Couplings between QCD axion and photon from string compactification

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2016.05.067MaRDI QIDQ2012389zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jihn E. Kim, Soonkeon Nam

Publication date 31 July 2017

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02145

zbMATH Keywords

axion-photon-photon couplingDFSZ axionKSVZ axionsuperstring axions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: The QCD axion couplings of various invisible axion models are presented. In particular, the exact global symmetry U(1)${}_{mPQ}$ in the superpotential is possible for the anomalous U(1) from string compactification, broken only by the gauge anomalies at one loop level, and is shown to have the resultant invisible axion coupling to photon, $c_{agammagamma}gefrac83-c_{agammagamma}^{mch,br}$ where $c_{agammagamma}^{mch,br}simeq2$. However, this bound is not applicable in approximate U(1)${}_{mPQ}$ models with sufficiently suppressed U(1)${}_{mPQ}$-breaking superpotential terms. We also present a simple method to obtain $c_{agammagamma}^0$ which is the value obtained above the electroweak scale.

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