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arxiv: 1403.2521 · v3 · pith:N7ZXSX2Fnew · submitted 2014-03-11 · ✦ hep-ph

CP violation from pure gauge in extra dimensions

classification ✦ hep-ph
keywords gaugeviolationbrokenextramechanismmodelacquirebaryogenesis
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One of the Sakharov's condition for baryogenesis is the violation of both C and CP. In the Standard Model, gauge interactions break maximally C, but CP is only broken through the Yukawa couplings in the poorly understood scalar sector. In extra-dimensional models, extra components of gauge fields behave as scalars in 4D and can acquire effective vev's through (finite) quantum effects (Hosotani mechanism). This mechanism is used to build a toy model with 2 extra-dimensions compactified on a flat torus $T^2$, where a SU(2) gauge symmetry is broken to U(1) and CP violation (in 4D) is expected. This is verified by computing a non-vanishing electric dipole moment.

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