1. Paper-boat relaxion.
- Author
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Shao-Jiang Wang
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AXIONS , *GAUGE bosons , *QUANTUM gravity , *THERMAL instability , *AERODYNAMIC heating , *DARK matter , *QUANTUM numbers - Abstract
A new relaxion mechanism is proposed where a small electroweak scale is preferably selected earlier than the larger one due to a potential instability, which is different from previously proposed stopping mechanisms by either Hubble friction from an increasing periodic barrier or thermal friction from gauge boson production. The sub-Planckian field excursion of an axion can be achieved without violating the bound on the e-folding number from a quantum gravity perspective; our relaxion can be identified as a QCD axion, preserving the Peccei-Quinn solution to the strong CP problem as well as making up all the cold dark matter in our current Universe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2019
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