Published March 1, 2002
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Journal article
How natural is a small θ-bar in left-right supersymmetry models?
Creators
- 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
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.65.056002;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-ph/0105270v2;
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
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 35043452
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- AXIONS; CP INVARIANCE; FLAVOR MODEL; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; P INVARIANCE; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUARKS; SPARTICLES; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; THEORETICAL DATA
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; COMPOSITE MODELS; DATA; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GOLDSTONE BOSONS; INFORMATION; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL DATA; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARK MODEL; SYMMETRY
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Contract DE-FG02-94ER-40823
- Notes
- (c) 2002 The American Physical Society