Journal Club: Constraints on a non-QCD relaxion model

by Giovanni Grilli di Cortona (University of São Paulo)

Thursday 19 Oct 2017, 14:00 → 14:30 Europe/Berlin

DESY Hamburg

I will discuss the experimental constraints on strongly interacting vector-fermions compatible with the relaxion mechanism and investigate any possible tuning. The focus is on a minimal model and low confinement scale. More precisely, we study bounds from electroweak precision tests, Higgs decay, Big Bang nucleosynthesis and direct collider searches. Combining our bounds, we show that the relaxion mechanism becomes increasingly constrained and fine-tuned as the confinement scale decreases. For example, a confinement scale of a few tens of MeVs would require tuning at the percent level. Other papers discussed: - LIGO-Virgo release, https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.161101 - Search for Dark Matter Effects on Gravitational Signals from Neutron Star Mergers, https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05540