We propose a hybrid inflationary scenario based on eight-flavor hidden QCD with the hidden colored fermions being in part gauged under B−L gauge symmetry. This hidden QCD is almost scale-invariant, so-called walking, and predicts the light scalar meson (the walking dilaton) associated with the spontaneous scale breaking, which develops the Coleman-Weinberg (CW) type potential as the...
Cosmic strings arise from the spontaneous breaking of a $U(1)$ symmetry, which can be either global or local, leading to distinct classes of string solutions. Their energy-loss mechanisms are known to differ significantly, which results in qualitatively different spectra of particles emitted from the string networks. Semilocal strings arise when global and local symmetries are simultaneously...
Recently, Ref.~\cite{...} showed that the minimal gauged $U(1)_{L_\mu - L_\tau}$ model is constrained by cosmological bounds on the sum of neutrino masses. In this work, we compute the one-loop corrections to the neutrino mass matrix in this model and examine whether these cosmological constraints can be relaxed.
