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Volume 203, number 1,2 PHYSICS LETTERS B 24 March 1988 PSEUDO-GOLDSTONE BOSONS AND NEW MACROSCOPIC FORCES Christopher T. HILL and Graham G. ROSS * CERN Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland Received 18 December 1987 Pseudoscalar Goldstone bosons may readily be associated with weakly, explicitly broken symmetries giving them mixed CP quantum numbers. In general this leads to scalar couplings to nucleons and leptons, which produces coherent long range forces. This can naturally accommodate detectable long range macroscopic forces mediated by bosons completely consistent with con- ventional cosmological limits, e.g., new interactions with the range of present “fifth force” searches which probe a scale of new physics off- lOI GeV. While the standard model continues to provide an excellent description of all known phenomena, it leaves so many questions unanswered (e.g. parame- ters, multiplet structure, Higgs structure, etc.) that many physicsts believe there is further new physics beyond the scales currently probed. A remarkable feature of the standard model is that many of its properties may be derived from the as- sumption that it is an effective field theory following from an underlying theory relevant at some scale A, much larger than the electroweak breaking scale. The states of the standard model are all protected from acquiring the large mass .4 by a symmetry: the vector fields are gauge bosons and the fermions are chiral. The exception is the Higgs scalar, which must either be dynamical, as in technicolor schemes and hence protected by chiral symmetries or must be protected by supersymmetry. The natural question is, if the standard model is indeed an effective theory reflect- ing underlying physics at a high energy scale, then what are the characteristic signals reflecting this fact? The answer is well known: there should be new terms in the lagrangian which may give rise to observable phenomena, but, suppressed by inverse powers of the new scale, A-‘. Hence they give only small effects, On leave from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 605 10, USA. On leave from Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX 1 3NP, UK. difficult to measure unless they give rise to new phe- nomena beyond the standard model, as is the case for proton decay. In this letter we wish to discuss another such effect in which a symmetry is realised non-linearly giving rise to a (pseudo) Goldstone mode which plays a role in low energy physics. Its couplings are described by terms in the effective low energy lagrangian, sup- pressed by inverse powers ofA the scale of sponta- neous breakdown of the symmetry. The phenomenon is well known in the case of the (invisible) axion [ 1,2] which is employed to suppress the large CP-violating effects of the QCD B-term. Here an ungauged ap- proximate axial symmetry - the PQ-symmetry - (broken in loops only through the U ( 1) axial-anom- aly) is spontaneously broken at a high scale f,, thus yielding a pseudoscalar pseudo-Goldstone boson. The coupling to fermions is very feeble, of strength f; ’ , and is a derivative coupling, vanishing as the mo- mentum transfer tends to zero. For largef, the effects of the axion prove to be very hard to detect experi- mentally, hence the term “invisible”. However, it may happen that the non-linearly re- alised global symmetry is not exact (in the tree ap- proximation) but is an approximate symmetry of the terms of low dimension ( ,<4) in the effective field theory #I. In this case, the Goldstone mode becomes a pseudo-Goldstone boson [ 5 1, does not remain For footnote see next page. 125

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Volume 203, number 1,2 PHYSICS LETTERS B 24 March 1988

PSEUDO-GOLDSTONE BOSONS AND NEW MACROSCOPIC FORCES

Christopher T. HILL ’ and Graham G. ROSS * CERN Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

Received 18 December 1987

Pseudoscalar Goldstone bosons may readily be associated with weakly, explicitly broken symmetries giving them mixed CP quantum numbers. In general this leads to scalar couplings to nucleons and leptons, which produces coherent long range forces. This can naturally accommodate detectable long range macroscopic forces mediated by bosons completely consistent with con- ventional cosmological limits, e.g., new interactions with the range of present “fifth force” searches which probe a scale of new physics off- lOI GeV.

While the standard model continues to provide an excellent description of all known phenomena, it leaves so many questions unanswered (e.g. parame- ters, multiplet structure, Higgs structure, etc.) that many physicsts believe there is further new physics beyond the scales currently probed.

A remarkable feature of the standard model is that many of its properties may be derived from the as- sumption that it is an effective field theory following from an underlying theory relevant at some scale A, much larger than the electroweak breaking scale. The states of the standard model are all protected from acquiring the large mass .4 by a symmetry: the vector fields are gauge bosons and the fermions are chiral. The exception is the Higgs scalar, which must either be dynamical, as in technicolor schemes and hence protected by chiral symmetries or must be protected by supersymmetry. The natural question is, if the standard model is indeed an effective theory reflect- ing underlying physics at a high energy scale, then what are the characteristic signals reflecting this fact? The answer is well known: there should be new terms in the lagrangian which may give rise to observable phenomena, but, suppressed by inverse powers of the new scale, A-‘. Hence they give only small effects,

On leave from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 605 10, USA. On leave from Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX 1 3NP, UK.

difficult to measure unless they give rise to new phe- nomena beyond the standard model, as is the case for proton decay.

In this letter we wish to discuss another such effect in which a symmetry is realised non-linearly giving rise to a (pseudo) Goldstone mode which plays a role in low energy physics. Its couplings are described by terms in the effective low energy lagrangian, sup- pressed by inverse powers ofA the scale of sponta- neous breakdown of the symmetry. The phenomenon is well known in the case of the (invisible) axion [ 1,2 ] which is employed to suppress the large CP-violating effects of the QCD B-term. Here an ungauged ap- proximate axial symmetry - the PQ-symmetry - (broken in loops only through the U ( 1) axial-anom- aly) is spontaneously broken at a high scale f,, thus yielding a pseudoscalar pseudo-Goldstone boson. The coupling to fermions is very feeble, of strength f; ’ , and is a derivative coupling, vanishing as the mo- mentum transfer tends to zero. For largef, the effects of the axion prove to be very hard to detect experi- mentally, hence the term “invisible”.

However, it may happen that the non-linearly re- alised global symmetry is not exact (in the tree ap- proximation) but is an approximate symmetry of the terms of low dimension ( ,<4) in the effective field theory #I. In this case, the Goldstone mode becomes a pseudo-Goldstone boson [ 5 1, does not remain

For footnote see next page.

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massless (even in the absence of QCD effects) and can acquire scalar, nonderivative, couplings in addi- tion to the normal pseudoscalar derivative coupling. This effect is a consequence of the breakdown of CP which occurs when the Goldstone mode acquires a VEV. The particle is spin-zero, but has a mixture of scalar (CP= ( + )) and pseudoscalar (CP= ( - )) quantum numbers. In view of this schism in the iden- tity of the Goldstone mode, we refer to such a particle as a “schizon”. We emphasize that both the explicit mass of the schizon, as well as its scalar couplings are naturally small since the exact non-linear global sym- metry is recovered as they go to zero. The presence of the non-derivative coupling distinguishes the schi- zon from a conventional pseudo-scalar pseudo-Gold- stone boson with pure derivative couplings and justifies the introduction of the new name.

Indeed, one can imagine that the axion itself is a schizon in that the PQ-symmetry is weakly broken at the tree level in addition to its explicit breaking at one loop by the axial anomaly. There will then be a residual e-angle in QCD, but this will be small, to be consistent with the neutron electric dipole moment, provided that the explicit breaking of PQ-symmetry is small. However, schizons are more general and can exist in addition to the conventional axion. They can thus have masses and decay constants independent of the constraints imposed on those of the axion by its interplay with QCD instantons. The schizon is, however, subject to its own cosmological limits which we consider below.

The scalar coupling component of the schizon is small, suppressed as f - ‘, but has no derivatives, and gives rise to coherent long range forces in matter. There is sufficient freedom in the choice of parame- ters consistent with cosmological bounds that there may be observable effects, such as reported in recent “fifth force” experiments #2. These observations may thus signal the presence of structure beyond the stan- dard model characteristic of the new scalef:

#’ Superstring theories provide an explicit example of this, for after compactitication they give rise to new discrete symme- tries which may imply new continuous global symmetries for low dimension terms [ 31. Indeed, it has been argued that in such theories it is inevitable that the PQ symmetry is explicitly broken [ 4 1.

42 For a recent review see ref. [ 61.

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We wish first to discuss, in some generality, the phenomenology of schizons. At low energies it is suf- ficient to consider an effective lagrangian involving only light fields. For clarity let us first suppress the flavor degrees of freedom, dealing with a single Dirac fermion, v. We write the lagrangian

L,=wiaw+[mUrLWRexp(iq~/f)+h.c.]+~(a~)*,

(1)

where q is a chiral charge associated with $. LO pos- sesses the exact global chiral symmetry

Wi,+exp(iqi,a)Wr_, vR-+ew(--iq~~!)v~,

q=qR-qL 3 @If-Q/f+ CY . (2)

We now allow for explicit breaking of this symmetry by adding terms which break the global symmetry:

L=L, + [&_t,,R exp(iq’o/f) +h.c.]

+$f MO/f-P) > (3)

where q’ # q. Note that by shifting Q and performing chiral rotations on wL and \YR we can always make m and t real. The parameter p can be viewed as arising from these redefinitions; there is no a priori pre- ferred direction for the angle o/J

Neglecting loops, the effect of the p2 breaking term is to force olfto develop a VEV of (o/f) =p, and small fluctuations about this VEV which we call $/f=$/f- j?. The resulting coupling to the field w is then given

by

{mexp[iq($lf+P)] +Eexp[iq’(~lf+P)])WLWR

+ h.c.

=&J) exPwmlWLvR+h.c. (4)

where we find trivially:

p2=m2+t2+2 me cos((q-q’)(Qf+B)) , (5)

sin(a)=p-‘[msin(q(&f+/3))

+esin(q’(#f+B))] . (6)

Now, we may perform the local redefinition of the fields, vL+exp( ia/2)\yL; vR-+exp( -io/2)vR, to obtain:

L=\yi@ - +ap(0)WY5Ywv +pww

+@$)‘+/L2f2cos(~/J) ) (7)

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so, the phase a( 3) N q( 6/f+& behaves like the con- ventional axion, and is derivatively coupled.

However, we see that the theory now has a net sca- lar-Yukawa coupling of $ to @w contained in p. Throughout we shall assume that e .K m, and the sca- lar coupling term is of the form

L YE (J +h (4’~qMsin((q-@VI _ m2+~2+2m~cos((q-qq’)/3) f’ >

(8)

Notice that there would be no such term in the limit 6= 0, even though ,u2# 0; both ingredients are re- quired to produce both the scalar mass and the sca- lar-Yukawa coupling. The nontrivial minimum of the potential in eq. (3) forces the I$ field to develop a VEV, which violates CP. In this simple model, the overall CP-phase, 6, could be rotated away. The manifestation of the CP-violation is the mixture of pseudoscalar and scalar couplings of $.

With an arbitrarily small mass, p, the exchange of the schizon can give rise to an intermediate range classical force in bulk matter, .~exp( -,~)lr*. The strength of this force between masses M, and Mb composed of the v particles is N G’M,M, where the constant G’ is, relative to Newton’s gravitational constant, given by

G’ f2(q-q’)211112planck sin2((s-s’)B) G,= m”f

(9)

This result forms the basis of the present paper. Of course, we have presently neglected the effects

of loops which will produce corrections to the schi- zon mass term of eq. (3). The leading perturbatively induced schizon mass is contained in the amplitudes of the form ( T,($)\yw ). These are superficially quadratically divergent, which would be a disaster from the point of view of controlling the smallness of the breaking. This problem can be cured by introduc- ing additional fermions and/or symmetries into the coupling of the pseudoscalar in eq. (1)) and is ex- pected in the context of realistic theories. We denote by M2 (M is quite distinct from f and we expect gen- erally that M- M,), the characteristic (mass)2 scale of these effects. For example, we can appeal to super- symmetry above Mw to cancel the quadratic diver- gence in the schizon mass, whence we find generically that M2 N Mzusy. It is also possible to arrange a GIM

cancellation of the quadratic divergence amongst the existing generations of quarks and leptons whence M2 -m&*. In our effective field theory, below the scale of such physics, the radiative effects should be interpreted as real effects which may be used to bound M2. The induced schizon mass term is then N (meM2/8n2) cos((q-q’)(@f+/3)), up to loga- rithms.

There can also arise an induced mass term from the breaking of chiral symmetry contained in the am- plitude ( @(g)yv ) -p&,,. In this case we induce a mass term for the schizon of N (ul&,) cos((q- q’)(@f+/l)). Thus, we see that the general form for the induced schizon mass is given by ( cK3) x cos((q-q’)(&f+/3)) where K3 is the larger of N mM218n2 or AhcD. The effect of including these additional terms in the potential for the schizon is an additional shift in the VEV, i.e., $ now acquires a VEV.

For the sake of convenience below, we shall group together these various contributions to the potential of the schizon associated with explicit breaking by defining

P( cp/fi = --f12f cos(Wf-b)

-(&) cos((q-q’)($/jJ)+... . (10)

and we shall define the minimum of P( +‘j) to occur for t$/f=S. About this minimum we have the small fluctuations

P(@f+6) x jrn$ji2 . (11)

Let us now consider the modifications necessary to include the flavor degrees of freedom of the standard model. For the moment we consider only possible coupling to quarks and we must face the problem of maintaining at least an approximate PQ-symmetry to cancel the QCD &term. We consider first the case of an exact PQ symmetry with an axion and an inde- pendent schizon field. The generalization to the light quarks of eqs. (I), ( 3) is a coupling to fermions in the form

L,,=mUiiLuR exp(ialf,)+md&dR exp(ia&)+h.c.

+cuaLuR exp[i(h@%++alf,)l

+dLdR exp[i(wP&+alfn)l

+0G,,@, (12)

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where we exhibit also the QCD B-term. Of course, we could include a series of terms such as the E,, but the above lagrangian is sufficient for illustration.

We may write for the quark mass terms

m, exp(id!) +e, exp[i(q&lf, +a@31

=pq exp[i(a, +GJl (13)

and perform chiral rotations to bring Lo into the form

+[8_c(a,+a,+2alf,)]G,~,

where c=g&,i32n2.

(14)

The effect of instantons is to break the PQ-sym- metry by producing an effective potential which is an even function of the coefficient of the Ge term in eq. (14). Similarly, we have the effects of quark loops and chiral symmetry breaking which induce mass terms for the schizon, in addition to the explicit terms as discussed above. With tq X= m,,, the resulting effec- tive lagrangian for the schizon and axion takes the form

L ..o=t(aa)2+t(a~)2-P($l~)

-fm~~(812c-a,/2-a,/2-alf,)2. (15)

The schizon may be written in the shifted form o/f, = $I& + 6 to minimize P( I$/&). Then, in our ap- proximati?” c4 --t ( qq es/m,) (c/f+ 6). The axion will then be shifted to cancel 6/2c- C,( q&,/ms)( 612). The result of this is to zero the constant coefficient of GG, which thus completely eliminates the strong CP problem, and L,, then takes the form:

L .,e=t(a1)2+I(aC)2-tm~~[(9u~ulm,

+qde,lm,)&f +%JJ2- irn:G2 . (16)

Here m : is the resulting mass of the small fluctuation and is of order Max(p’, C,q~t&lf,Z).

The overall e-term is cancelled in the usual way, since our model maintains the PQ-symmetry, how- ever there remains mixing between the schizon and the axion. We will be interested in the range of pa- rameters in which lo9 cf, < 1OL2 GeV, for consist- ency of the axion with conventional astrophysical limits [7,8], and& >>fa, rnz s mf (and t,/m,e l), for an interesting range and strength of the schizon

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mediated force. In this case, one readily finds that the (mass) 2 eigenvalues of eq. (16) are m,‘( 1 + O(q~f,2t$&frn~) and m$. The axion will develop a negligible scalar coupling in this limit through its mixing with Cp, of order OCf,~,/f~m,), and, con- versely, the schizon develops a further negligible cor- rection in its coupling to the anomalies.

The resulting scalar Yukawa couplings of the schi- zon are contained in the terms

Lo =puiiLuR +pdd,_dR +h.c.

&&LuR ~mutiLuR+md&dR+e, sin(d) - &

-td sin(d) 9 +h.c.+... , 0

(17)

and, again, arises essentially as a consequence of the offset angle, 6, reflecting the presence of CP-violation.

At this point several remarks are in order. It is straightforward to extend eq. (12) to additional gen- erations and it is interesting that, in a two generation case, we may choose a GIM cancellation of the qua- dratic divergences, as discussed above, by choosing, e.g., E, = urn,, and ec = - qm,, etc., where r~ e 1. Such a model can readily be generated from a realistic Higgs potential, but we can also appeal to SUSY to elimi- nate the quadratic divergences. Note, furthermore, that by choosing t,= - td, we eliminate the chiral condensate contribution to the schizon mass and we would have a coupling of the schizon to Z3. Also, we see that the chiral rotation of eq. (14) will induce a coupling of the schizon, in addition to the axion, to the electromagnetic anomaly, (&4n)( $(Yu + 6 ud ) FF, hence schizons can in principle be produced in E.B experiments at a suppressed rate, but at con- siderably longer wavelengths than those usually as- sumed for the axion for the low mass schizon of interest to us here. Also, we have considered only fla- vor diagonal couplings; with off-diagonal couplings the possibility of CP-violation in strong classical schizon fields arises. Conceivably the terrestrial schi- zon field plays a role in KLKs CP-violation, and mea- surements above the surface of the earth might show variations.

Notice that the relative signs and strengths of e, and td are arbitrary. Thus, the schizon can couple to a lin- ear combination of B and Z, (and the leptonic gener-

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alization of this result is an arbitrary linear combination of N, and ZVvi ). This contrasts with the cosmon model which has difficulty in producing a macroscopic force coupled to Z3 [ 91; in principle, with E,= - Ed, we can have pure coupling to Zj.

We turn now to the cosmological limits on the pa- rameters describing the schizon. First, it is readily seen that the conditions necessary to maintain ther- mal equilibrium of the schizon in the early Universe are generally not met. As seen in eq. (17), the cou- pling strength of the schizon to massive states is char- acterized by the coupling strength -e/f where typically 6 << m&,ryo,, (though heavier quarks may en- ter). As the temperature of the Universe falls below -f the massive states decouple and the schizon in- teraction becomes weak. In order to maintain ther- mal equilibrium we require that typical reaction rates exceed the Hubble expansion rate, na s H- T2/Mp where cr - ~‘1’ T2, and n - T 3. This only applies pro- vided T>mearyon and we thus will not remain in ther- mal equilibrium at any subsequent time provided

(18)

Since this condition is generally expected to be sat- isfied, the schizon evolution will be governed by its equation of motion

$+3H$+mic$=O. (19)

For H> m, the schizon field is critically damped, thus, effectively frozen to a constant value and its poten- tial energy of order m$t$2 - m x2 does not change.

The ensuing cosmological behavior depends criti- cally upon the terms giving rise to m,. The terms aris- ing at the scalef, and the fermion loop contributions are present at all temperatures and essentially con- stant. We shall refer to this as the mqo contribution to the Cp mass. The nonperturbative contribution in- volves the chiral condensate, rn$ - c( qq)/J and ap- pears only below a temperature T1 - 0( AiQcD) . Once H drops below moo at a temperature To - ,,/s, the o freely oscillates and redshifts as a matter field with energy = R - 3:

Pm(T,)=Po(To)~= +rn~,f$~. (20) 0 0

As the temperature drops below T,, m,Z, switches on,

shifting the minimum of P($lf+) and releasing fur- ther latent heat N jrn$ficr where crw (me,lmN)2 < 1. Adding this to p+( T, ) and evolving to lower temperatures gives, for T< T,,

P,(T) 16 To 3

P(T) =zzE )I (21)

where p(T) is the total visible energy density of the Universe, 52,( Q/isjbre - 0.1) is the fraction of closure density of the coherent oscillations of the schizon (visible matter) and T,, the temperature at transi- tion to a matter dominated Universe, T,, - 10 eV (i.e., T, is defined by pmatter= pmd) . Saturating eq. ( 2 1) with 52,= 1 corresponds to assuming that the schizon coherent oscillations close the Universe and thus ac- count for the dark matter.

A second astrophysical limit comes from the cool- ing rates of red giant stars [ 81. In this case schizon cooling proceeds via the electromagnetic anomaly only, and for the interesting range c/f+ CK mqlfa, cool- ing due to schizon radiation is negligible compared to that of the axion, and plays no significant role in the further discussion.

With the above cosmological limits, we may now discuss the generic long-range forces that may arise in bulk matter due due to schizon exchange. The coh- erent long range force resulting from the schizon sca- lar interaction has range m;' and strength given by

(22)

where mN is a nucleon mass and we have used the bound on radiative or non-perturbative masses dis- cussed above (for consistency we must check eq < m,). Combining this result with the cosmological bound ofeq. (21) gives

To 3

Mid T, , To) (23)

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where we have taken tan 6 = qq x 1 as reasonable val- ues. This equation shows that macroscopic forces of range and strength measurable in recent experiments [ 6 ] may result from schizon exchange, consistent with the cosmological bounds. For example, me= 10-l’ GeV gives a range of 500 m, To- 10 GeV, and using eq. (21) &<I0 I4 GeV. Using a large cutoff, M2 = 0( 100 GeV) *, as in a SUSY theory, we obtain K-l; ~r-O(10-~), and thus from eq. (23) G’/G, < 1. Using a small cutoff, M2 = 0 ( 1 GeV) * as in GIM type cancellation, gives K - 1 O- ’ ; (Y N 1, and, again G’IG, < 1. In both cases t, << m,, so the bound of eq. (23) applies. The upper limit on the strength of the new force should be compared with the current experimental results, interpreted as bounds, G’/GN < lo-’ *3, showing that measurable macroscopic forces may easily arise via exchange of a schizon which has parameters fully consistent with standard cosmology.

We note that another suggestion for a long range force mediated by a “cosmon” [ 91, the pseudo- Goldstone boson associated with the dilatation sym- metry, could not satisfy the constraints of cosmology if its properties are such as to give a force in this range

[ill. There are many other possible couplings of the

schizon. It may couple to some combination of lep- ton number alone, in which case there will be no mix- ing with the axion. In this case there will be no contribution to the schizon mass from a fermionic chiral condensate, but there will remain radiative mass generation. As a result the bounds on the strength relative to range remain as given in eqs. (23)) (24) without the (Y* term. In this case there is also a constraint from red giant cooling as the schizon now couples to the electron plasma directly and c,q, cos(6)lj& 1.4x 10-13.

At the other extreme, we may identify the schizon with the axion itself, allowing for explicit breaking of PQ-symmetry. In this case we identify a with 4, in eq. ( 12). This leads to eq. ( 15 ) with a = 9, but in this case the term P( al&) will force the axion to develop a VEV which, now, will not exactly cancel the constant coef- ficient of GG, since the PQ-symmetry is explicitly broken by the terms giving rise to P( alf,). To main- tain the cancellation of 0 to the required precision, of

1(3 For a survey of current bounds, see refs. [ 10,6].

order ~10~~ [ 121, the term P(a’f,) =+p*(a-&)* must be much smaller than in the preceding case, p2 < 1 OB9 rnz . The coherent long range force resulting from schizo-axion exchange has range m; ’ and strength given by the analogue of eq. (22) modified to take account of the stronger mass bound which is given by eq. (22) with rni+ 10-9m: on the right hand side. This time, however, the cosmological bounds are lO’O<f,< 10” [7,8] and m,wl~cDl~ is essentially known. Thus, with reasonable estimates for the other parameters we have

G: GN

x I()--4-IO-‘0 (24)

with range z 10-3-10-4 m. In conclusion, we have shown that the standard

model, with reasonable and minimal extension, may readily accommodate a wide range of previously un- investigated phenomena which are observable and which would foreshadow the existence of physics at a new scale, f=* Mw. The essential result is that there may exist new macroscopic forces with range and strength in the region probed by recent “fifth force” experiments. These forces are mediated by pseudo- Goldstone bosons with scalar couplings induced by explicit breaking of the associated symmetry. The properties of these bosons, which we have dubbed “schizons”, are consistent with standard big bang cosmology provided the strength is bounded by x [(lo-lOOm)/~]“*~(gravitational),forarangeofthe force I = m ,g ’ . Coherent relic schizon fluctuations may even account for the dark matter in the Universe.

Schizons may occur in any model with sponta- neously broken discrete symmetries which give rise to global symmetries when the effective lagrangian is restricted to terms of low dimension. The coupling to matter is not determined by the low energy theory - thus coupling to conventional matter may involve an arbitrary linear combination of baryon number, B, strong isotopic spin, I,, or lepton numbers, Li and &, . This can give rise to composition dependent long range forces of the type probed by E&v&-type exper- iments. Being a scalar mediated force, however, it will not produce a repulsive force between like sign charges and hence is unlikely to explain the reported 20 effect seen in geophysical measurements. It should be noted that most of the higher precision experi- ments do not address the repulsive/attractive nature

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lead to other macroscopic effects as well [ 131. and to be published.

Schizons provide one of the few windows on the high energy world beyond the standard model, one we believe to be of equal importance with other win- dows such as proton decay. Current experiments sen- sitive to schizon-mediated forces are capable of probing new scales of fundamental physics, e.g., for a range of 500 m we see from eq. (2 1) that the scale probed is up tof- lOI GeV! Our analysis has shown there is a wide range of parameters for such forces consistent with the standard model and cosmology. The phenomenology and more explicit models of schizons will be discussed in greater detail elsewhere

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