Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-10-18
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
19 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
Recent experiments show that the top-right corner element ($U_{e3}$) of the PMNS, like that ($V_{ub}$) of the CKM, matrix is small but nonzero, and suggest further via unitarity that it is smaller than the bottom-left corner element ($U_{\tau 1}$), again as in the CKM case ($V_{ub} < V_{td}$). An attempt in explaining these facts would seem an excellent test for any model of the mixing phenomenon. Here, it is shown that if to the assumption of a universal rank-one mass matrix, long favoured by phenomenologists, one adds that this matrix rotates with scale, then it follows that (A) by inputting the mass ratios $m_c/m_t, m_s/m_b, m_\mu/m_\tau$, and $m_2/m_3$, (i) the corner elements are small but nonzero, (ii) $V_{ub} < V_{td}$, $U_{e 3} < U_{\tau 1}$, (iii) estimates result for the ratios $V_{ub}/V_{td}$ and $U_{e 3}/U_{\tau 1}$, and (B) by inputting further the experimental values of $V_{us}, V_{tb}$ and $U_{e2},U_{\mu 3}$, (iv) estimates result for the values of the corner elements themselves. All the inequalities and estimates obtained are consistent with present data.
Baker Michael J.
Bordes Jose
Chan Man Ho
Tsou Sheung Tsun
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