Parametrization of fermion mixing matrices in Kobayashi-Maskawa form

Nan Qin, Bo Qiang Ma

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Abstract

Recent works show that the original Kobayashi-Maskawa (KM) form of fermion mixing matrix exhibits some advantages, especially when discussing problems such as unitarity boomerangs and maximal CP violation hypothesis. Therefore, the KM form of fermion mixing matrix is systematically studied in this paper. Starting with a general triminimal expansion of the KM matrix, we discuss the triminimal and Wolfenstein-like parametrizations with different basis matrices in detail. The quark-lepton complementarity relations play an important role in our discussions on describing quark mixing and lepton mixing in a unified way.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number033006
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume83
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 25 2011

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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