scholarly journals Bose-Einstein-condensed scalar field dark matter and the gravitational wave background from inflation: New cosmological constraints and its detectability by LIGO

2017 ◽  
Vol 96 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bohua Li ◽  
Paul R. Shapiro ◽  
Tanja Rindler-Daller
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Scalar Field ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Cosmological Constraints ◽  
Bose Einstein ◽  
Gravitational Wave Background

scholarly journals Cosmological constraints on Bose-Einstein-condensed scalar field dark matter

2014 ◽  
Vol 89 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bohua Li ◽  
Tanja Rindler-Daller ◽  
Paul R. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Scalar Field ◽  
Cosmological Constraints ◽  
Bose Einstein

Bose-Einstein condensates from scalar field dark matter

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Arturo Ureña-López ◽  
Alfredo Macias ◽  
Marco Maceda
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Scalar Field ◽  
Bose Einstein

scholarly journals Modern Topics in Scalar Field Cosmology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Cari Powell
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Scalar Field ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Mass Range ◽  
Distant Future ◽  
Field System ◽  
Stochastic Background ◽  
Scalar Field Cosmology

The aim of this research is to use modern techniques in scalar field Cosmol-ogy to produce methods of detecting gravitational waves and apply them to current gravitational waves experiments and those that will be producing results in the not too distant future. In the first chapter we discuss dark matter and some of its candidates, specifically, the axion. We then address its relationship with gravitational waves. We also discuss inflation and how it can be used to detect gravitational waves. Chapter 2 concentrates on constructing a multi field system of axions in order to increase the mass range of the ultralight axion, putting it into the observation range of pul-sar timing arrays. Chapter 3 discusses non-attractor inflation which is able to enhance stochastic background gravitational waves at scales that allows them to be measured by gravitational wave experiments. Chapter 4 uses a similar method to chapter 3 and applies it to 3-point overlap functions for tensor, scalar and a combination of the two polarisations.

Review of the possible role of self-ordering scalar fields in production of a stochastic background of gravitational waves

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (04) ◽  
pp. 1541005
Author(s):  
James B. Dent
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Scalar Field ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Scalar Fields ◽  
Inflationary Cosmology ◽  
Tensor Power ◽  
Stochastic Background ◽  
Gravitational Wave Background

A primordial gravitational wave background is a hallmark of inflationary cosmology. The recent announcement made by the BICEP2 collaboration of a possible measurement of B-mode polarization of the CMB on degree scales has produced an abundance of ideas and speculations on how such a signal constrains the inflationary paradigm, or possible alternative mechanisms of gravitational wave production. Here the possibility of a contribution to the gravitational wave background from the relaxation of a scalar field after a global phase transition is reviewed. The general contribution to the overall power is shown, and it is then demonstrated that if the BICEP2 result were to hold, this mechanism could at best produce a very small fraction of the measured tensor power.

scholarly journals COMPLEX SCALAR FIELD DARK MATTER ON GALACTIC SCALES

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (02) ◽  
pp. 1430002 ◽  
Author(s):  
TANJA RINDLER-DALLER ◽  
PAUL R. SHAPIRO
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Scalar Field ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Einstein Condensate ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Galactic Halos ◽  
Complex Scalar ◽  
Bose Einstein Condensate ◽  
Complex Scalar Field ◽  
Bose Einstein

The nature of the cosmological dark matter (DM) remains elusive. Recent studies have advocated the possibility that DM could be composed of ultra-light, self-interacting bosons, forming a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) in the very early Universe. We consider models which are charged under a global U(1)-symmetry such that the DM number is conserved. It can then be described as a classical complex scalar field which evolves in an expanding Universe. We present a brief review on the bounds on the model parameters from cosmological and galactic observations, along with the properties of galactic halos which result from such a DM candidate.

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