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Non-thermally trapped inflation by tachyonic dark photon production
We show that a dark Higgs field charged under U(1) gauge symmetry
is trapped at the origin for a long time, if dark photons are produced by an
axion condensate via tachyonic preheating. The trapped dark Higgs can drive
late-time inflation, producing a large amount of entropy. Unlike thermal
inflation, the dark Higgs potential does not have to be very flat, because the
effective mass for the dark Higgs is enhanced by large field values of dark
photons with extremely low momentum. After inflation, the dark Higgs decays
into massive dark photons, which further decay into the SM particles through a
kinetic mixing. We show that a large portion of the viable parameter space is
within the future experimental searches for the dark photon, because the
kinetic mixing is bounded below for successful reheating. We also comment on
the Schwinger effect which can hamper the tachyonic production of dark photons,
when the mass of dark photon is not the St\"{u}ckelberg mass, but is generated
by the Higgs mechanism. Such non-thermal trapped inflation could be applied to
other cosmological scenarios such as the early dark energy, known as one of the
solutions to the Hubble tension.Comment: 11pages, 7 figures, references adde
Early dark energy by dark Higgs, and axion-induced non-thermal trapping
We propose a new scenario of early dark energy (EDE) with a dark Higgs
trapped at the origin. To keep this dark Higgs trapped until around the
matter-radiation equality, we use dark photons produced non-thermally by
coherent oscillations of axions, which have a much stronger trapping effect
than thermal mass. When the trapping ends, the dark Higgs quickly decays into
dark photons, which are then red-shifted as radiation. The dark Higgs EDE
scenario works well for an ordinary Mexican-hat potential, and the dark Higgs
naturally sits at the origin from the beginning, since it is the
symmetry-enhanced point. Thus, unlike the axion EDE, there is no need for
elaborate potentials or fine-tuning with respect to the initial condition.
Interestingly, the axion not only produces dark photons, but also explains dark
matter. We find the viable parameter region of the axion decay constant and the
axion mass where dark matter and the tension can be simultaneously
explained. We also discuss the detectability of the axion in the presence of
axion-photon coupling, and show that the axion can be the QCD axion.Comment: 27 pages, 4 figure
Dynamics of Superconformal Axion: Quality and Scalegenesis
We explore a dynamical mechanism to realize the emergence of a global
symmetry and its spontaneous breaking at an intermediate scale
for an axion solution to the strong CP problem. Such a dynamics is provided by
a new supersymmetric QCD near the middle of conformal window that couples to
fields spontaneously breaking the symmetry. A large anomalous
dimension of the breaking fields leads to the suppression of
explicit -violating higher dimensional operators. The breaking vacuum is generated at a scale hierarchically smaller than the
Planck scale by a non-perturbative effect. The breaking drives
the conformal breaking, and all the new quarks become massive. The axion
potential is generated by the ordinary color effect as the symmetry is only anomalous under the . The saxion direction is
stabilized by supersymmetry breaking and cosmologically harmless.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Dissipation of axion energy via the Schwinger and Witten effects
In the presence of an anomalous CP phase in a U(1) gauge theory, a monopole
becomes a dyon via the Witten effect. When the anomalous CP phase is promoted
to a dynamical field, the axion, the electric charge of the dyon changes
according to the coherent motion of the axion oscillation. Once the electric
charge exceeds a certain threshold, the Schwinger pair production of charged
particles becomes efficient near the surface of the dyon. These
non-perturbative effects lead to the back reaction of the axion dynamics by
causing the dissipation of the axion oscillation energy and the change of the
effective potential due to the Witten effect. Taking these effects into
account, we consider the dynamics of the whole system, including the axion,
monopole, and charged heavy vector bosons, and discuss to what extent the axion
abundance is modified. We also discuss the electric dipole radiation from a
bound state of a monopole-anti-monopole pair due to the axion coherent
oscillations.Comment: 22 pages, 9 figure
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