A mirror GUT model confines dynamically to produce a heavy axion solving the strong CP problem while allowing observable EDMs and a rich hidden sector.
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Cosmological bounds on pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons
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We review the cosmological implications of a relic population of pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons (pNGB) with an anomalous coupling to two photons, often called axion-like particles (ALPs). We establish constraints on the pNGB mass and two-photon coupling by considering big bang nucleosynthesis, the physics of the cosmic microwave background, and the diffuse photon background. The bounds from WMAP7 and other large-scale-structure data on the effective number of neutrino species can be stronger than the traditional bounds from the primordial helium abundance. These bounds, together with those from primordial deuterium abundance, constitute the most stringent probes of early decays.
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A naturally light scalar-like distortion field emerges in generalized gravity and mixes with the Higgs boson.
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No photon-ALP conversion signal found in HAWC data from M87, producing competitive constraints excluding ALP masses of 10^{-8} to 10^{-6} eV for couplings above 5×10^{-12} GeV^{-1}.
NuSTAR stray-light data yields the strongest indirect bounds on decaying electrophilic scalar, ALP, and dark photon DM in the 6-70 keV range, plus inelastic DM with mass splittings 3-100 keV.
A comprehensive formulation is given for the angular power spectrum of photons from dark matter annihilation or decay, stressing that detector energy resolution is essential for accurate evaluation of line photon signals.
A mini-review of axion phenomenology showing how light bosons can account for dark matter, drive cosmic acceleration, or contribute to relativistic backgrounds in the early and late Universe.
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Naturally Light Distortion
A naturally light scalar-like distortion field emerges in generalized gravity and mixes with the Higgs boson.