What if the Masses of the First Two Quark Families are not Generated by the Standard Higgs?

F. J. Botella, G. C. Branco, M. N. Rebelo +1

We point out that, in the context of the SM, $|V_{13}^2|+|V_{23}^2|$ is expected to be large, of order one. The fact that $|V_{13}^2|+|V_{23}^2|\approx 1.6\times 10^{-3}$ mo…