High Quality QCD Axion at Gravitational Wave Observatories
Abstract
The axion solution to the strong CP problem is delicately sensitive to Peccei-Quinn breaking contributions that are misaligned with respect to QCD instantons. Heavy QCD axion models are appealing because they avoid this so-called "quality problem". We show that generic realizations of this framework can be probed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA interferometers, through the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) signal sourced by the long-lived axionic string-domain wall network, and by upcoming measurements of the neutron and proton Electric Dipole Moments. Additionally, we provide predictions for searches at future GW observatories, which will further explore the parameter space of heavy QCD axion models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2107.07542,
title = {High Quality QCD Axion at Gravitational Wave Observatories},
author = {Ricardo Z. Ferreira and Alessio Notari and Oriol Pujolàs and Fabrizio Rompineve},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.07542},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
6+7 pages, 9 figures. v2: 5+9 pages, 10 figures. Discussion on origin of misaligned contributions added in Appendix, references updated