Wormhole solution to the strongCPproblem
- 29 May 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 62 (22) , 2575-2578
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.62.2575
Abstract
We show that the procedure of maximizing (α), the inverse of Newton’s constant within the wormhole calculus, subject to the constraint that the effective cosmological constant vanish, drives the QCD θ parameter to θ=0,π which are the CP conserving values. We argue that, in fact, θ=π is the preferred value and discuss the phenomenological consistency of this choice.
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