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2–3 Nov 2024
University of Kansas
US/Central timezone

Automatic quality axion from Gauged Flavor symmetry

3 Nov 2024, 09:36
18m
2049 Malott Hall (University of Kansas)

2049 Malott Hall

University of Kansas

Speaker

Sai Charan Chandrasekar (PhD Student at Oklahoma State University)

Description

The axion solution to the strong CP problem is closely entwined with the flavor structure of the standard model. So our model attempts at explaining the Flavor puzzle through the Frogatt Nielsen mechanism where the U(1)F flavor symmetry is gauged and we thereby end up with a "quality axion" as the result of a residual U(1)PQ symmtery. This is achieved in a DFSZ like scenario with a "Flavon" field of the gauged U(1)F in addition to the PQ scalar. We find that, demanding a favorable mass texture compatible with SU(5) embedding, the charges we require to cancel the anomalies naturally provide us an accidental quality axion whose scale is connected to the scale of right handed neutrino mass making it a viable ``Majoraxion". We also analyze the flavor violating (FV) axion phenomenology to test the model at the E949, E787 and CLEO experimental constraints on the FV vector axion quark couplings.

Authors

Ks Babu (Oklahoma State University) Sai Charan Chandrasekar (PhD Student at Oklahoma State University) Zurab Tavartkiladze

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