ALP dark matter coupled to EM via Chern-Simons produces secondary photons from fluctuations in a pre-existing cosmological magnetic field spectrum, with Lyman-Werner flux consistent with CMB and X-ray limits.
Indirect Parametric Resonance of the Electromagnetic Field Driven by an Oscillating SU(2) Dark Matter Condensate
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We study a local patch of an axion-like dark sector in Minkowski spacetime, containing an initially homogeneous and isotropic non-Abelian $SU(2)$ condensate, and a real pseudoscalar field $\chi$, coupled to an Abelian $U(1)$ gauge field which could be that of usual electromagnetism. The pseudoscalar couples directly to both gauge sectors through Chern-Simons interactions, while the $U(1)$ field couples to the $SU(2)$ condensate only indirectly, through the pseudoscalar. We show analytically that a homogeneous oscillating $SU(2)$ background $Q(t)$ acts as a periodic source for $\chi$, generating a homogeneous oscillatory condensate $\dot{\chi}$ that in turn modulates the frequency of the $U(1)$ helicity modes. In the linear regime this produces a Hill equation, and when the first harmonic dominates it reduces to a Mathieu equation. We derive the approximate resonance conditions, the leading Floquet exponent, and the conditions for a two-stage enhancement $Q \to \chi \to U(1)$. We also highlight an important point: in the exactly periodic, zero-bias limit, the indirect resonance is not intrinsically chiral, because the two Abelian helicities are related by a half-period time shift.
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Secondary Production of Photons from ALP Dark Matter interacting with a Cosmological Magnetic Field
ALP dark matter coupled to EM via Chern-Simons produces secondary photons from fluctuations in a pre-existing cosmological magnetic field spectrum, with Lyman-Werner flux consistent with CMB and X-ray limits.