SPONTANEOUS CP VIOLATION IN A TWO-GENERATION LEFT-RIGHT SYMMETRIC MODEL WITH TWO HIGGS BI-DOUBLETS
We discuss a two-generation left-right symmetric model with two Higgs bi-doublets and a discrete symmetry to show that spontaneous CP violation arises as a result of soft breaking of the discrete symmetry. The contributions to the CP violation parameter ε in the [Formula: see text] transition come from the box diagrams due to WL-WR exchanges as well as from the mixing of the real and imaginary parts of the flavor changing neutral Higgs at the tree level and both contributions depend on the relative phase difference between the vacuum expectation values (vevs) of the relevant neutral Higgs scalars. Other CP violating effects in the model are consistent with their experimental values for the appropriate choice of the model parameters. The extension of the model to the realistic case of three generations of fermions does not appreciably change the phenomenology of the model.