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Wolfenstein Parametrization at Higher Order: Seeming Discrepancies and Their Resolution

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In different Wolfenstein parametrizations derived from different exact parametrizations of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix, we explicitly study seeming discrepancies between the matrix elements at the higher order of the expansion parameter λ\lambda. A systematic way of resolving the seeming discrepancies is proposed. We find that most of the discrepancies can be naturally resolved by a proper redefinition of the numerically small (of order λ\lambda) parameters. Our approach is further applied to the cases for the Wolfenstein-{\it like} parametrizations, such as the Qin-Ma parametrization.

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@article{arxiv.1106.0935,
  title  = {Wolfenstein Parametrization at Higher Order: Seeming Discrepancies and Their Resolution},
  author = {Y. H. Ahn and Hai-Yang Cheng and Sechul Oh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.0935},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, two paragraphs added to explain the motivation for considering various Wolfenstein-like parametrizations; version to appear in PLB

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