 Glashow-Iliopoulos-Maiani mechanism (source code)

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= Glashow-Iliopoulos-Maiani mechanism
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The Glashow-Iliopoulos-Maiani mechanism uses the unitarity of the quark mixing matrix to cancel flavor-changing neutral-current amplitudes when equal-charge quark masses are degenerate. The remaining loop amplitudes are suppressed by quark-mass differences.

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