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The Flavor of QCD Axion Dark Matter

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arxiv 2305.00018 v2 pith:HBBT6WMG submitted 2023-04-28 hep-ph astro-ph.CO

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We argue that demanding a consistent cosmological history, including the absence of domain walls and strongly interacting relics at the Peccei-Quinn scale, singles out two concrete realizations of hadronic QCD axions as viable dark matter models. These realizations generally feature flavor-violating axion couplings to Standard Model quarks that are unsuppressed at low energies. As a consequence, experiments looking for flavor-violating hadronic processes involving the axion can be sensitive probes of QCD axion dark matter models. In particular, we show that the NA62 and KOTO experiments could detect the $K\rightarrow\pi + a$ decay for axions consistent with the observed dark matter abundance via the post-inflationary misalignment mechanism.

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