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Emergent/Composite axions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-10-22 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Hidden theories coupled to the SM may provide emergent axions, that are composites/bound-states of the hidden fields. This is motivated by paradigms emerging from the AdS/CFT correspondence but it is a more general phenomenon. We explore the general setup and find that UV-sourced interactions of instanton densities give rise to emergent axions in the IR. We study the general properties of such axions and argue that they are generically different from both fundamental and composite axions that have been studied so far.

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@article{arxiv.1811.05940,
  title  = {Emergent/Composite axions},
  author = {Pascal Anastasopoulos and Panagiotis Betzios and Massimo Bianchi and Dario Consoli and Elias Kiritsis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.05940},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

42 pages plus appendices, 5 figures

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