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CP-violating Axions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-08-23 v1

Abstract

While the axion was originally introduced to wash out CP violation from strong interactions, new sources of CP violation beyond QCD might manifest themselves via a tiny scalar axion-nucleon component. The latter can be experimentally probed in axion-mediated force experiments, as suggested long ago by J.E. Moody and F. Wilczek. In the present note, I review the physical origin of CP-violating axion couplings and point out the special role of the QCD axion as a low-energy portal to high-energy sources of CP violation.

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@article{arxiv.2108.09071,
  title  = {CP-violating Axions},
  author = {Luca Di Luzio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.09071},
  year   = {2021}
}

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10 pages, 1 figure. Longer version of article to appear in EPS-HEP2021 proceedings

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