Standard Model-Axion-Seesaw-Higgs Portal Inflation. Five problems of particle physics and cosmology solved in one stroke

Abstract

We present a minimal extension of the Standard Model (SM) providing a consistent picture of particle physics from the electroweak scale to the Planck scale and of cosmology from inflation until today. Three right-handed neutrinos $N_i$, a new color triplet $Q$ and a complex SM-singlet scalar $\sigma$, whose vacuum expectation value $v_{\sigma }\sim 10^{11}$ GeV breaks lepton number and a Peccei-Quinn symmetry simultaneously, are added to the SM. At low energies, the model reduces to the SM, augmented by seesaw generated neutrino masses and mixing, plus the axion. The latter solves the strong CP problem and accounts for the cold dark matter in the Universe. The inflaton is comprised by a mixture of $\sigma$ and the SM Higgs, and reheating of the Universe after inflation proceeds via the Higgs portal. Baryogenesis occurs via thermal leptogenesis. Thus, five fundamental problems of particle physics and cosmology are solved at one stroke in this unified Standard Model - Axion - seesaw - Higgs portal inflation (SMASH) model. It can be probed decisively by upcoming cosmic microwave background and axion dark matter experiments.

v2. Version accepted for publication at JCAP

References in corpus (63)

• Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
• Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
• Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis
• The Standard Model Higgs boson as the inflaton
• Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in $pp$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments
• Higgs inflation: consistency and generalisations
• Neutrino oscillations refitted
• Dielectric Haloscopes: A New Way to Detect Axion Dark Matter
• Inflation scenario via the Standard Model Higgs boson and LHC
• Power-counting and the Validity of the Classical Approximation During Inflation
• How accurately can 21 cm tomography constrain cosmology?
• Cosmological implications of the Higgs mass measurement
• Resonant detection of axion mediated forces with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Unitarizing Higgs Inflation
• The topological susceptibility in finite temperature QCD and axion cosmology
• Spacetime curvature and the Higgs stability during inflation
• Search for the $b\bar{b}$ decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson in associated $(W/Z)H$ production with the ATLAS detector
• Unifying inflation with the axion, dark matter, baryogenesis and the seesaw mechanism
• Conformal Transformations with Multiple Scalar Fields
• Inflation and the Scale Dependent Spectral Index: Prospects and Strategies
• Searching for galactic axions through magnetized media: the QUAX proposal
• (Almost) Closing the $\nu$MSM Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter Window with NuSTAR
• Primordial Bispectrum from Multifield Inflation with Nonminimal Couplings
• The Quest for an Intermediate-Scale Accidental Axion and Further ALPs
• Reopening the window on charged dark matter
• Isocurvature bounds on axions revisited
• Taming Infrared Divergences in the Effective Potential
• Probing axions with the neutrino signal from the next galactic supernova
• Taming the Goldstone contributions to the effective potential
• Thermal axion production in the primordial quark-gluon plasma
• A Search for Dark Matter Axions with the Orpheus Experiment
• Forward di-jet production in p+Pb collisions in the small-x improved TMD factorization framework
• Electroweak Vacuum Stability in light of BICEP2
• Astrophysical Effects of Scalar Dark Matter Miniclusters
• Higgs Dynamics during Inflation
• Probable or Improbable Universe? Correlating Electroweak Vacuum Instability with the Scale of Inflation
• Multifield Dynamics of Higgs Inflation
• Search for new particles in events with one lepton and missing transverse momentum in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
• Axion Stars and Fast Radio Bursts
• A Simple Motivated Completion of the Standard Model below the Planck Scale: Axions and Right-Handed Neutrinos
• Spacetime Dynamics of a Higgs Vacuum Instability During Inflation
• Lattice QCD for Cosmology
• The Standard Model Higgs as the origin of the hot Big Bang
• Unifying inflation and dark matter with the Peccei-Quinn field: observable axions and observable tensors
• Probing small-scale cosmological fluctuations with the 21 cm forest: effects of neutrino mass, running spectral index and warm dark matter
• Dark Matter and Leptogenesis Linked by Classical Scale Invariance
• Primordial Perturbations from Multifield Inflation with Nonminimal Couplings
• Measurement of the charge asymmetry in dileptonic decays of top quark pairs in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV using the ATLAS detector
• An invisible axion model with controlled FCNCs at tree level
• Inflation and majoron dark matter in the seesaw mechanism
• Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions $\mathcal{B}(B_c^{+}\to J/\psi K^{+})/\mathcal{B}(B_c^{+}\to J/\psi {\pi }^{+})$
• Massive neutrinos and invisible axion minimally connected
• Higgs inflation with singlet scalar dark matter and right-handed neutrino in light of BICEP2
• Probing a QCD String Axion with Precision Cosmological Measurements
• May axion clusters be sources of fast radio bursts?
• A class of invisible axion models with FCNCs at tree level
• Large tensor-to-scalar ratio and running of the scalar spectral index with Instep Inflation
• B-L Cosmic strings and Baryogenesis
• MADMAX: A new Dark Matter Axion Search using a Dielectric Haloscope
• Higgs inflation and Higgs portal dark matter with right-handed neutrinos
• Higgs Inflation as a Mirage
• Higgs Inflation, Seesaw Physics and Fermion Dark Matter
• Intercommutation of U(1) global cosmic strings

Cited by in corpus (132)

• New experimental approaches in the search for axion-like particles
• The landscape of QCD axion models
• Primordial black hole dark matter from single field inflation
• Primordial gravitational waves, precisely: The role of thermodynamics in the Standard Model
• Physics potential of the International Axion Observatory (IAXO)
• Flaxion: a minimal extension to solve puzzles in the standard model
• Early-Universe Simulations of the Cosmological Axion
• Early seeds of axion miniclusters
• The Stochastic Axion Scenario
• Baryogenesis from the weak scale to the grand unification scale
• The QCD Axion Window and Low Scale Inflation
• A new experimental approach to probe QCD axion dark matter in the mass range above 40$\mu$eV
• Structure Formation and Microlensing with Axion Miniclusters
• Stimulated axion decay in superradiant clouds around primordial black holes
• Cosmological window onto the string axiverse and the supersymmetry breaking scale
• Gravitational Waves as a Big Bang Thermometer
• Dielectric Haloscopes to Search for Axion Dark Matter: Theoretical Foundations
• Observing Invisible Axions with Gravitational Waves
• QCD Axion Dark Matter with a Small Decay Constant
• Projected Sensitivity of DMRadio-m${}^3$: A Search for the QCD Axion Below $1\mu$eV
• Gravitational wave production from preheating: parameter dependence
• Hidden Inflaton Dark Matter
• Looking at the NANOGrav Signal Through the Anthropic Window of Axion-Like Particles
• The Higgs Portal to Cosmology
• Axion Predictions in $SO(10)\times U(1{)}_{\mathrm{PQ}}$ Models
• Gravitational Waves from First-Order Phase Transition in a Simple Axion-Like Particle Model
• Axion Miniclusters in Modified Cosmological Histories
• Overshooting, Critical Higgs Inflation and Second Order Gravitational Wave Signatures
• Introducing DMRadio-GUT, a search for GUT-scale QCD axions
• The Majoron at two loops
• Neutrinophilic Axion-Like Dark Matter
• Stellar Evolution confronts Axion Models
• Spectrum of global string networks and the axion dark matter mass
• Axion dark matter from Higgs inflation with an intermediate $H_{\ast }$
• Topology and axions in QCD
• Revealing the Cosmic History with Gravitational Waves
• New opportunities for axion dark matter searches in nonstandard cosmological models
• Phenomenology of the inflation-inspired NMSSM at the electroweak scale
• Nonresonant Searches for Axion-Like Particles in Vector Boson Scattering Processes at the LHC
• Axion mass prediction from minimal grand unification
• The Inflaton Portal to a Highly decoupled EeV Dark Matter Particle
• Enhanced photon coupling of ALP dark matter adiabatically converted from the QCD axion
• WIMPflation
• Critical Higgs inflation in a Viable Motivated Model
• Strong CP problem and axion dark matter with small instantons
• Polynomial Inflation and Dark Matter
• Warm DBI inflation with constant sound speed
• Assessing Perturbativity and Vacuum Stability in High-Scale Leptogenesis
• Upper Bound on Thermal Gravitational Wave Backgrounds from Hidden Sectors
• Higgs-Inflaton Mixing and Vacuum Stability
• Discovery prospects with the Dark-photons & Axion-Like particles Interferometer
• Updated Constraints and Future Prospects on Majoron Dark Matter
• Cosmological effects of Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking on QCD axion dark matter
• Precision axion physics with running axion couplings
• A First Look on 3D Effects in Open Axion Haloscopes
• Search Optimization, Funnel Topography, and Dynamical Criticality on the String Landscape
• Dark Matter Candidates and Searches
• Axion Isocurvature Perturbations in Low-Scale Models of Hybrid Inflation
• A Common Source for Scalars: Axiflavon-Higgs Unification
• Ma-xion: Majoron as QCD axion in a radiative seesaw model
• Dielectric-Boosted Sensitivity to Cylindrical Azimuthally Varying Transverse-Magnetic Resonant Modes in an Axion Haloscope
• All-in-one Relaxion, a unified solution to five BSM puzzles
• Diraxiogenesis
• Slaying Axion-Like Particles via Gravitational Waves and Primordial Black Holes from Supercooled Phase Transition
• Semianalytic calculation of cosmic microwave background anisotropies from wiggly and superconducting cosmic strings
• QCD Axion Window and False Vacuum Higgs Inflation
• The Minimal GUT with Inflaton and Dark Matter Unification
• QCD Axion Kinetic Misalignment without Prejudice
• Several Problems in Particle Physics and Cosmology Solved in One SMASH
• The QCD Axion: A Unique Player in the Axiverse with Mixings
• Axion Quality Problem Alleviated by Non-Minimal Coupling to Gravity
• Probing the Seesaw Mechanism with Cosmological Data
• LiteBIRD and CMB-S4 Sensitivities to Reheating in Plateau Models of Inflation
• Consequences of vector-like quarks of Nelson-Barr type
• Reloading the Axion in a 3-3-1 setup
• Leptogenesis from oscillations and dark matter
• A first proof of principle booster setup for the MADMAX dielectric haloscope
• Warm Inflation, Neutrinos and Dark matter: a minimal extension of the Standard Model
• Stellar cooling anomalies and variant axion models
• Fermion Production in Bouncing Cosmologies
• Discrepancy between cosmological and electroweak observables in Higgs Inflation
• Inflection-point Inflation and Dark Matter Redux
• Revisiting Isocurvature Bounds on the Minimal QCD Axion
• Fully Testable Axion Dark Matter within a Minimal $SU(5)$ GUT
• S.M.A.S.H.E.D.: Standard Model Axion Seesaw Higgs Inflation Extended for Dirac Neutrinos
• Detecting axion dark matter beyond the magnetoquasistatic approximation
• Baryon and lepton number intricacies in axion models
• Inflation connected to the origin of $CP$ violation
• Connecting between inflation and dark matter in models with gauged $Z_3$ symmetry
• Limits on ALP-neutrino couplings from loop-level processes
• A Common Origin for the QCD Axion and Sterile Neutrinos from $SU(5)$ Strong Dynamics
• Radiative Axion Inflation
• Natural Higgs Inflation, Gauge Coupling Unification, and Neutrino Masses
• Exploring the flavor structure of quarks and leptons with reinforcement learning
• Freeze-In of radiative keV-scale neutrino dark matter from a new $\text{U}(1{)}_{\text{B-L}}$
• Revisiting isocurvature bounds in models unifying the axion with the inflaton
• Minimal solution to the axion isocurvature problem from a nonminimal coupling
• Pati-Salam Axion
• Axion-Sterile-Neutrino Dark Matter
• CP-violating axion interactions II: axions as Dark Matter
• Supersymmetric Majoron Inflation
• Statistical Uncertainties of the $N_{\text{DW}}=1$ QCD Axion Mass Window from Topological Defects
• Axion Paradigm with Color-Mediated Neutrino Masses
• The KSVZ Axion Model with Quasi-Degenerate Minima: A Unified Model for Dark Matter and Dark Energy
• Inflation and Higgs Phenomenology in a Model Unifying the DFSZ Axion with the Majoron
• Hidden Photon and Axion Dark Matter from Symmetry Breaking
• Hearing Higgs with Gravitational Wave Detectors
• Constraining Ultralight Axions with Galaxy Surveys
• No Warm Inflation From a Vanilla Axion
• Hints of new physics from stars
• Ultraviolet Sensitivity of Peccei-Quinn Inflation
• Electromagnetic modeling and science reach of DMRadio-m${}^3$
• Proton Decay in Product Group Unification
• Non-Perturbative Aspects of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
• Window for preferred axion models
• Post-inflationary production of particle Dark Matter: Hilltop and Coleman-Weinberg inflation
• Flavored Peccei-Quinn symmetries in the minimal $\nu$DFSZ model
• One-loop corrections to ALP couplings
• Simulation of dielectric axion haloscopes with deep neural networks: a proof-of-principle
• One-loop corrections to ALP couplings
• Axions at the meV Crossroads: Theory, Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Experiments
• The Second-Level Preheating
• Cosmology from Strong Interactions
• Axion Free-kick Misalignment Mechanism
• On Inflation and Reheating Features in the Higgs-$R^2$ Model
• The Search for the Cosmological Axion -- A New Refined Narrow Mass Window and Detection Scheme
• Identifying environmentally induced calibration changes in cryogenic RF axion detector systems using Deep Neural Networks
• Simulating MADMAX in 3D: Requirements for Dielectric Axion Haloscopes
• Dark Matter Freeze-in from a $Z^{\prime }$ Reheaton
• Quantum measurement systems and applications to particle physics and cosmology
• Axion-Neutrino Interplay in a Gauged Two-Higgs-Doublet Model
• SMASH-ing Vacuum Metastability