A mechanism is proposed where the CP violating phase relaxes in discrete steps via nucleation of membranes that discharge the magnetic dual of a 4-form flux, with bubbles colliding and percolating near the chiral symmetry breaking scale during radiation domination.
A Vacuum Accumulation Solution to the Strong CP Problem
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We suggest a solution to the strong CP problem in which there are no axions involved. The superselection rule of the \theta-vacua is dynamically lifted in such a way that an infinite number of vacua are accumulated within the phenomenologically acceptable range of \theta < 10^{-9}, whereas only a measure-zero set of vacua remains outside of this interval. The general prediction is the existence of membranes to which the standard model gauge fields are coupled. These branes may be light enough for being produced at the particle accelerators in form of the resonances with a characteristic membrane spectrum.
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CMB polarization rotation can arise as a frequency-independent Pancharatnam phase when photons cross dark-sector vacuum interfaces, with no ultralight axion required.
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A Quantal Theory of Restoration of Strong CP Symmetry
A mechanism is proposed where the CP violating phase relaxes in discrete steps via nucleation of membranes that discharge the magnetic dual of a 4-form flux, with bubbles colliding and percolating near the chiral symmetry breaking scale during radiation domination.
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CMB Birefringence from Vacuum Interfaces
CMB polarization rotation can arise as a frequency-independent Pancharatnam phase when photons cross dark-sector vacuum interfaces, with no ultralight axion required.