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Main Authors: Girmohanta, Sudhakantha, Nakai, Yuichiro, Qiu, Yu-Cheng, Zhang, Zhihao
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16304
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author Girmohanta, Sudhakantha
Nakai, Yuichiro
Qiu, Yu-Cheng
Zhang, Zhihao
author_facet Girmohanta, Sudhakantha
Nakai, Yuichiro
Qiu, Yu-Cheng
Zhang, Zhihao
contents The dilaton emerges as a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) associated with the spontaneous breaking of scale invariance in a nearly conformal field theory (CFT). We show the existence of a wiggly dilaton potential that contains multiple vacuum solutions in a five-dimensional (5D) holographic formulation. The wiggly feature originates from boundary potentials of a 5D axion-like scalar field, whose naturally small bulk mass parameter corresponds to a marginally-relevant deformation of the dual CFT. Depending on the energy density of a boundary 3-brane, our model can provide a relaxion potential or generate a light dilaton. However, an extremely light dilaton requires fine-tuning.
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spellingShingle Wiggly dilaton: a landscape of spontaneously broken scale invariance
Girmohanta, Sudhakantha
Nakai, Yuichiro
Qiu, Yu-Cheng
Zhang, Zhihao
High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
The dilaton emerges as a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) associated with the spontaneous breaking of scale invariance in a nearly conformal field theory (CFT). We show the existence of a wiggly dilaton potential that contains multiple vacuum solutions in a five-dimensional (5D) holographic formulation. The wiggly feature originates from boundary potentials of a 5D axion-like scalar field, whose naturally small bulk mass parameter corresponds to a marginally-relevant deformation of the dual CFT. Depending on the energy density of a boundary 3-brane, our model can provide a relaxion potential or generate a light dilaton. However, an extremely light dilaton requires fine-tuning.
title Wiggly dilaton: a landscape of spontaneously broken scale invariance
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16304