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Missing (up) Mass, Accidental Anomalous Symmetries, and the Strong CP Problem

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We reconsider the massless up quark solution of the strong CP problem. We show that an anomaly free horizontal symmetry can naturally lead to a massless up quark and to a corresponding accidental anomalous symmetry. Reviewing the controversy about the phenomenological viability of mu=0m_u=0 we conclude that this possiblity is still open and can solve the strong CP problem. To appear in the Proceedings of The Yukawa Couplings and the Origins of Mass Workshop.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9403203,
  title  = {Missing (up) Mass, Accidental Anomalous Symmetries, and the Strong CP Problem},
  author = {Tom Banks and Yosef Nir and Nathan Seiberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9403203},
  year   = {2007}
}

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19 pages, WIS-94/14/Feb-PH, RU-94-24