Determination of the sign of the decay width difference in the Bs0 system

Aaij, R. et al. (2012) Determination of the sign of the decay width difference in the Bs0 system. Physical Review Letters, 108(24), Art. 241801. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.241801)

Abstract

The interference between the K+K- S-wave and P-wave amplitudes in Bs0→J/ψK+K- decays with the K+K- pairs in the region around the ϕ(1020) resonance is used to determine the variation of the difference of the strong phase between these amplitudes as a function of K+K- invariant mass. Combined with the results from our CP asymmetry measurement in Bs0→J/ψϕ decays, we conclude that the Bs0 mass eigenstate that is almost CP=+1 is lighter and decays faster than the mass eigenstate that is almost CP=-1. This determines the sign of the decay width difference ΔΓs≡ΓL-ΓH to be positive. Our result also resolves the ambiguity in the past measurements of the CP violating phase ϕs to be close to zero rather than π. These conclusions are in agreement with the standard model expectations.

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• Status: Published
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• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Pappagallo, Dr Marco and Alexander, Dr Michael and Spradlin, Dr Patrick and MacRaighne, Dr Aaron and Rodrigues, Dr Eduardo and Bates, Mrs Alison and Soler, Professor Paul and Borghi, Dr Silvia and Plackett, Dr Richard and Eklund, Prof Lars
• Authors: Aaij, R., Abellan Beteta, C., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Adrover, C., Affolder, A., Ajaltouni, Z., Albrecht, J., Alessio, F., Alexander, M., Alkhazov, G., Alvarez Cartelle, P., Alves, A. A., Amato, S., Amhis, Y., Anderson, J., Appleby, R. B., Aquines Gutierrez, O., Archilli, F., Arrabito, L., Artamonov, A., Artuso, M., Aslanides, E., Auriemma, G., Bachmann, S., Back, J. J., Bailey, D. S., Balagura, V., Baldini, W., Barlow, R. J., Barschel, C., Barsuk, S., Barter, W., Bates, A., Bauer, C., Bauer, T., Bay, A., Bediaga, I., Belogurov, S., Belous, K., Belyaev, I., Ben-Haim, E., Benayoun, M., Bencivenni, G., Benson, S., Benton, J., Bernet, R., Bettler, M.-O., van Beuzekom, M., Bien, A., Bifani, S., Bird, T., Bizzeti, A., Bjørnstad, P. M., Blake, T., Blanc, F., Blanks, C., Blouw, J., Blusk, S., Bobrov, A., Bocci, V., Bondar, A., Bondar, N., Bonivento, W., Borghi, S., Borgia, A., Bowcock, T. J. V., Bozzi, C., Brambach, T., van den Brand, J., Bressieux, J., Brett, D., Britsch, M., Britton, T., Brook, N. H., Brown, H., de Bruyn, K., Büchler-Germann, A., Burducea, I., Bursche, A., Buytaert, J., Cadeddu, S., Callot, O., Calvi, M., Calvo Gomez, M., Camboni, A., Campana, P., Carbone, A., Carboni, G., Cardinale, R., Cardini, A., Carson, L., Carvalho Akiba, K., Casse, G., Cattaneo, M., Cauet, C., Charles, M., Charpentier, P., Chiapolini, N., Ciba, K., Cid Vidal, X., Ciezarek, G., Clarke, P. E. L., Clemencic, M., Cliff, H. V., Closier, J., Coca, C., Coco, V., Cogan, J., Collins, P., Comerma-Montells, A., Constantin, F., Contu, A., Cook, A., Coombes, M., Corti, G., Couturier, B., Cowan, G. A., Currie, R., D’Ambrosio, C., David, P., David, P. N. Y., De Bonis, I., De Capua, S., De Cian, M., De Lorenzi, F., De Miranda, J. 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• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Physical Review Letters
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• ISSN: 0031-9007
• ISSN (Online): 1079-7114
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2012 CERN, for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration
• First Published: First published in Physical Review Letters 108(24):241801
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