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Towards establishing the second $b$-flavored CKM unitarity triangle

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-10-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Some fine differences between the twin bb-flavored unitarity triangles are calculated by means of a generalized Wolfenstein parametrization of the CKM matrix, and a possibility of experimentally establishing the second triangle is briefly discussed. We find that the apexes of these two triangles, characterized respectively by (ρ,η)(\overline{\rho}, \overline{\eta}) and (ρ~,η~)(\widetilde{\rho}, \widetilde{\eta}), are located on the same circular arc in the complex plane. This observation provides us with a new way to test consistency of the CKM picture of CP violation in the quark sector and probe possible new physics. The differences between the apexes (i.e., ρ~ρ\widetilde{\rho} - \overline{\rho} and η~η\widetilde{\eta} - \overline{\eta}) are found to be of O(λ2){\cal O}(\lambda^2) with λ0.22\lambda \simeq 0.22 being the Wolfenstein expansion parameter, and the shapes of these two triangles are found to be insensitive to the two-loop renormalization-group-equation running effects up to the accuracy of O(λ4){\cal O}\left(\lambda^4\right).

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@article{arxiv.2010.02741,
  title  = {Towards establishing the second $b$-flavored CKM unitarity triangle},
  author = {Zhi-zhong Xing and Di Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.02741},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures; To appear in the 40th International Conference on High Energy physics (ICHEP2020)

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