First Measurement of the CP-Violating Phase in B[0 over s]→ϕϕ Decays

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 amplit...

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Main Author: Williams, M. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2013-09-16T16:20:00Z.
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520 |a 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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