Efficient approach to low scale Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking without domain wall problem

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel mechanism for low-scale Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking that avoids the domain wall problem by utilizing two global symmetries linked by a new gauge symmetry, resulting in an efficient invisible axion model.

Contribution

It presents a new model with two global symmetries connected by a gauge symmetry, avoiding the domain wall problem and enhancing the axion decay constant.

Findings

The model successfully avoids the domain wall problem.

The axion decay constant can be significantly increased.

The mechanism integrates seamlessly with the Standard Model extensions.

Abstract

We propose an efficient mechanism to realize an invisible axion from a low scale Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking. Our basic model only contains a gauge boson, an up-type vector-like quark, two Higgs doublets and two Higgs singlets besides the standard model fermions and gauge bosons. The physical Peccei-Quinn global symmetry is a result of two independent global symmetries connected by the new gauge symmetry. Anyone of these two global symmetries only acts on either the right-handed top quark or the left-handed new quark so that it can avoid the domain wall problem. Thanks to the electroweak and new gauge interactions, the Higgs doublet for the top quark mass generation and the Higgs singlet for the new quark mass generation can only contribute a tiny fraction in the axion. The axion decay constant can be largely enhanced by a factor composed of the vacuum expectation values of the four Higgs scalars.