933,
title = {Alternative dark matter candidates: Axions},
author = {Andreas Ringwald},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.08933},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the Neutrino Oscillation Workshop 2016, 4 - 11 September, 2016, Otranto, Lecce, Italy