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Spontaneous CP violation in Supersymmetric QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-06-04 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate a composite model of spontaneous CP violation based on a new supersymmetric QCD as a solution to the strong CP problem. The scalar components of the meson chiral superfields obtain complex vacuum expectation values to break CP symmetry spontaneously. Then, wavefunction renormalization for the quark kinetic terms provides the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) phase, while the strong CP phase θˉ\bar{\theta} is protected by nonrenormalization of the superpotential and hermiticity of the wavefunction renormalization factor. In our model, the right-handed down-type quark multiplets are given by composite states, enhancing their couplings to CP breaking fields, which is essential to realize the observed CKM phase. The non-perturbative dynamics generates the scale of spontaneous CP violation hierarchically lower than the Planck scale. We discuss potential corrections to θˉ\bar{\theta} and find a viable parameter space of the model to solve the strong CP problem without fine-tuning.

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@article{arxiv.2406.01260,
  title  = {Spontaneous CP violation in Supersymmetric QCD},
  author = {Shota Nakagawa and Yuichiro Nakai and Yaoduo Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.01260},
  year   = {2024}
}

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10 pages, 1 figure

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