An M theory solution to the strong CP-problem, and constraints on the axivers

作者：Acharya Bobby Samir^*; Bobkov Konstantin; Kumar Piyush

来源：The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010, (11): 105.

DOI：10.1007/JHEP11(2010)105

• Strings and branes phenomenology
• Phenomenology of Field Theories in Higher Dimensions

We give an explicit realization of the "String Axiverse" discussed in Arvanitaki et. al [1] by extending our previous results on moduli stabilization in M theory to include axions. We extend the analysis of [1] to allow for high scale inflation that leads to a moduli dominated pre-BBN Universe. We demonstrate that an axion which solves the strong-CP problem naturally arises and that both the axion decay constants and GUT scale can consistently be around 2 x 10(16) GeV with a much smaller fine tuning than is usually expected. Constraints on the Axiverse from cosmological observations, namely isocurvature perturbations and tensor modes are described. Extending work of Fox et. al [2], we note that the observation of tensor modes at Planck will falsify the Axiverse completely. Finally we note that Axiverse models whose lightest axion has mass of order 10(-15) eV and with decay constants of order 5 x 10(14) GeV require no (anthropic) fine-tuning, though standard unification at 10(16) GeV is difficult to accommodate.

• 出版日期2010-11
• 单位中国科学院理论物理研究所