Sep 22 – 25, 2025
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Non-invertible Peccei-Quinn symmetry, natural 2HDM alignment, and the visible axion

Sep 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
30m
0.06 (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics)

0.06

University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics

Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
Plenary Plenary 12

Speaker

ANTONIO DELGADO (University of Notre Dame)

Description

We identify m12 as a spurion of non-invertible Peccei-Quinn symmetry in the type II 2HDM with gauged quark flavor. Thus a UV theory which introduces quark color-flavor monopoles can naturally realize alignment without decoupling and can furthermore revive the Weinberg-Wilczek axion. As an example we consider the SU(9) theory of color-flavor unification, which needs no new fermions. This is the first model-building use of non-invertible symmetry to find a Dirac natural explanation for a small relevant parameter.

Primary author

ANTONIO DELGADO (University of Notre Dame)

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