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Consistency of the string inspired electroweak axion with cosmic birefringence

Weikang Lin1,* and Tsutomu T. Yanagida1,2,†

  • 1Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI) and School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shengrong Road 520, 201210 Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
  • 2Kavli IPMU (WPI), The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan

  • *weikanglin@sjtu.edu.cn
  • †tsutomu.tyanagida@sjtu.edu.cn
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Phys. Rev. D 107, L021302 – Published 27 January, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.L021302

Abstract

We revisit the constraint from the recently reported cosmic birefringence on axionlike particles with a general decay constant. Particular attention is paid to the naturalness of the model parameter space, which has been overlooked in the literature. We show that the observed cosmic birefringence is naturally explained by the electroweak axion with a string-theory inspired decay constant FA≃1016  GeV.

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Phys. Rev. D 107, L021302– Published 27 January, 2023
  • Received 11 September 2022
  • Accepted 9 January 2023
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