The axiverse induced dark radiation problem

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2016)009MaRDI QIDQ1638487zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chakrit Pongkitivanichkul, Bobby Samir Acharya

Publication date 12 June 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.07907

zbMATH Keywords

strings and branes phenomenology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: The string/$M$ theory Axiverse -- a plethora of very light Axion Like Particles (ALPs) with a vast range of masses -- is arguably a generic prediction of string/$M$ theory. String/$M$ theory also tends to predict that the early Universe is dominated by moduli fields. When the heavy moduli decay, before nucleosynthesis, they produce dark radiation in the form of relativistic ALPs. Generically one estimates that the number of relativistic species grows with the number of axions in the Axiverse, in contradiction to the observations that $N_{eff}leq4$. We explain this problem in detail and suggest some possible solutions to it. The simplest solution requires that the lightest modulus decays only into its own axion superpartner plus Standard Model particles and this severely constrains the moduli Kahler potential and mass matrix.

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