Makoto Kobayashi co-developed a mechanism linking CP violation to quark mixing. With Toshihide Maskawa, he examined which phases of the weak-interaction mixing matrix can survive field redefinitions. Three fermion generations permit one independent CP-violating phase in the usual three-by-three Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix. The proposal connected apparently separate questions about particle families and symmetry, and made comparison with flavor-changing decays a test of one common mixing structure.[ref]
CP-Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction by Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa. 1973, discussion of the six-quark scheme and nonremovable matrix phase
A physicist working on quark mixing.[ref]
Professional profile of Makoto Kobayashi. Independent professional identity
Portrait of Makoto Kobayashi
. Marcella Bona from Geneva, Switzerland. CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
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