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Effective description of quark mixing

F. del Aguila, M. Perez-Victoria, J. Santiago

Abstract

We use the effective Lagrangian formalism to describe quark mixing. The new W, Z and H couplings generalizing the CKM matrix and the GIM mechanism fulfil relations and inequalities which allow to discriminate among different SM extensions. As a by-product we give a useful parametrization of the generalized CKM matrix. We also show that the largest possible departures from the SM predictions result from heavy exotic fermions, which can induce, for example, top FCNC large enough to be observable at future colliders.

Effective description of quark mixing

Abstract

We use the effective Lagrangian formalism to describe quark mixing. The new W, Z and H couplings generalizing the CKM matrix and the GIM mechanism fulfil relations and inequalities which allow to discriminate among different SM extensions. As a by-product we give a useful parametrization of the generalized CKM matrix. We also show that the largest possible departures from the SM predictions result from heavy exotic fermions, which can induce, for example, top FCNC large enough to be observable at future colliders.

Paper Structure

This paper contains 1 section, 30 equations, 1 figure, 1 table.

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  1. Acknowledgements

Figures (1)

  • Figure 1: Diagrams generating new $\bar{q}q^\prime V$ couplings at tree level. The first diagram represents the exchange of a heavy vector boson that mixes with $V$ and the second one represents the exchange of a heavy quark that mixes with $q$ and $q^\prime$.