Conveners
Parallel session - Cosmology I
- Chair: Dan Kondo
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Jason Arakawa10/11/2025, 14:00
Axion particles can form gravitationally bound condensates known as axion stars. In the presence of self-interactions their collapse can trigger axion bosenovae — transient events accompanied by bursts of relativistic particle emission. We investigate such phenomena in systems composed of multiple axion fields, which can arise in various extensions of the Standard Model. Using both variational...
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Jessica N. Lopez-Sanchez10/11/2025, 14:20
In this talk, I will explore the phenomenology of scalar field dark matter with both attractive and repulsive self-interactions. Using idealized simulations, I analyze the properties of halo cores across a wide range of interaction strengths, from the strongly attractive regime to the Thomas–Fermi limit. The numerical results are compared with analytical predictions for the core mass–size...
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Christian Capanelli10/11/2025, 14:40
In the standard Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) scenario, the dark matter is composed of an ultra-light scalar field with coherence length and wave interference on astrophysical scales. However, scalar fields generically have quartic self-interactions that modify their dispersion relation and the associated evolution of density perturbations. I will begin by presenting the first dedicated analysis of...
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