arXiv:0711.4421·v1·High Energy Physics — Theory
Sequestering CP Violation and GIM-Violation with Warped Extra Dimensions
Clifford Cheung (Harvard U., Phys. Dept. & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study)🇺🇸 · A. Liam Fitzpatrick (Harvard U., Phys. Dept.)🇺🇸 · Lisa Randall (Harvard U., Phys. Dept.)🇺🇸
Abstract
We propose a model of spontaneous CP violation to address the strong CP problem in warped extra dimensions that relies on sequestering flavor and CP violation. We assume that brane-localized Higgs Yukawa interactions respect a U(3) flavor symmetry that is broken only by bulk fermion mass and Yukawa terms. All CP violation arises from the vev of a CP-odd scalar field localized in the bulk. To suppress radiative corrections to theta-bar, the doublet quarks in this model are localized on the IR brane. We calculate constraints from flavor-changing neutral currents (FCNCs), precision electroweak measurements, CKM unitarity, and the electric dipole moments in this model and predict theta-bar to be at least about 10^-12.
Comments: 38 pages