Cosmological relaxation through the dark axion portal

Abstract The dark axion portal is a coupling of an axion-like particle to a dark photon kinetically mixed with the visible photon. We show how this portal, when applied to the relaxion, can lead to cosmological relaxation of the weak scale using dark photon production. The key backreaction mechanism...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Valerie Domcke, Kai Schmitz, Tevong You
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-07-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2022)126