relaxion

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English

Etymology

Blend of relax +‎ axion

Noun

relaxion (plural relaxions)

  1. (physics) A form of axion proposed to account for cosmological relaxation of the electroweak interaction
    • 2015, Subodh P. Patil, Pedro Schwaller, “Relaxing the Electroweak Scale: the Role of Broken dS Symmetry”, in arXiv:
      We discuss several corollaries of this observation, including the interplay between the upper bound on the scale and the order parameter associated with the breaking of dS symmetry, and the possibility that the relaxion could play the role of a curvaton.