The light radion window

Fayez Abu-Ajamieh (Department of Physics, University of California Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA, 95616, U.S.A.) ; Jun Lee (Department of Physics, University of California Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA, 95616, U.S.A.) ; John Terning (Department of Physics, University of California Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA, 95616, U.S.A.)

Inspired by the Contino-Pomarol-Rattazzi mechanism we explore scenarios with a very light (1 keV to 10 GeV) radion which could be associated with the suppression of the electroweak contribution to vacuum energy. We construct explicit, realistic models that realize this mechanism and explore the phenomenological constraints on this class of models. Compared with axion-like particles in this mass range, the bounds from SN 1987a and from cosmology can be much weaker, depending on the mass of the radion and its coupling to other particles. With couplings suppressed by a scale lower than 100 TeV, much of the mass window from 100 keV to 10 GeV is still open.

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Published on:
08 October 2018
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Springer
Published in:
Journal of High Energy Physics , Volume 2018 (2018)
Issue 10
Pages 1-32
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2018)050
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