Relaxation mechanisms: From Damour-Polyakov to Peccei-Quinn
Abstract
The ralaxation mechanism of Damour-Polyakov for fixing the vacuum expectation value of certain scalar fields (moduli) in string theory could provide a convenient framework for the Peccei-Quinn relaxation mechanism and remove the narrow "axion window".
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