QCD axion window and low-scale inflation

We show that the upper bound of the classical QCD axion window can be significantly relaxed for low-scale inflation. If the Gibbons-Hawking temperature during inflation is lower than the QCD scale, the initial QCD axion misalignment angle follows the Bunch-Davies distribution. The distribution is pe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yin, Wen, Takahashi, Fuminobu, Guth, Alan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117261
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3802-5206