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CP-violation in SUSY QED?

I have just gone through the exercise of constructing the supersymmetrized QED action.

In the end, I get a reasonable action which matches literature. But after a little analysis, I find that the supersymmetrized gauge interactions (electron-selectron-photino vertices) seem to violate CP. In the two-component Weyl notation, this is:

$$\mathcal{L}_\text{int}=\ldots+\sqrt{2}e(\phi_Le_L^\dagger\lambda^\dagger+\phi_L^*e_L\lambda)-\sqrt{2}e(\phi_R e_R^\dagger\lambda^\dagger+\phi_R^*e_R\lambda)$$

Where $\lambda$ is the gaugino, $\Phi_L=(\phi_L,e_L)$ is a left chiral superfield with charge $-1$, and $\Phi_R=(\phi_R,e_R)$ is the Dirac-partner chiral superfield with charge $+1$.

I am assuming, that under $CP$, the two chiral superfields transform into one another:

$$CP:\qquad\Phi_L\leftrightarrow\Phi_R$$

Question: Is my analysis correct? Is is really true that supersymmetric QED violates CP?

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