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Gravitational wave production from axion rotations right after a transition to kination

  • 1. University of Chicago
  • 2. Institute for Basic Science

Description

Rotations of axion fields in the early Universe can produce dark matter and the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe. We point out that the rotation can generate an observable amount of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background. It can be doubly enhanced in a class of models in which the equation of state of the rotations rapidly changes from a nonrelativistic matterlike one to a kinationlike one by (1) the so-called poltergeist mechanism and (2) slower redshift of GWs compared to the axion-kination fluid. In supersymmetric UV completion, future GW observations can probe the supersymmetry-breaking scale up to $10^7 GeV$ even if the axion does not directly couple to the Standard Model fields.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.108.L081303
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oai:uchicago.tind.io:12133

Funding

University of Chicago
Kavli Foundation
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Japan
20H01895
World Premier International Research Center Initiative
IBS
IBS-R018-D1

UChicago Information

Division(s)
Physical Sciences Division
Department(s)
Enrico Fermi Institute, Physics
Center(s) or Institute(s)
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics