Axion paradigm with "coloured" neutrino masses

14 Jun 2024, 12:00
20m
Sala Gris II

Sala Gris II

Parallel Talk Dark matter, astroparticles and gravitational waves Joint Session: Flavour/Neutrinos/Dark Matter

Speaker

Aditya Batra (CFTP-IST, Lisbon)

Description

I will discuss our recent paper Phys.Rev.Lett. 132 (2024) 5, 051801, where we propose a generalized KSVZ-type axion framework in which coloured fermions and scalars act as two-loop Majorana neutrino-mass mediators. The global Peccei-Quinn symmetry under which exotic fermions are charged solves the strong CP problem. Within our general proposal, various setups can be distinguished by probing the axion-to-photon coupling at helioscopes and haloscopes. We also comment on axion dark-matter production in the early Universe.

Authors

Aditya Batra (CFTP-IST, Lisbon) Filipe Rafael Joaquim (CFTP-IST, Lisbon) Henrique Brito Câmara (CFTP-IST, Lisbon) Prof. José W. F. Valle (Valencia U., IFIC) Rahul Srivastava (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - Bhopal)

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