Published October 23, 2023
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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
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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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- 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.L081303
- Other
- 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