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Tidal streams from axion miniclusters and direct axion searches

par Tiniakov, Petr ;Tkachev, Igor;Zioutas, Konstantin
Référence Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016, 1, 035
Publication Publié, 2016-01

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In some axion dark matter models a dominant fraction of axions resides in dense small-scale substructures, axion miniclusters. A fraction of these substructures is disrupted and forms tidal streams where the axion density may still be an order of magnitude larger than the average. We discuss implications of these streams for the direct axion searches. We estimate the fraction of disrupted miniclusters and the parameters of the resulting streams, and find that stream-crossing events would occur at a rate of about 1/(20 yr) for 2-3 days, during which the signal in axion detectors would be amplified by a factor ∼ 10. These estimates suggest that the effect of the tidal disruption of axion miniclusters may be important for direct axion searches and deserves a more thorough study.