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Strong CP Problem and Symmetric Mass Solution

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-01-20 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We propose a novel solution to the Strong CP problem -- to explain why SU(3) strong force has a nearly zero theta angle θˉ30\bar\theta_3 \simeq 0 for the 4d Standard Model (SM). The new ingredient is Symmetric Mass Generation (SMG): symmetry-preserving mass or energy gap can be generated without breaking any symmetry GG and without any quadratic mean-field mass deformation as long as GG is all perturbative local and nonperturbative global anomaly-free. In our first model, we propose a disordered non-mean-field SMG gap (instead of the ordered Anderson-Higgs induced mass gap) for the uu quark (or generally a set of quarks and leptons totally anomaly-free in GG) generated by multi-fermion interactions or by dynamical disordered mass fields, absorbing θˉ3\bar\theta_3. Another variant of this first model is the SMG gapping a hypothetical hidden full fourth family of SM fermions. In our second model, we have a chiral SM and mirror SM together to respect the Nielsen-Ninomiya fermion-doubling and a parity-reflection Z2PR\mathbb{Z}_2^{\rm PR} symmetry at high energy, so the θˉ3=0\bar\theta_3 = 0. Then the SMG lifts only the mirror SM with a large energy gap but leaves the chiral SM at lower energy, which not only "spontaneously" breaks the parity-reflection symmetry maximally but also relates our solution to solve another nonperturbative chiral fermion regularization problem by removing the fermion doubling. The predictive signature of both SMG-based models is that some SM fermions or mirror fermions are highly interacting (beyond the conventional SM Higgs or SM gauge interactions) mediated through hypothetical direct multi-fermion or disordered mass-field interactions.

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@article{arxiv.2212.14036,
  title  = {Strong CP Problem and Symmetric Mass Solution},
  author = {Juven Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.14036},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

30 pages. A companion to arXiv:2207.14813. An overview on Symmetric Mass Generation arXiv:2204.14271

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