Journal of High Energy Physics (Feb 2024)

Classification of three-family flavoured DFSZ axion models that have no domain wall problem

  • Peter Cox,
  • Matthew J. Dolan,
  • Maaz Hayat,
  • Andrea Thamm,
  • Raymond R. Volkas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2024)011
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2024, no. 2
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Abstract We provide an exhaustive classification of three-family DFSZ axion models that have no cosmological domain wall problem. This result is obtained by making the Peccei-Quinn symmetry flavour dependent in certain specific ways, thus reinforcing a possible connection between the strong CP problem and the flavour puzzle. Known DFSZ flavour variants such as the top-specific model emerge as special cases. Key features of the phenomenology of these models are briefly discussed.

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