CP-VIOLATION USING NON-CP EIGENSTATE DECAYS OF NEUTRAL B-MESONS

Neutral B-meson decays into non-CP eigenstates are considered as a means for observing CP nonconservation. We show that sizeable CP-violating asymmetries and clean measurements of the phases of the CKM matrix elements can be obtained using these decays provided they satisfy some necessary conditions that can be experimentally verified. It is also argued that two meson final states, in which the quark content of one meson is the CP conjugate of the quark content of the second one, do fulfill these requirements and are a particularly fertile and promising ground for studying CP violation. Two interesting examples, B --> rho +/- pi -/+ and B --> a1 +/- pi -/+, are studied in detail. Their reconstruction efficiencies and their backgrounds are discussed for a generic asymmetric B factory detector. It is found that, within this framework, those decay modes can give a better opportunity for observing CP violation and measuring the CKM phases than the B --> pi+pi- decays.