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Chiral phase in fermionic measure and the resolution of the strong CP problem

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The fermionic measure in the functional integral of a gauge theory suffers from an ambiguity in the form of a chiral phase. By fixing it, one is led once again to the conclusion that a chiral phase in the quark mass term of QCD has no effect and cannot cause CP violation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0104186,
  title  = {Chiral phase in fermionic measure and the resolution of the strong CP problem},
  author = {P. Mitra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0104186},
  year   = {2007}
}

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