relaxion

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noun

A form of axion proposed to account for cosmological relaxation of the electroweak interaction

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Meanings

nounrelaxion (plural relaxions)

plural relaxions

  1. natural sciencesA form of axion proposed to account for cosmological relaxation of the electroweak interaction

    We discuss several corollaries of this observation, including the interplay between the upper bound on the scale M and the order parameter #92;epsilon associated with the breaking of dS symmetry, and the possibility that the relaxion could play the role of a curvaton.

    2015, Subodh P. Patil, Pedro Schwaller, “Relaxing the Electroweak Scale: the Role of Broken dS Symmetry”, in arXiv

Origin

Blend of relax + axion.

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