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Solitons in an effective theory of CP violation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-01-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study an effective field theory describing CP-violation in a scalar meson sector. We write the simplest interaction that we can imagine, Lϵi1i5ϵμ1μ4ϕi1μ1ϕi2μ2ϕi3μ3ϕi4μ4ϕi5{\cal L}\sim \epsilon_{i_1\cdots i_5}\epsilon^{\mu_1\cdots\mu_4}\phi_{i_1}\partial_{\mu_1}\phi_{i_2}\partial_{\mu_2}\phi_{i_3}\partial_{\mu_3}\phi_{i_4}\partial_{\mu_4}\phi_{i_5} which involves 5 scalar fields. The theory describes CP-violation only when it contains scalar fields representing mesons such as the K0K^*_0, sigma, f0f_0 or a0a_0. If the fields represent pseudo-scalar mesons, such as B, K and π\pi mesons then the Lagrangian describes anomalous processes such as KKπππKK\to \pi\pi\pi. We speculate that the field theory contains long lived excitations corresponding to QQ-ball type domain walls expanding through space-time. In an 1+1 dimensional, analogous, field theory we find an exact, analytic solution corresponding to such solitons. The solitons have a U(1) charge QQ, which can be arbitrarily high, but oddly, the energy behaves as Q2/3Q^{2/3} for large charge, thus the configurations are stable under disintegration into elementary charged particles of mass mm with Q=1Q=1. We also find analytic complex instanton solutions which have finite, positive Euclidean action.

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@article{arxiv.1601.00475,
  title  = {Solitons in an effective theory of CP violation},
  author = {N. Chandra and M. B. Paranjape and R. Srivastava},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.00475},
  year   = {2016}
}

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15 pages, 1 figure