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Searches for dark matter imprints are one of the most active areas of current research. We focus here on light fields with mass $m_B$, such as axions and axion-like candidates. Using perturbative techniques and full-blown nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-15 Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso , Hirotada Okawa

Axionic dark matter can form structures known as miniclusters that host an axion star at their center. The axion star feeds on the host, and the axion star mass may grow beyond its stability limit, leading to a potential bosenova. Since a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Zihang Wang , Yu Gao

For the first time, we predict the axion spectra and their associated luminosities for several low-mass stars -- one and two solar masses stars in the main sequence and post-main sequence stages of evolution. Equally, we also compute the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-03 Ilídio Lopes

The strong CP problem and its resolution through the existence of an axion are briefly reviewed. The constraints on the axion from accelerator searches, from the evolution of red giants and from supernova SN1987a combine to require $m_a < 3…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 P. Sikivie

The Strong CP Problem and its resolution through the existence of an axion are briefly reviewed. The combined constraints from accelerator searches, the evolution of red giants and the duration of the SN 1987a neutrino pulse require the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Pierre Sikivie

Axions are hypothetical pseudoscalar particles that have been regarded as promising dark matter (DM) candidates. On the other hand, extended compact objects such as axion stars, which are supported by gravity and axion self interactions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-09 Jan Tristram Acuña , Kuan-Yen Chou , Po-Yan Tseng

The minimal geometric deformation (MGD) paradigm is here employed to survey axion stars on fluid branes. The finite value of the brane tension provides beyond-general relativity corrections to the density, compactness, radius, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 R. Casadio , R. da Rocha

Ultralight bosons such as axions and dark photons are well-motivated hypothetical particles, whose couplings to ordinary matter can be effectively constrained by stellar cooling. Limits on these interactions can be obtained by demanding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-13 Zhaoyu Bai , Vitor Cardoso , Yifan Chen , Yuyan Li , Jamie I. McDonald , Hyeonseok Seong

Axion is a promising candidate of dark matter in the universe. A fraction of dark matter axion may forms axion star with radius $\sim 10^2$km. We show that the axion star emits radiation burst by the collision with K and M types main…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-20 Aiichi Iwazaki

The discovery of high-amplitude brightness oscillations at the spin frequency or its first overtone in six neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries during type~1 X-ray bursts provides a powerful new way to constrain the compactness of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Coleman Miller , Frederick K. Lamb

Cosmological observations are used to test for imprints of an ultra-light axion-like field (ULA), with a range of potentials $V(\phi)\propto[1-\cos(\phi/f)]^n$ set by the axion-field value $\phi$ and decay constant $f$. Scalar field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Vivian Poulin , Tristan L. Smith , Daniel Grin , Tanvi Karwal , Marc Kamionkowski

Stars have been recognized as optimal laboratories to probe axion properties. In the last decades there have been significant advances in this field due to a better modelling of stellar systems and accurate observational data. In this work…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-28 Pierluca Carenza , Maurizio Giannotti , Jordi Isern , Alessandro Mirizzi , Oscar Straniero

Axions can be copiously produced in localized regions of neutron star magnetospheres where the ambient plasma is unable to efficiently screen the induced electric field. As these axions stream away from the neutron star they can resonantly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-26 Dion Noordhuis , Anirudh Prabhu , Samuel J. Witte , Alexander Y. Chen , Fábio Cruz , Christoph Weniger

We revisit the joint constraints in the mixed hot dark matter scenario in which both thermally produced QCD axions and relic neutrinos are present. Upon recomputing the cosmological axion abundance via recent advances in the literature, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-13 Francesco D'Eramo , Eleonora Di Valentino , William Giarè , Fazlollah Hajkarim , Alessandro Melchiorri , Olga Mena , Fabrizio Renzi , Seokhoon Yun

We present a solution of the Schr\"odinger-Poisson system based on the WKB ansatz for the wave function. In this way we obtain a description of a gravitationally bound clump of axion dark matter by a superposition of energy eigenstates with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-04 Virgile Dandoy , Thomas Schwetz , Elisa Todarello

Axion-like particles, which we call axions, can compose the missing dark matter and may form substructures such as miniclusters and axion stars. We obtain the mass distributions of axion stars derived from their host miniclusters in our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-23 Dennis Maseizik , Sagnik Mondal , Hyeonseok Seong , Günter Sigl

The Hubble constant, $H_0$, is a crucial parameter in cosmology. However, various cosmic observations have produced differing posterior values for $H_0$, resulting in what is referred to as the $H_0$ tension. To resolve this discrepancy,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-25 Haoran Di , Lijing Shao , Zhu Yi , Shi-Bei Kong

We present novel findings concerning the parameter space of axion stars, extended object forming in dense dark matter environments through gravitational condensation. We emphasize their formation within the dense minihalos that potentially…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-04 Ziwen Yin , Luca Visinelli

A mechanism for lifting the cosmological upper bound on the axion decay constant, $f_a$, is proposed. It entails the near masslessness of the radial mode whose vacuum expectation value is $f_a$. Energy in the coherent oscillations of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-12 S. M. Barr

Models of relativistic rotating neutron star composed of hyperon rich matter is constructed in the framework of an effective field theory in the mean-field approach. The gross properties of compact star is calculated at both static and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-05-12 B. K. Sharma , T. K. Jha