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Does confinement imply CP invariance of the strong interactions?

Authors :
Nakamura, Y.
Schierholz, G.
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

The strong coupling constant $1/g^2$ and the vacuum angle $\theta$ of the SU(3) Yang-Mills theory are investigated in the infrared limit under the renormalization group flow. It is shown that the theory has an infrared attractive fixed point at $1/g^2 = \theta = \,0$, which leads to linear confinement and naturally solves the strong CP problem. In particular, any initial value of $\theta \neq 0$ is found to be driven to $\theta = 0$ at macroscopic distances, where quarks and gluons freeze into hadrons by the confinement mechanism.<br />Comment: 7 pages, 9 figures, talk at Lattice2019, typos corrected

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1912.03941
Document Type :
Working Paper