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Minimal Flavour Violation and Beyond

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-10-27 v2

Abstract

Starting from the effective-theory framework for Minimal Flavour Violation, we give a systematic definition of next-to-minimal (quark) flavour violation in terms of a set of spurion fields exhibiting a particular hierarchy with respect to a small (Wolfenstein-like) parameter. A few illustrative examples and their consequences for charged and neutral decays with different quark chiralities are worked out in some detail. Our framework can be used as a model-independent classification scheme for the parameterization of flavour structure from physics beyond the Standard Model.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0611095,
  title  = {Minimal Flavour Violation and Beyond},
  author = {Th. Feldmann and Th. Mannel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0611095},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

17 pages, no figures, phenomenological discussion extended, references added