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arxiv: 0812.4721 · v2 · submitted 2008-12-27 · 🌌 astro-ph

Thermal axion constraints in non-standard thermal histories

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keywords constraintsaxionaxionsthermalchangedominationhistoriesnon-standard
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There is no direct evidence for radiation domination prior to big-bang nucleosynthesis, and so it is useful to consider how constraints to thermally-produced axions change in non-standard thermal histories. In the low-temperature-reheating scenario, radiation domination begins at temperatures as low as 1 MeV, and is preceded by significant entropy generation. Axion abundances are then suppressed, and cosmological limits to axions are significantly loosened. In a kination scenario, a more modest change to axion constraints occurs. Future possible constraints to axions and low-temperature reheating are discussed.

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