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A mass for the dual axion

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In this article we study a modification of axion physics in which the dual axion acquires a mass. This mass explicitly breaks the shift symmetry of the dual axion. The potential breaking of this shift symmetry poses a dual axion quality problem. When the dual axion acquires a mass, the axion gets eaten and becomes the longitudinal degree of freedom of a massive vector field. In this phase, axion strings are screened and far-separated instanton configurations are exponentially suppressed. This confinement of instantons corresponds to the worldline action of a particle-like soliton traveling between the instantons analogous to Abrikosov/Nielsen-Oleson vortex solitons that stretch between confined magnetic monopoles in a superconductor. We calculate the cost of this additional worldline suppression and provide several models in which both the confined instantons and confining worldline are dynamical.

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Prateek Agrawal, Junwu Huang, Ethan Carragher, Matthew Reece and especially Mario Reig for helpful discussions. I would also like to thank the referee for useful comments and suggestions. Any errors are my own. This paper was inspired by analogous considerations of a dual photon mass in the recent paper [68]. Arthur Platschorre is supported by a STFC Studenship No. 2397217 and Cultuurfondsbeurs No. 40038041 made possible by the Pieter Beijer fonds and the Data-Piet fonds.

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Platschorre, A. A mass for the dual axion. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 253 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2024)253

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