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Oscillon of Ultra-Light Axion-like Particle

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2020-02-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Ultra-light axion-like particle (ULAP) is one of attractive candidates for cold dark matter. Because the de Broglie wavelength of ULAP with mass 1022eV\sim 10^{-22} {\rm eV} is O(kpc)\mathcal{O}({\rm kpc}), the suppression of the small scale structure by the uncertainty principle can solve the core-cusp problem. Frequently, ULAP is assumed to be uniformly distributed in the present universe. In typical ULAP potentials, however, strong self-resonance at the beginning of oscillation invokes the large fluctuations, which may cause the formation of the dense localized object, oscillon. % Such a dense object lives for a long time, it may affect the cosmological evolution. In this paper, we confirm the oscillon formation in a ULAP potential by numerical simulation and analytically derive its lifetime.

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@article{arxiv.1909.10805,
  title  = {Oscillon of Ultra-Light Axion-like Particle},
  author = {Masahiro Kawasaki and Wakutaka Nakano and Eisuke Sonomoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.10805},
  year   = {2020}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures