Publication Date:
2018-08-01
Description:
Author(s): Fuminobu Takahashi, Wen Yin, and Alan H. Guth We show that the upper bound of the classical QCD axion window can be significantly relaxed for low-scale inflation. If the Gibbons-Hawking temperature during inflation is lower than the QCD scale, the initial QCD axion misalignment angle follows the Bunch-Davies distribution. The distribution is pe... [Phys. Rev. D 98, 015042] Published Tue Jul 31, 2018
Keywords:
Beyond the standard model
Print ISSN:
0556-2821
Electronic ISSN:
1089-4918
Topics:
Physics
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