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Phenomenology of the companion-axion model. Photon couplings

  • 1. Sydney Consortium for Particle Physics and Cosmology, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW (Australia)
  • 2. School of Physics, The University of Sydney and ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics, 2006, Sydney, NSW (Australia)
  • 3. School of Physics, The University of New South Wales, 2052, Sydney, NSW (Australia)

Description

We study the phenomenology of the 'companion-axion model' consisting of two coupled QCD axions. The second axion is required to rescue the Peccei-Quinn solution to the strong-CP problem from the effects of colored gravitational instantons. We investigate here the combined phenomenology of axion-axion and axion-photon interactions, recasting present and future single-axion bounds onto the companion-axion parameter space. Most remarkably, we predict that future axion searches with haloscopes and helioscopes may well discover two QCD axions, perhaps even within the same experiment.

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Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10909-6

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Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields (Online)
Journal Volume
82
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
1434-6052
CODEN
EPCFFB

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