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Axion cogenesis without isocurvature perturbations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-09-25 v2

Abstract

Axion rotations can simultaneously explain the dark matter abundance and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe by kinetic misalignment and axiogenesis. We consider a scenario in which the Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking field is as large as the Planck scale during inflation and the axion rotation is initiated by the inflaton-induced potential immediately after the end of inflation. This is a realization of the cogenesis scenario that is free of problems with domain walls and isocurvature perturbations thanks to large explicit Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking at the Planck scale during inflation. The baryon asymmetry can be more efficiently produced by lepto-axiogenesis, in which case the axion mass is predicted to be larger than O(0.1)O(0.1) meV. We also discuss a UV complete model in supersymmetric theories.

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@article{arxiv.2312.17730,
  title  = {Axion cogenesis without isocurvature perturbations},
  author = {Raymond T. Co and Masaki Yamada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.17730},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

12 pages, 1 figure; v2: discussions added

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