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Constraints on Relaxion Windows

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-01-03 v4 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

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 ee-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 mϕ100m_\phi\gtrsim 100 eV or a relaxion decay constant f107f\lesssim 10^7 GeV is excluded by existing constraints. There is an interesting parameter region with mϕ0.210m_\phi\sim \,0.2-10 GeV and ffew200f\sim\, {\rm few}-200 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

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