QCD axion misalignment during reheating

arXiv:2610.00458 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Reheating — 271× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 92× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Standard Model — 4× in this paper
• Topological Defects — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Superradiance — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Anisotropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Boltzmann Equation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Hubble Tension — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Institute for Basic Science — 1× in this paper
• Non-Gaussianity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quintessence — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Universality Class — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Measurement of the permanent electric dipole moment of the neutron
• Axions : Theory and Cosmological Role
• The landscape of QCD axion models
• Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters
• Astrophysical Axion Bounds: The 2024 Edition
• Axion Kinetic Misalignment Mechanism
• New Perspectives on Axion Misalignment Mechanism
• New opportunities for axion dark matter searches in nonstandard cosmological models
• Light axion-like dark matter must be present during inflation
• Axion cold dark matter in non-standard cosmologies
• Axion Cosmology with Early Matter Domination
• Axion Dark Matter in the Time of Primordial Black Holes
• The Interplay between the Dark Matter Axion and Primordial Black Holes
• Cogenesis of baryon and dark matter with PBH and QCD axion
• Axion misalignment with memory-burdened PBH
• Constraining Axion and ALP Dark Matter from Misalignment during Reheating
• Testing Axionic Dark Matter during Gravitational Reheating
• Axion dark matter from topological defects
• Planck 2018 results. X. Constraints on inflation
• Constraining Inflation with the BICEP/Keck CMB Polarization Experiments

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