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Solving the Strong CP Problem with Discrete Symmetries and the Right Unitarity Triangle

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-11-27 v2

Abstract

We present a solution to the strong CP problem based on spontaneous CP violation and discrete family symmetries. The model predicts in a natural way the almost right-angled quark unitarity triangle angle (α90\alpha \simeq 90^\circ) by making the entries of the quark mass matrices either real or imaginary. By this choice the determinants of the mass matrices are rendered real and hence the strong CP phase vanishes. We present a toy model for the quark sector that demonstrates the viability of our approach.

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@article{arxiv.1307.0710,
  title  = {Solving the Strong CP Problem with Discrete Symmetries and the Right Unitarity Triangle},
  author = {Stefan Antusch and Martin Holthausen and Michael A. Schmidt and Martin Spinrath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.0710},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

20 pages, 4 figures; v2: references added, minor changes, version published in NPB