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Intermediate Scale Accidental Axion and ALPs

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-09-30 v1

Abstract

We discuss the problem of constructing models containing an axion and axion-like particles, motivated by astrophysical observations, with decay constants at the intermediate scale ranging from 10910^9GeV to 101310^{13}GeV. We present examples in which the axion and axion-like particles arise accidentally as pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons of automatic global chiral symmetries, in models having exact discrete symmetries.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1409.7918,
  title  = {Intermediate Scale Accidental Axion and ALPs},
  author = {Alex G. Dias},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.7918},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

4 pages. To appear in the Proceedings of the 10th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, CERN, 29 June - 04 July 2014

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