UNIVERSALITY OF QUARK–LEPTON MASS MATRIX

Abstract

The recently observed lepton mixing angle θ13 of the MNS mixing matrix is well incorporated in a universal mixing hypothesis between quark and lepton sectors. This hypothesis asserts that, in the charged lepton diagonal base, all other mass matrices for up- and down-type quarks and light neutrinos are diagonalized by the same unitary matrix except for the phase elements. It is expressed as V CKM = U MNS (δ′)†PU MNS (δ) for quark mixing matrix V CKM and lepton mixing matrix U MNS (δ) in the phenomenological level. Here P is a diagonal phase mass matrix. δ′ is a slightly different phase parameter from the Dirac CP-violating phase δ = 1.1π (best fit) in the MNS lepton mixing matrix.