The Generalized Scalar Weak Gravity Conjecture and its Implications

Abstract

We propose a generalized formulation of the Scalar Weak Gravity Conjecture (SWGC) based on the analogy with the derivation of the Gauge Weak Gravity Conjecture (GWGC). We discuss some phenomenological implications of this Generalized SWGC, including the scale of New Physics (NP) when applied to the SM Higgs sector, and the bounds on the axion's couplings to fermions and the photon when applied to the axion. The Generalized SWGC constraints rule out most of the parameter space of axion-nucleon couplings, leaving only a tiny parameter space.