Speaker
Seokhoon Yun
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Description
Flavor violating axion couplings can be in action before recombination, and they can fill the early universe with an additional radiation component. Working within a model-independent framework, we consider an effective field theory for the axion field and quantify axion production. Current cosmological data exclude already a fraction of the available parameter space, and the bounds will improve significantly with future CMB-S4 surveys. Remarkably, we find that future cosmological bounds will be comparable or even stronger than the ones obtained in our terrestrial laboratories.
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Primary author
Seokhoon Yun
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Co-author
Francesco D'Eramo
(PD)
