An M theory solution to the strong CP-problem, and constraints on the axiverse

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2010)105zbMATH Open1294.81148arXiv1004.5138OpenAlexW3100769297WikidataQ59255262 ScholiaQ59255262MaRDI QIDQ406774FDOQ406774

Authors: Bobby Samir Acharya, Konstantin Bobkov, Piyush Kumar 

Publication date: 29 August 2014

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

Abstract: We give an explicit realization of the "String Axiverse" discussed in Arvanitaki et. al cite{Arvanitaki:2009fg} by extending our previous results on moduli stabilization in $M$ theory to include axions. We extend the analysis of cite{Arvanitaki:2009fg} to allow for high scale inflation that leads to a moduli dominated pre-BBN Universe. We demonstrate that an axion which solves the strong-CP problem naturally arises and that both the axion decay constants and GUT scale can consistently be around $2imes10^{16}$ GeV with a much smaller fine tuning than is usually expected. Constraints on the Axiverse from cosmological observations, namely isocurvature perturbations and tensor modes are described. Extending work of Fox et. al cite{Fox:2004kb}, we note that {it the observation of tensor modes at Planck will falsify the Axiverse completely.} Finally we note that Axiverse models whose lightest axion has mass of order $10^{-15}$ eV and with decay constants of order $5imes10^{14}$ GeV require no (anthropic) fine-tuning, though standard unification at $10^{16}$ GeV is difficult to accommodate.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.5138

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zbMATH Keywords

phenomenology of field theories in higher dimensionsstrings and branes phenomenology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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• The landscape of QCD axion models
• Kilobyte Cosmic Birefringence from ALP domain walls
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• Compactified string theories — Generic predictions for particle physics
• The axiverse induced dark radiation problem
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• The type IIB string axiverse and its low-energy phenomenology
• Axion mediation
• Implications of protecting the QCD axion in the dual description
• Gravitational waves from the fragmentation of axion-like particle dark matter
• Cosmological implications of \(n_s \approx 1\) in light of the Hubble tension
• Ultralight DM bosons with an axion-like potential: scale-dependent constraints revisited
• CMB birefringence from ultralight-axion string networks
• Trapping effect for QCD axion dark matter
• Some necessary conditions for allowing the PQ scale as high as \(M_{\text{GUT}}\) in SUSY models with an axino or neutralino LSP
• Axions in the landscape and string theory
• Miniclusters in the axiverse
• Two-scalar Bose-Einstein condensates: from stars to galaxies
• Superradiance in string theory
• The strong CP problem, general covariance, and horizons
• Observing invisible axions with gravitational waves

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