Dynamics of cosmological relaxation after reheating
2016
We examine if the cosmological relaxation mechanism, which was proposed recently as a new solution to the
hierarchy problem, can be compatible with high reheating temperature well above the weak scale. As the barrier potential disappears at high temperature, the relaxion rolls down further after the reheating, which may ruin the successful implementation of the relaxation mechanism. It is noted that if the relaxion is coupled to a dark
gauge boson, the new frictional force arising from dark
gauge bosonproduction can efficiently slow down the relaxion motion, which allows the relaxion to be stabilized after the electroweak phase transition for a wide range of model parameters, while satisfying the known observational constraints.
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