TOWARDS A DYNAMICAL SOLUTION OF THE STRONG CP PROBLEM

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SCHIERHOLZ, G
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[1] DESY, D-22603 HAMBURG, GERMANY
[2] FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH, HOCHSTLEISTUNGSRECHENZENTRUM HLRZ, THEORIE ELEMENTARTEILCHEN GRP, D-52425 JULICH, GERMANY
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10.1016/S0920-5632(94)00603-2
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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One may argue that QCD solves the strong CP problem by itself To test this idea, a lattice simulation suggests itself. In view of the difficulty of such a calculation we have, as a first step, investigated the problem in the CP3 model. The CP3 model is in many respects similar to QCD. In this talk I shall present some first results of our calculation. Among other things it is shown that the model has a first order deconfining phase transition in theta and that the critical value of theta decreases towards zero as beta is taken to infinity. This suggests that theta is tuned to zero in the continuum limit.
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