Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology) |
Events on Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
- Flavorful UV Instantons and the Strong CP Problem
- Time: 3:30 pm
- Place: 5280 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Kiel Howe, Fermilab
- Abstract: We describe a new solution to the strong CP problem inspired by the massless up quark solution. At high energies, QCD is embedded in a SU(3)xSU(3)xSU(3) model, with each matter generation charged under a different site. Instanton effects are unsuppressed at the scale of Higgsing to the SM diagonal QCD, and a set of anomalous U(1)_PQ symmetries removes the low-energy strong CP phase. A non-zero theta parameter is generated at loop level near current bounds. Similar models can also lead to a heavy axion solution to the strong CP problem.
- Host: Joshua Berger