CP Violation from 5-dimensional QED.pdfVIP

CERN-PH-TH/2004-012 IFT-04-04 UCRHEP-T370 CP Violation from 5-dimensional QED Bohdan GRZADKOWSKIa) 4 0 Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University 0 2 Ho˙za 69, PL-00-681 Warsaw, Poland n a and J 9 CERN, Department of Physics 2 Theory Division 1 v 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland 2 3 2 ´ b) 1 Jose WUDKA 0 4 Department of Physics, University of California 0 / Riverside CA 92521-0413, USA h p - p e ABSTRACT h : v i It has been shown that QED in (1 + 4)-dimensional space-time, with the fifth dimension X r compactified on a circle, leads to CP violation (CPV). Depending on fermionic boundary a conditions, CPV may be either explicit (through the Scherk–Schwarz mechanism), or spon- taneous (via the Hosotani mechanism). The fifth component of the gauge field acquires (at the one-loop level) a non-zero vacuum expectation value. In the presence of two fermionic fields, this leads to spontaneous CPV in the case of CP-symmetric boundary conditions. Phenomenological consequences are illustrated by a calculation of the electric dipole mo- ment for the fermionic zero-modes. PACS: 11.10.Kk, 11.30.Er, 11.