Modular domain walls and gravitational waves
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| author | King, Stephen F. Wang, Xin Zhou, Ye-Ling |
| author_facet | King, Stephen F. Wang, Xin Zhou, Ye-Ling |
| contents | We discuss modular domain walls and gravitational waves in a class of supersymmetric models where quark and lepton flavour symmetry emerges from modular symmetry. In such models a single modulus field $τ$ is often assumed to be stabilised at or near certain fixed point values such as $τ= {\rm i}$ and $τ= ω$ (the cube root of unity), in its fundamental domain. We show that, in the global supersymmetry limit of certain classes of potentials, the vacua at these fixed points may be degenerate, leading to the formation of modular domain walls in the early Universe. Taking supergravity effects into account, in the background of a fixed dilaton field $S$, the degeneracy may be lifted, leading to a bias term in the potential allowing the domain walls to collapse. We study the resulting gravitational wave spectra arising from the dynamics of such modular domain walls, and assess their observability by current and future experiments, as a window into modular flavour symmetry. |
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| spellingShingle | Modular domain walls and gravitational waves King, Stephen F. Wang, Xin Zhou, Ye-Ling High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory We discuss modular domain walls and gravitational waves in a class of supersymmetric models where quark and lepton flavour symmetry emerges from modular symmetry. In such models a single modulus field $τ$ is often assumed to be stabilised at or near certain fixed point values such as $τ= {\rm i}$ and $τ= ω$ (the cube root of unity), in its fundamental domain. We show that, in the global supersymmetry limit of certain classes of potentials, the vacua at these fixed points may be degenerate, leading to the formation of modular domain walls in the early Universe. Taking supergravity effects into account, in the background of a fixed dilaton field $S$, the degeneracy may be lifted, leading to a bias term in the potential allowing the domain walls to collapse. We study the resulting gravitational wave spectra arising from the dynamics of such modular domain walls, and assess their observability by current and future experiments, as a window into modular flavour symmetry. |
| title | Modular domain walls and gravitational waves |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04900 |