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Right-handed neutrinos make the DFSZ axion's PQ charge depend only on the singlet, and light new scalars keep the Higgs trilinear coupling inside experiment.

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arxiv 2607.04128 v1 pith:R2JHZG53 submitted 2026-07-05 hep-ph

Probing axion in the DFSZ model

H. N. Long , N. H. T. Nha This is my paper
classification hep-ph
keywords DFSZ axionPeccei-Quinn chargesright-handed neutrinostrilinear Higgs couplingκ_λ modifiertype-I seesawaxion-photon coupling
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This paper reworks the classic DFSZ axion model by adding three right-handed neutrinos. With that addition the Peccei-Quinn charge assignments collapse to a single free parameter: the charge of the scalar singlet that breaks the PQ symmetry. The resulting theory is of DFSZ type I, with the axion-photon coupling ratio fixed at E/N = 8/3. The authors diagonalize the full scalar sector with unitary matrices so that the axion does not mix with the Z Goldstone boson, cleanly separating Yukawa-like axion-fermion couplings from derivative anomaly couplings. Four new scalars appear: a charged Higgs, a CP-odd scalar, a second CP-even scalar near the electroweak scale, and a super-heavy inflaton. In a concrete window where the charged and CP-odd scalars sit near 150 GeV and one Higgs vacuum expectation value is only a few GeV, the trilinear Higgs self-coupling modifier κ_λ falls inside the present ATLAS/CMS bounds. The same setup also generates neutrino masses via type-I seesaw and supplies an inflaton candidate.

Core claim

Once right-handed neutrinos are present, the entire set of PQ charges in the DFSZ model is fixed by the single charge of the scalar singlet ϕ; the usual dependence on sin/cos of arctan(v_u/v_d) disappears. The model is then DFSZ-I with E/N = 8/3, the axion is free of Goldstone mixing, and a parameter region with m_A ~ 130 GeV, m_H± ~ 155 GeV and v_u of a few GeV yields a trilinear modifier κ_λ consistent with experiment.

What carries the argument

Unitary diagonalization of the charged, CP-odd and CP-even scalar mass matrices that keeps the axion orthogonal to the Z Goldstone boson, together with the PQ-charge table fixed solely by PQ_ϕ.

Load-bearing premise

The claim that κ_λ lies inside the experimental window rests on a hand-chosen set of masses and a tiny up-type vacuum expectation value that are inserted to force the SM-like Higgs mass to 125 GeV rather than being derived from a deeper principle.

What would settle it

A precision measurement of the trilinear Higgs coupling that places κ_λ outside the interval predicted by equations (73) for the paper's preferred window m_A ≈ 130 GeV, m_H± ≈ 155 GeV and sin β ≈ 0.0688, or a direct search excluding those light scalars at the stated masses.

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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper extends the DFSZ axion model by adding three right-handed neutrinos N_R. It claims that the resulting PQ charge assignments depend only on the singlet charge PQ_φ (independent of tan β = v_u/v_d), that the model is of DFSZ-I type with E/N = 8/3, and that the scalar spectrum can be written in unitary bases with no axion–G_Z mixing. Two classes of axion–fermion couplings (derivative anomaly and Yukawa-like) are derived. The authors then evaluate the trilinear Higgs modifier κ_λ and report that, for the hand-chosen point m_A ≈ 130 GeV, m_H± ≈ 155 GeV, sin β ≈ 0.0688 (v_u ∼ few GeV) and λ_u ∼ 0.03–0.035 with t_λ ∼ 4–5, κ_λ lies inside the ATLAS/CMS window −0.71 < κ_λ < 6.1 while m_h = 125 GeV.

Significance. If the PQ-charge simplification and the clean unitary diagonalization are robust, the construction offers a technically convenient DFSZ-I realization that simultaneously addresses neutrino masses via type-I seesaw, leptogenesis, and a superheavy inflaton. The explicit separation of anomaly and Yukawa-like axion couplings is useful for phenomenology. The κ_λ analysis, however, is only an existence statement in a narrow corner of parameter space; it does not yet constitute a robust, scan-validated prediction of the model. The work is therefore of moderate interest as a model-building note rather than a definitive phenomenological result.

major comments (3)
  1. The headline claim that κ_λ is consistent with experiment (abstract, Sec. VI, Figs. 4–5) rests on a single hand-tuned point (m_A = 130 GeV, m_H± = 155 GeV, sin β ≈ 0.0688, λ_u ≈ 0.03–0.035, t_λ ≈ 4–5) inserted into Eqs. (44)–(45) and (73) so that m_h = 125 GeV and κ_λ stays inside −0.71 < κ_λ < 6.1. No scan is performed that simultaneously enforces m_h = 125 GeV, positive mass-squared eigenvalues, bounded-from-below conditions and perturbative unitarity. The same formulas already contain a singular locus (denominator of the last term in Eq. (39)/(44)) that the authors themselves flag in Sec. VII. Without a validated region, the numerical claim remains an untested existence proof.
  2. From Eq. (36), λ = 2(m_H±^{2} − 2 m_A^{2})/v^{2} evaluates to ≈ −0.32 at the chosen masses. A large negative quartic raises immediate questions of vacuum stability and unitarity of the scalar potential that are never checked. This is load-bearing for the claim that the chosen point is phenomenologically viable.
  3. Several intermediate mass-matrix and mixing formulae contain algebraic or typesetting inconsistencies that affect the subsequent expressions for m_h, m_S and κ_λ. Concrete examples include the charged-mass matrix (17), the CP-even matrix (30), and the lengthy expression for λ_DFSZ(hhh) in (69). These should be re-derived and cross-checked before the numerical results can be trusted.
minor comments (5)
  1. Notation is inconsistent: both ϕ and Φ appear for the singlet; both I_H0d and I_D, etc., are used for the same fields.
  2. Figs. 2–5 lack error bands or sensitivity bands; the horizontal experimental lines in Figs. 4–5 are not labelled with the corresponding reference.
  3. The claim that the model solves the muon g−2 anomaly is asserted in the introduction and conclusions but never demonstrated.
  4. Typos and incomplete sentences appear throughout (e.g., “diagolanized”, “Y ukawa”, “trililear”, “arisen from”).
  5. References to recent CMS/ATLAS bounds on light scalars and on κ_λ should be updated to the latest published results rather than arXiv preprints with future dates.

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged

No load-bearing circularity in the derivation chain; only a minor self-citation for the PQ-charge assignment procedure, while the κ_λ consistency claim is an ordinary existence check in a hand-chosen but not definitionally forced corner of parameter space.

specific steps
  1. self citation load bearing [Section IV, paragraph introducing Table I]
    "In our work, we follow the rules in Ref. [7] to define PQ charges of all components in multiplets, as well as the PQ charges of multiplets without the assumption that the PQ charge of a multiplet is an average of the PQ charges of the multiplet’s components."

    Ref. [7] is by overlapping authors (Binh & Long). The citation supplies the procedural rule used to obtain the pure-PQ_φ charge table that underpins the paper’s headline claim of β-independence. The relations themselves are re-derived from the model’s Yukawas, so the circularity is only partial and non-load-bearing.

full rationale

The central analytic claims (PQ charges depending only on PQ_φ, E/N = 8/3, absence of a–G_Z mixing via unitary diagonalization, and the closed-form expression for κ_λ) are derived from the Yukawa Lagrangian (7)–(8), the potential term that enforces (49), the mass matrices (17), (21), (30), and the subsequent unitary rotations (20), (23), (31). These steps do not reduce to their own outputs by construction. The numerical statement that κ_λ lies inside the ATLAS/CMS window is obtained by inserting externally motivated inputs (m_A = 130 GeV from a CMS search, m_H± = 155 GeV from Ref. [4], sin β ≈ 0.0688 and t_λ ≈ 4–5 chosen so that Eq. (44) yields m_h = 125 GeV) into the independently derived formula (73). Because the same parameters that fix m_h do not algebraically force κ_λ into the experimental band, the check is an existence proof rather than a fitted-input-called-prediction. The sole minor self-citation is the appeal to the charge-assignment “rules” of Ref. [7] (overlapping author); the actual charge relations are re-derived from the model’s own Yukawa and potential terms, so the citation is not load-bearing. No uniqueness theorem, ansatz smuggling, or renaming of a known result appears. Score 1 reflects only that minor self-citation; the derivation chain itself is self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

5 free parameters · 4 axioms · 2 invented entities

The construction rests on the standard DFSZ scalar content plus three right-handed neutrinos, on a set of free soft-breaking and quartic parameters that are fixed by hand to produce the desired spectrum, and on the usual type-I seesaw and PQ-anomaly formulae. No new dynamical principle is introduced; the free parameters and the ad-hoc mass choices are what allow the κ_λ claim to hold.

free parameters (5)
  • m_A = 130 GeV
    Mass of the CP-odd scalar fixed by hand to 130 GeV (motivated by a CMS search) and then used to set κ and to evaluate κ_λ.
  • m_H± = 155 GeV
    Charged-Higgs mass fixed to 155 GeV following an earlier paper; enters λ and the κ_λ formula.
  • sinβ (v_u) = ≈0.0688 (v_u∼few GeV)
    Chosen ≈0.0688 so that m_h=125 GeV for the selected λ_u; not derived from a deeper principle.
  • λ_u, t_λ=λ_d/λ_u = λ_u≈0.03–0.035, t_λ≈4–5
    Quartic couplings scanned in a narrow window (λ_u≈0.03–0.035, t_λ≈3.9–4.5) to keep both m_h and κ_λ inside experimental bands.
  • v_φ, λ_φ = v_φ∼10^12 GeV, λ_φ∼10^{-2}
    Singlet VEV and quartic fixed to produce an inflaton mass ∼10^11 GeV and an axion decay constant ∼10^12 GeV; standard but free.
axioms (4)
  • domain assumption The classical Lagrangian is invariant under a global U(1)_PQ whose charges are assigned so that every Yukawa term and the soft κϕ H_u† H_d term are invariant.
    Standard PQ construction; used throughout Sec. IV to obtain Table I.
  • domain assumption Light neutrino masses arise from a type-I seesaw with M_N∼10^7 GeV and M_D∼0.01–0.1 GeV.
    Assumed in Sec. II.A to motivate the right-handed neutrinos; not derived.
  • standard math The ratio of electromagnetic to color anomaly coefficients is E/N=8/3, placing the model in the DFSZ-I class.
    Direct consequence of the charge assignments (Eqs. 51–54); standard result once the charges are fixed.
  • ad hoc to paper Higher-order corrections and vacuum-stability/perturbativity constraints can be ignored when evaluating tree-level κ_λ.
    Implicit throughout Sec. VI; no loop or stability analysis is performed.
invented entities (2)
  • Three right-handed neutrinos N_R with PQ charge PQ_φ/2 independent evidence
    purpose: Generate neutrino masses via type-I seesaw and remove the tanβ dependence of the PQ charges.
    Standard sterile neutrinos, but their specific PQ charge assignment is chosen so that the charge table collapses to a single free parameter PQ_φ.
  • Superheavy CP-even scalar Φ (inflaton) no independent evidence
    purpose: Provide a candidate for inflation with mass ∼10^11 GeV.
    Identified with the radial mode of the PQ-breaking singlet; mass is set by free parameters λ_φ and v_φ.

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We show that with the introduction of new right-handed neutrinos $N_R$, the Peccei--Quinn ($PQ$) transformation in the DFSZ (Dine--Fischler--Srednicki--Zhitnitsky) model depends only on the $PQ$ charge of the scalar singlet $\phi$, namely $PQ_\phi$, and is independent of the sine and cosine of $\arctan(v_u/v_d)$. The model consists of four new scalars: a charged Higgs boson $H^\pm$, a CP-odd scalar $A$, and two CP-even scalars with masses at the EW scale (of a few hundred GeV), and a superheavy inflaton $\Phi$. The scalar fields have been presented in the form of unitary matrices, in which there is no mixing between the axion and the Goldstone boson $G_Z$. As a result, there are two kinds of couplings between the axion and fermions, namely Yukawa-like interactions and anomaly-induced ones associated with derivative axion couplings. {The model belongs to the DFSZ I kind since the axion - photon coupling with $\fr E N = \fr 8 3$.} The trilinear Higgs self-coupling is investigated. We have shown that, in the parameter region where new scalar fields such as the singly charged Higgs boson $H^\pm$ and the CP-odd scalar $A$ have masses around 150 GeV and the vacuum expectation value of one Higgs doublet ($v_u$) is of the order of a few GeV, the coupling modifier $\kappa_\lambda$-a probe of new physics-is consistent with the current experimental constraints.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.04128 by H. N. Long, N. H. T. Nha.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Feynmann diagram illustrates type I seesaw mechanism that generates masses to light active neutrinos in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Mass of SM-like Higgs boson (mh) as a function of tλ, blue line for λu = 0.03, green line for λu = 0.035 and horizontal line is a value 125.08 GeV. As a consequence, for λu = 0.03, tλ = 4.5 and λu = 0.035, tλ = 3.9 The figure shows that λu = 0.035, tλ = 3.9 and λu = 0.03, tλ = 4.5. In [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Masses of SM-like Higgs boson (mh) and of heavy scalar boson (mS) are as functions of sinβ at tλ, blue line for SM-like Higgs boson, green line for S Higgs boson. The left panel is for λu = 0.03, and the right panel is for λu = 0.035 IV. P Q CHARGES From Yukawa couplings in (7) and (8), one has −LY ukawa = y Hu u QLHeuuR + y Hd d QLHddR + y Hd l ΨLlHdlR +y l Nα ΨLlHedNRα + (yN )ab N C aRNbRϕ ∗ + H.c. = y H… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: κ DF SZ λ as a function of tλ, where mA = 130 GeV, mH± = 155 GeV ,sin β = 0.0688, λu = 0.03 (blue line), and λu = 0.035 (green line). Two horizontal lines in red, thick and dashed, are experimental limits appearing in Eq. (65) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: κ DF SZ λ as a function of mA, where mH± = 155 GeV, tλ = 4.9 (left-panel) and tλ = 3.9 (right-panel), sin β = 0.0688, λu = 0.03 (blue line), and λu = 0.035 (green line). Two horizontal lines in red, thick and dashed, are experimental limits appearing in Eq. (65). The coupling modifier κλ - the parameter for searching New Physics has been investigated, and we have shown that the parameter in the model under… view at source ↗

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