A multi-axion model of inflation and dark matter

arXiv:2607.26138 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, hep-th · Submitted 2026-07-28 · Read on arXiv

Marcos A. G. Garcia, Hansel Gordillo-Ruiz, Raul Henriquez-Ortiz, Saul Ramos-Sanchez

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, hep-th

Submitted: 2026-07-28

Comments: 29 pages + references, 11 figures, 4 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Reheating — 55× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 40× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Spectral Distortions — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis — 2× in this paper
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Homogeneity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Standard Model — 2× in this paper
• alpha — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Anisotropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Boltzmann Equation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Matter Power Spectrum — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quintessence — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Planck 2018 results. I. Overview and the cosmological legacy of Planck
• A review of Axion Inflation in the era of Planck
• Dark Matter Candidates from Particle Physics and Methods of Detection
• Dark Matter Candidates and Searches
• Axino Cold Dark Matter Revisited
• Quality of the Peccei-Quinn symmetry in the Aligned QCD Axion and Cosmological Implications
• The Axiflavon
• The landscape of QCD axion models
• String Axiverse
• Accions
• An M Theory Solution to the Strong CP Problem and Constraints on the Axiverse
• The type IIB string axiverse and its low-energy phenomenology
• An Ultralight Axion in Supersymmetry and Strings and Cosmology at Small Scales
• Open String Axiverse
• Towards a Heterotic Axiverse
• Rolling with modular symmetry: quintessence and de Sitter in heterotic orbifolds
• Multi-Natural Inflation
• The ALP miracle revisited
• Moduli inflation from modular flavor symmetries
• Peccei-Quinn Inflation at the Pole and Axion Kinetic Misalignment

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