Real-time dynamics of axion particle production due to spontaneous decay of a coherent axion field
arXiv:1904.08184 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.016011
Abstract
We show that the coherent axion field spontaneously decays by emitting axion particles via quantum tunneling if axion potential has more than one minimum. By employing the -expansion and mean field approximation, we develop a formalism to trace the real-time dynamics of the axion particle production including its backreaction to the coherent axion field. We also present numerical results for the time evolution of various physical quantities including the strength of the coherent axion field, phase-space density of produced axion particles, energy density, and pressure. Phenomenological implications of our results are also discussed.
17 pages, 10 figures; v2: more explanations on the validity of the formulation are added, typos are corrected, to be published in PRD
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