EnhancedCPViolation withB→KD0(D¯0)Modes and Extraction of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Angleγ

Autor: David Atwood, Isard Dunietz, Amarjit Soni
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: Physical Review Letters. 78:3257-3260
ISSN: 1079-7114
0031-9007
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.78.3257
Popis: The Gronau-London-Wyler (GLW) method extracts the CKM angle $\gamma$ by measuring $B^\pm$ decay rates involving $D^0/\overline D^0$ mesons. Since that method necessitates the interference between two amplitudes that are significantly different in magnitude, the resulting asymmetries tend to be small. CP violation can be greatly enhanced for decays to final states that are common to both D^0 and $\overline D^0$ and that are not CP eigenstates. In particular, large asymmetries are possible for final states f such that $D^0\to f$ is doubly Cabibbo suppressed while $\overline D^0\to f$ is Cabibbo allowed. The measurement of interference effects in two such modes allows the extraction of $\gamma$ without prior knowledge of $Br(B^-\to K^- \overline D^0)$, which may be difficult to determine due to backgrounds.
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