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If dark matter is mainly composed of axions, the density distribution can be nonuniformly distributed, being clumpy instead. By solving the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system of a scalar field with the potential energy density of an axionlike…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-17 J. Barranco , A. Carrillo Monteverde , D. Delepine

The nature of the cosmological dark matter remains elusive. Recent studies have advocated the possibility that dark matter could be composed of ultra-light, self-interacting bosons, forming a Bose-Einstein condensate in the very early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-22 Tanja Rindler-Daller , Paul R. Shapiro

Cosmological axions/axion-like particles can compose a significant part of dark matter; however, the uncertainty of their mass is large. Here, we propose to search the axions using a cylindrical capacitor, in which the static electric field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-21 Wenming Chen , Yu Gao , Qiaoli Yang

We discuss the sensitivity of the present and near-future axion dark matter experiments to a halo of axions or axion-like particles gravitationally bound to the Earth or the Sun. The existence of such halos, assuming they are formed,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-28 Abhishek Banerjee , Dmitry Budker , Joshua Eby , Victor V. Flambaum , Hyungjin Kim , Oleksii Matsedonskyi , Gilad Perez

One of the leading candidates for dark matter is axion or axion-like particle in a form of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). In this paper, we present an analysis of 17 high-resolution galactic rotation curves from "The H{\footnotesize I}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-08-04 Ming-Hua Li , Zhi-Bing Li

Axions are among the most sought-after candidates for dark matter. In the ultralight regime, they could help alleviate puzzles in small scale cosmology. Searches for a halo of axion dark matter rely on the electromagnetic response to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-08 Joshua Berger , Amit Bhoonah

Axion-like-particles are a well-motivated extension of the Standard Model that can mediate interactions between the dark matter and ordinary matter. Here we consider an axion portal between the two sectors, where the axion couples to dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Patrick J. Fitzpatrick , Yonit Hochberg , Eric Kuflik , Rotem Ovadia , Yotam Soreq

The first paper in this series showed that QCD axion dark matter, as a highly-correlated Bose fluid, contains extra-classical physics on cosmological scales. The nature of the derived extra-classical physics is exchange-correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Erik W. Lentz , Thomas R. Quinn , Leslie J Rosenberg

The spatial distributions of luminous and dark matter in massive early-type galaxies reflect the formation processes which shaped these systems. This article reviews the predictions of cosmological simulations for the dark and baryonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Ortwin Gerhard

Newtonian mechanics indicates that galaxies and galaxy clusters are much more massive than we would have guessed from their luminosities, with the discrepancy being generally attributed to dark matter halos. An alternative hypothesis is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J A Sellwood

Dark matter may consist of axion-like particles (ALPs). When polarized electromagnetic radiation passes through the dark-matter media, interaction with background ALPs affects the polarization of photons. The condensate of axionic dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-02 D. Davydov , Alexander Libanov

An ultra-light axion field with mass $\sim 10^{-22}\ {\rm eV}$, also known as wave or fuzzy dark matter, has been proposed as a component of the dark matter in the Universe. We study the evolution of the axion dark matter distribution in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-01 Jorge Vicens , Jordi Salvado , Jordi Miralda-Escudé

In the previous work, we investigated the rotation curves of galaxies assuming that the dark matter consists of ultra light boson appearing in $'$late time phase transition' theory. Generalizing this work, we consider the effect of visible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-30 S. U. Ji , S. J. Sin

The possibility that dark matter, whose existence is inferred from the study of the galactic rotation curves, and from the mass deficit in galaxy clusters, can be in a form of a Bose-Einstein Condensate, has been extensively investigated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-01 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

An overview is presented of the main properties of dark matter haloes, as we know them from observations, essentially from rotation curves around spiral and dwarf galaxies. Detailed rotation curves are now known for more than a thousand…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. Combes

The observed values of the cosmological constant {\it and} the abundance of Dark Matter (DM) can be successfully understood, using certain measures, by imposing the anthropic requirement that density perturbations go non-linear and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Francesco D'Eramo , Lawrence J. Hall , Duccio Pappadopulo

A component of the dark matter could consist of two darkly charged particles with a large mass ratio and a massless force carrier. This `atomic' dark sector could behave much like the baryonic sector, cooling and fragmenting down to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 Akshay Ghalsasi , Matthew McQuinn

The axion-like particles with ultralight mass ($\sim10^{-22}$eV) can be a possible candidate of dark matter, known as the fuzzy dark matter (FDM). These particles form Bose-Einstein condensate in the early Universe which can explain the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-14 Shreyansh S. Dave , Sanatan Digal

We examine the collapse of an axion domain wall bounded by an axionic string. It is found that the collapse proceeds quickly and axion domain walls disappear. However axions are emitted in the collapse and its energy density increases…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Michiyasu Nagasawa , Masahiro Kawasaki

The dark matter in the halos of galaxies may well be baryonic, and much of the mass within them could be in the form of clusters of substellar objects within which are embedded cold gas globules. Such halos might play an active role in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 Ortwin Gerhard , Joseph Silk