Axion-philic cosmological moduli
arXiv:2107.13383 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.123528
Abstract
We show that string moduli have axion-philic nature owing to the model-insensitive derivative interactions arising from the Kaehler potential. The decay of a modulus into stringy axions occurs without suppression by the mass of final states. Interestingly, it turns out to hold in general not only for the scalar partner of the stringy axion but also for any other moduli. The decay into (pseudo) Nambu-Goldstone bosons (NGBs) also avoids such mass suppression if the modulus is lighter than or similar in mass to the scalar partner of the NGB. Such axion-philic nature makes string moduli a natural source of an observable amount of dark radiation in string compactifications involving ultralight stringy axions, and possibly in extensions of the Standard Model that include a cosmologically stable NGB such as the QCD axion. In the latter case, the fermionic superpartner of the NGB can also contribute to the dark matter as a feebly interacting massive particle.
arXiv comment8 pages, v2: corrections made by including the effect of kinetic mixing, discussion expanded, references added
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