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Anomaly ratio distributions of hadronic axion models with multiple heavy quarks

Vaisakh Plakkot* and Sebastian Hoof†

  • Institut für Astrophysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany

  • *vaisakh.plakkot@stud.uni-goettingen.de
  • †hoof@uni-goettingen.de
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Phys. Rev. D 104, 075017 – Published 13 October, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.075017

Abstract

We consider hadronic axion models that extend the Standard Model by one complex scalar field and one or more new heavy quarks, i.e., NQ≥1. We review previously suggested selection criteria as well as categorize and catalog all possible models for NQ≤9. In particular, allowing for NQ>1 can introduce models that spoil the axion solution of the strong CP problem. Demanding that Landau poles do not appear below some energy scale limits the number of preferred models to a finite number. For our choice of criteria, we find that NQ≤28 and only 820 different anomaly ratios E/N exist (443 when considering additive representations, 12 when all new quarks transform under the same representation). We analyze the ensuing E/N distributions, which can be used to construct informative priors on the axion-photon coupling. The hadronic axion model band may be defined as the central region of one of these distributions, and we show how the band for equally probable, preferred models compares to present and future experimental constraints.

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Phys. Rev. D 104, 075017– Published 13 October, 2021
  • Received 4 August 2021
  • Accepted 16 September 2021
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