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arxiv: 1204.6609 · v1 · pith:3UD5FRLHnew · submitted 2012-04-30 · ✦ hep-th · hep-ph· math-ph· math.MP

Electric Dipole Moment from QCD θ and How It Vanishes for Mixed States

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keywords thetamixedstatesboundcouplingdipoledivergenceelectric
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In a previous paper [1], we studied the $\eta'$ mass and formulated its chirally symmetric coupling to fermions which induces electric dipole moment (EDM). Here we calculate the EDM to one-loop. It is finite, having no ultraviolet divergence while its infrared divergence is canceled by soft photon emission processes \emph{exactly} as for $\theta=0$. The coupling does not lead to new divergences (not present for $\sin\theta=0$) in soft photon processes either. Furthermore, as it was argued previously [1], the EDM vanishes if suitable mixed quantum states are used. This means that in a quantum theory based on such mixed states, a strong bound on EDM will not necessarily lead to a strong bound such as $|\sin \theta|\lesssim 10^{-11}$ . This fact eliminates the need to fine-tune $\theta$ or for the axion field.

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