Neutron electric dipole moment in the gauge-Higgs unification
- Department of Physics, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501 (Japan)
- Department of Physics, Chuo University, Tokyo 112-8551 (Japan)
We study the neutron electric dipole moment (EDM) in a five-dimensional SU(3) gauge-Higgs unification compactified on M{sup 4}xS{sup 1}/Z{sub 2} space-time including a massive fermion. We point out that to realize the CP violation is a nontrivial task in the gauge-Higgs unification scenario and argue how the CP symmetry is broken spontaneously by the vacuum expectation value of the Higgs, the extra space component of the gauge field. We emphasize the importance of the interplay between the vacuum expectation value of the Higgs and the Z{sub 2}-odd bulk mass term to get physically the CP violation. We then calculate the one-loop contributions to the neutron EDM as the typical example of the CP violating observable and find that the EDM appears already at the one-loop level, without invoking the three-generation scheme. We then derive a lower bound for the compactification scale, which is around 2.6 TeV, by comparing the contribution due to the nonzero Kaluza-Klein modes with the experimental data.
- OSTI ID:
- 21322639
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 80, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.055025; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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