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CP violation in weak interactions from orbifold reduction: possible unification structures

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We present a mechanism to generate complex phases from real 4+1 dimensional couplings in a model of weak interactions through dimensional reduction of a gauge theory. The orbifolding of a 4+1 dimensional Sp(4) \times U(1) group is the minimal setup which provides both CP violation and an SU(2) \times U(1) structure. We show that grand unification requires at least SO(11).

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0303037,
  title  = {CP violation in weak interactions from orbifold reduction: possible unification structures},
  author = {N. Cosme and J. -M. Frere},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0303037},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, REVTEX 4, references added