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Distinguishing between the twin $b$-flavored unitarity triangles on a circular arc

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-02-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

With the help of the generalized Wolfenstein parametrization of quark flavor mixing and CP violation, we calculate fine differences between the twin bb-flavored unitarity triangles defined by VubVud+VcbVcd+VtbVtd=0V^{*}_{ub} V^{}_{ud} + V^{*}_{cb} V^{}_{cd} + V^{*}_{tb} V^{}_{td} = 0 and VudVtd+VusVts+VubVtb=0V^{*}_{ud} V^{}_{td} + V^{*}_{us} V^{}_{ts} + V^{*}_{ub} V^{}_{tb} = 0 in the complex plane. We find that vertices of the rescaled versions of these two triangles, described respectively by ρˉ+iηˉ=(VubVud)/(VcbVcd)\bar{\rho} + {\rm i} \bar{\eta} = -\left(V^{*}_{ub} V^{}_{ud}\right)/\left(V^{*}_{cb} V^{}_{cd}\right) and ρ~+iη~=(VubVtb)/(VusVts)\widetilde{\rho} + {\rm i} \widetilde{\eta} = -\left(V^{*}_{ub} V^{}_{tb}\right)/\left(V^{*}_{us} V^{}_{ts}\right), are located on a circular arc whose center and radius are given by O=(0.5,0.5cotα)O = \left(0.5, 0.5 \cot\alpha\right) and R=0.5cscαR = 0.5 \csc\alpha with α\alpha being their common inner angle. The small difference between (ρˉ,ηˉ)(\bar{\rho}, \bar{\eta}) and (ρ~,η~)(\widetilde{\rho}, \widetilde{\eta}) is characterized by ρ~ρˉη~ηˉO(λ2)\widetilde{\rho} - \bar{\rho} \sim \widetilde{\eta} - \bar{\eta} \sim {\cal O}(\lambda^2) with λ0.22\lambda \simeq 0.22 being the Wolfenstein expansion parameter, and these two vertices are insensitive to the two-loop renormalization-group running effects up to the accuracy of O(λ4){\cal O}(\lambda^4). Some comments are also made on similar features of three pairs of the rescaled unitarity triangles of lepton flavor mixing and CP violation.

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@article{arxiv.1911.03292,
  title  = {Distinguishing between the twin $b$-flavored unitarity triangles on a circular arc},
  author = {Zhi-zhong Xing and Di Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.03292},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in PLB