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Vector-like quark doublets, weak-basis invariants and CP violation

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Pith's one-line read In Standard Model extensions with vector-like quark doublets of hypercharge 1/6, CP-odd weak-basis invariants exist at mass dimension 6, and for one doublet their vanishing is necessary and sufficient for CP conservation.

desk verdict A solid, genuinely novel WBI treatment of doublet VLQs with a M=6 CP-odd invariant, but the completeness claim for the N=1 invariant set rests on an unverified appendix proof. read the letter →

arxiv 2412.21201 v2 pith:BIOO7WSC submitted 2024-12-30 hep-ph

F. Albergaria , J. F. Bastos , B. Belfatto , G. C. Branco , J. T. Penedo , A. Rodríguez-Sánchez , J. I. Silva-Marcos This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords vector-likequarkdoubletsweak-basisinvariantsCP-oddright-handedchargedcurrentsrephasingCabibboangleanomaliesflavour-changingneutralCPviolation
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The reading

This paper establishes that extensions of the Standard Model with vector-like quark isodoublets of hypercharge 1/6 carry CP-odd weak-basis invariants at mass dimension 6, the lowest among known quark-mixing scenarios and far below the Standard Model's dimension-12 invariant and the singlet vector-like quark's dimension-8 invariant. The representative example is $\mathrm{Im}\,\mathrm{Tr}[H_u H_d H]$, which equals a mass-cubed sum of $\mathrm{Im}(V^L_{\alpha i} V^{R*}_{\alpha i})$ over all quarks, so CP violation can be tied to phases involving only two quarks rather than to CKM quartets. For a single doublet the paper identifies a complete set of CP-odd invariants whose vanishing is necessary and sufficient for CP conservation, and it shows that in the leading $v/M_Q$ expansion these invariants reduce to effective rephasing invariants built from the three Standard Model families. If correct, doublet vector-like quarks provide a uniquely enhanced and testable source of tree-level CP violation in light-quark observables such as $\epsilon'/\epsilon$, kaon decays, electric dipole moments, and $Z$ couplings, while sharpening the theoretical description of their proposed role in the Cabibbo angle anomalies.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing machinery is the weak-basis invariant: a trace of a product of Hermitian combinations of quark mass matrices, stable under all weak-basis redefinitions of flavour fields. With the matrices $H_q = M_q M_q^\dagger$ ($q = u, d$) and the bare-mass combination $H = M M^\dagger$, the lowest CP-odd invariant is the three-block $\mathrm{Im}\,\mathrm{Tr}[H_u H_d H]$, whose mass-basis form is a sum of $m_\alpha^3 m_i^3\, \mathrm{Im}(V^L_{\alpha i} V^{R*}_{\alpha i})$. The paper organises the invariants by mass dimension and by number of Hermitian blocks: three-block invariants carry two-quark bilinears, four-block invariants carry three-quark trilinears of flavour-changing neutral currents, five-block invariants carry four-quark quartets, and the Standard-Model-like twelve-dimensional invariant carries the CKM quartets. A specially chosen 'stepladder' weak basis allows the twenty-two physical parameters of the single-doublet model to be recovered one by one from weak-basis invariants, and the same logic generalizes to any number $N$ of doublets.

What would settle it

Take a benchmark with one doublet and only two non-zero $z$ couplings, compute all Table 3 invariants to next order in $v/M_Q$ as well as the phases from exact diagonalization of the $4\times4$ mass matrices; if a physical phase survives while every listed invariant vanishes, the completeness claim is falsified. A complementary observable check: measure the combination $\mathrm{Im}(|V^L_{us}|^2 B_{ud} + |V^L_{ud}|^2 B_{us})$ entering $\epsilon'/\epsilon$ and the electric dipole moments; a value outside the paper's 95% band would exclude the doublet-VLQ explanation of the Cabibbo anomalies.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The paper's central claim is that the physical CP violation of a model with hypercharge-$1/6$ vector-like quark doublets is carried by CP-odd weak-basis invariants of unusually low mass dimension, starting at dimension 6 with $\mathrm{Im}\,\mathrm{Tr}[H_u H_d H] = \mathrm{Im}\,\mathrm{Tr}[D_u^3 V_L D_d^3 V_R^\dagger] = \sum_{\alpha,i} m_\alpha^3 m_i^3\, \mathrm{Im}(V^L_{\alpha i} V^{R*}_{\alpha i})$. The imaginary parts of these invariants are exactly the phases of the new two-quark rephasing bilinears $V^L_{\alpha i} V^{R*}_{\alpha i}$, so a nonzero value is an unambiguous weak-basis-independent signal of CP violation. For the single-doublet case, the authors identify a complete set of CP-odd invariants whose vanishing is necessary and sufficient for CP conservation under non-degenerate, non-vanishing quark masses with a Standard-Model-like hierarchy, and they prove that in the leading $v/M_Q$ expansion every invariant reduces to an effective rephasing invariant involving only the three Standard Model families. This establishes a dictionary: the number of Hermitian blocks in a weak-basis invariant selects the kind of rephasing invariant it carries, from two-quark bilinears up to CKM-like quartets.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the leading-order $v/M_Q$ expansion of the weak-basis invariants captures every physical phase, together with non-vanishing, non-degenerate quark masses with a Standard-Model-like hierarchy; if a physical phase entered only at higher order in $v/M_Q$, the claimed complete set of CP-odd invariants could miss it.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • A nonzero $\mathrm{Im}\,\mathrm{Tr}[H_u H_d H]$ signals CP violation in two-quark charged-current couplings, with strength controlled by $v^2/M_Q^2$ and light-quark masses rather than by the CKM Jarlskog invariant, so doublet VLQs can make CP-violating effects much stronger than in the Standard Model.
  • The block-counting dictionary means that the mass dimension of a CP-odd WBI tells which class of observable receives the leading new phase: two-quark processes from dimension 6, flavour-changing neutral-current processes from dimension 10 trilinears, and SM-like four-quark CP violation from dimension 12 quartets.
  • For one doublet, the vanishing of the Table 3 set of CP-odd invariants is a complete, weak-basis-independent criterion for CP conservation; no physical phase survives that set under the stated assumptions.
  • If the same right-handed couplings solve the Cabibbo angle anomalies, the model necessarily predicts correlated flavour-conserving neutral-current shifts in $Z \to$ hadrons and in atomic parity violation, with the charged- and neutral-current couplings tied by the bilinear rephasing invariants.
  • A single doublet cannot simultaneously resolve both Cabibbo anomalies without violating kaon-mixing constraints; the paper shows that two doublets with couplings to $(u,d)$ and $(u,s)$ can fit the anomalies while evading flavour-changing neutral-current limits.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Editorial inference: because the completeness proof relies on the leading $v/M_Q$ expansion, a next-order test is available: compute the Table 3 invariants to order $(v/M_Q)^8$ for a benchmark with one vanishing $z$ coupling and compare with the phases from exact diagonalization; any surviving phase would mean the set must be enlarged.
  • Editorial inference: the same block-counting dictionary should apply to the other isodoublet hypercharges ($-5/6$, $7/6$) wherever right-handed charged currents exist, and the $M=6$ bilinear channel is specific to representations in which one weak doublet feeds both up- and down-type mass matrices.
  • Editorial inference: because the dimension-6 invariant is weighted by the cube of quark masses, its largest light-quark effects sit in $s \to d$ and $u \to d$ transitions, so forthcoming EDM and rare-kaon measurements can probe doublet VLQ masses far above direct collider reach if the new phases are of order one.
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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper studies Standard Model extensions with N isodoublet vector-like quarks (VLQs) of hypercharge 1/6. It counts the physical parameters of the theory (10+12N, of which 1+5N are phases; Table 2), validates the count through a spurion analysis (Appendix B) and through an exact parameterization of the mixing matrices VL and VR together with the constraints of eqs. (4.60)-(4.64), and introduces minimal and 'stepladder' weak bases. Section 5 constructs weak-basis invariants (WBIs) and shows how to reconstruct all 22 parameters of the N=1 model from a small set of traces. Section 6 identifies CP-odd WBIs, the lowest of which has mass dimension M=6: Im Tr[H_u H_d H] = sum m^3_alpha m^3_i Im(V^L_{alpha i} V^{R*}_{alpha i}) (eq. (6.3)), implying tree-level CP violation in two-quark charged currents, in contrast to the SM (M=12) and singlet VLQ extensions (M=8). Section 6.2 develops a dictionary between WBIs and effective rephasing invariants involving only the three standard quarks (bilinears, trilinears, quartets), and Section 6.3 with Table 3 proposes a set of CP-odd WBIs whose vanishing is claimed to be necessary and sufficient for CP conservation in the N=1 case, under the assumptions of non-vanishing, non-degenerate quark masses and a SM-like Yukawa hierarchy (Section 6.3 opening and Table 3 caption). The proof is deferred to Appendix E and the expansion underlying the dictionary to Appendix D.

Significance. If the completeness theorem holds, this is the definitive weak-basis-invariant treatment of the single-doublet case and a substantial contribution. The M=6 invariant of eq. (6.3) is derived transparently in the mass basis and is a genuinely new, parametrically enhanced CP-violating structure specific to doublet VLQs (M=6 versus M=12 in the SM and M=8 for singlet VLQs). The connection between WBIs and effective rephasing invariants (Section 6.2) is derived rather than fitted, and the parameter counting of Table 2 is corroborated by two independent routes: the spurion analysis of Appendix B and the exact parameterization of Section 4.2 with the N^2 constraints of eqs. (4.60)-(4.64). The stepladder weak basis and iterative reconstruction of Section 5.2.1 provide explicit, checkable formulas, and the reductions to the SM (M=12 Jarlskog invariant) and singlet-VLQ (M=8) limits are demonstrated. The phenomenology is a further strength: constraints are stated in rephasing-invariant form (Table 6), including the phase-alignment constraint on bilinears from epsilon'/epsilon (eq. (7.57)) and the two-doublet CAA prediction linking right-handed charged and neutral currents (eqs.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 6.3, Table 3, Appendix E] The headline claim of the paper — that for the single-doublet case Table 3 provides a complete set of CP-odd weak-basis invariants whose vanishing is necessary and sufficient for CP conservation — rests on a proof deferred to Appendix E, whose content is not available in the text supplied for review. Section 6.3 states 'A more rigorous proof is given in appendix E', and each case bullet ('It can be shown using the stepladder WB ... see appendix E') refers to that appendix. The main text (Section 6.2) establishes only a leading-order dictionary between WBIs and effective rephasing invariants; it does not by itself establish the converse and completeness directions: for each row of Table 3 one must show that the vanishing of the listed exact (unexpanded) WBIs forces the existence of a real weak basis, and that any CP-odd invariant is expressible in terms of the listed ones. Because the abstract and Section 8 present this as a complete result, the Appendix E proof is load-bearing; it must be supplied in full in the review materials and verified case by case against Table 3.
  2. [Section 6.2, eqs. (6.14), (6.19), (6.23)] Equations (6.14), (6.19) and (6.23) express each CP-odd WBI as a combination of effective rephasing invariants (bilinears, trilinears, quartets) multiplied by coefficients (1 + k), where k is asserted to be a 'real correction' of order v^2/M_Q^2 or higher. The reality of these corrections is what makes the case-by-case identification in Section 6.3 well defined: if a correction carried an imaginary part, the corresponding WBI would mix distinct rephasing invariants, and if a physical phase entered only through a subleading term not represented in the listed invariants, the dictionary could miss that phase. The derivation of the k's is deferred to Appendix D, which is also not available in the reviewed text. The authors should display the expansion to the required order or provide a proof that the corrections are real, and should show explicitly that the leading-order identification captures every independent physical phase in each scenario of Table 3.
  3. [Section 6.3 and Table 3 (hypotheses); Section 4.1] The completeness statement is conditional in a way that the abstract does not reflect: Section 6.3 assumes 'non-vanishing and non-degeneracy of quark masses', Table 3's caption assumes 'non-vanishing quark Yukawas with a SM-like hierarchy', and Section 5.2.1 states 'We disregard the cases where r_1, r_3 or r_5 vanish, as those amount to vanishing masses'. These are substantive hypotheses, because the v/M_Q expansions of Section 4.1 contain denominators of the form (y^2_j - y^2_i) (e.g. eq. (4.25)) and the dictionary (6.14) inherits the leading-order mass-basis results of Section 4.1. The theorem should be stated with precise hypotheses, the Appendix E proof should be checked to show explicitly where the hierarchy and non-degeneracy assumptions enter, and the authors should state whether the conclusion is expected to remain valid as masses approach degeneracy or whether additional invariants would be needed in that regime. As written, the scope of the 'complete set' claim is narrower than the unqualified formulation in the abstract and Section 8.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Section 6.3, Table 3] Table 3 is very hard to read: entries such as '3 0 3 = 0 6 = 0 = 0' and rows mixing zeros with '= 0' need a clear legend distinguishing an invariant that vanishes identically in a given scenario, one that is non-zero but redundant, and one whose vanishing must be imposed; the caption sentence 'The blank space indicates that the CP-odd WBIs is non-zero, but the condition is redundant' is also grammatically unclear.
  2. [Section 3.2 and throughout] The paper switches between subscript and superscript chirality labels for the mixing matrices (V_L versus V^L, B^LR versus B_{alpha i}) with only a brief warning in Section 3.2; given the density of equations, a short notation table or a fully consistent convention would substantially improve readability.
  3. [Section 3.2.2, eq. (3.27)] The rank-1 relations in eq. (3.27) are central to the argument that all phases in V_R can be removed for N=1, but the derivation is terse; writing V^R_{alpha i} = (B^u_R)^*_alpha (B^d_R)_i explicitly would make the manipulation transparent.
  4. [Section 6.4.3, eq. (6.45)] The form of the extreme-chiral-limit mass matrices in eq. (6.45) is introduced without explaining which weak-basis transformations were used to remove the first-generation entries; one sentence describing the basis choice would help the reader verify the subsequent counting of phases.
  5. [Section 7.3.2, footnotes 19-21] The normalization convention for the K -> pi pi amplitudes (including the factor sqrt(2) and the treatment of identical pions) is placed in footnotes, yet it is essential for interpreting eqs. (7.23)-(7.24) and the quoted numerical values; the convention should be stated in the main text where the amplitudes are first defined.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the WBI–rephasing-invariant dictionary is derived from the Lagrangian, and the phenomenological CAA inputs are explicitly fitted rather than disguised as predictions.

full rationale

The paper's central derivation is self-contained algebra. The M=6 CP-odd invariant of Eq. (6.3) is obtained by an exact mass-basis identity, Im Tr[H_u H_d H] = sum m_alpha^3 m_i^3 Im V_L,alpha i V_R*,alpha i, not by assuming the conclusion. The effective dictionary of Section 6.2 similarly starts from the Lagrangian expansions of Section 4.1 and expresses WBIs in terms of hatted rephasing invariants with explicit real-correction factors k (Eqs. (6.14), (6.19), (6.23)); this is a derived expansion, not a definitional equivalence. The completeness claim of Table 3 is stated to be proven in Appendix E, which is not reproduced in the review copy; however, an absent proof is an unverified-support issue, not circularity under the rules. The CAA-motivated values in Eqs. (7.8) and (7.94)-(7.95) are transparently fitted to the Cabibbo determinations, and the subsequent neutral-current relations (e.g. Eq. (7.102)) are model-level cross-observable consequences of the same fitted couplings, not renamed inputs. Self-citations to prior VLQ phenomenology are used for motivation and external constraints, not as the load-bearing support for the WBI theorems. No step in the available text reduces by construction to its own input.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on the model assumption (VLQ doublets with Y = 1/6, eq. (2.2)), the v/M_Q expansion, and the stated conditions of non-degenerate SM-like mass hierarchies for the CP-completeness results. The paper introduces no new particles, mediators, forces, or dimensions: the VLQ doublets and their couplings are pre-existing model content, and the hatted invariants of eq. (4.29) are definitions, not new entities. The CAA-motivated values of the RH currents are fitted to data (Section 7.3.1), but the correlations among F_uu, F_dd, F_ss (eqs. (7.96) to (7.104)) are derived predictions.

free parameters (4)
  • RH charged-current mixings Re(B_ud)/|V^L_ud| and Re(B_us)/|V^L_us| = -0.79(27) x 10^-3 and -1.24(37) x 10^-3
    Fitted to the three Cabibbo angle determinations (beta-decay |V_ud|, K_l3 |V_us|, K_mu2/pi_mu2 ratio) in Section 7.3.1; these correspond to the model parameters z_alpha z_i v^2/M_Q^2.
  • |V^L_us| left-handed mixing = 0.22451(38) for CAA1, 0.22453(34) for CAA2
    Output of the chi-squared fits to the CAA determinations, eqs. (7.94) and (7.95).
  • New Yukawa couplings z_alpha, z_i = constrained ranges from the fits (Figure 6); e.g. |z_1u| v/M_Q1 and |z_2u| v/M_Q2 in the 10^-2 to 10^-1 range
    The model's new couplings; in the CAA-motivated scenarios their products are fixed by the fitted bilinears together with FCNC and Z-decay constraints (eqs. (7.100) to (7.105)).
  • VLQ bare masses D_Q (M_Q1, M_Q2, a for N = 2) = M_Q greater than about 1.15 to 1.5 TeV from direct search limits
    Input from the literature, not fitted here; sets the v/M_Q expansion parameter used throughout Sections 4, 6, and 7.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption SM gauge structure extended by N isodoublet VLQs of hypercharge 1/6, with only the Yukawa and mass terms of eq. (2.2) added.
    The model class under study; the entire paper operates within this extension (Section 2).
  • domain assumption The VLQ mass scale M_Q is at least a few times the electroweak scale, so v/M_Q is a small expansion parameter.
    Used throughout Sections 4, 6.2, and 7 to expand masses and mixings and to identify leading-order effective rephasing invariants; justified by direct search limits (Section 4.1).
  • domain assumption Quark masses are non-vanishing and non-degenerate, with SM-like Yukawa hierarchies.
    Stated in Section 6.3 and the Table 3 caption as conditions for the completeness of the CP-odd invariant characterization; special cases such as the extreme chiral limit are treated separately.
  • standard math All weak-basis invariants are generated by traces of products of the Hermitian building blocks H_q, h_q, and H (equivalently H_u, H_d, H).
    Standard invariant theory for Hermitian matrices under simultaneous unitary conjugation; invoked in Section 5.1 to justify the WBI construction, with rank-1 simplifications for N = 1 (eqs. (5.4) to (5.6)).
  • domain assumption Chiral-limit relation A_NP_0 = -2 sqrt(2) A_NP_2 from ref. [126] and the isospin-limit relation of eq. (7.18) with lattice matrix elements from refs. [122-124].
    External hadronic input for the K to pi pi and epsilon-prime analysis in Section 7.3.2; uncertainties are only partially propagated in the resulting bounds.

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We study Standard Model extensions with isodoublet vector-like quarks with standard charges. Their presence induces right-handed charged and neutral currents. We identify minimal sets of independent parameters characterizing these extensions, describe useful weak bases, and provide parameterizations for all quark mixing. We analyze the intricacies of CP violation in such scenarios, finding a complete set of CP-odd invariants for the single doublet case. Crucially, we uncover a connection between weak-basis invariants and effective rephasing invariants involving only standard quarks. These results allow us to explore the phenomenology of doublet vector-like quarks through a rephasing-invariant analysis, with an emphasis on CP violation, including the potential role of these fields in explaining the Cabibbo angle anomalies.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Diagrams contributing to a semileptonic process in the Cabibbo sector, lead￾ing to ΓCab. H ∼ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p063_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. New diagrams relevant for neutral kaon mixing. same phases arising from the hadronic matrix element ⟨K0 |(dLγ µ sL)(dLγµsL)|K¯ 0 ⟩ ∝ −e −i(ξK+ξd−ξs)f 2 KmK/3 in M12, and thus for brevity we will drop them in the formula for the parameter ϵ, which is independent of it. The relation in eq. (7.69) holds when A0 and A¯ 0 are dominated by the tree-level diagram. Loop contributions are also pro￾portional to V ∗ tsVtd. How… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Upper limits obtained from kaon decays and neutral kaon mixing on the flavour-changing coupling |Tˆ u,ds|/|Vˆ L udVˆ L∗ us | = |Fˆ ds| = |Fˆ sd| = |zdzs|v 2/M2 Q as a function of the phase of the rephasing invariant Tˆ ∗ u,ds = Vˆ L∗ ud Vˆ L usFˆ sd (see text and Refs. [45, 49] for details). We also show the bound from ϵ ′/ϵ (dashed brown line) considering only the contribution of Tˆ u,ds which however would require… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Simplified sketch of possible Feynman diagrams producing CP interference in K → ππ, probed in ϵ ′ . On the left, the leading SM contribution is shown, proportional to Vˆ L udVˆ L∗ us . In the middle, we show one of the contributions due to the mixing with the VLQ doubl…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Neutral current space corresponding (a) to eq. (7.99), one doublet case, and (b) to eq. (7.104), two doublets case, together with the excluded region at 95% CL considering Z → had plus atomic parity violation (see text for details). or Fˆ ssFˆ uu ≥  Re Bˆ us 2 |Vˆ L …
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Parameter space in the scenario with two vector-like quark doublets coupling to up and down and up and strange quarks, respectively, as predicted by resolving CAA1 and CAA2 (see text for details, MQ1 = MQ, MQ2 = aMQ). 7.5.2 Two VLQ doublets (N = 2) We now examine a sce…
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Graphical representation of the VLQ diagrams generating the new effective gauge interactions. Taking appropriate unitary matrices, one can always find a basis where Mu eff = Du ≡ diag(mu, mc, mt) and Md eff = Vˆ LDd ≡ Vˆ L diag(md, ms, mb), up to (but not including) O(…

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