21–24 Sept 2021
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Production of Thermal Axions in the Early Universe

21 Sept 2021, 10:20
15m
Main Auditorium

Main Auditorium

Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics Parallel Sessions: Cosmology

Speaker

Dr Fazlollah Hajkarim (University of Padova, INFN)

Description

We study the thermal production of axions over different scales especially around the QCD and electroweak phase transitions in the early universe. We focus on the most motivated axion models (KSVZ and DFSZ) and investigate how the thermal history can influence on the production rate of hot axion as dark radiation. This can lead to predictions for the future measurements of the cosmic microwave background by experiments like CMB-S4.

Summary

Based on arXiv:2108.04259 and arXiv:2108.05371

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Primary author

Dr Fazlollah Hajkarim (University of Padova, INFN)

Co-authors

Prof. Francesco D'Eramo (University of Padova, INFN) Dr Seokhoon Yun (University of Padova, INFN)

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