Published February 15, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Self-gravitating system made of axions

  • 1. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Am Muehlenberg 1, D-14476 Golm (Germany)

Description

We show that the inclusion of an axionlike effective potential in the construction of a self-gravitating system of scalar fields decreases its compactness when the value of the self-interaction coupling constant is increased. By including the current values for the axion mass m and decay constant fa, we have computed the mass and the radius for self-gravitating systems made of axion particles. It is found that such objects will have asteroid size masses and radii of a few meters, thus a self-gravitating system made of axions could play the role of scalar mini-MACHOs and mimic a cold dark matter model for the galactic halo.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
83
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 043525-043525.5
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42097455
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ASTEROIDS; AXIONS; COUPLING CONSTANTS; INTERACTIONS; MASS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PARTICLE DECAY; PARTICLES; SCALAR FIELDS
Descriptors DEC
BOSONS; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; GOLDSTONE BOSONS; MATTER; POSTULATED PARTICLES

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