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Gravitational waves from axionlike particle cosmic string-wall networks

Graciela B. Gelmini*, Anna Simpson†, and Edoardo Vitagliano‡

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1547, USA

  • *gelmini@physics.ucla.edu
  • †ansimps@g.ucla.edu
  • ‡edoardo@physics.ucla.edu
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Phys. Rev. D 104, L061301 – Published 20 September, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.L061301

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Axionlike particles (ALPs) are a compelling candidate for dark matter (DM), whose production is associated with the formation of a string-wall network. If walls bounded by strings persist, which requires the potential to have multiple local minima (N>1), they must annihilate before they become dominant. They annihilate mostly into gravitational waves and nonrelativistic ALPs. We show that for ALPs other than the QCD axion these gravitational waves, if produced at temperatures below 100 eV, could be detected by future cosmological probes for ALPs with mass from 10−16 to 106  eV that could constitute the entirety of the DM.

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Phys. Rev. D 104, L061301– Published 20 September, 2021
  • Received 20 March 2021
  • Accepted 17 August 2021
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