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Relaxation mechanisms: From Damour-Polyakov to Peccei-Quinn

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-17 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The ralaxation mechanism of Damour-Polyakov for fixing the vacuum expectation value of certain scalar fields (moduli) in string theory could provide a convenient framework for the Peccei-Quinn relaxation mechanism and remove the narrow "axion window".

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9506363,
  title  = {Relaxation mechanisms: From Damour-Polyakov to Peccei-Quinn},
  author = {C. E. Vayonakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9506363},
  year   = {2014}
}

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9 pages, latex