QCD axion and Neutrino induced by Hidden flavor structure

TL;DR

This paper develops a unified flavored-axion model linking neutrino masses, fermion mixings, and axion properties, predicting specific axion parameters and neutrino oscillation features through symmetry breaking and anomaly cancellation.

Contribution

It introduces a novel flavored-axion framework with anomaly cancellation conditions that determine axion and neutrino parameters, connecting flavor symmetry breaking with observable axion and neutrino phenomena.

Findings

Predicted QCD axion decay constant $F_A$ around 3.57×10^{10} GeV.

Derived axion mass and couplings consistent with experimental constraints.

Estimated neutrino mixing angles and CP phase including quantum corrections.

Abstract

We study the reasonable requirements of two anomalous $U(1)$s in a flavored-axion framework for the anomaly cancellations of both $U(1)$-mixed gravity and $U(1)_Y\times[U(1)]^2$ which in turn determine the $U(1)_Y$ charges where $U(1)_Y$ is the hypercharge gauge symmetry of the standard model. We argue that, with a flavor symmetry group, axion-induced topology in symmetry-broken phases plays crucial roles in describing how quarks and leptons are organized at a fundamental level and make deep connections with each other. A unified model, as an example, is then proposed in a simple way to describe a whole spectrum of particles where both flavored-axion interactions with normal matter and the masses and mixings of fermions emerge from the spontaneous breaking of a given symmetry group. Once a scale of active neutrino mass defined at a seesaw scale is fixed by the commensurate $U(1)$ flavored-PQ charge of fermions, that of QCD axion decay constant $F_A$ is determined. In turn, fundamental physical parameters complementary to each other are predicted with the help of precision flavor experiments. Model predictions are extracted on the characteristics of neutrino and flavored-axion: $F_A=3.57^{\,+1.52}_{\,-1.53}\times10^{10}$ GeV (consequently, QCD axion mass $m_a=1.52^{+1.14}_{-0.46}\times10^{-4}$ eV, axion to photon coupling $|g_{a\gamma\gamma}|=2.15^{+1.61}_{-0.64}\times10^{-14}\,\text{GeV}^{-1}$, axion to electron coupling $g_{Aee}=3.29^{+2.47}_{-0.98}\times10^{-14}$, etc.); atmospheric mixing angle $\theta_{23}$, Dirac CP phase $\delta_{CP}$, and $0\nu\beta\beta${\it-decay rate} for normal mass ordering and inverted one by taking quantum corrections into account.