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The limits on CP-odd four-fermion operators containing strange quark field

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

The bounds on the neutron electric dipole moment and T-odd nucleon-nucleon interaction are used to extract the limits on the effective CP-odd four-fermion operators containing strange quark field. This completes the study of the dim=5,6 CP-odd operators built from the light-quark fields. The limits are very strong and comparable to those obtained previously for operators containing up and down flavors. We also analyze the shift of the axionic vacuum, θeff\theta_{eff}, induced by four-fermion operators in the presence of PQ mechanism and conclude that this gives subleading contributions to CP-odd observables as compared with the direct ones.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9901363,
  title  = {The limits on CP-odd four-fermion operators containing strange quark field},
  author = {C. Hamzaoui and M. Pospelov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9901363},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages. Standard Latex. 1 eps figure