Axions from wall decay
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We discuss the decay of axion walls bounded by strings and present numerical simulations of the decay process. In these simulations, the decay happens immediately, in a time scale of order the light travel time, and the average energy of the radiated axions is 〈ωa〉 ≃ 7ma for va/ma ≃ 500. 〈ωa〉 is found to increase approximately linearly with ln(va/ma). Extrapolation of this behaviour yields 〈ωa〉 ≃ 60ma in axion models of interest.
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