# Probing axion dark matter with 21 cm fluctuations from minihalos

@article{Kadota2021ProbingAD,
title={Probing axion dark matter with 21 cm fluctuations from minihalos},
author={Kenji Kadota and Toyokazu Sekiguchi and Hiroyuki Tashiro},
journal={Physical Review D},
year={2021},
volume={103},
pages={023521}
}
• Published 5 July 2020
• Physics
• Physical Review D
If the symmetry breaking inducing the axion occurs after the inflation, the large axion isocurvature perturbations can arise due to a different axion amplitude in each causally disconnected patch. This causes the enhancement of the small-scale density fluctuations which can significantly affect the evolution of structure formation. The epoch of the small halo formation becomes earlier and we estimate the abundance of those minihalos which can host the neutral hydrogen atoms to result in the 21…
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