Published December 19, 2016 | Version v1
Journal article

Constraints on relaxion windows

  • 1. Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, Institute for Basic Science (IBS),Daejeon 34051 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics and Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Nussallee 12, 53115 Bonn (Germany)

Description

We examine the low energy phenomenology of the relaxion solution to the weak scale hierarchy problem. Assuming that the Hubble friction is responsible for a dissipation of the relaxion energy, we identify the cosmological relaxion window which corresponds to the parameter region compatible with a given value of the acceptable number of inflationary e-foldings. We then discuss a variety of observational constraints on the relaxion window, including those from astrophysical and cosmological considerations. We find that majority of the parameter space with a relaxion mass mϕ≳100 eV or a relaxion decay constant f≲107 GeV is excluded by existing constraints. There is an interesting parameter region with mϕ∼ 0.2−10 GeV and f∼ few−200 TeV, which is allowed by existing constraints, but can be probed soon by future beam dump experiments such as the SHiP experiment, or by improved EDM experiments.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2016)093; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/18361

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2016
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 93
ISSN
1029-8479

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Copyright (c) OPEN ACCESS, © The Authors
Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP12(2016)093; ARXIV:1610.00680; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:18361
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)