Cosmological History of Flavour Deconstruction Models: Constraints from Monopole Production
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| author | Pesut, Marko Racco, Davide Zhao, Yunlong |
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| contents | We highlight a generic connection between extensions of the Standard Model featuring low-scale semi-simple embeddings of $\rm{U}(1)_{\rm EM}$ and the phenomenology of magnetic monopoles in the early Universe. In particular, flavour non-universal models provide a well-motivated framework to address the hierarchical structure of Yukawa couplings while allowing new dynamics close to the TeV scale compatible with experimental bounds. In these constructions, the sequential breaking of semi-simple gauge groups through intermediate stages containing an unbroken $\rm{U}(1)$ factor generically leads to the production of light magnetic monopoles whose masses are set by scales far below the scale of Grand Unified Theories. Combining cosmological, astrophysical, and direct-search constraints, the parameter region naturally predicted by these models requires low-scale inflation to dilute the monopoles, followed by reheating below the monopole-production scale, typically around $10^{3}\text{--}10^4\,\mathrm{TeV}$. These results significantly reduce the otherwise large allowed inflationary window and establish a direct connection between flavour physics and the thermal history of the early Universe: future evidence for flavour non-universal interactions would point towards a low-scale reheating, while probes of primordial gravitational waves could directly constrain the scale at which semi-simple groups can appear in flavour models. |
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| spellingShingle | Cosmological History of Flavour Deconstruction Models: Constraints from Monopole Production Pesut, Marko Racco, Davide Zhao, Yunlong High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology We highlight a generic connection between extensions of the Standard Model featuring low-scale semi-simple embeddings of $\rm{U}(1)_{\rm EM}$ and the phenomenology of magnetic monopoles in the early Universe. In particular, flavour non-universal models provide a well-motivated framework to address the hierarchical structure of Yukawa couplings while allowing new dynamics close to the TeV scale compatible with experimental bounds. In these constructions, the sequential breaking of semi-simple gauge groups through intermediate stages containing an unbroken $\rm{U}(1)$ factor generically leads to the production of light magnetic monopoles whose masses are set by scales far below the scale of Grand Unified Theories. Combining cosmological, astrophysical, and direct-search constraints, the parameter region naturally predicted by these models requires low-scale inflation to dilute the monopoles, followed by reheating below the monopole-production scale, typically around $10^{3}\text{--}10^4\,\mathrm{TeV}$. These results significantly reduce the otherwise large allowed inflationary window and establish a direct connection between flavour physics and the thermal history of the early Universe: future evidence for flavour non-universal interactions would point towards a low-scale reheating, while probes of primordial gravitational waves could directly constrain the scale at which semi-simple groups can appear in flavour models. |
| title | Cosmological History of Flavour Deconstruction Models: Constraints from Monopole Production |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20332 |