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Pati-Salam Axion

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-08-26 v3

Abstract

I discuss the implementation of the Peccei-Quinn mechanism in a minimal realization of the Pati-Salam partial unification scheme. The axion mass is shown to be related to the Pati-Salam breaking scale and it is predicted via a two-loop renormalization group analysis to be in the window ma[1011,3×107]m_a \in [10^{-11}, \, 3 \times 10^{-7}] eV, as a function of a sliding Left-Right symmetry breaking scale. This parameter space will be fully covered by the late phases of the axion Dark Matter experiments ABRACADABRA and CASPEr-Electric. A Left-Right symmetry breaking scenario as low as 20 TeV is obtained for a Pati-Salam breaking of the order of the reduced Planck mass.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2005.00012,
  title  = {Pati-Salam Axion},
  author = {Luca Di Luzio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.00012},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

33 pages, 3 figures. Minor corrections. Matches version to appear in JHEP

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