Model of soft CP violation using scalars with quark number two - art. no. 011801

We propose a model of soft CP violation that evades the strong CP problem a nd can describe observed CP violation in the neutral kaon sector, both dire ct and indirect. Our model requires two "duark" mesons carrying quark numbe r two that have complex (CP-violating) bare masses and are coupled to quark pairs. Aside from the existence of these potentially observable new partic les with masses of several hundred GeV, we predict a flat unitarity triangl e (i.e., no observable direct CP violation in the B-meson sector) and a pos sibly anomalous branching ratio for the decay mode K+ --> pi (+) + <(<nu>)o ver bar>nu.