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On the Unitarity Triangles of the CKM Matrix

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-01 v2

Abstract

The unitarity triangles of the 3×33\times 3 Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix are studied in a systematic way. We show that the phases of the nine CKM rephasing invariants are indeed the outer angles of the six unitarity triangles and measurable in the CPCP-violating decay modes of BdB_{d} and BsB_{s} mesons. An economical notation system is introduced for describing properties of the unitarity triangles. To test unitarity of the CKM matrix we present some approximate but useful relations among the sides and angles of the unitarity triangles, which can be confronted with the accessible experiments of quark mixing and CPCP violation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9406292,
  title  = {On the Unitarity Triangles of the CKM Matrix},
  author = {Dan-di WU and Zhi-zhong XING},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9406292},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

9 Latex pages; LMU-07/94 and PVAMU-HEP-94-5 (A few minor changes are made, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B)