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Axion Isocurvature and Magnetic Monopoles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-04-13 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We propose a simple mechanism to suppress axion isocurvature fluctuations using hidden sector magnetic monopoles. This allows for the Peccei-Quinn scale to be of order the unification scale consistently with high scale inflation.

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@article{arxiv.1511.06347,
  title  = {Axion Isocurvature and Magnetic Monopoles},
  author = {Yasunori Nomura and Surjeet Rajendran and Fabio Sanches},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.06347},
  year   = {2016}
}

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13 pages