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Axion Couplings in Heterotic String Theory

Agrawal, Prateek, Nee, Michael, Reig, Mario

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We study the coupling of axions to gauge bosons in heterotic string theory.

The axion-gauge boson couplings in the low energy 4d theory are derived by matching mixed anomalies between higher-form global symmetries and the zero-form gauge symmetry in the 10d theory.
When the standard model gauge group is embedded in a single simple group in the 10d theory -- as is the case for almost all heterotic models studied in the literature -- the ratio of the axion-photon coupling to the axion mass is bounded above by the QCD line.
This bound is relevant for a large number of axion searches which have sensitivity to axion parameter space above this line.

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