Hierarchies of Quark Masses and the Mixing Matrix in the Standard Theory
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We study the general dependence of mixing angles on heavy fermion masses when mass hierarchies exist among the fermions. For two generations and small Cabibbo angle, this angle is directly shown to scale like μ1/ms ± μ2/mc, where |μ1| ≪ ms, |μ2| ≪ mc are independent mass scales. For n = 3 generations, we extend to the Yukawa matrices of uand d-type quarks the property that the 2× 2 upper-left sub-matrix of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix K is a good approximation to the Cabibbo matrix C . Then, without any additional Ansatz concerning the existence of mass hierarchies or the smallness of the mixing angles, the moduli of its entries K13,K23,K31,K32 are shown to scale like [β13, β23, β31, β32] √ mc/mt ± [δ13, δ23, δ31, δ32] √ ms/mb, where the β’s and the δ’s are coefficients smaller than 10. This method, when used for two generations, gives a dependence on ms and mc “weaker” than the one obtained first, but which matches a well known behaviour for the Cabibbo angle: θc ≈ √
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