Skip to content

Unitarity Triangles and the Search for New Physics

F. J. Botella, G. C. Branco, M. Nebot, M. N. Rebelo

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0206133

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 VCKM 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 VCKM and arguments of rephasing invariant quartets. These tests complement the usual analysis in the ρ, ηplane and, if there is New Physics, may reveal its source.

Create a lesson