CP Violation due to Compactification

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that CP violation can naturally arise from the compactification of extra dimensions in higher-dimensional gauge theories, without requiring elementary scalar fields, by analyzing a specific 6D U(1) model on an orbifold.

Contribution

It shows how compactification on a $T^{2}/Z_{4}$ orbifold induces CP violation linked to the complex structure of extra dimensions, providing explicit calculations and a re-phasing invariant measure.

Findings

CP violation arises from orbifold compactification

Explicit CP violating phases persist after field re-phasing

A re-phasing invariant CP violation measure is derived

Abstract

We address the challenging issue of how CP violation is realized in higher dimensional gauge theories without higher dimensional elementary scalar fields. In such theories interactions are basically governed by a gauge principle and therefore to get CP violating phases is a non-trivial task. It is demonstrated that CP violation is achieved as the result of compactification of extra dimensions, which is incompatible with the 4-dimensional CP transformation. As a simple example we adopt a 6-dimensional U(1) model compactified on a 2-dimensional orbifold $T^{2}/Z_{4}$. We argue that the 4-dimensional CP transformation is related to the complex structure of the extra space and show how the $Z_{4}$ orbifolding leads to CP violation. We confirm by explicit calculation of the interaction vertices that CP violating phases remain even after the re-phasing of relevant fields. For completeness, we derive a re-phasing invariant CP violating quantity, following a similar argument in the Kobayashi-Maskawa model which led to the Jarlskog parameter. As an example of a CP violating observable we briefly comment on the electric dipole moment of the electron.