Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9861381 | Physics Letters B | 2005 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
When supersymmetry is broken by condensates with a single condensing gauge group, there is a nonanomalous R-symmetry that prevents the universal axion from acquiring a mass. It has been argued that, in the context of supergravity, higher dimension operators will break this symmetry and may generate an axion mass too large to allow the identification of the universal axion with the QCD axion. We show that such contributions to the axion mass are highly suppressed in a class of models where the effective Lagrangian for gaugino and matter condensation respects modular invariance (T-duality).
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Authors
Daniel Butter, Mary K. Gaillard,