Measurement of CP-violating asymmetries in B0 decays to CP eigenstates

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作者
Aubert, B
Boutigny, D
De Bonis, I
Gaillard, JM
Jeremie, K
Karyotakis, Y
Lees, JP
Robbe, P
Tisserand, V
Palano, A
Chen, GP
Chen, JC
Qi, ND
Rong, G
Wang, P
Zhu, YS
Eigen, G
Reinertsen, PL
Stugu, B
Abbott, B
Abrams, GS
Borgland, AW
Breon, AB
Brown, DN
Button-Shafer, J
Cahn, RN
Clark, AR
Dardin, S
Day, C
Dow, SF
Elioff, T
Fan, Q
Gaponenko, I
Gill, MS
Goozen, FR
Gowdy, SJ
Gritsan, A
Groysman, Y
Jacobsen, RG
Jared, RC
Kadel, RW
Kadyk, J
Karcher, A
Kerth, LT
Kipnis, I
Kluth, S
Kolomensky, YG
Kral, JE
Lafever, R
LeClerc, C
机构
[1] Phys Particules Lab, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[2] Univ Bari, Dipartimento Fis, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[3] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[4] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[5] Univ Bergen, Inst Phys, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
[6] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[7] Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[8] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[9] Ruhr Univ Bochum, Inst Expt Phys 1, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
[10] Univ Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, Avon, England
[11] Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[12] Brunel Univ, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middx, England
[13] Budker Inst Nucl Phys, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
[14] Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[15] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[16] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[17] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[18] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Inst Particle Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[19] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[20] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[21] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[22] Colorado State Univ, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
[23] Tech Univ Dresden, Inst Kern & Teilchenphys, D-01062 Dresden, Germany
[24] Ecole Polytech, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[25] Univ Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Midlothian, Scotland
[26] Elon Univ, Elon, NC 27244 USA
[27] Univ Ferrara, Dipartimento Fis, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
[28] Univ Ferrara, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
[29] Florida A&M Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32307 USA
[30] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[31] Univ Genoa, Dipartimento Fis, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[32] Univ Genoa, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[33] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[34] Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
[35] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[36] Lab Accelerateur Lineaire, F-91898 Orsay, France
[37] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[38] Univ Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, Merseyside, England
[39] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, London SW7 2BW, England
[40] Univ London, London E1 4NS, England
[41] Univ London, Royal Holloway & Bedford New Coll, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey, England
[42] Univ Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292 USA
[43] Univ Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[44] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[45] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[46] MIT, Nucl Sci Lab, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[47] McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[48] Univ Milan, Dipartimento Fis, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[49] Univ Milan, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[50] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2515
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We present measurements of time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in neutral B decays to several CP eigenstates. The measurement uses a data sample of 23 X 10(6) Y (4S) --> B (B) over bar decays collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B Factory at SLAG. Zn this sample, we find events in which one neutral B meson is fully reconstructed in a CP eigenstate containing charmonium and the flavor of the other neutral B meson is determined from its decay products. The amplitude of the CP-violating asymmetry, which in the standard model is proportional to sin2 beta, is derived from the decay time distributions in such events. The result is sin2 beta = 0.34 +/- 0.20 (stat) +/- 0.05 (syst).
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页码:2515 / 2522
页数:8
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