The strong CP problem and higher dimensional gauge theories

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTAC070MaRDI QIDQ5082550zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 16 June 2022

Published in PTEP. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07367

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Potentials and capacities, extremal length and related notions in higher dimensions (31B15) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Nuclear physics (81V35)

Abstract: We discuss a natural scenario to solve the strong CP problem in the framework of the higher dimensional gauge theory. An axion-like field $A_y$ has been built-in as the extra-space component of the higher dimensional gauge field. The coupling of $A_y$ with gluons is attributed to the radiatively induced "Chern-Simons" (CS) term. We adopt a toy model with some unknown gauge symmetry U(1)${}_X$. The CS term is obtained in two ways: first by a concrete 1-loop calculation and next by use of the Fujikawa's method to deal with the chiral anomaly in 4D space-time. The obtained results are identical, which implies that the radiative correction to the CS term is "1-loop exact" and is also free from UV-divergence even though the theory itself is non-renormalizable. As a novel feature of this scenario, such obtained CS term is no longer linear in the field $A_y$ as in the usually discussed CS term in 5D space-time but a periodic function of $A_y$, since $A_y$ has a physical meaning as the Wilson-loop phase. We argue how such novel feature of this scenario causes the modification of the ordinary solutions of the strong CP problem based on the axion fields.

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