16–19 sept. 2025
Campus du CNRS
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

Axion domain walls and thermal friction. Amedeo Maria Favitta

16 sept. 2025, 17:15
10m
Auditorium Vivargent (Campus du CNRS)

Auditorium Vivargent

Campus du CNRS

LAPTh 9 Chemin de Bellevue 74940 Annecy-le-Vieux FRANCE GPS coordinates : N 45° 55' 14.002" E 6° 9' 33.998"

Description

Cosmological models with QCD axions and/or ALPs can be affected by a domain wall (DW) problem. We review and propose solutions, beyond proposing a biased axion potential, taking into account thermal plasma friction: we evaluate the plasma pressure acting on a DW with velocity v taking into account the relevant particle processes, deriving and studying the relative VOS model and obtaining relative bounds and cosmological BSM observables under such hypotheses.

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