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Unitarity Triangles and the Search for New Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

Assuming that the Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism gives the dominant contribution to CP violation at low energies, we propose a novel way of testing the flavour sector of the Standard Model which has the potencial for discovering New Physics. Using 3 x 3 unitarity of the V_{CKM} matrix and choosing a complete set of rephasing invariant phases, we derive a set of exact relations in terms of measurable quantities, namely moduli of V_{CKM} and arguments of rephasing invariant quartets. These tests complement the usual analysis in the \rho, \eta plane and, if there is New Physics, may reveal its source.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0206133,
  title  = {Unitarity Triangles and the Search for New Physics},
  author = {F. J. Botella and G. C. Branco and M. Nebot and M. N. Rebelo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0206133},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

20 pages, 7 figures, uses tcilatex

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