Light axions with large hadronic couplings

Marques-Tavares, Gustavo; Teo, Mae

doi:10.1007/jhep05(2018)180

Title: Light axions with large hadronic couplings

Abstract

We present models in which axions have large couplings to hadrons while remaining naturally light. By assigning U(1)PQ charges to Standard Model quarks such that U(1)PQ is not anomalous under QCD, the derivative couplings naturally arise while no potential is generated for the axion upon QCD confinement. We present simple models that implement this idea both for an axion-like particle and for the QCD axion. We show that both models lead to sizable flavor violations that could be probed by future experiments. Our construction shows that the axion coupling to hadrons can be essentially independent from its mass and thus motivates experimental searches in a wide range of axion parameter space.

Authors:

Marques-Tavares, Gustavo ^[1];

^[1]

Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Stanford Inst. for Theoretical Physics

Publication Date:: 2018-05-29

Research Org.:: Stanford Univ., CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

OSTI Identifier:: 1499140

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012012

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2018; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer Berlin

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

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  title        = {Light axions with large hadronic couplings},

  author       = {Marques-Tavares, Gustavo and Teo, Mae},

  abstractNote = {We present models in which axions have large couplings to hadrons while remaining naturally light. By assigning U(1)PQ charges to Standard Model quarks such that U(1)PQ is not anomalous under QCD, the derivative couplings naturally arise while no potential is generated for the axion upon QCD confinement. We present simple models that implement this idea both for an axion-like particle and for the QCD axion. We show that both models lead to sizable flavor violations that could be probed by future experiments. Our construction shows that the axion coupling to hadrons can be essentially independent from its mass and thus motivates experimental searches in a wide range of axion parameter space.},

  doi          = {10.1007/jhep05(2018)180},

  journal      = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},

  number       = 5,

  volume       = 2018,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {5}

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Table 1: U(1)_PQ charge assignments for the first two generations, where we have taken all fields to be left-handed spinors. The third generation quarks are neutral under U(1)_PQ.

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Cosmology of the invisible axion journal, January 1983

Search for Axionlike Dark Matter through Nuclear Spin Precession in Electric and Magnetic Fields journal, November 2017

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