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Article Dans Une Revue European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields Année : 2009

Mixing angles of quarks and leptons in Quantum Field Theory

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Arguments coming from Quantum Field Theory are supplemented with a 1-loop perturbative calculation to settle the non-unitarity of mixing matrices linking renormalized mass eigenstates to bare flavor states for non-degenerate coupled fermions. We simultaneously diagonalize the kinetic and mass terms and counterterms in the renormalized Lagrangian. SU(2)_L gauge invariance constrains the mixing matrix in charged currents of renormalized mass states, for example the Cabibbo matrix, to stay unitary. Leaving aside CP violation, we observe that the mixing angles exhibit, within experimental uncertainty, a very simple breaking pattern of SU(2)_f horizontal symmetry linked to the algebra of weak neutral currents, the origin of which presumably lies beyond the Standard Model. It concerns: on one hand, the three quark mixing angles; on the other hand, a neutrino-like pattern in which theta_{23} is maximal and tan(2 theta_{12})=2. The Cabibbo angle fulfills the condition tan (2 theta_c)=1/2 and theta_{12} for neutrinos satisfies accordingly the ``quark-lepton complementarity condition ''theta_c + theta_{12}= \pi/4. theta_{13} = +- 5.7 10^{-3} are the only values obtained for the third neutrino mixing angle that lie within present experimental bounds. Flavor symmetries, their breaking by a non-degenerate mass spectrum, and their entanglement with the gauge symmetry, are scrutinized; the special role of flavor rotations as a very mildly brokensymmetry of the Standard Model is outlined.
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hal-00282449 , version 1 (27-05-2008)
hal-00282449 , version 2 (18-03-2009)

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Quentin Duret, Bruno Machet, M. I. Vysotsky. Mixing angles of quarks and leptons in Quantum Field Theory. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2009, 61 (2), pp.247-278. ⟨10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1013-3⟩. ⟨hal-00282449v2⟩
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