https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6577-y
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Charged gravitational instantons: extra CP violation and charge quantisation in the Standard Model
ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Sydney, Australia
* e-mail: suntharan.arunasalam@sydney.edu.au
Received:
13
August
2018
Accepted:
8
January
2019
Published online:
21
January
2019
We argue that quantum electrodynamics combined with quantum gravity results in a new source of CP violation, anomalous non-conservation of chiral charge and quantisation of electric charge. Further phenomenological and cosmological implications of this observation are briefly discussed within the standard model of particle physics and cosmology.
© The Author(s), 2019
