Naumov- and Toshev-like relations in the renormalization-group evolution of quarks and Dirac neutrinos

In an analytical way of studying matter effects on neutrino oscillations, the Naumov and Toshev relations have been derived to respectively link the Jarlskog invariant of CP violation and the Dirac phase in the standard parametrization of the $3\times 3$ flavor mixing matrix to their matter-corrected counterparts. Here we show that there exist similar relations for Dirac neutrinos and charged leptons evolving with energy scales via the one-loop renormalization-group (RG) equations in the tau-dominance approximation, and for the running behaviors of up- and down-type quarks in the top-dominance approximation, provided a different parametrization is taken into account.


Introduction
In particle physics the evolution of fermion masses and flavor mixing parameters from a superhigh energy scale to low scales (or vice versa) is described by the renormalizationgroup (RG) equations [1]. Such a tool is extremely important because it helps bridge the gap between a predictive high-scale flavor model responsible for fermion mass generation and the relevant experimental data at low energies. Recently the authors of Refs. [2] and [3] have borrowed the general idea of the RG language and applied it to the description of neutrino oscillations in matter. An interesting outcome of this successful application is the rediscovery of the Naumov relation [4] J ℓ ∆ 21 ∆ 31 ∆ 32 = J ℓ ∆ 21 ∆ 31 ∆ 32 (1) and the Toshev relation [5] sin δ sin 2 θ 23 = sin δ sin 2θ 23 , which link the Jarlskog rephasing invariant J ℓ of the 3 × 3 Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata (PMNS) flavor mixing matrix U and the Dirac CP-violating phase δ in the standard parametrization of U [6] to their matter-corrected counterparts J ℓ and δ, respectively. In the above equations ∆ ij ≡ m 2 i − m 2 j (for ij = 21, 31, 32) denote the neutrino mass-squared differences in vacuum, θ 23 is one of the flavor mixing angles, and ∆ ij and θ 23 are the corresponding effective quantities in matter. Note that the original derivations of Eq. (1) [4] and Eq. (2) [5] follow an integral approach, starting directly from the effective Hamiltonian responsible for neutrino oscillations in a medium 1 . In comparison, the new derivations done in Refs. [2,3] follow the differential approach with the help of the RG-like equations.
The analogy between the RG evolution of neutrino masses and flavor mixing parameters with the energy scale and that with the matter parameter is so suggestive that we are wondering whether some interesting relations like Eqs. (1) and (2) in the latter case can also show up in the former case. Namely, we are eager to know whether there exist the Naumovand Toshev-like relations for massive neutrino running from an arbitrary high energy scale µ down to the electroweak scale Λ EW ∼ M Z = 91.2 GeV. At the one-loop level, we find that such relations do hold for Dirac neutrinos and charged leptons in the tau-dominance approximation, provided a different parametrization of the PMNS matrix U advocated by Fritzsch and one of us [10,11] is taken into account 2 . Similar results are also obtainable for up-and down-type quarks in the top-dominance approximation. The main purpose of the present paper is just to report our findings and discuss their phenomenological implications. 1 In this spirit, the commutators or sum rules of charged-lepton and neutrino mass matrices can also be used to derive the Naumov relation [7][8][9]. 2 Of course, only the Toshev-like relation is parametrization-dependent. A parametrization of the PMNS matrix U which can make the tau-related elements much simpler will be favored in this regard. The matter effects on neutrino oscillations in an ordinary medium are only associated with the electron flavor, and hence the Toshev relation in Eq. (2) can be derived when the standard parametrization of U , which makes the electron-related elements much simpler, is adopted.

RG equations
In the minimal extension of the standard model (SM) with three massive Dirac neutrinos, the RG evolution of the Yukawa coupling matrices for the up-type quarks Y u , the downtype quarks Y d , the Dirac neutrinos Y ν and the charged leptons Y l at the one-loop level are governed by the following equations [12] 3 , and the SU(3) C × SU(2) L × U(1) Y gauge couplings g 3 , g 2 and g 1 evolving via the RG equations Without loss of generality, we shall work in the flavor basis where Y u = diag {y u , y c , y t } ≡ D u and Y l = diag y e , y µ , y τ ≡ D l are chosen. Given the fact that the top-quark mass is far above the bottom-quark mass and the other quark masses, the Y d Y † d terms on the right-hand side of Eq. (3) are safely negligible. It is certainly much safer to neglect the Y ν Y † ν terms, because the neutrino masses are far below the charged lepton masses. In these good approximations Eq. (3) can be simplified to for quarks; and for leptons, together with χ ≃ 3y 2 t . Then it is straightforward to formally integrate Eqs. (5) and (6) from t = t 0 ≡ ln (Λ/Λ EW ) (i.e., a superhigh energy scale Λ where there may exist a kind of underlying flavor symmetry [13] or the seesaw mechanism [14][15][16][17][18] works) down to t = 0 (i.e., the electroweak scale Λ EW ). In the chosen basis the Yukawa coupling matrices of up-type quarks (D u ) and charged leptons (D l ) keep diagonal during the RG running. To be more explicit, let us introduce the functions for f = u, d, ν, l; for q = u, c, t; and for α = e, µ, τ . As a consequence, the fermion Yukawa coupling matrices at Λ EW , which are denoted respectively as D ′ u , Y ′ d , Y ′ ν and D ′ l , can be expressed in an integrated way as and where Note that the relationship between Y ′ ν and Y ν has previously been obtained in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) and the two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM) [19]. Here we deal with all the four fermion sectors together in the SM framework.
In fact, ξ u ≃ ξ c ≃ ζ e ≃ ζ µ ≃ 1 is an excellent approximation due to the smallness of m u , m c , m e and m µ , as compared with the vacuum expectation value of the Higgs field v ≃ 174 GeV. It is also reasonable to take ζ τ ≃ 1 in the SM, but we do not do so in the present paper. Fig. 1 illustrates the magnitudes of I u , I d , I l , I ν , ξ t and ζ τ for different values of Λ, where the running quark and charged-lepton masses and other SM parameters renormalized to the energy scale µ = M Z [20] have been input. It is clear that ξ t increases by 10% when changing from Λ EW ∼ M Z to Λ = 10 12 GeV, whereas ζ τ is almost unchanged. On the other hand, the values of I u and I d at the high-energy scale Λ can be twice larger, while those of I ν and I l can change by no more than 10%. Although the variation of ζ τ is negligible in the SM, we should keep in mind that the Yukawa couplings of charged leptons in the MSSM are given by y 2 α = (1 + tan 2 β) m 2 α /v 2 , which can be significantly enhanced for a relatively large value of tan β. For this reason, we retain both ξ t and ζ τ in the following discussions, but take the approximation ξ u ≃ ξ c ≃ ζ e ≃ ζ µ ≃ 1 whenever it is necessary.

Naumov-and Toshev-like relations
Given the relations between the fermion Yukawa coupling matrices at Λ EW and those at Λ as established in Eqs. (10) and (11), we now investigate their phenomenological implications and derive the Naumov-like relations for the RG evolution of quarks and Dirac neutrinos. In the chosen basis the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) quark flavor mixing matrix V ′ at µ = Λ EW can be determined from the diagonalization of while the PMNS matrix U ′ at Λ EW is from diagonalizing 1, 2, 3). At a superhigh-energy scale µ = Λ the CKM matrix V and the PMNS matrix U can be obtained in the same way as in Eqs. (12) and (13). The point is that both D u and D l keep diagonal during the RG evolution, as we have remarked before. So ν ≡ diag{y 2 1 , y 2 2 , y 2 3 }, respectively. Let us first focus on the commutators of up-type and down-type quark mass matrices at both low-and high-energy scales. More explicitly, we have where X ′ q and X q are obviously two Hermitian matrices and their expressions can be figured out by directly calculating the commutators, i.e., for the subscripts p and q running over the flavors u, c and t). It is straightforward to verify that the determinant of the above commutator leads us to a rephasing-invariant measure of CP violation [21]: in which J ′ q is the Jarlskog invariant of the CKM matrix at Λ EW . On the other hand, the identities in Eq. (10) lead us to u , T d ] = 0 should be noticed. Calculating the determinant of the commutator along this line, we immediately arrive at A combination of Eqs. (16) and (17) can therefore give rise to the Naumov-like relation for the RG evolution of quarks: In a similar way one may derive the Naumov-like relation for the RG evolution of charged leptons and Dirac neutrinos, namely, with ∆ ′ ij ≡ y 2 i − y 2 j and ∆ ij = y 2 i − y 2 j (for ij = 21, 31, 32). Note that Eq. (19) has been derived in Ref. [19] by following a different approach in the MSSM and 2HDM frameworks.
Then, we proceed to explore other possible relations between the quark flavor mixing parameters at the electroweak scale Λ EW and those at a superhigh-energy scale Λ. Starting with the identity H ′ d = I 2 d T d H d T d , we further adopt the top-dominance approximation, namely, T d ≈ diag{1, 1, ξ t }. In this approximation, it has been demonstrated that the most convenient parametrization of the CKM matrix is [10,11] where c u ≡ cos θ u and s u ≡ sin θ u have been defined and likewise for the other two mixing angles θ and θ d , and φ q is the CP-violating phase. The parametrization in Eq. (20) actually represents three sequential rotations in the flavor space 1} and R ij (θ) denotes the rotation in the i-j plane with the rotation angle θ (for ij = 12, 23). Since T d ≈ diag{1, 1, ξ t } in the top-dominance approximation commutes with the rotation matrix R 12 (θ u )U φ q , we can obtain which is a real and symmetric matrix and can be diagonalized by the following orthogonal transformation with three rotation angles { θ u , θ, θ d }, i.e., where the CKM matrix V ′ at the electroweak scale Λ EW can be parametrized in terms of {θ ′ u , θ ′ , θ ′ d , φ ′ q } in the same way as in Eq. (20). With the help of Eqs. (21) and (22), we can recognize V ′ = R 12 (θ u )U φ q · R 12 ( θ u )R 23 ( θ)R T 12 ( θ d ) and then obtain where ϕ 1 and ϕ 2 are the unphysical phases that can be absorbed by redefining the up-type quark fields. In addition, the other two mixing angles are given by θ ′ = θ and θ ′ d = θ d . In order to extract θ ′ u and φ ′ q from Eq. (23), one has to write down the explicit forms of the matrices on both sides, and identify the corresponding matrix elements. To be more explicit, we have sin θ ′ u = sin θ u cos θ u + cos θ u sin θ u e iφ q , cos θ ′ u = cos θ u cos θ u − sin θ u sin θ u e iφ q ; and ϕ 1 = arg sin θ u cos θ u + cos θ u sin θ u e iφ q , and φ ′ q = φ q − ϕ 1 − ϕ 2 . Therefore, we have established the relationship between the flavor mixing parameters {θ ′ u , θ ′ , θ ′ d , φ ′ q } at Λ EW and {θ u , θ, θ d , φ q } at Λ in an implicit way. Then it is straightforward to verify sin φ ′ q sin 2θ ′ u = 2Im e iφ ′ q sin θ ′ u cos θ ′ u = 2Im sin θ u cos θ u e iφ q + cos θ u sin θ u cos θ u cos θ u − sin θ u sin θ u e −iφ q = sin φ q sin 2θ u , which is analogous to the Toshev relation in Eq. (2) for neutrino oscillations in matter with the standard parametrization of the PMNS matrix [5].
Analogously, there is no doubt that the Toshev-like relation also holds in the RG evolution of charged-leptons and Dirac neutrinos from Λ down to Λ EW , if a similar parametrization as that in Eq. (20) is adopted for the PMNS matrix U ′ (θ ′ l , θ ′ , θ ′ ν , φ ′ ℓ ) at Λ EW or U(θ l , θ, θ ν , φ ℓ ) at Λ and the tau-dominance approximation T ν ≈ diag{1, 1, ζ τ } is made. Although the RG equations of quark and lepton flavor mixing parameters have been extensively studied in the literature [1], we stress that such Toshev-like relations are derived here for the first time.

Summary
The profundity and usefulness of RG equations can never be overemphasized, and this powerful tool has found many important applications in a number of different fields of modern physics [1]. Recently, the RG-like equations have been derived in Refs. [2] and [3] and implemented to the study of matter effects on neutrino oscillations, from which the previously known Naumov and Toshev relations have been rediscovered. We are therefore motivated to investigate if such kinds of relations exist for the RG evolution of fermion masses and flavor mixing parameters from a superhigh-energy scale down to the electroweak scale. It turns out that such Naumov-and Toshev-like relations do exist, as we have shown in this paper.
Though we work in a minimal extension of the SM with three massive Dirac neutrinos, in which the RG running effects are usually small, similar results are also obtainable in the MSSM and 2HDM cases only if the top-and tau-dominance approximations can be made. Since the Naumov-and Toshev-like relations directly connect the low-and high-energy flavor parameters, they definitely provide an interesting and transparent way to understand the RG-induced quantum corrections in this respect. This work is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No. 11775231 (ZZX) and grant No. 11775232 (SZ), the National Youth Thousand Talents Program (SZ), and the CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics (SZ).