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Strong Bound on Canonical Ultralight Axion Dark Matter from the Lyman-Alpha Forest
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics. Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics (OKC).
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics. Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics (OKC). University College London, United Kingdom.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2519-584X
Number of Authors: 22021 (English)In: Physical Review Letters, ISSN 0031-9007, E-ISSN 1079-7114, Vol. 126, no 7, article id 071302Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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We present a new bound on the ultralight axion (ULA) dark matter mass m(a), using the Lyman-alpha forest to look for suppressed cosmic structure growth: a 95% lower limit m(a) > 2 x 10(-20) eV. This strongly disfavors (>99.7% credibility) the canonical ULA with 10(-22) eV < m(a) < 10(-21) eV, motivated by the string axiverse and solutions to possible tensions in the cold dark matter model. We strengthen previous equivalent bounds by about an order of magnitude. We demonstrate the robustness of our results using an optimized emulator of improved hydrodynamical simulations.

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2021. Vol. 126, no 7, article id 071302
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Cosmology, Dark matter, Large scale structure of the Universe, Particle dark matter
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-192465DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.071302ISI: 000620021300006PubMedID: 33666479OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-192465DiVA, id: diva2:1546211
Available from: 2021-04-21 Created: 2021-04-21 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved

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