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Spontaneous violation of CP symmetry in the strong interactions

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-11-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Some time ago Dashen pointed out that spontaneous CP violation can occur in the strong interactions. I show how a simple effective Lagrangian exposes the remarkably large domain of quark mass parameters for which this occurs. I close with some warnings for lattice simulations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0312018,
  title  = {Spontaneous violation of CP symmetry in the strong interactions},
  author = {Michael Creutz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0312018},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 1 figure; final version to appear in PRL