Published March 1, 1993 | Version v1
Journal article

Particle-width effect on CP-violating asymmetries

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 (United States)

Description

CP-violating asymmetries calculated from the Breit-Wigner approximation for unstable particle propagators violate CPT invariance. A formalism satisfying CPT invariance and unitarity is presented. Applications are given to t decays. For the decay t→bντ bar τ in a class of CP-violating Higgs models the CP-violating asymmetry turns out to be 10-4 times smaller than the previously reported results

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
47
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. R1741-R1743.
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ