The landscape of QCD axion models

L Di Luzio, M Giannotti, E Nardi, L Visinelli - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
We review the landscape of QCD axion models. Theoretical constructions that extend the
window for the axion mass and couplings beyond conventional regions are highlighted and …

[HTML][HTML] String cosmology: from the early universe to today

M Cicoli, JP Conlon, A Maharana, S Parameswaran… - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
We review applications of string theory to cosmology, from primordial times to the present-
day accelerated expansion. Starting with a brief overview of cosmology and string …

[HTML][HTML] Feebly-interacting particles: FIPs 2020 workshop report

P Agrawal, M Bauer, J Beacham, A Berlin… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
With the establishment and maturation of the experimental programs searching for new
physics with sizeable couplings at the LHC, there is an increasing interest in the broader …

Primordial gravitational waves in the nano-Hertz regime and PTA data—towards solving the GW inverse problem

E Madge, E Morgante, C Puchades-Ibáñez… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract In recent years, several pulsar timing array collaborations have reported first hints
for a stochastic gravitational wave background at nano-Hertz frequencies. Here we …

Recent progress in the physics of axions and axion-like particles

K Choi, SH Im, CS Shin - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The axion is a light pseudoscalar particle postulated to solve issues with the Standard
Model, including the strong CP problem and the origin of dark matter. In recent years, there …

Relic abundance of dark photon dark matter

P Agrawal, N Kitajima, M Reece, T Sekiguchi… - Physics Letters B, 2020 - Elsevier
We present a new mechanism for producing the correct relic abundance of dark photon dark
matter over a wide range of its mass, extending down to 10− 20 eV. The dark matter …

Large field excursions and approximate discrete symmetries from a clockwork axion

DE Kaplan, R Rattazzi - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
We present a renormalizable theory of scalars in which the low-energy effective theory
contains a pseudo-Goldstone boson with a compact field space of 2 π F and an approximate …

The weak gravity conjecture: a review

D Harlow, B Heidenreich, M Reece… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The Weak Gravity Conjecture holds that in a theory of quantum gravity, any gauge force
must mediate interactions stronger than gravity for some particles. This statement has …

Realizing the relaxion from multiple axions and its UV completion with high scale supersymmetry

K Choi, SH Im - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016 - Springer
A bstract We discuss a scheme to implement the relaxion solution to the hierarchy problem
with multiple axions, and present a UV-completed model realizing the scheme. All of the N …

A clockwork theory

GF Giudice, M McCullough - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract The clockwork is a mechanism for generating light particles with exponentially
suppressed interactions in theories which contain no small parameters at the fundamental …