TY - EJOUR AU - Díaz-Cruz, J. L. AU - Hollik, Wolfgang AU - Saldaña-Salazar, U. J. TI - A bottom-up approach to the strong CP problem IS - DESY-16-084 M1 - PUBDB-2016-01947 M1 - DESY-16-084 M1 - arXiv:1605.03860 PY - 2016 AB - The strong CP problem is one of many puzzles in the theoretical description of elementary particles physics that still lacks an explanation. Solutions to that problem usually comprise new symmetries or fields or both. The main problem seems to be how to achieve small CP in the strong interactions despite large CP violation in weak interactions. Observation of CP violation is exclusively through the Higgs-Yukawa interactions. In this letter, we show that with minimal assumptions on the structure of mass (Yukawa) matrices the strong CP problem does not exist in the Standard Model and no extension to solve this is needed. However, to solve the flavor puzzle, models based on minimal SU(3) flavor groups leading to the proposed flavor matrices are favored. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)25 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)29 DO - DOI:10.3204/PUBDB-2016-01947 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/299309 ER -