@Article{Dias_etal2020, author="Dias, A. G. and Leite, J. and Valle, J. W. F. and Vaquera-Araujo, C. A.", title="Reloading the axion in a 3-3-1 setup", journal="Physics Letters B", year="2020", publisher="Elsevier", volume="810", pages="135829 - 12pp", optkeywords="Peccei-Quinn symmetry; Axion; Neutrinos", abstract="We generalize the idea of the axion to an extended electroweak gauge symmetry setup. We propose a minimal axion extension of the Singer-Valle-Schechter (SVS) theory, in which the standard model fits in SU(3)(L) circle times U(1)(X), the number of families results from anomaly cancellation, and the Peccei-Quinn (PQ) solution to the strong-CP problem is implemented. Neutrino masses arise from a type-I Dirac seesaw mechanism, suppressed by the ratio of SVS and PQ scales, suggesting the existence of new physics at a moderate SVS scale. Novel features include an enhanced axion coupling to photons when compared to the DFSZ axion, as well as flavor-changing axion couplings to quarks.", optnote="WOS:000582969900048", optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=4586), last updated on Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:15:46 +0000", issn="0370-2693", doi="10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135829", opturl="https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10650", opturl="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135829", language="English" }