Axionic festina lente

• Verfasst von: Guidetti, Veronica [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Righi, Nicole [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Venken, Gerben [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Westphal, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Axionic festina lente
• Verf.angabe: Veronica Guidetti, Nicole Righi, Gerben Venken and Alexander Westphal
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: January 20, 2023
• Umfang: 22 S.
• Illustrationen: Diagramme
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 15.11.2023
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Journal of high energy physics
• Ort Quelle: Berlin : Springer, 1997
• Jahr Quelle: 2023
• Band/Heft Quelle: (2023), 1, Artikel-ID 114, Seite 1-22
• ISSN Quelle: 1029-8479
• DOI: doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2023)114
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Black Holes in String Theory
• Sach-SW: Cosmology of Theories BSM
• Sach-SW: D-Branes
• Sach-SW: String and Brane Phenomenology
• K10plus-PPN: 1838178112

Abstract

The swampland conjecture known as Festina Lente (FL) imposes a lower bound on the mass of all charged particles in a quasi-de Sitter space. In this paper, we propose the aFL (axionic Festina Lente) bound, an extension of FL to axion-like particles arising from type II string theory. We find that the product of the instanton action and the axion decay constant is bounded from below by the vacuum energy. This is achieved indirectly, using dimensional reduction on Calabi-Yau threefolds, and translating the FL result for dipoles into a purely geometric bound. We discuss axionic black holes evolution, and aFL constraints on Euclidean wormholes, showing that the gravitational arguments leading to the FL bound for U(1) charged particles cannot be directly applied to axions. Moreover, we discuss phenomenological implications of the aFL bound, including constraints on string inflation models and the axion-photon coupling via kinetic mixing.