Late Time Cosmological Phase Transitions 1: Particle Physics Models and Cosmic Evolution

Late Time Cosmological Phase Transitions 1: Particle Physics Models and Cosmic Evolution
ISBN-10
1729305253
ISBN-13
9781729305256
Category
Science
Pages
44
Language
English
Published
2018-10-26
Publisher
Independently Published
Author
National Aeronautics and Space Adm Nasa

Description

We described a natural particle physics basis for late-time phase transitions in the universe. Such a transition can seed the formation of large-scale structure while leaving a minimal imprint upon the microwave background anisotropy. The key ingredient is an ultra-light pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson with an astronomically large (O(kpc-Mpc)) Compton wavelength. We analyze the cosmological signatures of and constraints upon a wide class of scenarios which do not involve domain walls. In addition to seeding structure, coherent ultra-light bosons may also provide unclustered dark matter in a spatially flat universe, omega sub phi approx. = 1. Frieman, Joshua A. and Hill, Christopher T. and Watkins, Richard Unspecified Center NAGW-1340

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