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Realizing the relaxion from multiple axions and its UV completion with high scale supersymmetry

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-02-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We discuss a scheme to implement the relaxion solution to the hierarchy problem with multiple axions, and present a UV-completed model realizing the scheme. All of the NN axions in our model are periodic with a similar decay constant ff well below the Planck scale. In the limit N1N\gg 1, the relaxion ϕ\phi corresponds to an exponentially long multi-helical flat direction which is shaped by a series of mass mixing between nearby axions in the compact field space of NN axions. With the length of flat direction given by Δϕ=2πfeffeξNf\Delta \phi =2\pi f_{\rm eff} \sim e^{\xi N} f for ξ=O(1)\xi={\cal O}(1), both the scalar potential driving the evolution of ϕ\phi during the inflationary epoch and the ϕ\phi-dependent Higgs boson mass vary with an exponentially large periodicity of O(feff){\cal O}(f_{\rm eff}), while the back reaction potential stabilizing the relaxion has a periodicity of O(f){\cal O}( f). A natural UV completion of our scheme can be found in high scale or (mini) split supersymmetry (SUSY) scenario with the axion scales generated by SUSY breaking as fmSUSYMf\sim \sqrt{m_{\rm SUSY}M_*}, where the soft SUSY breaking scalar mass mSUSYm_{\rm SUSY} can be well above the weak scale, and the fundamental scale MM_* can be identified as the Planck scale or the GUT scale.

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@article{arxiv.1511.00132,
  title  = {Realizing the relaxion from multiple axions and its UV completion with high scale supersymmetry},
  author = {Kiwoon Choi and Sang Hui Im},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.00132},
  year   = {2016}
}

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20 pages, 2 figures; v2: a reference and related comment added