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Cosmological constraints on thermal relic axions and axion-like particles

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, , Citation Davide Cadamuro and Javier Redondo 2012 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 375 022002 DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/375/1/022002

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Abstract

Cosmological precision data can be used to set very strict constraints on axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) produced thermally in the big bang. We briefly review the known bounds and propose two new constraints for axions and ALPs decaying in the early universe, based upon the concomitant dilution of baryon and neutrino densities, using WMAP7 and other cosmological data.

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10.1088/1742-6596/375/1/022002