QCD axion strings or seeds?

We study the impact of QCD axion strings on the cosmological history of electroweak (EW) symmetry breaking, focussing on the minimal KSVZ axion model. We consider the case of the pure SM Higgs potential as well as a simple scenario with a first order EW phase transition. We capture the effect of the...

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Main Author: Simone Blasi, Alberto Mariotti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SciPost 2025-01-01
Series:SciPost Physics
Online Access:https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.1.016
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