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Quentin Bonnefoy1, Lawrence Hall1, Claudio Andrea Manzari1
1Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
Abstract:
We propose theories of a complete mirror world with parity (P) solving the strong CP problem. P exchanges the entire standard model with its mirror copy. We derive bounds on the two new mass scales that arise: v^{'} where parity and mirror electroweak symmetry are spontaneously broken, and v_{3} where the color groups break to the diagonal strong interactions. The strong CP problem is solved even if v_{3}≪v^{'}, when heavy colored states at the scale v_{3} may be accessible at LHC and future colliders. Furthermore, we argue that the breaking of P introduces negligible contributions to θ[over ¯]_{QCD}, starting at three-loop order. The symmetry breaking at v_{3} can be made dynamical, without introducing an additional hierarchy problem.
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