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<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>CP</mml:mi></mml:math>Conservation in the Presence of Pseudoparticles

R. D. Peccei, Helen R. Quinn

Physical Review Letters · 1977 · 6.7K citations · 7 references

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Abstract

We give an explanation of the $\mathrm{CP}$ conservation of strong interactions which includes the effects of pseudoparticles. We find it is a natural result for any theory where at least one flavor of fermion acquires its mass through a Yukawa coupling to a scalar field which has nonvanishing vacuum expectation value.

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Curtis G. Callan, Roger Dashen, David J. Gross · Physics Letters B · 1976

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