Measurement of the CP asymmetry amplitude sin2β with B0 mesons -: art. no. 201802

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作者
Aubert, B [1 ]
Boutigny, D
Gaillard, JM
Hicheur, A
Karyotakis, Y
Lees, JP
Robbe, P
Tisserand, V
Zghiche, A
Palano, A
Pompili, A
Chen, JC
Qi, ND
Rong, G
Wang, P
Zhu, YS
Eigen, G
Ofte, I
Stugu, B
Abrams, GS
Borgland, AW
Breon, AB
Brown, DN
Button-Shafer, J
Cahn, RN
Charles, E
Gill, MS
Gritsan, AV
Groysman, Y
Jacobsen, RG
Kadel, RW
Kadyk, J
Kerth, LT
Kolomensky, YG
Kral, JF
LeClerc, C
Levi, ME
Lynch, G
Mir, LM
Oddone, PJ
Orimoto, TJ
Pripstein, M
Roe, NA
Romosan, A
Ronan, MT
Shelkov, VG
Telnov, AV
Wenzel, WA
Harrison, TJ
Hawkes, CM
机构
[1] Phys Particules Lab, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[2] Univ Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
[3] Univ Bari, Dipartmento Fis, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[4] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[5] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[6] Univ Bergen, Inst Phys, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
[7] Univ Calif Berkeley, 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, LLR, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[25] Univ Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Midlothian, Scotland
[26] Elon Univ, Elon Univ, NC 27244 USA
[27] Univ Ferrara, Dipartmento Fis, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
[28] 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] 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 Sci & Technol, 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] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[50] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.201802
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We present results on time-dependent CP asymmetries in neutral B decays to several CP eigenstates. The measurements use a data sample of about 88x10(6) Y(4S)-->B (B) over bar decays collected between 1999 and 2002 with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory at SLAC. We study events in which one neutral B meson is fully reconstructed in a final state containing a charmonium meson and the other B meson is determined to be either a B-0 or (B) over bar (0) from its decay products. The amplitude of the CP asymmetry, which in the standard model is proportional to sin2beta, is derived from the decay-time distributions in such events. We measure sin2beta=0.741+/-0.067(stat)+/-0.034(syst) and \lambda\=0.948+/-0.051(stat)+/-0.030(syst). The magnitude of lambda is consistent with unity, in agreement with the standard model expectation of no direct CP violation in these modes.
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页码:2018021 / 2018027
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