scholarly journals Quark Mass Hierarchy and Flavor Mixing

2006 ◽  
pp. 165-176
Author(s):  
Harold Fritzsch
2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (30) ◽  
pp. 1430067 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi-Zhong Xing

The fact that quarks of the same electric charge possess a mass hierarchy is a big puzzle in particle physics, and it must be highly correlated with the hierarchy of quark flavor mixing. This chapter is intended to provide a brief description of some important issues regarding quark masses, flavor mixing and CP-violation. A comparison between the salient features of quark and lepton flavor mixing structures is also made.


2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (05) ◽  
pp. 1313-1329
Author(s):  
HISAKAZU MINAKATA

I discuss some aspects of future prospects of the experimental exploration of the unknowns in the neutrino mass pattern and the lepton flavor mixing. I start from measuring θ13 by reactors and accelerators as a prerequisite for proceeding to search for leptonic CP violation. I then discuss how CP violation can be uncovered, and how the neutrino mass hierarchy can be determined. I do these by resolving so called the "parameter degeneracy" which is required anyway if one wants to seek precision measurement of the lepton mixing parameters. As a concrete setting for resolving the degeneracy I use the Tokai-to-Kamioka-Korea two detector complex which receives neutrino superbeam from J-PARC, which is sometimes called as "T2KK". It is shown that T2KK is able to resolve all the eight-fold parameter degeneracy in a wide range of the lepton mixing parameters. Some alternative ways of measuring the unknowns are also briefly mentioned.


1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (08) ◽  
pp. 561-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatsuo Kobayashi ◽  
Zhi-Zhong Xing

We propose a simple but realistic pattern of quark mass matrices at the string scale, which can be derived from orbifold models of superstring theory with no use of gauge symmetries. This pattern is left–right symmetric and preserves the structural parallelism between up and down quark sectors. Its phenomenological consequences on flavor mixing and CP-violation are confronted with current experiments at the weak scale by using the renormalization group equations in the framework of minimal supersymmetric standard model. We find that good agreement is achievable without fine-tuning.


1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 4307-4319 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHUN LIU

A pattern of quark mass hierarchy and CP violation within the framework of low energy supersymmetry is described. By assuming some discrete symmetry among the three families, the quarks of the third family obtain masses at tree level. The second family obtains masses radiatively at one-loop level due to the soft breaking of the family symmetry. At this level, the first family remains massless by some degeneracy conditions of the squarks. As a result of R parity violation, the sneutrino vacuum expectation values are nonvanishing. CP violation occurs through the superweak sneutrino exchange. This picture is consistent with the experiments on the flavor-changing neutral current.


1999 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 671-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuichiro Kiyo ◽  
Takuya Morozumi ◽  
Paulo Parada ◽  
Margarida N. Rebelo ◽  
Morimitsu Tanimoto

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