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Comment on extracting α from Bρρ

Adam F. Falk, Zoltan Ligeti, Yosef Nir, and Helen Quinn
Phys. Rev. D 69, 011502(R) – Published 26 January 2004
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Abstract

Recent experimental results on Bρρ decays indicate that the CP asymmetry Sρ+ρ will give an interesting determination of α=arg[(VtdVtb*)/(VudVub*)]. In the limit when the ρ width is neglected, the Bππ isospin analysis can also be applied to Bρρ, once an angular analysis is used to separate transversity modes. The present bound on the shift of Sρ+ρ from the true sin2α is already stronger than it is for Sπ+π. We point out a subtle violation of the isospin relations when the two ρ mesons are observed with different invariant masses, and how to constrain this effect experimentally.

  • Received 25 October 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.69.011502

©2004 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Adam F. Falk1,*, Zoltan Ligeti2,†, Yosef Nir3,‡, and Helen Quinn4,§

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
  • 2Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 3Department of Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
  • 4Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA

  • *Electronic address: falk@jhu.edu
  • Electronic address: zligeti@lbl.gov
  • Electronic address: yosef.nir@weizmann.ac.il
  • §Electronic address: quinn@slac.stanford.edu

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