Axions in gravity with torsion
Abstract
We study a scenario allowing a solution of the strong charge parity problem via the Peccei-Quinn mechanism, implemented in gravity with torsion. In this framework there appears a torsion-related pseudoscalar field known as Kalb-Ramond axion. We compare it with the so-called Barbero-Immirzi axion recently proposed in the literature also in the context of the gravity with torsion. We show that they are equivalent from the viewpoint of the effective theory. The phenomenology of these torsion-descended axions is completely determined by the Planck scale without any additional model parameters. These axions are very light and very weakly interacting with ordinary matter. We briefly comment on their astrophysical and cosmological implications in view of the recent BICEP2 and Planck data.
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@article{arxiv.1502.03694,
title = {Axions in gravity with torsion},
author = {Oscar Castillo-Felisola and Cristobal Corral and Sergey Kovalenko and Ivan Schmidt and Valery E. Lyubovitskij},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.03694},
year = {2015}
}
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