How natural is a small \bar\theta in left-right SUSY models ?
Abstract
In the world without an axion the smallness of may be achieved due to a spontaneously broken discrete left-right symmetry. We analyze the radiatively induced \bar\theta in the context of generic left-right symmetric SUSY models without assuming flavor degeneracy in the squark sector. Left-right symmetry allows to keep \bar\theta within its present bound only if the inter-generational mass splitting in the squark sector at the scale of the left-right symmetry breaking is smaller than 0.5%. We also consider the naturalness of m_u=0 solution to the strong CP problem in the context of horizontal flavor symmetries. A strong bound on the combination of the horizontal charges in the Up quark sector is found in this case.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0105270,
title = {How natural is a small \bar\theta in left-right SUSY models ?},
author = {Cherif Hamzaoui and Maxim Pospelov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0105270},
year = {2014}
}
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12 pages, latex, 1 figure, references added