Biased discrete symmetry and domain wall problem
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
We reconsider a cosmological evolution of domain walls produced by spontaneous breaking of an approxime discrete symmetry. We show, that domain walls may never collapse even if the standard bound on the vacuum energy asymmetry is satisfied. Instead of disappearing, these defects may form stable ``bound states'' - double wall systems. Possible stability of such a wall is a dynamical question and consequently restricts the allowed range of parameters. In particular, in the two Higgs doublet standard model with an anomalous Z(2) symmetry, the above restriction suggests the mass of the pseudoscalar Higgs (would be axion) being close to the mass of the scalar one.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9411387,
title = {Biased discrete symmetry and domain wall problem},
author = {G. Dvali and Z. Tavartkiladze and J. Nanobashvili},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9411387},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, latex, no figures