Published April 1, 1991 | Version v1
Journal article

How to extract CP-violating asymmetries from angular correlations

  • 1. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94309 (USA)
  • 2. Department of Nuclear Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, (Israel)

Description

Large CP-violation effects can occur for time-evolved B0 decays into definite CP eigenstates. The rates into these unique CP eigenmodes are tiny. This article advocates the use of many additional modes that are not CP eigenstates because of mixtures of angular momenta. Naively, for those modes a partial and sometimes large cancellation of the CP asymmetry occurs. However, a detailed study of their angular correlations enables the projection onto definite CP eigenstates, and thus recovers the full CP asymmetry

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review, D
Journal Volume
43
Journal Issue
7
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
2193-2208
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDA