CP violation and mixing in technicolor models
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 (United States)
Description
Vacuum alignment in technicolor models provides an attractive origin for the quarks' CP violation and, possibly, a natural solution for the strong-CP problem of QCD. We discuss these topics in this paper. Then we apply them to determine plausible mixing matrices for left and right-handed quarks. These matrices determine the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix as well as new mixing angles and phases that are observable in extended technicolor (ETC) and topcolor (TC2) interactions. We determine the contributions of these new interactions to CP-violating and mixing observables in the K0, Bd and Bs systems. Consistency with mixing and CP violation in the K0 system requires assuming that ETC interactions are electroweak generation-conserving even if technicolor has a walking gauge coupling. Large ETC gauge boson masses and small intergenerational mixing then result in negligibly small ETC contributions to B-meson mixing and CP violation and to Re(ε'/ε). We confirm our earlier strong lower bounds on TC2 gauge boson masses from Bd-Bd mixing. We then pay special attention to the possibility that current experiments indicate a deviation from standard model expectations of the values of sin2β measured in Bd→J/ψKS, φKS, η'KS, and πKS, studying the ability of TC2 to account for these. We also determine the TC2 contribution to ΔMBs and to Re(ε'/ε), and find them to be appreciable
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.015011;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-ph/0404107v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 71
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 015011-015011.24
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37020943
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- B MESONS; COUPLING; CP INVARIANCE; HADRONIC PARTICLE DECAY; KAONS NEUTRAL; KOBAYASHI-MASKAWA MATRIX; NEUTRAL CURRENTS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUARKS; REST MASS; STANDARD MODEL; WEINBERG ANGLE
- Descriptors DEC
- ALGEBRAIC CURRENTS; BEAUTY MESONS; BEAUTY PARTICLES; BOSONS; CURRENTS; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; HADRONS; INTERACTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; KAONS; MASS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRICES; MESONS; PARTICLE DECAY; PARTICLE MODELS; PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; STRANGE MESONS; STRANGE PARTICLES; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
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- Notes
- (c) 2005 The American Physical Society