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Title: Axiogenesis with a heavy QCD axion

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [2]
  1. Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
  2. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)

We demonstrate that the observed cosmological excess of matter over anti-matter may originate from a heavy QCD axion that solves the strong CP problem but has a mass much larger than that given by the Standard Model QCD strong dynamics. We investigate a rotation of the heavy QCD axion in field space, which is transferred into a baryon asymmetry through weak and strong sphaleron processes. This provides a strong cosmological motivation for heavy QCD axions, which are of high experimental interest. The viable parameter space has an axion mass ma between 1 MeV and 10 GeV and a decay constant fa < 105 GeV, which can be probed by accelerator-based direct axion searches and observations of the cosmic microwave background.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0011842
OSTI ID:
1905514
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2022, Issue 10; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer NatureCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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