relaxion

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^[1]:

     We discuss several corollaries of this observation, including the interplay between the upper bound on the scale $M$ and the order parameter $\epsilon$ associated with the breaking of dS symmetry, and the possibility that the relaxion could play the role of a curvaton.