Constraints on Relaxion Windows
Abstract
We examine the low energy phenomenology of the relaxion solution to the weak scale hierarchy problem. Assuming that the Hubble friction is responsible for a dissipation of the relaxion energy, we identify the cosmological relaxion window which corresponds to the parameter region compatible with a given value of the acceptable number of inflationary -foldings. We then discuss a variety of observational constraints on the relaxion window, including those from astrophysical and cosmological considerations. We find that majority of the parameter space with a relaxion mass eV or a relaxion decay constant GeV is excluded by existing constraints. There is an interesting parameter region with GeV and TeV, which is allowed by existing constraints, but can be probed soon by future beam dump experiments such as the SHiP experiment, or by improved EDM experiments.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1610.00680,
title = {Constraints on Relaxion Windows},
author = {Kiwoon Choi and Sang Hui Im},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00680},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
27 pages, 4 figures; v4: a minor typo correction