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Parametrization of fermion mixing matrices in Kobayashi-Maskawa form

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-03-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

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.

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@article{arxiv.1101.4729,
  title  = {Parametrization of fermion mixing matrices in Kobayashi-Maskawa form},
  author = {Nan Qin and Bo-Qiang Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.4729},
  year   = {2011}
}

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10 latex pages, final version to appear in PRD