7–16 Jan 2026
Ex Hacienda de Nogueras
America/Mexico_City timezone

Non-invertible Peccei-Quinn symmetry, natural 2HDM alignment, and the visible axion

12 Jan 2026, 11:00
1h
Ex Hacienda de Nogueras

Ex Hacienda de Nogueras

Hacienda Nogueras s/n, Colonia Nogueras, C.P. 28454, Comala, Colima, México.

Speaker

Antonio Delgado (University of Notre Dame (US))

Description

We identify m12 as a spurion of non-invertible Peccei-Quinn symmetry in the type II 2HDM with gauged quark flavor. Thus a UV theory which introduces quark color-flavor monopoles can naturally realize alignment without decoupling and can furthermore revive the Weinberg-Wilczek axion. As an example we consider the SU(9) theory of color-flavor unification, which needs no new fermions. This is the first model-building use of non-invertible symmetry to find a Dirac natural explanation for a small relevant parameter.

Author

Antonio Delgado (University of Notre Dame (US))

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