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Minimal Ten-parameter Hermitian Texture Zeroes Mass Matrices and the CKM Matrix

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

Hermitian mass matrices for the up and down quarks with texture zeroes but with the minimum number of parameters, ten, are investigated. We show how these {\em minimum parameter} forms can be obtained from a general set of hermitian matrices through weak basis transformations. For the most simple forms we show that one can derive exact and compact parametrizations of the CKM mixing matrix in terms of the elements of these mass matrices (and the quark masses).

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9809207,
  title  = {Minimal Ten-parameter Hermitian Texture Zeroes Mass Matrices and the CKM Matrix},
  author = {M. Baillargeon and F. Boudjema and C. Hamzaoui and J. Lindig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9809207},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages.Talk given by M.B. at the MRST 98, ``Towards the Theory of Everything", Montr\'eal, 13-15 May 1998