Journal
PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 781, Issue -, Pages 684-687Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.04.024
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- JSPS KAKENHI [JP15H02082, JP15H05889, JP15K21733, JP26247042, JP17H02875, JP17H02878]
- World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, Japan
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We study the cosmological evolution of the QCD axion coupled to hidden photons. For a moderately strong coupling, the motion of the axion field leads to an explosive production of hidden photons by tachyonic instability. We use lattice simulations to evaluate the cosmological abundance of the QCD axion. In doing so, we incorporate the backreaction of the produced hidden photons on the axion dynamics, which becomes significant in the non-linear regime. We find that the axion abundance is suppressed by at most O(10(2)) for the decay constant f(alpha) = 10(16) GeV, compared to the case without the coupling. For a sufficiently large coupling, the motion of the QCD axion becomes strongly damped, and as a result, the axion abundance is enhanced. Our results show that the cosmological upper bound on the axion decay constant can be relaxed by a few hundred for a certain range of the coupling to hidden photons. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
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