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A "Gauged" U(1) Peccei-Quinn Symmetry

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arxiv 1703.01112 v3 pith:YIKMX2VF submitted 2017-03-03 hep-ph

A "Gauged" U(1) Peccei-Quinn Symmetry

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The Peccei-Quinn (PQ) solution to the strong $CP$ problem requires an anomalous global $U(1)$ symmetry, the PQ symmetry. The origin of such a convenient global symmetry is quite puzzling from the theoretical point of view in many aspects. In this paper, we propose a simple prescription which provides an origin of the PQ symmetry. There, the global $U(1)$ PQ symmetry is virtually embedded in a gauged $U(1)$ PQ symmetry. Due to its simplicity, this mechanism can be implemented in many conventional models with the PQ symmetry.

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