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<strong>Axion</strong> Hot Dark Matter from Thermalization after Λ QCD<br />

Georg Raffelt, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany<br />

PONT d‘Avignon, 21-25 April 2008, Avignon, France<br />

Cosmic thermal degrees of<br />

freedom<br />

Freeze-out temperature<br />

L<br />

a<br />

π<br />

C<br />

=<br />

a<br />

f<br />

f<br />

a<br />

π<br />

π<br />

(<br />

π<br />

π π<br />

0<br />

π<br />

+<br />

∂<br />

μ<br />

π<br />

−<br />

−<br />

2<br />

π<br />

+ π<br />

+<br />

0<br />

π<br />

π<br />

−<br />

−<br />

∂<br />

∂<br />

μ<br />

μ<br />

π<br />

π<br />

0<br />

+<br />

)<br />

∂<br />

μ<br />

a<br />

10 4 10 5 10 6 10 7<br />

f a (GeV)<br />

Cosmic thermal degrees of<br />

freedom at axion freeze-out<br />

π<br />

a<br />

C a<br />

1<br />

−<br />

z<br />

π<br />

=<br />

≈<br />

0.094094<br />

3(1<br />

+<br />

z)<br />

Chang & Choi, PLB 316 (1993) 51<br />

10 4 10 5 10 6 10 7<br />

f a (GeV)

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