Structure of flavor changing Goldstone boson interactions

• Published in: The journal of high energy physics 2021-04, Vol.2021 (4), p.1-21, Article 141
• Main Authors: Sun, Jin, Cheng, Yu, He, Xiao-Gang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Beyond Standard Model; Broken symmetry; Classical and Quantum Gravitation; Couplings; CP violation; Elementary Particles; Fermions; Flavor (particle physics); Gluons; High energy physics; Leptons; Model testing; Neutral currents; Neutrinos; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum chromodynamics; Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Field Theory; Quantum Physics; Quarks; Regular Article - Theoretical Physics; Relativity Theory; Standard model (particle physics); String Theory; Symmetry
• ISSN: 1029-8479; 1029-8479
• DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2021)141

A bstract General flavor changing Goldstone boson (GB) interactions with fermions from a spontaneous global U(1) G symmetry breaking are discussed. This GB may be the Axion, solving the strong QCD CP problem, if there is a QCD anomaly for the assignments of quarks U(1) G charge. Or it may be the Majoron, producing seesaw Majorana neutrino masses by lepton number violation, if the symmetry breaking scale is much higher than the electroweak scale. It may also, in principle, play the roles of Axion and Majoron simultaneously as far as providing solution for the strong CP problem and generating a small Majorana neutrino masses are concerned. Great attentions have been focused on flavor conserving GB interactions. Recently flavor changing Axion and Majoron models have been studied in the hope to find new physics from rare decays in the intensity frontier. In this work, we will provide a systematic model building aspect study for flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) GB interactions in the fermion sectors, or separately in the quark, charged lepton and neutrino sectors and will identify in detail the sources of FCNC interactions in a class of beyond standard model with a spontaneous global U(1) G symmetry breaking. We also provide a general proof of the equivalence of using physical GB components and GB broken generators for calculating GB couplings to two gluons and two photons, and discuss some issues related to spontaneous CP violation models. Besides, we will also provide some details for obtaining FCNC GB interactions in several popular models, such as the Type-I, -II, -III seesaw and Left-Right symmetric models, and point out some special features in these models.