TY  - JOUR
AU  - Celis, A.
AU  - Fuentes-Martin, J.
AU  - Serodio, H.
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015//
TI  - An invisible axion model with controlled FCNCs at tree level
T2  - Phys. Lett. B
JO  - Physics Letters B
SP  - 117
EP  - 123
VL  - 741
PB  - Elsevier Science Bv
AB  - We derive the necessary conditions to build a class of invisible axion models with Flavor Changing Neutral Currents at tree-level controlled by the fermion mixing matrices and present an explicit model implementation. A horizontal Peccei-Quinn symmetry provides a solution to the strong CP problem via the Peccei-Quinn mechanism and predicts a cold dark mater candidate, the invisible axion or familon. The smallness of active neutrino masses can be explained via a type I seesaw mechanism, providing a dynamical origin for the heavy seesaw scale. The possibility to avoid the domain wall problem stands as one of the most interesting features of the type of models considered. Experimental limits relying on the axion-photon coupling, astrophysical considerations and familon searches in rare kaon and muon decays are discussed.
SN  - 0370-2693
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6217
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.12.028
DO  - 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.12.028
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000348290800016
ID  - Celis_etal2015
ER  -