# A High-Quality Axion from Exact SUSY Chiral Dynamics

## TL;DR

This paper constructs a high-quality composite axion within a supersymmetric chiral gauge theory framework, addressing the strong CP problem with exact calculations and symmetry protections, and explores its implications for grand unification and collider detection.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel supersymmetric SU(10) chiral gauge theory model that yields a stable, composite axion with exact vacuum calculation and symmetry-based suppression of PQ-violating operators.

## Key findings

- Exact calculation of the vacuum state.
- Suppression of PQ-violating operators up to dimension eight.
- Potential collider signatures of colored NGBs.

## Abstract

We use supersymmetric chiral dynamics perturbed by anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking to obtain a high-quality, composite axion that solves the strong CP problem. The strong dynamics arises from a supersymmetric SU(10) chiral gauge theory with massless matter chiral superfields. This leads to a stable, nonsupersymmetric vacuum, calculated exactly, where a spontaneously broken $U(1)$ global symmetry, identified with the Peccei-Quinn symmetry, gives rise to a composite QCD axion. The chiral gauge theory also admits a discrete $\mathbb{Z}_{4}$ (or $\mathbb{Z}_{8,16}$) gauge symmetry that forbids PQ-violating operators up to dimension eight. An extension to an $SU(14)\times \mathbb{Z}_{12}$ chiral gauge theory incorporates $SO(10)$ grand unification where the unification scale is identified with the PQ-breaking scale and PQ-violating operators are forbidden up to dimension 20. The supersymmetry breaking scale, near 100 TeV, ameliorates the Higgs hierarchy problem, while colored NGBs may be detected at future colliders via decays to gluons or form heavy isotopes.