Dynamical clockwork axions

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2017)002MaRDI QIDQ1709233zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rupert Coy, Michele Frigerio, M. Ibe

Publication date 27 March 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04529

zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelgauge symmetryglobal symmetriesdiscrete symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: The clockwork mechanism is a novel method for generating a large separation between the dynamical scale and interaction scale of a theory. We demonstrate how the mechanism can arise from a sequence of strongly-coupled sectors. This framework avoids elementary scalar fields as well as ad hoc continuous global symmetries, both of which are subject to serious stability issues. The clockwork factor, $q$, is determined by the consistency of the strong dynamics. The preserved global $U(1)$ of the clockwork appears as an accidental symmetry, resulting from discrete or $U(1)$ gauge symmetries, and it is spontaneously broken by the chiral condensates. We apply such a dynamical clockwork to construct models with an effectively invisible QCD axion from TeV-scale strong dynamics. The axion couplings are determined by the localisation of the Standard Model interactions along the clockwork sequence. The TeV spectrum includes either coloured hadrons or vector-like quarks. Dark matter can be accounted for by the axion or the lightest neutral baryons, which are accidentally stable.

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