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Rephasing Invariants of Quark and Lepton Mixing Matrices

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

Rephasing invariants of quark and lepton mixing matrices are obtained in the standard model extended by the seesaw mechanism, and in its low-energy effective theory with the dimension-five Majorana mass operator. We classify the basic invariants, discuss non-trivial relations between them, and determine the independent invariants which characterize all the information in the mixing matrices in a basis-independent way. We also discuss the restrictions on the allowed ranges for the mixing phases, and on the rephasing invariants, which follow from a discrete invariance of the Majorana mass matrix.

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@article{arxiv.0706.4313,
  title  = {Rephasing Invariants of Quark and Lepton Mixing Matrices},
  author = {Elizabeth Jenkins and Aneesh V. Manohar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.4313},
  year   = {2008}
}

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