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a r X i v : h e p - p h / 0 1 0 4 1 5 8 v 1 1 7 A p r 2 0 0 1 HIP-2001-10/TH Extra dimensions and the strong CP problem Masud Chaichiana and Archil B. Kobakhidzea,b aHigh Energy Physics Division, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland bAndronikashvili Institute of Physics,GE-380077 Tbilisi, Georgia Abstract In higher-dimensional theories such as Brane World models with quasi-localized non- Abelian gauge fields the vacuum structure turns out to be trivial. Since the gauge theory behaves at large distances as a 4 + δ-dimensional and thus the topology of the infinity is that of of S3+δ rather than S3, the set of gauge mappings are homotopically trivial and the CP-violating θ-term vanishes on the brane world-volume. As well there are no contributions to the θ-term from the higher-dimensional solitonic configurations. In this way, the strong CP problem is absent in the models with quasi-localized gluons. Despite the fact that the Standard Model (SM) of elementary particles and their in- teractions is extremely successful in describing almost all currently available experimental data, there are some puzzling theoretical points which force to think that a certain more fundamental physics stay behind the SM. One of such puzzles is the strong CP problem. It is reflected in the appearance of CP-violating θ-term in the effective Lagrangian of QCD [1]: Lθ = θ 32π2 Tr ( GaμνG? aμν ) , (1) where Gaμν and G? aμν = 1 2 ?μνρσGaρσ are gluon field strength and its dual, respectively. The experimental data on the electric dipole moment of neutron constraints θ to be extremely small1, θ . 10?10, although a priori there are no theoretical reasons why it should be so tiny. The existence of the θ-term (1) in the effective QCD Lagrangian is related to the multiple structure of the QCD vacuum. Although (1) can be expressed as a full derivative it nevertheless does not vanishe at infinity because of the presence of top