First Measurement of the CP-Violating Phase in B[0 over s]→ϕϕ Decays
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Williams, M.
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A first flavor-tagged measurement of the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetry in B[0 over s]→ϕϕ decays is presented. In this decay channel, the CP-violating weak phase arises due to CP violation in the interference between B[0 over s]-B̅[0 over s] mixing and the b→ss̅ s gluonic penguin decay amplitude. Using a sample of pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb[superscript -1] and collected at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the LHCb detector, 880 B[0 over s]→ϕϕ signal decays are obtained. The CP-violating phase is measured to be in the interval [-2.46,-0.76] rad at a 68% confidence level. The p value of the standard model prediction is 16%.
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2013-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Aaij, R., C. Abellan Beteta, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, C. Adrover, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, et al. “First Measurement of the CP-Violating Phase in B[0 over s]→ϕϕ Decays.” Physical Review Letters 110, no. 24 (June 2013). © 2013 CERN
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0031-9007
1079-7114