Flavor Symmetries and the Description of Flavor Mixing

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1997-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9707215v1

Phys.Lett.B413:396-404,1997

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Latex 13 pages

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01130-1

It is shown that the hierarchical structure of the quark mass terms in the standard model suggests a new description of the flavor mixing. The latter is primarily a heavy quark mixing involving the t and b quarks, followed by a mixing exclusively in the u-channel or the d-channel. The complex phase describing CP violation arises only in the light quark sector. The Cabibbo angle is not a basic parameter, but results as a superposition of both the u-channel and d-channel mixing terms. The new description has a number of significant advantages in comparison with all descriptions previously used. It is suggested that the new description be used in all future discussions of flavor physics and CP violation.

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