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Axion Paradigm with Color-Mediated Neutrino Masses

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-02-07 v2

Abstract

We propose a generalized Kim-Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov-type axion framework in which colored fermions and scalars act as two-loop Majorana neutrino-mass mediators. The global Peccei-Quinn symmetry under which exotic fermions are charged solves the strong CP problem. Within our general proposal, various setups can be distinguished by probing the axion-to-photon coupling at helioscopes and haloscopes. We also comment on axion dark-matter production in the early Universe.

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@article{arxiv.2309.06473,
  title  = {Axion Paradigm with Color-Mediated Neutrino Masses},
  author = {A. Batra and H. B. Câmara and F. R. Joaquim and R. Srivastava and J. W. F. Valle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.06473},
  year   = {2024}
}

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18 LaTeX pages; 4 figures. Minor changes in main text, references added and supplemental material added. Matches version published in PRL