Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-10-13
Phys.Rev.D81:076006,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
22 pages, 6 figures, Final version to appear in PRD
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.076006
We address the challenging issue of how CP violation is realized in higher dimensional gauge theories without higher dimensional elementary scalar fields. In such theories interactions are basically governed by a gauge principle and therefore to get CP violating phases is a non-trivial task. It is demonstrated that CP violation is achieved as the result of compactification of extra dimensions, which is incompatible with the 4-dimensional CP transformation. As a simple example we adopt a 6-dimensional U(1) model compactified on a 2-dimensional orbifold $T^{2}/Z_{4}$. We argue that the 4-dimensional CP transformation is related to the complex structure of the extra space and show how the $Z_{4}$ orbifolding leads to CP violation. We confirm by explicit calculation of the interaction vertices that CP violating phases remain even after the re-phasing of relevant fields. For completeness, we derive a re-phasing invariant CP violating quantity, following a similar argument in the Kobayashi-Maskawa model which led to the Jarlskog parameter. As an example of a CP violating observable we briefly comment on the electric dipole moment of the electron.
Lim Chu S.
Maru Nobuhito
Nishiwaki Kenji
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