Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2003-08-26
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Contributed paper to International Europhysics Conference On High-Energy Physics (HEP 2003) and to International Symposium On
Scientific paper
There is now a rapidly growing body of experimental data relevant to the question of whether the standard model CKM quark mixing matrix is a correct description of \CP-violation as well as of non--\CP-violating flavor decay processes. In the detailed comparisons with theoretical predictions that are required to investigate this, a key challenge has been the representation of non-statistical uncertainties, especially those arising in theoretical calculations. The analytical procedures that have been used to date require procedural value judgments on this matter that color the interpretation of the quantitative results they produce. Differences arising from these value judgments in the results obtained from the various global CKM fitting techniques in the literature are of a scale comparable to those arising from the other uncertainties in the input data and therefore cannot be ignored. We have developed techniques for studying and visualizing the sensitivity of global CKM fits to non-statistical uncertainties and their parameterization, as well as techniques for visual evaluation of the consistency of experimental and theoretical inputs that minimize the implicit use of such value judgments, while illuminating their effects. We present these techniques and the results of such studies using recently updated theoretical and experimental inputs, discuss their implications for the interpretation of global CKM fits, and illustrate their possible future application as the uncertainties on the inputs are improved over the next several years.
Dubois-Felsmann Gregory P.
Eigen Gerald
Hitlin David G.
Porter Frank C.
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