Published February 15, 2011
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Journal article
Self-gravitating system made of axions
Creators
- 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.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.043525;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1001.1769v2;
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
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics