Golden Elements of Flavor

by Martti Raidal

Wednesday 18 Jul 2007, 10:00 → 11:00 Europe/Zurich

1/1-025 (CERN)

I argue that the observed flavour mixings in the quark and lepton sector can be constructed from a small number of textures - the elements of flavour. The elements explaining the first two generation flavour physics are related to the golden ratio. Consequently the solar neutrino and the Cabibbo mixing angles are not arbitrary and can be predicted with high accuracy. The final KamLAND and SNO results (expected to be releared this summer) may prove/disprove this scenario.