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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2019)120
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Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Beyond Standard Model; Discrete Symmetries
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- JSPS KAKENHI [JP15H05889, JP15K21733, JP17H02875, JP17H02878]
- World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, Japan
- NRF Strategic Research Program [NRF-2017R1E1A1A01072736]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2017R1E1A1A01072736] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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We show that the initial misalignment angle of the QCD axion (or axion-like particles) can be set very close to pi, if the QCD axion has a mixing with another heavy axion which induces the phase shift approximate to pi after inflation. In the simplest case, the heavy axion plays the role of the inflaton, and we call such inflation as pi nflation. The basic idea was first proposed by Daido and the present authors in ref. [1] in 2017 and more recently discussed in ref. [2]. We show that the QCD axion with a decay constant f(a) greater than or similar to 3 x 10(9) GeV can explain dark matter by the pi nflation mechanism. A large fraction of the parameter region has an overlap with the projected sensitivity of ORGAN, MADMAX, TOORAD and IAXO. We also study implications for the effective neutrino species and isocurvature perturbations. The pi nflation can provide an initial condition for the hilltop inflation in the axion landscape, and in a certain set-up, a chain of the hilltop inflation may take place.
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