Published March 1, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

How natural is a small θ-bar in left-right supersymmetry models?

  • 1. Theoretical Physics Institute, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (United States)
  • 2. Department de Physique, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Case Postale 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3P8 (Canada)

Description

In a world without an axion, the smallness of θ-bar may be achieved due to a spontaneously broken discrete left-right symmetry. We analyze the radiatively induced θ-bar in the context of generic left-right symmetric supersymmetry models without assuming flavor degeneracy in the squark sector. Left-right symmetry allows us to keep θ-bar within its present bound only if the intergenerational mass splitting in the squark sector at the scale of the left-right symmetry breaking is smaller than 0.5%. We also consider the naturalness of the mu=0 solution to the strong CP problem in the context of horizontal flavor symmetries. A strong bound on the combination of the horizontal charges in the up quark sector is found in this case

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
65
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 056002-056002.7
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract DE-FG02-94ER-40823
Notes
(c) 2002 The American Physical Society