https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10622-4
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Minimizing the phase structure of quark mass matrices
1
Department of Physics, Centre of Advanced Study, Panjab University, 160014, Chandigarh, India
2
University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, 160014, Chandigarh, India
Received:
24
April
2022
Accepted:
18
July
2022
Published online:
28
July
2022
Fritzsch–Xing matrices are a particular class of texture 4 zero hermitian quark mass matrices, known to be successful in accommodating the quark mixing data. In the present work, it is shown that these texture 4-zero matrices with only one phase parameter, unlike the usually considered two phase parameters, are not only consistent with the latest experimental quark mixing data, but also predict the CP violation parameters, J and corresponding phase 
, in agreement with the recent global analyses. We also show that the mass matrix elements do not exhibit a strong hierarchy and there is a strong correlation between some of the mass matrix elements of up and down sector. A precision measurement of as well as small quark masses would have the potential to constrain the phase structure of the matrices further.
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