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Axiflavon-Higgs Unification

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-05-20 v1

Abstract

In this talk, a unified model of scalar particles that addresses the flavour hierarchies, solves the strong CP problem, delivers a dark matter candidate, and radiatively triggers electroweak symmetry breaking is discussed. The recently proposed axiflavon is embedded together with an (elementary) Goldstone Higgs-sector in a single multiplet (and thereby also a model of flavour and strong CP conservation for the latter is provided). Bounds on the axion decay constant follow from requiring a SM-like Higgs potential at low energies and are confronted with constraints from flavour physics and astrophysics. In the minimal implementation, the axion decay constant is restricted to fa(10111012)f_a \approx (10^{11}-10^{12}) GeV, while adding right-handed neutrinos allows for a heavy-axion model at lower energies, down to fa10f_a \sim 10 TeV.

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@article{arxiv.1905.07285,
  title  = {Axiflavon-Higgs Unification},
  author = {Tommi Alanne and Simone Blasi and Florian Goertz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.07285},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Contribution to the 2019 EW session of the 54th Rencontres de Moriond, 6 pages, 2 figures

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