CP symmetry and the strong interactions
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice
Abstract
I discuss several aspects of CP non-invariance in the strongly interacting theory of quarks and gluons. I use a simple effective Lagrangian technique to map out the region of quark masses where CP symmetry is spontaneously broken. I then turn to the possible explicit CP violation arising from a complex quark mass. After summarizing the definition of the renormalized theory as a limit, I argue that attempts to remove the CP violation by making the lightest quark mass vanish are not well defined. I close with some warnings for lattice simulations.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0303254,
title = {CP symmetry and the strong interactions},
author = {Michael Creutz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0303254},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
16 pages, 3 figures, revtex; revisions for clarity