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Self-gravitating bosonic fields can support stable and localised field configurations. For real fields, these solutions oscillate in time and are known as oscillatons. The density profile is static, and is soliton. Such solitons should be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 David J. E. Marsh , Ana-Roxana Pop

Axion-like particle (ALP) dark matter shows distinctive behavior on scales where wavelike effects dominate over self-gravity. Ultralight axions are candidates for fuzzy dark matter (FDM) whose de Broglie wavelength in virialized halos…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Jens C. Niemeyer

We propose that the ultralight dark matter (ULDM) model, in which dark matter particles have a tiny mass of $m=O(10^{-22})eV$, has characteristic scales for physical quantities of observed galaxies such as mass, size, acceleration, mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-24 Jae-Weon Lee

We consider a class of models involving interactions between ultra-light scalar dark matter and Standard Model neutrinos. Such couplings modify the neutrino mass splittings and mixing angles to include additional components that vary in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-07 Asher Berlin

We consider ultralight scalar dark matter that couples to right-handed neutrinos. Due to the high density of neutrinos in the early universe, the background neutrino density dominates the dynamics of the scalar field, and qualitatively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-05 Ryan Plestid , Sophia Tevosyan

A mathematical model of the evolution of plane perturbations in the cosmological statistical system of completely degenerate scalar-charged fermions with Higgs scalar interaction for short-wave perturbations is formulated. These disturbance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-26 Yu. G. Ignat'ev

The emergence of confined structures and pattern formation are exceptional manifestations of concurring nonlinear interactions found in a variety of physical, chemical and biological systems[1]. Optical solitons are a hallmark of extreme…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-29 Felix Kurtz , Claus Ropers , Georg Herink

Small-scale clumps of dark matter are gravitationally bounded structures that have masses comparable to or lower than stellar masses and consist of noninteracting or weakly interacting dark matter particles. In this paper, the current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-12 V. S. Berezinsky , V. I. Dokuchaev , Yu. N. Eroshenko

Well known scaling laws among the structural properties of the dark and the luminous matter in disc systems are too complex to be arisen by two inert components that just share the same gravitational field. This brings us to critically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-10 Paolo Salucci , Nicola Turini

We present an overview of recent developments in the detection of light bosonic dark matter, including axion, pseudoscalar axion-like and scalar dark matter, which form either a coherently oscillating classical field or topological defects…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 Y. V. Stadnik , V. V. Flambaum

It is generally assumed that scalar field dark matter halos would contain solitonic cores -- spherically symmetric ground state configurations -- at their centers. This is especially interesting in the case of ultralight dark matter (ULDM),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Anthony E. Mirasola , Nathan Musoke , Mark C. Neyrinck , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , J. Luna Zagorac

Dark matter may form bound states in a dark sector with an attractive force between two dark matter particles. Searches for dark matter at colliders can differ dramatically from routine searches if bound states, dubbed darkonia, are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-19 Yang Bai , Susanne Westhoff

The stability of particles in the cosmic soup is an important property that can affect the cosmic evolution. In this work, we update the constraints on the decaying cold dark matter scenario, when the decay products are effectively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 S. Alvi , T. Brinckmann , M. Gerbino , M. Lattanzi , L. Pagano

We consider a class of late-decaying dark-matter models, in which a dark matter particle decays to a heavy stable daughter of approximately the same mass, together with one or more relativistic particles which carry away only a small…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-19 Nicole F. Bell , Ahmad J. Galea , Kalliopi Petraki

Axion-like dark matter whose symmetry breaking occurs after the end of inflation predicts enhanced primordial density fluctuations at small scales. This leads to dense axion minihalos (or miniclusters) forming early in the history of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-28 Patrick J. Fox , Neal Weiner , Huangyu Xiao

Orbital resonances are ubiquitous in the Solar system. They play a decisive role in the long term dynamics, and in some cases the physical evolution, of the planets and of their natural satellites, as well as the evolution of small bodies…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 Renu Malhotra

We investigate the cosmological constraints on axion models where the domain wall number is greater than one. In these models, multiple domain walls attached to strings are formed, and they survive for a long time. Their annihilation occurs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-26 Takashi Hiramatsu , Masahiro Kawasaki , Ken'ichi Saikawa , Toyokazu Sekiguchi

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is an interesting alternative to the cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm. Due to the extremely low mass of the constituent particle ($\sim 10^{-22}$ eV), ULDM can exhibit quantum effects up to kiloparsec scales. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-18 Emily Kendall , Mateja Gosenca , Richard Easther

Oscillons are localized field configurations oscillating in time with lifetimes orders of magnitude longer than their oscillation period. In this paper, we simulate non-travelling oscillons produced by deforming the breather solutions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-09 José T. Gálvez Ghersi , Jonathan Braden

We demonstrate that massive fields, such as dark matter, can directly produce a cosmological evolution of the fundamental constants of Nature. We show that a scalar or pseudoscalar (axion-like) dark matter field $\phi$, which forms a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Y. V. Stadnik , V. V. Flambaum