Oscillon of Ultra-Light Axion-like Particle [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10805


Ultra-light axion-like particle (ULAP) is one of attractive candidates for cold dark matter. Because the de Broglie wavelength of ULAP with mass $\sim 10^{-22} {\rm eV}$ is $\mathcal{O}({\rm kpc})$, 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. % Such a dense object lives for a long time, it may affect the cosmological evolution. In this paper, we confirm the oscillon formation in a ULAP potential by numerical simulation and analytically derive its lifetime.

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M. Kawasaki, W. Nakano and E. Sonomoto
Wed, 25 Sep 19
47/70

Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures