On the dynamical origin of the ^ potential and the axion mass

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2023)139arXiv2307.04809OpenAlexW4387936868MaRDI QIDQ6061817FDOQ6061817

R. S. Gupta, Tuhin S. Roy, Maximilian Ruhdorfer, C. Csáki, Eric Kuflik, Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo

Publication date: 8 December 2023

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

Abstract: We investigate the dynamics responsible for generating the potential of the $et{a}^{\prime }$, the (would-be) Goldstone boson associated with the anomalous axial $U(1)$ symmetry of QCD. The standard lore posits that pure QCD dynamics generates a confining potential with a branched structure as a function of the $heta$ angle, and that this same potential largely determines the properties of the $et{a}^{\prime }$ once fermions are included. Here we test this picture by examining a supersymmetric extension of QCD with a small amount of supersymmetry breaking generated via anomaly mediation. For pure $SU(N)$ QCD without flavors, we verify that there are $N$ branches generated by gaugino condensation. Once quarks are introduced, the flavor effects qualitatively change the strong dynamics of the pure theory. For $F$ flavors we find $|N-F|$ branches, whose dynamical origin is gaugino condensation in the unbroken subgroup for $F<N-1$, and in the dual gauge group for $F>N+1$. For the special cases of $F=N-1,N,N+1$ we find no branches and the entire potential is consistent with being a one-instanton effect. The number of branches is a simple consequence of the selection rules of an anomalous $U(1{)}_R$ symmetry. We find that the $et{a}^{\prime }$ mass does not vanish in the large $N$ limit for fixed $F/N$, since the anomaly is non-vanishing. The same dynamics that is responsible for the $et{a}^{\prime }$ potential is also responsible for the axion potential. We present a simple derivation of the axion mass formula for an arbitrary number of flavors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04809

zbMATH Keywords

\(1/N\) expansionsupersymmetric gauge theorychiral Lagrangianaxions and ALPs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

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