Fuzzy Dark Matter candidates from string theory
- 1. INFN, Sezione di Bologna (Italy)
- 2. Bologna University (Italy). Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia
- 3. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg (Germany)
Description
String theory has been claimed to give rise to natural fuzzy dark matter candidates in the form of ultralight axions. In this paper we revisit this claim by a detailed study of how moduli stabilisation affects the masses and decay constants of different axion fields which arise in type IIB flux compactifications. We find that obtaining a considerable contribution to the observed dark matter abundance without tuning the axion initial misalignment angle is not a generic feature of 4D string models since it requires a mild violation of the SfM bound, where S is the instanton action and f the axion decay constant. Our analysis singles out C-axions, C-axions and thraxions as the best candidates to realise fuzzy dark matter in string theory. For all these ultralight axions we provide predictions which can be confronted with present and forthcoming observations.
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 53 p.
- ISSN
- 0418-9833
- Report number
- DESY--21-153
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 54066911
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- AXIONS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; STRING MODELS; STRING THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; COMPOSITE MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; GOLDSTONE BOSONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; M-THEORY; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUARK MODEL