Healthy Research Rewards
ResearchHub is incentivizing healthy research behavior. At this time, first authors of open access papers are eligible for rewards. Visit the publications tab to view your eligible publications.
Got it
SR
Stewart Rood
Achievements
This user has not unlocked any achievements yet.
Key Stats
Upvotes received:
0
Publications:
9
(0% Open Access)
Cited by:
0
h-index:
0
/
i10-index:
0
Reputation
Biology
< 1%
Chemistry
< 1%
Economics
< 1%
Show more
How is this calculated?
Publications
0

Constraints on anharmonic corrections of Fuzzy Dark Matter

Mads Huuse et al.May 21, 2018
The cold dark matter (CDM) scenario has proved successful in cosmology.However, we lack a fundamental understanding of its microscopic nature.Moreover, the apparent disagreement between CDM predictions andsubgalactic-structure observations has prompted the debate about its behaviourat small scales. These problems could be alleviated if the dark matter iscomposed of ultralight fields $m \sim 10^{-22}\ \text{eV}$, usually known asfuzzy dark matter (FDM). Some specific models, with axion-like potentials, havebeen thoroughly studied and are collectively referred to as ultralight axions(ULAs) or axion-like particles (ALPs). In this work we consider anharmoniccorrections to the mass term coming from a repulsive quartic self-interaction.Whenever this anharmonic term dominates, the field behaves as radiation insteadof cold matter, modifying the time of matter-radiation equality. Additionally,even for high masses, i.e. masses that reproduce the cold matter behaviour, thepresence of anharmonic terms introduce a cut-off in the matter power spectrumthrough its contribution to the sound speed. We analyze the model and deriveconstraints using a modified version of CLASS and comparing with CMB andlarge-scale structure data.