Cabibbo suppression (source code)

= Cabibbo suppression
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= Cabibbo suppressed
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A small <weak charged current> amplitude factor associated with $\sin\theta_C$. A doubly suppressed amplitude contains two such factors, giving a rate suppression of order $\tan^4\theta_C$ relative to a favoured process when other matrix elements are comparable.