relaxion
nounEtymology Blend of relax + axion.
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A form of axion proposed to account for cosmological relaxation of the electroweak interaction
- We discuss several corollaries of this observation, including the interplay between the upper bound on the scale M and the order parameter #92;epsilon associated with the breaking of dS symmetry, and the possibility that the relaxion could play the role of a curvaton.2015, Subodh P. Patil, Pedro Schwaller, “Relaxing the Electroweak Scale: the Role of Broken dS Symmetry”, in arXiv: