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Report number	arXiv:0903.1794 ; WIS-03-09-MARCH-DPP ; CERN-PH-TH-2009-094 ; CERN-PH-TH-2009-152
Title	General Minimal Flavor Violation
Author(s)	Kagan, Alexander L (Cincinnati U.) ; Perez, Gilad (Weizmann Inst. ; YITP, Stony Brook) ; Volansky, Tomer (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study) ; Zupan, Jure (CERN)
Publication	2009
Imprint	11 Mar 2009
Note	Comments: 5 pages and no figures 2 TH report numbers have been attributed 094 and 152
In:	Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) 076002
DOI	10.1103/PhysRevD.80.076002
Subject category	Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract	A model independent study of the minimal flavor violation (MFV) framework is presented, where the only sources of flavor breaking at low energy are the up and down Yukawa matrices. Two limits are identified for the Yukawa coupling expansion: linear MFV, where it is truncated at the leading terms, and nonlinear MFV, where such a truncation is not possible due to large third generation Yukawa couplings. These are then resummed to all orders using non-linear sigma-model techniques familiar from models of collective breaking. Generically, flavor diagonal CP violating (CPV) sources in the UV can induce O(1) CPV in processes involving third generation quarks. Due to a residual U(2) symmetry, the extra CPV in B_d-\bar B_d mixing is bounded by CPV in B_s-\bar B_s mixing. If operators with right-handed light quarks are subdominant, the extra CPV is equal in the two systems, and is negligible in processes involving only the first two generations. We find large enhancements in the up type sector, both in CPV in D-\bar D mixing and in top flavor violation.

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