26–30 May 2025
Centro Culturale Altinate San Gaetano
Europe/Rome timezone

Non-Invertible Peccei-Quinn Symmetry, Natural 2HDM Alignment, and the Visible Axion

27 May 2025, 18:00
20m
Room P4C (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia - Edificio Paolotti)

Room P4C

Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia - Edificio Paolotti

Via Belzoni 7, Padova

Speaker

Antonio Delgado (University of Notre Dame)

Description

We identify $m^2_{12}$ 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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