Measurement of CP asymmetry in [beta] --> [sigma] [gamma] decays using a sum of exclusive final states
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Zhao, Minliang
Advisor(s)
Gabriella Sciolla.
Date Issued
2008
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
In this thesis, I describe a study of the CP asymmetry in [beta] --> [sigma] [gamma] decays. This CP asymmetry is expected to be less than 0.01 in the Standard Model, but could be enhanced up to the order of 0.10 by non-Standard Model contributions. We use a sample of 383 x 106 BB events collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B factory and reconstruct sixteen flavor-specific B decay modes containing a high energy photon and a hadronic Xs system. We measure the CP asymmetry to be -0.011 ± 0.030stat ± 0.014syst for a photon energy threshold at 1.6 GeV and the hadronic system mass between 0.6 and 2.8 GeV/c2.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2008.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
In title on title page,"[ beta]", "[sigma]" and "[gamma]" appear as lower case Greek letters and "-->" appears as a right arrow.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-136).
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Physics.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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