Spontaneous CP breaking in QCD and the axion potential: an effective Lagrangian approach

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2017)104zbMATH Open1383.81339arXiv1709.00731OpenAlexW3105452825MaRDI QIDQ1707765FDOQ1707765

Authors: Paolo Di Vecchia, Giancarlo Rossi, Gabriele Veneziano, Shimon Yankielowicz 

Publication date: 3 April 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using the well-known low-energy effective Lagrangian of QCD --valid for small (non-vanishing) quark masses and a large number of colors-- we study in detail the regions of parameter space where $CP$ is spontaneously broken/unbroken for a vacuum angle $heta=pi$. In the $CP$-broken region there are first order phase transitions as one crosses $heta=pi$, while on the (hyper)surface separating the two regions, there are second order phase transitions signaled by the vanishing of the mass of a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson and by a divergent QCD topological susceptibility. The second order point sits at the end of a first order line associated with the $CP$ spontaneous breaking, in the appropriate complex parameter plane. When the effective Lagrangian is extended by the inclusion of an axion these features of QCD imply that standard calculations of the axion potential have to be revised when the QCD parameters fall in the above mentioned $CP$-broken region, in spite of the fact that the axion solves the strong-$CP$ problem. These latter results could be of interest for axionic dark matter calculations if the topological susceptibility of pure Yang-Mills theory falls off sufficiently fast when temperature is increased towards the QCD deconfining transition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00731

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zbMATH Keywords

1/N expansionanomalies in field and string theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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