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arxiv 2508.21813 v1 pith:LXSNKSWY submitted 2025-08-29 hep-ph

A High-Quality Axion from Exact SUSY Chiral Dynamics

T. Gherghetta , H. Murayama , B. Noether , P. Qu\'ilez This is my paper
classification hep-ph
keywords composite axionstrong CP problemaxion quality problemsupersymmetric chiral gauge theoryanomaly-mediated supersymmetry breakingPeccei-Quinn symmetrydiscrete gauge symmetrySO(10) grand unification
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The paper sets out to show that a single strongly coupled supersymmetric theory can solve the strong CP problem, the axion quality problem, and (at the 100 TeV scale) the Higgs hierarchy problem at once. The construction is an SU(10) chiral gauge theory with massless matter, perturbed by anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking; the paper claims the resulting nonsupersymmetric vacuum can be solved exactly. In that vacuum a U(1) global symmetry, identified with the Peccei-Quinn symmetry, is spontaneously broken, giving a composite QCD axion whose decay constant is a calculable function of the strong-coupling and supersymmetry-breaking scales. A discrete gauge symmetry Z16 (or its subgroups) forbids the Planck-scale operators that usually spoil axion quality, and an SU(14) extension embeds SO(10) grand unification with the unification scale equal to the axion scale. A sympathetic reader would care because the model makes concrete predictions — an axion-photon coupling ratio, colored pseudoscalar states, and a specific axion scale — that experiments can probe.

Core claim

The central discovery is that a supersymmetric SU(10) chiral gauge theory with one antisymmetric and six antifundamental chiral superfields, perturbed by anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking, has a stable nonsupersymmetric vacuum that can be solved exactly in the limit where the supersymmetry-breaking scale m is much smaller than the dynamical scale Λ. The exact non-perturbative superpotential W = (Λ^{23}_{10}(Pf A)(Pf A \bar F \bar F))^{1/3} normally drives a runaway; the anomaly-mediated term V = m(φ_i ∂W/∂φ_i − 3W) + c.c. stabilizes it at b = c = a/√2 = Λ(17Λ/138m)^{3/20}. Around this vacuum, the global SU(6) × U(1)PQ symmetry is broken to Sp(6) — which contains QCD color — and the U(1

What carries the argument

The exact non-perturbative superpotential W = (Λ^{23}_{10}(Pf A)(Pf A \bar F \bar F))^{1/3} combined with the anomaly-mediated supersymmetry-breaking potential V = m(φ_i ∂W/∂φ_i − 3W) + c.c. is the machine: it turns the runaway direction of the supersymmetric theory into a stable minimum at b = c = a/√2 = Λ(17Λ/138m)^{3/20}, fixing the Peccei-Quinn breaking scale and hence the composite axion's decay constant. The second mechanism is the discrete symmetry Z16, the largest anomaly-free discrete subgroup of the chiral U(1) symmetries; because it can be gauged, it forbids the Planck-suppressed operators that would otherwise spoil the axion solution.

Load-bearing premise

The argument depends on the energy formula used for the vacuum being exact along the whole valley of field values; if additional corrections to the field kinetic terms or to the supersymmetry-breaking term appear, the predicted axion scale moves.

What would settle it

Detect the axion and measure its photon coupling: the SU(10) construction predicts E/N = 4/3 (or 2/3 for the alternative hypercharge assignment) and the SU(14) GUT version predicts E/N = 8/3, where E/N is the ratio of electromagnetic to color anomaly coefficients. A measured value outside this discrete set would rule out the model's identification of the axion. Independently, a collider search for the colored pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons must find octet and triplet states with masses in the ratio 9:4; finding them with a different ratio would falsify the spectrum.

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If this is right

  • The axion decay constant is fixed by the strong dynamics, fa ≈ 0.17 Λ(Λ/m)^{3/20}, so once m is known from colliders, the axion mass and couplings become predictions rather than free parameters.
  • The gauged discrete symmetries set concrete upper bounds on fa: Z4 gives fa ≲ 3.7×10^10 GeV, Z8 gives 6.7×10^14 GeV, and Z16 gives 4.5×10^16 GeV, with corresponding axion-photon couplings in reach of proposed experiments.
  • Below O(m) the model contains colored pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons with octet and triplet masses in the ratio 9:4; they decay to gluons, either promptly or with displaced vertices, and could be searched for at future colliders.
  • The SU(14) × Z12 extension unifies SO(10) grand unification with the axion, identifying the unification scale with fa and predicting E/N = 8/3 for the axion-photon coupling, a sharp target for axion experiments.

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  • If the exact vacuum calculation is right, the same recipe — an exact non-perturbative superpotential stabilized by anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking — could be applied to other chiral gauge theories to generate composite axions with different discrete-symmetry protection and different phenomenological spectra.
  • The two hypercharge options in the SU(10) version give distinct E/N values (4/3 and 2/3), so a precise axion-photon measurement could in principle distinguish not only this model from others but also which charge assignment is realized.
  • In the GUT version, fa ~ 10^16 GeV puts the axion in the regime where the misalignment mechanism overproduces dark matter unless the initial angle is tuned; this suggests the model's cosmology may select a particular discrete symmetry or require a nonstandard thermal history, a question the paper leaves open.
  • The long-lived colored states, if they exist, are a candidate for strongly interacting dark matter with distinctive signatures; whether QCD-scale recoupling depletes them enough to evade heavy-isotope bounds is a quantitative question worth pursuing.
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Summary. The paper constructs a composite axion model from a supersymmetric SU(10) chiral gauge theory with one antisymmetric tensor and six antifundamentals, perturbed by anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking (AMSB). Using the exact nonperturbative superpotential and the AMSB scalar potential, the authors find a stable non-SUSY vacuum that spontaneously breaks a U(1) Peccei-Quinn symmetry, producing a QCD axion with a calculable decay constant. A discrete Z16 (or Z4, Z8) symmetry is shown to be anomaly-free and gauged, suppressing PQ-violating operators up to high dimension. The paper also presents an SU(14) extension with SO(10) grand unification, where the axion decay constant is identified with the unification scale, and discusses collider and cosmological signatures of colored pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons.

Significance. If the central dynamical calculation is correct, this is an attractive model-building step: it simultaneously addresses the strong CP problem, the axion quality problem, and (at 100 TeV) the hierarchy problem, with an axion decay constant that is not a free parameter but is determined by the dynamical scale and the SUSY-breaking scale. The use of exact supersymmetric chiral dynamics is a genuine strength, as are the explicit discrete-anomaly checks and the falsifiable predictions for E/N and the colored NGB spectrum. The SU(14) GUT variant is a natural and interesting extension. The main risk is that the advertised quantitative control of the vacuum and of fa depends on assumptions about the Kähler potential and the AMSB form that are not fully defended; if that concern is resolved, the paper would be a valuable contribution.

major comments (1)
  1. [Appendix A.1, Eq. (A.7)] The solution b=c=a/√2 is called a 'stable ground state', but only a stationary point of (A.6) is exhibited. Since the supersymmetric limit has a runaway to v→∞, the global stability of this AMSB minimum and the absence of other deeper minima should be established, for example by giving the Hessian along all moduli. This is a central point for the claim that the model has a calculable, stable vacuum.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Eq. (A.10)] The term '426|c|^2' appears to be a typographical error for 4^2 × 6 |c|^2. Please clarify the notation and confirm the coefficient used in f_PQ^2 below it.
  2. [Section IV] The text says 'The SU(10) model in section IV' but should refer to Section III. Also, the antifundamental index range 'i=1,...,14' is inconsistent with the stated ten antifundamentals; presumably it should be i=1,...,10.
  3. [Figure 1 and Eq. (III.5)] The figure labels the SU(10) model as E/N=4/3, but Eq. (III.5) gives E/N=2/3 for q_F=-1/3 and E/N=8/3 for q_F=2/3. Please reconcile the figure label with the text.
  4. [Eq. (III.10)] The integer n in the quality bound is not defined in the text. It should be related explicitly to the dimension of the PQ-violating operator.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the central axion quantities are derived from input scales, not fitted, and the exact-vacuum calculation is re-derived in the appendix.

full rationale

The central quantitative claim is Eq. (A.12): fa = (sqrt(42)/40) a with a = Λ10 (17 Λ10 / (138 m))^{3/20}. This is obtained by minimizing the effective potential (A.6), which is built from the exact superpotential (A.4) and the standard AMSB term (A.5). The only inputs are the dynamical scale Λ10 and the supersymmetry-breaking scale m; no axion observable or fitted parameter is used to set fa. The PQ charges in Table II are fixed by requiring the U(1)PQ to be SU(10)-anomaly-free and QCD-anomalous, not by matching axion couplings; N=80 is then a derived anomaly coefficient. The discrete Z16 symmetry and the operator-dimension bounds in (III.7)-(III.11) are obtained from anomaly-freeness computations in Appendices B and C, not assumed to produce the quality bounds. Self-citations to Refs. [26,27] supply general exact results for SUSY chiral dynamics, but the appendix re-derives the relevant superpotential and minimization, so the argument does not reduce to those citations. The main vulnerability identified by the skeptic - the assumption of a canonical Kähler metric and the global-SUSY AMSB form at large VEVs - is a correctness/robustness caveat, not a circularity: the output fa is not equivalent to an input assumption by construction. Therefore no circular step can be exhibited.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

6 free parameters · 6 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the exact SUSY/AMSB dynamics from prior work, the canonical Kahler assumption, the weakly-gauged QCD assumption, and the anomaly-free discrete symmetry construction. Free parameters include the strong scales Lambda10/Lambda14, the AMSB scale m, the operator coefficient cPQ, and the hypercharge assignment; these set the axion scale but are not fitted to axion data. No new fundamental entities are introduced beyond the A and Fbar superfields; the axion and colored NGBs are composite states with predicted observable signatures.

free parameters (6)
  • Lambda10
    SU(10) dynamical scale; free input that sets the axion decay constant via Eq. (A.12).
  • m = ~100 TeV
    AMSB supersymmetry-breaking scale; chosen near 100 TeV for collider and hierarchy reasons, enters the fa formula.
  • c_PQ = ~0.1
    Overall coefficient of Planck-suppressed PQ-violating operators; quality bounds in Eqs. (III.10)-(III.11) assume cPQ ~ 0.1.
  • q_Fbar = +2/3 or -1/3
    Hypercharge assignment for the Fbar field, chosen to avoid fractionally charged stable relics; fixes the E/N ratio.
  • discrete subgroup choice = Z4/Z8/Z16
    Choice of which anomaly-free subgroup of Z16 is gauged; determines the maximal allowed fa.
  • Lambda14
    SU(14) dynamical scale in the GUT extension; free input analogous to Lambda10.
axioms (6)
  • domain assumption The non-perturbative superpotential W = (Lambda10^23 (Pf A)(Pf A Fbar Fbar))^{1/3} is exact and determined by symmetry.
    Invoked in Eq. (A.4) as the exact low-energy superpotential from gaugino condensation; no loop corrections beyond it are considered.
  • domain assumption The AMSB potential V_AMSB = m(phi_i dW/dphi_i - 3W) + c.c. is the exact supersymmetry-breaking correction for m << Lambda.
    Eq. (A.5), taken from [26], assumes UV insensitivity and no other soft terms contribute.
  • domain assumption The Kahler potential is canonical along the D-flat direction used in the calculation.
    Used implicitly in Eq. (A.10) to extract f_PQ from kinetic terms; strong-dynamics corrections to the Kahler metric are neglected.
  • domain assumption The condensate pattern <A Fbar_i Fbar_j> proportional to J_ij and <Pf A> nonzero (Eq. III.1) follows from the exact SUSY results of [27] and remains valid after AMSB perturbation.
    This determines which global symmetries break, including U(1)_PQ, and is the basis for identifying the axion.
  • domain assumption QCD SU(3)_c is weakly gauged inside the unbroken Sp(6)_Fbar global symmetry and does not significantly back-react on the strong dynamics.
    Used in Section III B to compute the NGB spectrum, axion couplings, and the E/N ratio.
  • domain assumption Discrete gravitational anomalies of Z16 can be canceled by spectator fields without affecting the axion potential.
    Appendix C argues spectators can cancel Z16 x [grav]^2 anomalies; relies on spectators staying VEV-less so PQ-violating operators they allow do not shift the axion minimum.

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We use supersymmetric chiral dynamics perturbed by anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking to obtain a high-quality, composite axion that solves the strong CP problem. The strong dynamics arises from a supersymmetric SU(10) chiral gauge theory with massless matter chiral superfields. This leads to a stable, nonsupersymmetric vacuum, calculated exactly, where a spontaneously broken $U(1)$ global symmetry, identified with the Peccei-Quinn symmetry, gives rise to a composite QCD axion. The chiral gauge theory also admits a discrete $\mathbb{Z}_{4}$ (or $\mathbb{Z}_{8,16}$) gauge symmetry that forbids PQ-violating operators up to dimension eight. An extension to an $SU(14)\times \mathbb{Z}_{12}$ chiral gauge theory incorporates $SO(10)$ grand unification where the unification scale is identified with the PQ-breaking scale and PQ-violating operators are forbidden up to dimension 20. The supersymmetry breaking scale, near 100 TeV, ameliorates the Higgs hierarchy problem, while colored NGBs may be detected at future colliders via decays to gluons or form heavy isotopes.

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