Dynamical clockwork axions

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2017)002zbMATH Open1383.81338arXiv1706.04529OpenAlexW3098259257MaRDI QIDQ1709233FDOQ1709233

Authors: Rupert Coy, Michele Frigerio, M. Ibe 

Publication date: 27 March 2018

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelgauge symmetryglobal symmetriesdiscrete symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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