Is the Universal String Axion the QCD Axion
We consider the class of effective supergravity theories from the weakly coupled heterotic string in which local supersymmetry is broken by gaugino condensation in a hidden sector, with dilaton stabilization achieved through corrections to the classical dilaton Kahler potential. If there is a single hidden condensing (simple) gauge group, the axion is massless (up to contributions from higher dimension operators) above the QCD condensation scale. We show how the standard relation between the axion mass and its Planck scale coupling constant is modified in this class of models due to a contribution to the axion-gluon coupling that appears below the scale of supersymmetry breaking when gluinos are integrated out. In particular there is a point of enhanced symmetry in parameter space where the axion mass is suppressed. We revisit the question of the universal axion as the Peccei-Quinn axion in the light of these results, and find that the strong CP problem is avoided in most compactifications of the weakly coupled heterotic string.
- Research Organization:
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Director, Office of Science. Office of High Energy andNuclear Physics. Division of High Energy Physics; National ScienceFoundation
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 881607
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL--59025; UCB-PTH-05/36, hep-th/1510190; BnR: KA1401020
- Journal Information:
- Nuclear Physics B, Journal Name: Nuclear Physics B Journal Issue: 1-2 Vol. 734
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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