Published January 1, 2020 | Version v1
Journal article

Oscillon of ultra-light axion-like particle

  • 1. ICRR, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, 277-8582 (Japan)

Description

Ultra-Light axion-like particle (ULAP) is one of the attractive candidates for cold dark matter. Because the de Broglie wavelength of ULAP with mass 10 22 e V is O ( k p c ), the suppression of the small scale structure by the uncertainty principle can solve the core-cusp problem. Frequently, ULAP is assumed to be uniformly distributed in the present universe. In typical ULAP potentials, however, strong self-resonance at the beginning of oscillation invokes the large fluctuations, which may cause the formation of the dense localized object, oscillon. In this paper, we confirm the oscillon formation in a ULAP potential by numerical simulation and analytically derive its lifetime.

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2020/01/047

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Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2020
Journal Issue
01
Journal Page Range
p. 047
ISSN
1475-7516