Getting at the quark mass matrices

Jul, 1996
10 pages
Published in:
  • Prog.Theor.Phys. 97 (1997) 781-790
e-Print:
Report number:
  • DPNU-96-36

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Abstract:
We present a class of Ansatze for the up and down quark mass matrices which leads approximately to: |V_{us}| \sim \sqrt{m_d / m_s}, |V_{cb}| \sim m_s / m_b, and |V_{ub} / V_{cb}| \sim \sqrt{m_u / m_c}. Sizes of the Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements are controlled solely by quark mass ratios. In particular, we introduce no other small parameter and our results do not rely on delicate cancellation.
  • quark: mass
  • CKM matrix matrix
  • quark: mass ratio