Testing clockwork axion with gravitational waves

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/05/049MaRDI QIDQ5028138zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cheng-Wei Chiang, Boqiang Lü

Publication date 8 February 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14071

zbMATH Keywords

axionscosmic stringscosmological phase transitionsdomain wallsgravitational waves/experimentsmonopoles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations (81V60) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Gravitational waves (83C35) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We investigate the gravitational waves (GWs) produced from the Peccei-Quinn (PQ) phase transition associated with the clockwork axion. The PQ phase transition can be first-order when the dimension-6 operator is included into the scalar potential. The GWs from the PQ phase transition at scale in the range of $10^3-10^6$ GeV are detectable for the BBO and ALIA interferometers. The LISA and Taiji interferometers can probe the GWs from the PQ scale $flesssim10^4$ GeV, while the GW signals from the scale $fgtrsim10^5$ GeV can be detected by the ground-based GW observatories ET and CE. We find that the parameter space $kapp{a}_{m}sim0.06-0.001$, $kapp{a}_{l}sim0.04-0.001$, and $varepsilonsim0.1-0.01$ at the scale $f=10^5$ GeV and most of the parameter regions at the scale $f=10^6$ GeV have been excluded by the LIGO O2 run. The LIGO O3 and design phases can further probe the remaining parameter space. We show that the GWs from the annihilation of domain walls with a PQ scale $fsimeq2imes10^5$ GeV can induce the stochastic signals indicated by the 12.5-year observation of NANOGrav. The LIGO O3 run has the opportunity of detecting the GW signals from the first-order PQ phase transition around this scale.

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