8–13 Nov 2026
University of Western Australia
Australia/Perth timezone

Axion perturbation growth at low-temperature reheating

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20m
University of Western Australia

University of Western Australia

Oral Presentation

Speaker

Paola Arias (Universidad Federico Santa María)

Description

We study the growth of axion perturbations during a period of early matter domination. Our findings show that the coupling of the time-varying axion mass with the radiation bath leads to a significant enhancement of the perturbation, reaching non-linearity even before reheating ends in some parameter space. We comment on the possibility of forming axion miniclusters in the pre-inflationary scenario and possibly also axion stars.

Primary Abstract Topic Theory: Axions and Wave-Like-DM

Author

Paola Arias (Universidad Federico Santa María)

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