Is There a Peccei-Quinn Phase Transition?

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2004-05-26

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0405256v2

JCAP 0507 (2005) 009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

14 pages. Several references added

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2005/07/009

The nature of axion cosmology is usually said to depend on whether the Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry breaks before or after inflation. The PQ symmetry itself is believed to be an accident, so there is not necessarily a symmetry during inflation at all. We explore these issues in some simple models, which provide examples of symmetry breaking before and after inflation, or in which there is no symmetry during inflation and no phase transition at all. One effect of these observations is to relax the constraints from isocurvature fluctuations due to the axion during inflation. We also observe new possibilities for evading the constraints due to cosmic strings and domain walls, but they seem less generic.

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