Invisible Axions and Large-Radius Compactifications

Emilian Dudas; Keith R. Dienes; Tony Gherghetta

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Invisible Axions and Large-Radius Compactifications

Keith R. Dienes, Emilian Dudas, Tony Gherghetta

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 22 Dec 1999 · 21 references

Pith's verdict: A real structural result — the axion mass decoupling from fPQ via the KK tower — built on a disclosed reuse of the authors' bulk-neutrino machinery and one undefended but standard assumption about gravitational PQ breaking.

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Worth your time if you work on axions or on bulk fields in large extra dimensions; skip it if you want experimental predictions you can act on now. The paper is from the TeV-scale/large-radius wave of 1998-99 and reads that way, but the core is sound and the central observation has held up as a reference point for bulk axion model building. What's actually new is the mass-matrix analysis in Sect. 2. Put the PQ axion in the bulk and the KK tower mixes with the zero mode through the anomaly coupling. The eigenvalue equation (2.30) is derived in the paper, not quoted, and the bound ma <= 1/(2R) in (2.38) drops straight out of it: once mPQ >~ 1/(2R), the axion mass is set by the compactification radius and fPQ is free to be retuned independently. That genuinely breaks the mass-coupling lock defining the usual invisible-axion window, and it is the kind of structural point that survives even if the details shift. The decoherence calculation for the brane superposition a' (Sect. 3.2) and the closed-form Bessel solution for coupled relic oscillations (Sect. 4) are real calculations with checkable answers; the sum rules (2.34)-(2.35) are mutually consistent and the paper verifies them. Soft spots, in order of weight. The gravitational-PQ-breaking assumption after (2.6) is load-bearing and gets one sentence. The stress-test is right that this is where the paper is most exposed: the TeV-scale, large-R regime of Sect. 5 is exactly where a global symmetry is least protected, and a gravitational mass term of order 1/(2R) or larger kills (2.38). But I would push back on treating this as a concealed flaw. The paper states it plainly, and essentially every axion paper of this era makes the same assumption. It is a shared premise, not sleight of hand. Second, the cutoff rescaling in the footnote below (3.15) is asserted rather than derived, and the (3.12) estimate rides on it; that is a real gap, though the qualitative conclusion (probability scaling as 1/nmax) does not depend on the precise rescaling. Third, Sect. 5 is numerology: several O(1) parameters fixed by hand, then fPQ ~ M_GUT reported as an output. Read it as a consistency check, not a prediction. One thing neither the reader nor the stress test flagged: (5.14) shows that a'-exchange at zero momentum transfer reproduces the four-dimensional amplitude exactly. That is consistent with the paper's own framing, since decoherence concerns produced states rather than virtual exchange, but it does mean the Sect. 3 invisibility buys you nothing for static axion-mediated forces. Worth keeping straight when you cite it. Also, the classifier's 'limitations stated: none found' is wrong. The paper flags at least three: the gravitational assumption, the step-function mPQ(t) caveat below (4.3), and the cutoff footnote. Who should read it: anyone building axion models with extra dimensions, and anyone thinking about KK mixing of bulk scalars generally. Sect. 6 on the dilaton is a two-page bonus that makes the generality argument concrete. Send it out.

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[Sect. 2, paragraph following Eq. (2.6)] The authors acknowledge that gravitational interactions do not respect global symmetries and assume the gravitational contribution to the axion mass is suppressed. This assumption is load-bearing for (2.38) and for the decoupling claim. What remains unresolved is its quantitative severity in the parameter regime the paper itself advocates. For R ~ mm, 1/(2R) ~ 10^-4 eV, while a generic gravitational contribution with M_* ~ TeV and fPQ ~ TeV is ~TeV, requiring a suppression of ~10^19. The Sect. 5 benchmark (M_string ~ 1-20 TeV, fhat ~ M_GUT) is precisely where this is most fragile. Please state the required suppression explicitly and check whether the benchmark survives.
[Abstract [s6] vs. Sect. 5, Eq. (5.10)] The abstract states that the KK tower can enable fhat to exceed the usual four-dimensional relic bounds. Sect. 5 Eq. (5.10) shows y_crit <~ 6.6x10^-7 y, so in the delta=1 scenario with R <~ mm the required y is never reached. The abstract should be qualified to state that the effect is not realized in the minimal viable parameter space, or the higher-dimensional generalization should be quantified.
[Sect. 3.2, Eqs. (3.14)-(3.15) and the footnote below (3.15)] Eq. (3.14) reads (mPQ^2/2p) tau0 ~ 10^-5 y^2 (n'_max)^2, while the footnote below (3.15) derives tau0 ~ y^2/(n'_max)^2; these are reciprocal in the cutoff. Eq. (3.24) is consistent with the footnote's version, not with (3.14). Eq. (3.15) likewise has n_max in the numerator where the footnote's derivation requires the denominator. Please check and correct the scaling chain, since it underpins the claim tau0 << tau_{D>4}. It would also help to distinguish the formal n_max -> infinity statement (3.11) from the physical truncation statement (3.12)-(3.13), and to note that a' itself is defined with an n_max-dependent normalization (2.13)-(2.14).

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[Eq. (3.22)] The prefactor (4 pi alpha)^2 appears inverted; with the stated values it gives ~10^40 s, not 10^48 s. The intended factor is presumably (4 pi/alpha)^2.
[Sect. 6, Eq. (6.9)] The off-diagonal coefficient is -4 Delta/fhat_D^2 = m_D^2/(2 pi R M_s), not m_D^2; the eigenvalue equation therefore differs from (2.30) by the volume factor. The claim that the implications are 'identical' should be qualified.
[Sect. 4, Eq. (4.3)] The step-function mPQ(t) is acknowledged as potentially inaccurate; a sentence on how the results would change would help.
[Sect. 3.2, text after Eq. (3.11)] The statement 'this holds for all t > 0' is loose; it holds for t >~ tau0.
[Fig. 1] The asymptote 1/(2R) should be indicated explicitly on the plot.
[Sect. 2, Eq. (2.11)] Clarify that delta is the number of axion extra dimensions and n the total; the requirement delta < n should be stated as an assumption.
[Sect. 5, Eq. (5.11)] The sum over KK modes should be written with the explicit cutoff n_max ~ R m_K.
[Footnote below Eq. (3.15)] It is long and introduces n'_max without a clear physical definition; consider moving it to an appendix.
[Reference [13]] The paper should state explicitly which results overlap with [13].

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The paper claims

Putting the axion in the bulk may cut its mass loose from the scale that sets its couplings, capping it at the inverse radius of the extra dimension.

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The paper asks what happens to the QCD axion — the particle invoked to explain why the strong interaction does not violate CP symmetry — if it is not stuck on the Standard-Model brane but propagates through the bulk of large extra spacetime dimensions. The answer the authors give is that the axion acquires an infinite tower of Kaluza-Klein copies, and the mixing among those copies changes three things at once: the lightest axion mass stops tracking the Peccei-Quinn symmetry-breaking scale $f_{PQ}$ once that scale exceeds roughly $1/(2R)$, where $R$ is the extra dimension's radius; a laboratory axion produced as the brane-shadow superposition $a'$ decoheres almost instantly through destructive interference among the tower; and the tower can drain the energy of cosmological relic axion oscillations faster than in four dimensions. The payoff, if the picture holds, is a new route to an 'invisible' axion: the mass can be parked in the experimentally allowed window by choosing $R$ in the submillimeter range, leaving $f_{PQ}$ free to be retuned purely to suppress the axion's couplings to ordinary matter. The authors are explicit that the relic-oscillation analysis uses a step-function 'adiabatic' approximation for the turn-on of the axion mass at the QCD phase transition, and they caution that for large $m_{PQ}$ this can differ substantially from a careful treatment of instanton effects.

What carries the argument

Three interlocking objects carry the argument. First is the mass matrix $M^2_{nn'} = m_{PQ}^2(r_n r_{n'} + y^2 n^2 δ_{nn'})$, with $y ≡ 1/(m_{PQ}R)$ and rescaling coefficients $r_0 = 1$, $r_n = √2$ for $n > 0$; its off-diagonal rank-one structure is what pulls the lowest eigenvalue away from $m_{PQ}$ and produces the $1/(2R)$ ceiling. Second is the volume-renormalized decay constant $f̂_{PQ} ≡ (2πRM_s)^{δ/2} f_{PQ}$, which suppresses the coupling of individual Kaluza-Klein modes to brane fields, combined with the 'brane shadow' superposition $a' = (1/√N)(a_0 + √2 Σ_{n=1}^{n_{max}} a_n)$ with $N = 1 + 2n_{max}$, which is what Standard-Model fields actually couple to and whose coupling is set by the unrescaled $f_{PQ}$ — so the volume suppression cancels for the coherent state. Third is the unitary matrix $U_{λk}$ diagonalizing $M^2$, together with the identities $Σ_λ A_λ^2 = 1$ and $Σ_λ λ̃^2 A_λ^2 = 1$, which convert Kaluza-Klein sums into eigenvalue sums and yield the decoherence result $⟨P_{a'→a'}⟩ → 0$ as $n_{max} → ∞$, scaling as $1/n_{max}$ because only the diagonal term of a double sum survives once the phases decohere.

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Core claim

The central claim is that the lightest axion mass eigenvalue satisfies $m_a <~ (1/2)R^{-1}$ regardless of the value of the four-dimensional axion mass parameter $m_{PQ} = (g^2/32π^2)^{1/2} ξ Λ_{QCD}^2 / f̂_{PQ}$, so that once $m_{PQ} >~ (1/2)R^{-1}$ the Peccei-Quinn scale decouples from the axion mass altogether. The authors derive this from the axion mass matrix in the Kaluza-Klein basis, which is a rank-one mixing block of size $m_{PQ}^2$ superimposed on a diagonal tower of Kaluza-Klein masses $n^2/R^2$; diagonalizing it gives the transcendental eigenvalue condition $πRλ cot(πRλ) = λ^2/m_{PQ}^2$, whose lowest root approaches $1/(2R)$ as $m_{PQ}R$ grows and reduces to $λ = m_{PQ}$ as $R → 0$. They check that the higher-dimensional Peccei-Quinn mechanism still solves the strong CP problem: only the zero mode $a_0$ shifts under the PQ transformation, only $a_0$ gets a nonzero vacuum expectation value, and $a_0$ cancels $Θ̄$ while the excited modes sit at zero. Because the mass and the couplings are then controlled by separate parameters, the authors argue one can satisfy the mass window $10^{-5}$ eV to $10^{-1}$ eV with $R$ in the submillimeter range and independently tune $f_{PQ}$ downward — potentially to the TeV range — to make the axion's matter couplings as weak as desired.

Load-bearing premise

The whole construction assumes that gravitational and quantum-gravity effects generate no unsuppressed mass for the axion, so that the Peccei-Quinn symmetry survives as a good global symmetry in the bulk and the axion mass comes only from the QCD anomaly.

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If this is right

An axion mass anywhere in the allowed window $10^{-5}$ to $10^{-1}$ eV is compatible with an extra dimension of submillimeter radius, independently of the Peccei-Quinn scale, which gives an independent motivation for millimeter-scale gravity experiments.
Processes that produce and later detect the coherent superposition $a'$ are suppressed by roughly $(M_{string}R)^{-1}$, about $10^{-17}$ for $M_{string} ≈ 10$ TeV and $R ≈ 1$ mm, so axion-exchange and axion-regeneration experiments lose their reach even though the underlying coupling is only $1/f_{PQ}$.
The coherent state's effective decay width $⟨Γ⟩$ is itself time-dependent, running from $M_{string}^3/f̂_{PQ}^2$ at early times down to the lightest eigenvalue's width at late times, so a decay rate that varies with the source distance would be a direct signature of the tower.
When $y t̃_0 <~ O(1)$, the coupled Kaluza-Klein relic oscillations dissipate energy faster than the four-dimensional case, allowing $f̂_{PQ}$ above the usual $10^{12}$ GeV relic bound; when $y t̃_0 >> 1$ the tower changes nothing, so the higher-dimensional scenario is never worse than four dimensions.
The Standard-Model dilaton placed in the bulk produces exactly the same mass-matrix structure, so the mass ceiling, the oscillation, and the decoherence carry over to that particle without modification.

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Because the decoherence argument depends only on the brane shadow being a coherent Kaluza-Klein superposition, it plausibly relaxes laboratory and astrophysical bounds on any light bulk scalar — moduli, dilatons, Kaluza-Klein gravitons — but only for processes sensitive to propagation time; missing-energy searches are untouched and must be constrained the old way.
The $1/(2R)$ ceiling ties two normally separate measurements together: if a future axion search fixes $m_a$ and the axion sits at the ceiling, an inverse-square-law test of gravity is forced to find $R <~ 2/m_a$, giving a cross-check between table-top gravity and axion hunting that the paper does not spell out.
The authors find that zero-momentum $a'$-exchange reproduces the four-dimensional amplitude exactly, which suggests the genuinely new signatures live in momentum-dependent form factors of the tower rather than in total rates; that is where a follow-up calculation would most likely pay off.
The step-function treatment of the QCD phase transition is the weakest quantitative link in the cosmological section, so the claimed relaxation of the relic bound should be treated as an estimate until the temperature-dependent instanton mass is folded into the coupled Bessel-function solution.

Original abstract

We study some of the novel effects that arise when the QCD axion is placed in the ``bulk'' of large extra spacetime dimensions. First, we find that the mass of the axion can become independent of the energy scale associated with the breaking of the Peccei-Quinn symmetry. This implies that the mass of the axion can be adjusted independently of its couplings to ordinary matter, thereby providing a new method of rendering the axion invisible. Second, we discuss the new phenomenon of laboratory axion oscillations (analogous to neutrino oscillations), and show that these oscillations cause laboratory axions to ``decohere'' extremely rapidly as a result of Kaluza-Klein mixing. This decoherence may also be a contributing factor to axion invisibility. Third, we discuss the role of Kaluza-Klein axions in axion-mediated processes and decays, and propose several experimental tests of the higher-dimensional nature of the axion. Finally, we show that under certain circumstances, the presence of an infinite tower of Kaluza-Klein axion modes can significantly accelerate the dissipation of the energy associated with cosmological relic axion oscillations, thereby enabling the Peccei-Quinn symmetry-breaking scale to exceed the usual four-dimensional relic oscillation bounds. Together, these ideas therefore provide new ways of obtaining an ``invisible'' axion within the context of higher-dimensional theories with large-radius compactifications.

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We study some of the novel effects that arise when the QCD axion is placed in the ``bulk'' of large extra spacetime dimensions. First, we find that the mass of the axion can become independent of the energy scale associated with the breaking of the Peccei-Quinn symmetry. This implies that the mass of the axion can be adjusted independently of its couplings to ordinary matter, thereby providing a new method of rendering the axion invisible. Second, we discuss the new phenomenon of laboratory axion oscillations (analogous to neutrino oscillations), and show that these oscillations cause laboratory axions to ``decohere'' extremely rapidly as a result of Kaluza-Klein mixing. This decoherence may also be a contributing factor to axion invisibility. Third, we discuss the role of Kaluza-Klein axions in axion-mediated processes and decays, and propose several experimental tests of the higher-dimensional nature of the axion. Finally, we show that under certain circumstances, the presence of an infinite tower of Kaluza-Klein axion modes can significantly accelerate the dissipation of the energy associated with cosmological relic axion oscillations, thereby enabling the Peccei-Quinn symmetry-breaking scale to exceed the usual four-dimensional relic oscillation bounds. Together, these ideas therefore provide new ways of obtaining an ``invisible'' axion within the context of higher-dimensional theories with large-radius compactifications.

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**Figure 1.** The mass of the axion zero-mode as a function of the d

**Figure 2.** Higher-dimensional axion oscillations, as discu

**Figure 3.** The axion preservation probability Pa′→a′(t) as a function of the number nmax of Kaluza-Klein states which are included in the system. For this plot we have set y = 15, and taken (a) nmax = 1; (b) nmax = 2; (c) nmax = 3; (d) nmax = 5; and (e) nmax = 30. As nmax increases, the axion probability rapidly falls to zero as a result of the destructive interference of the Kaluza-Klein states, and remains suppressed without significant axion regeneration at any later times. Note, in particular, that the “spikes” in this plot are also suppressed as ∼ 1/nmax, and vanish for large nmax. Thus,…

**Figure 4.** A plot of the coupled Kaluza-Klein cosmological re

**Figure 5.** The energy-dissipation ratio factor ρ(t)/ρ4D(t) = X(t˜0)/X4D(t˜0) as a function of y ≡ (mPQR) −1 , assuming (a) t˜0 = 10; (b) t˜0 = 1; and (c) t˜0 = 0.1. All cases reduce to the the usual four-dimensional result as y → ∞, with the Kaluza-Klein axion states decoupling. However, as the size of the extra dimension grows and y decreases from infinity, we see that the net effect of the Kaluza-Klein states is to dissipate the relic oscillation energy density more rapidly, leading to smaller relic oscillation energy densities at final times. The size of this effect depends on t˜0, with…

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In the analysis of [ref] the effects of the brane regime were not included; indeed if one looks at the values of $f_4$ and $M_5$ needed to have an enhanced dissipation rate, one finds that, for $f_4 ≈10^7$ TeV, the 5D Planck mass (assuming only on extra dimension) needs to be below 500 TeV, but we know that then the zero mode will start oscillating before $T_t$, and the equation of motion will therefore be different (due to the different dependence of $H$ upon time).

Axion braneworld cosmology · The misalignment mechanism · contest 0.83

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In flat scenarios, the sum in Eq. [ref] can be performed exactly: [equation] By inserting the values of $ψ_0,1$, we obtain [equation] in agreement with what was previously found in Ref. [ref] .

Extra-dimensional axion patterns · QCD maxions in flat space · 0.97

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[ref] for axion models introducing extra dimensions).

High Quality Axion via a Doubly Composite Dynamics · Introduction · 0.93
Phenomenological studies of a 5D QCD axion have been presented in a series of seminal works [ref] and have garnered renewed attention in recent years [ref] .

Extra-dimensional axion patterns · Motivation and summary · 0.98
In a 5D spacetime, where the Standard Model (SM) particles are confined to the 4D brane (see [ref] ), while gravitons and axions live in the bulk, one expects a much richer phenomenology compared to the 4D world [ref] , mainly due to:

Axion braneworld cosmology · 5D axion models · 0.95

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