Electric Dipole Moment from QCD \theta and How It Vanishes for Mixed States

arXiv1204.6609MaRDI QIDQ6232672FDOQ6232672

Authors: A. P. Balachandran, Thupil R. Govindarajan, Amilcar R. De Queiroz

Publication date: 30 April 2012

Abstract: In a previous paper [1], we studied the

e t a^{'}

mass and formulated its chirally symmetric coupling to fermions which induces electric dipole moment (EDM). Here we calculate the EDM to one-loop. It is finite, having no ultraviolet divergence while its infrared divergence is canceled by soft photon emission processes emph{exactly} as for

h e t a = 0

. The coupling does not lead to new divergences (not present for

s i n h e t a = 0

) in soft photon processes either. Furthermore, as it was argued previously [1], the EDM vanishes if suitable mixed quantum states are used. This means that in a quantum theory based on such mixed states, a strong bound on EDM will not necessarily lead to a strong bound such as

| s i n h e t a | l e s s s i m 1 0^{- 11}

. This fact eliminates the need to fine-tune

h e t a

or for the axion field.

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