Saving or Destroying the Universe with Axion-Like Particles
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| author | Galda, Anne Mareike Neubert, Matthias |
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| contents | Light pseudoscalar resonances that couple to the Standard Model via non-renormalizable operators, such as axions and axion-like particles (ALPs), generate contributions to the renormalization group evolution equations of couplings of dimension-4 and higher-dimensional operators. In particular, they modify the $β$-function of the Higgs quartic coupling and of SM and SMEFT parameters entering this equation, thus having an impact on the instability scale of the electroweak vacuum. We employ this fact together with the requirement that, in the presence of axions and ALPs, the Universe remains in a meta-stable state to deduce bounds on ALP couplings to the Standard Model fields. We also show that the modification of the $β$-functions of the gauge couplings by the ALP can lead to a unification around the Planck scale, even in non-sypersymmetric models. |
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| spellingShingle | Saving or Destroying the Universe with Axion-Like Particles Galda, Anne Mareike Neubert, Matthias High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Light pseudoscalar resonances that couple to the Standard Model via non-renormalizable operators, such as axions and axion-like particles (ALPs), generate contributions to the renormalization group evolution equations of couplings of dimension-4 and higher-dimensional operators. In particular, they modify the $β$-function of the Higgs quartic coupling and of SM and SMEFT parameters entering this equation, thus having an impact on the instability scale of the electroweak vacuum. We employ this fact together with the requirement that, in the presence of axions and ALPs, the Universe remains in a meta-stable state to deduce bounds on ALP couplings to the Standard Model fields. We also show that the modification of the $β$-functions of the gauge couplings by the ALP can lead to a unification around the Planck scale, even in non-sypersymmetric models. |
| title | Saving or Destroying the Universe with Axion-Like Particles |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06426 |