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Solutions to the strong CP problem in a world with gravity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-01 v1

Abstract

We examine the sensitivity of several solutions of the strong-CP problem to violations of global symmetries by Planck scale physics. We find that the Peccei-Quinn solution is extremely sensitive to U(1)_PQ violating operators of dimension less than 10. We construct models in which the PQ symmetry is protected by gauge symmetries to the requisite level.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9203206,
  title  = {Solutions to the strong CP problem in a world with gravity},
  author = {R. Holman and S. D. H. Hsu and T. Kephart and E. Kolb and R. Watkins and L. Widrow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9203206},
  year   = {2010}
}

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10 pages

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