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| Author(s): |
Alex Gomes Dias
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2005-06-16 |
| Examining board members: |
Vicente Pleitez;
Ivone Freire da Mota e Albuquerque;
Gustavo Alberto Burdman;
Carlos Alberto Garcia Canal;
Carlos Ourivio Escobar
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| Advisor: | Vicente Pleitez |
| Abstract | |
In this thesis we perform a study about how large discrete symmetries can make problems solutions like the strong CP violation, more natural. In particular, we shall treat of a SU(3)cSU(3)LU(1)x Standard Model extension. We shall see how a large discrete symmetry makes, at the classical level, the Peccei-Quin symmetry automatic. The invisible axion has it mass protected against quantum gravity semi-classical effects by means of a Zn symmetry. The perturbative limit of some of those models is investigated. The class of models in which the discrete symmetry is almost automatic can be treated with perturbation theory only at energy scales below few TeV. It is, then, proposed a model extension with a minimal representation content which extends the perturbative limit to scales of tens of TeV; making, therefore, the models more atractives from the phenomenological point of view at the energies scalas to be reached in the near future. (AU) | |