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|a Agrawal, Prateek
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|a Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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|a Opening up the QCD axion window
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|a We present a new mechanism to deplete the energy density of the QCD axion, making decay constants as high as fa ≃ 1017 GeV viable for generic initial conditions. In our setup, the axion couples to a massless dark photon with a coupling that is moderately stronger than the axion coupling to gluons. Dark photons are produced copiously through a tachyonic instability when the axion field starts oscillating, and an exponential suppression of the axion density can be achieved. For a large part of the parameter space this dark radiation component of the universe can be observable in upcoming CMB experiments. Such dynamical depletion of the axion density ameliorates the isocurvature bound on the scale of inflation. The depletion also amplifies the power spectrum at scales that enter the horizon before particle production begins, potentially leading to axion miniclusters.
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|a United States. Department of Energy (Grant DE-SC-00012567)
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|a United States. Department of Energy (Grant DE-SC-00015476)
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|t Journal of High Energy Physics
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