Published November 1, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Enhanced direct CP violation in B±,0→π+π-K±,0

  • 1. Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics and Special Research Center for the Subatomic Structure of Matter, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005 (Australia)
  • 2. Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, Universite Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, 24 avenue des Landais, 63177 Aubiere Cedex (France)

Description

We investigate in a phenomenological way direct CP violation in the hadronic decays B±,0→π+π-K±,0 where the effect of ρ-ω mixing is included. If Nceff (the effective parameter associated with factorization) is constrained using the most recent experimental branching ratios (to ρ0K0, ρ±K±, ρ±K0, ρ0K± and ωK±) from the BABAR, BELLE and CLEO Collaborations, we get a maximum CP violating asymmetry amax in the range -25% to +49% for B-→π+π-K- and -24% to +55% for B-bar0→π+π-K-bar0. We also find that CP violation is strongly dependent on the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements. Finally, we show that the sign of sin δ is always positive in the allowed range of Nceff and hence, a measurement of direct CP violation in B±,0→π+π-K±,0 would remove the mod(π) ambiguity in arg[-VtsVtb*/VusVub*]

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
66
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 096008-096008.19
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2002 The American Physical Society