Quark masses and strong CP violation
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2011-06-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Two flavor QCD involves three independent mass parameters for which non-perturbative effects are not universal. This precludes matching lattice and perturbative results for non-degenerate quarks and eliminates a vanishing up quark mass as a viable solution to the strong CP problem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1011.0908,
title = {Quark masses and strong CP violation},
author = {Michael Creutz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.0908},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
1 page, 1 figure; poster contribution to the conference "Quark confinement and the hadron spectrum IX," August 30 - September 10, 2010