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Superheavy Light Quarks and the Strong P, T Problem

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-01-21 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

New superstrong forces, analogous to QCD but featuring a larger mass scale, should they exist, would offer new possibilities for addressing the strong P, T, problem. One can implement the "massless quark" solution in a phenomenologically acceptable way, by using a massless quark that is always confined within superheavy particles, and is therefore effectively superheavy: a cryptoquark. Assuming confinement and chiral symmetry breaking from the superstrong dynamics, we find a new mechanism to generate an axion field without introducing new fundamental scalar fields.

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@article{arxiv.1601.02937,
  title  = {Superheavy Light Quarks and the Strong P, T Problem},
  author = {Frank Wilczek and Guy Moore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.02937},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures v.2 : 8 pages, 2 figures. Added author, added references, added material, significantly modified conclusion

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