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Can Decaying Particles Raise the Upperbound on the Peccei-Quinn Scale?

M. Kawasaki, T. Moroi, T. Yanagida

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9510461

Abstract

We have reexamine the effect of entropy production on the cosmic axion density and find that the Peccei-Quinn scale Fa larger than about 1015~GeV is not allowed even if large entropy is produced by the decays of coherent oscillations or non-relativistic massive particles. We stress that this result is independent of the details of models for the decaying particles.

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