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Sliding Naturalness

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-01-14 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present a novel framework to solve simultaneously the electroweak hierarchy problem and the strong-CP problem. A small but finite Higgs vacuum expectation value and a small θ\theta-angle are selected after the QCD phase transition, without relying on the Peccei-Quinn mechanism or other traditional solutions. We predict a distinctive pattern of correlated signals at hadronic EDM, fuzzy dark matter and axion experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2106.04591,
  title  = {Sliding Naturalness},
  author = {Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo and Daniele Teresi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.04591},
  year   = {2022}
}

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9 pages, 3 figures. Version published on PRL

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