Axions and dark matter

作者:Yang, Qiaoli*
来源:Modern Physics Letters A, 2017, 32(15): 1740003.
DOI:10.1142/S021773231740003X

摘要

Dark matter constitutes about 23% of the total energy density of the universe, but its properties are still little known besides that it should be composed by cold and weakly interacting particles. Many beyond Standard Model theories can provide proper candidates to serve as dark matter and the axion introduced to solve the strong CP problem turns out to be an attractive one. In this paper, we briefly review several important features of the axion and the axion dark matter.